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Teaching Change Computation To The Developmentally Disabled, Nancy Daeschlein
Teaching Change Computation To The Developmentally Disabled, Nancy Daeschlein
Masters Theses
This study evaluated a procedure for teaching three developmentally disabled adults to compute monetary change combinations. Also, the procedure assessed generalization to the skills of computing change with bills, verifying the correctness of change received, and computing change with both coins and bills. Subjects were first trained to make change using pennies and then were trained to use each successive denomination in combination with those previously trained. A multipleprobe design was used, including generalization probes of the above-cited skills. Results indicated that each subject acquired the behavior of change computation with coins as a function of the training procedure. Also, …
The Effects Of Parent Monitoring On Homework Completion Of Low Performing Students, Maria Del Carmen Barocio
The Effects Of Parent Monitoring On Homework Completion Of Low Performing Students, Maria Del Carmen Barocio
Masters Theses
Four junior high school boys from a Special Education room participated in this study. The purpose was to increase the amount of homework completion having parents as monitors of their own children and minimal teacher intervention. In Condition I, baseline was taken of the percentage of homework assignments completed. During Condition II, parents received a Homework Checklist from the teacher explaining the assignments for the next day. For Condition III parents were given a handout explaining the use of positive statements and prompts, and a guideline for skillful home study was also included. Parents were asked to send a Report …