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The Reduction of Disruptive Behaviour Using Feedback On-Task Behaviour: An Across Setting Study of a Class of 12- and 13-Year-Old Pupils

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

E. McNamara  and
M. Jolly
E. McNamara
Affiliation:
Lancashire County Council, Schools' Psychological Service
M. Jolly
Affiliation:
Lancashire County Council, School Support Team
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Abstract

The growing body of research indicating that classroom behavioural management strategies can successfully modify the behaviour of mainstream classes of disruptive adolescent pupils is referred to. These “successes” are qualified by the observation that they could make the pupil teacher dependent, whereas pupil self-control is the ideal control state. Feedback strategies have the potential to encourage internalization of control (Van Houton, 1984). An intervention package involving the feedback of level of on-task behaviour as a major component is described. The effect on the individual and the group's level of on-task behaviour in two settings (Religious Education and French lessons) is reported. Claims are made that (1) the intervention promoted levels of on-task behaviour and (2) the group data generally reflected the data of individual pupils. The conclusions are drawn that while it remains to be demonstrated that the behavioural attributional tendencies of the pupils were moved in the direction of “internalization” nonetheless the research can serve as a starting point for further research in this area.

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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 103 - 119
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1990

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