Anthony P. Cammilleri, Jeffrey H. Tiger, & Gregory P. Hanley.
Developing stimulus control of young children’s requests to teachers: Classwide applications of multiple schedules.
Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2008,
41, 299-303.
Children may recruit their teachers’ attention at undesirably high rates or at
inconvenient times. Tiger and Hanley (2004) described a multiple-schedule
procedure to reduce ill-timed requests, which involved providing children with
two distinct continuous signals that were correlated with periods in which
teacher attention was either available or unavailable. The current study
extended the application of multiple schedules by evaluating the effectiveness
of the procedure when implemented by private-school teachers in 3
elementary classrooms. Following the introduction of the multiple schedules,
student approaches toward their teacher were maintained during desirable
periods but were minimized during undesirable periods.
DESCRIPTORS: classroom management, generality, multiple schedules, stimulus control, teacher attention