Reinforcement Practicality for Middle School Students: A Meta-Analysis

Autor/inn/en	Dreger, Kelly C.; Downey, Steve
Titel	Reinforcement Practicality for Middle School Students: A Meta-Analysis
Quelle	In: Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 11 (2022) 1, (35 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Reinforcement; Middle School Students; Meta Analysis; Incentives; Individualized Instruction; Response to Intervention; Multi Tiered Systems of Support; Positive Behavior Supports + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Positive Verstärkung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Meta-analysis; Metaanalyse; Anreiz; Individualisierender Unterricht
Abstract	The need for evolving support interventions that can help students in a wide range of settings is an ongoing requirement for middle schools today. Token reinforcement, which is a form of extrinsic motivation and incentivization, is studied within this meta-analysis to determine if significant treatment effects exist overall and if there are studies that show more gains than others. Most studies report significant positive gains individually, but the statistical significance is lost when the studies are reviewed as a whole. Variables such as sample size requirements, treatment effect variation, and session time all influence treatment effect size. Reinforcement has been shown to be a viable strategy for differentiation, but the area of standardization has yet to be adequately addressed within past and present research. Some effect size traits reported from the literature are supported within this meta-analysis, but the sampling, analysis, and interpretation protocols exhibited by certain studies make it difficult to remove bias and confounding within reinforcement studies. Further research avenues and additional considerations are discussed. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01