The study found that when middle school teachers praised students at least as often as they reprimanded them, class-wide on-task behavior improved by 60–70%. Students speaking out of turn, texting, ...

Further, teachers often expect that by middle school, kids are old enough to behave without being coddled. As a result, positive reinforcement techniques widely used in elementary school are often ...

Journal of Behavioral Education, Vol. 23, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2014), pp. 421-434 (14 pages) Technological innovations offer promise for improving intervention implementation in secondary, inclusive ...