Craft, M. A., Alber, S. R., & Heward, W. L. (1998).
Teaching elementary students with developmental disabilities to recruit teacher attention in a general education classroom: Effects on teacher praise and academic productivity.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis,
31, 399-415.
Four fourth graders with developmental disabilities were trained
to recruit teacher attention while they worked on spelling
assignments in a general education classroom. The students were
taught to show their work to the teacher two to three times per
session and to make statements such as, "How am I
doing?" or "Look, I'm all finished!" Training was
conducted in the special education classroom and consisted of
modeling, role playing, error correction, and praise. A multiple
baseline across students design showed that recruitment training
increased (a) the frequency of students' recruiting, (b) the
frequency of teacher praise received by the students, (c) the
percentage of worksheet items completed, and (d) the accuracy
with which the students completed the spelling assignments.
DESCRIPTORS: developmental disabilities,
generalization,inclusion, recruitment of teacher praise, special
education