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Generalization And Maintenance Of Treatment Gains Of Behaviorally/Emotionally Handicapped Students From Resource Rooms To Regular Classrooms Using Self-Evaluation Procedures, Ginger Rhode
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Students who are removed from their regular classrooms for treatment in special education classrooms commonly exhibit positive behavior gains in those settings. Typically, however, the gains do not generalize and maintain when the students are returned to their regular classrooms. The present study initially provided six Behaviorally/Emotionally Handicapped elementary school students with a short-term resource room treatment to bring their behavior under the control of a combination of procedures emphasizing self-evaluation. Once acceptable levels of appropriate behavior were maintained with only minimal external reinforcement and students accurately self-evaluated their own work and behavior, generalization and maintenance of behavior gains were …