R. Allan Allday & Kerri Pakurar (2007).
Effects of teacher greetings on student on-task behavior.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis,
40, 317-320.
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.
DESCRIPTORS: antecedent, on-task behavior, middle school students, teaching, teacher attention