Behavioural science in education

Question 1

What is the definition of time out?

Answer 1

To reduce the frequency of a target behaviour by making removal of a person from a reinforcing situation contingent on the target behaviour.

Question 2

What are token economies?

Answer 2

Systems that are used to motivate appropriate behaviours in students - students earn tokens which can later be exchanged for a main (backup) reinforcer

Question 3

What are the tokens of a token economy known as?

Answer 3

Conditioned reinforcers

Question 4

What are the two characteristics of token economies?

Answer 4

A contractual arrangement involving a group of people and tokens are used as reinforcers that can be exchanged later for backup reinforcers

Question 5

What is the Good Behaviour Game?

Answer 5

A classroom management system that uses an interpdependent group contingency to promote pro-social behaviour and reduce problem behaviour

Question 6

What is interdependent group contingency?

Answer 6

The whole group is rewarded for positive behaviour by its individual members

Question 7

What is precision teaching used for?

Answer 7

Developing academic skills - fluency and automaticity

Question 8

What are the steps precision teaching?

Answer 8

Identifying the problem behaviour and then putting in place daily practice where teaching happens in short bursts and then fluency is tested and progress is recorded and mapped over time

Question 9

What is the main form of data collection in precision teaching?

Answer 9

Frequency - the number of times the child can admit the right behaviour within a given period

Question 10

What is systematic instruction?

Answer 10

Break down complex skills into smaller components through task analysis and work through those components while removing support

Question 11

What are some important aspects of systematic instruction?

Answer 11

Defining the skill, accurate and regular assessment, task analysis, repetitive teaching, consistent teaching, specific prompting and error correction, positive reinforcement, teaching procedures explicitly and accurately documented

Question 12

What are the two applications of systematic instruction?

Answer 12

TEN-DD numeracy curriculum (teaching numeracy to children with developmental disabilities) and Headsprout (early reading intervention, adapts to the errors of the learner)

Question 13

What does school wide positive behaviour support involve?

Answer 13

Assessment and reengineering of environments that brings about reductions in problem behaviours and subsequent increases in prosocial behaviours

Question 14

What is School Wide Positive Behaviour Support?

Answer 14

Creating an environment as an antecedent intervention for stopping problem behaviour from ever occurring - create a supportive learning environment

Question 15

What are the tiers of school wide positive behaviour support?

Answer 15

Tier 1 - every member of staff is trained in the model - controls 80% of behaviour in students
Tier 2 - controls 15% of behaviours - happens on a group basis and shape behaviour more explicitly for the better
Tier 3 - 5% of students with risky behaviours - FBA with these students (individualised)

Question 16

What are the 6 guiding principles of school wide PBS?

Answer 16

1. Uses scientifically-based behaviour and academic interventions/supports
2. Data based decision making
3. Environmental manipulations
4. Teach and encourage prosocial skills and behaviours
5. Implement evidence based practica with a high degree of fidelity
6. Monitor student performance and progress continuously

Question 17

What does classroom management involve?

Answer 17

Effective methods of instruction and management of student behaviour

Question 18

What 8 abilities should teachers have to manage student behaviour?

Answer 18

1. Teach expectations.
2. Get and keep students on task
3. Maintain a high rate of positive teacher-to-student interactions.
4. Respond non-coersively to inappropriate behaviour that is consequential.
5. Maintain a high rate of risk-free student response opportunities.
6. Serve problem behaviour students in the primary learning environment
7. Avoid being trapped
8. Manage behaviour ‘scientifically’

Question 19

What is relational frame theory?

Answer 19

A behavioural frame of language

Question 20

What is stimulus equivalence training in relational frame theory?

Answer 20

Trains kids to be able to match things - to be able to match stimulus within a relation of sameness

Question 21

What well-being curriculum have been developed behavioural science in schools?

Answer 21

Peak Curriculum and Connect

Question 22

What does Connect do?

Answer 22

Trains kids to be able use their discoverer skill to try different things in the world and track the consequences of trying those things - Discoverer, Noticer, Advisor