title: Effects of teacher greetings on student on-task behavior.
abstract: A multiple baseline design across participants was used to determine how teacher greetings affected on-task behavior of 3 middle school students with problem behaviors. Momentary time sampling was used to measure on-task behavior during the first 10 min of class. Teacher greetings produced increases in students' on-task behavior from a mean of 45% in baseline to a mean of 72% during the intervention phase. Teacher greetings represent an antecedent manipulation that can easily be implemented in classrooms to improve students' on-task behavior.
authors.affiliation: College of Charleston, USA. allan.allday@okstate.edu
authors.forename: R Allan
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Allday
authors.forename: Kerri
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pakurar
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D012919:Social Behavior; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*