The Effect of Rewarding In-Class Participation to Decrease Off-task Conversations in Middle School Age Females

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dc.contributor.authorJaimes, Cielo
dc.contributor.programMasters of Educationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-21T20:26:40Z
dc.date.available2016-07-21T20:26:40Z
dc.date.issued2016-07
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to determine if students in an eighth-grade, all-female Spanish I class of 15 would decrease off-topic conversations after an intervention to award in-class participation. Off-task conversations were defined as any time students spoke out of turn in a reciprocal manner that was not related to the lesson. For the intervention, the researcher gave out tickets to students when they contributed to class discussion. The tickets were then put in drawings for weekly prizes. There were two weeks of weighted baseline data and four weeks of intervention data. Data was prorated to adjust for absences. The mean of off-task conversations per student during the weighted baseline (Mean= 144.38, SD=151.28) was significantly higher than during the intervention (Mean= 107.37, SD= 119.89). [t(14) = 3.09, p = .008)]. Because the data was significant (as shown by p-value), the null hypothesis was rejected. Implications and ideas for future research are discussed.en_US
dc.format.extent30 p.en_US
dc.genreaction research papersen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2QZ2K
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/3092
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relationMaster of Education
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
dc.rightsCollection may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu.
dc.subjectoff-task conversationsen_US
dc.subjectin-class participationen_US
dc.subject.lcshEducation -- Research papers (Graduate).
dc.subject.lcshBehavior modification -- Research -- Middle school education.
dc.subject.lcshBehavior modification -- Eighth grade (Education)
dc.subject.lcshClassroom management.
dc.titleThe Effect of Rewarding In-Class Participation to Decrease Off-task Conversations in Middle School Age Femalesen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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