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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

Central Washington University

Theses/Dissertations

1970

Academic performance

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A Differentially Reinforcing Token System In A Public School Classroom, John Sparks Jan 1970

A Differentially Reinforcing Token System In A Public School Classroom, John Sparks

All Master's Theses

If token reward systems do exert control of behavior in the classroom, it should be possible to test the various hypotheses: (1) A token reward system increases academic test performance in a classroom not defined as exceptional, (2) The increase in test performance is equivalent across academic courses, (3) In terms of maximum performance there are optimum levels of reinforcement.