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The use of rewards within School-wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) in education. It discusses the challenges and benefits of using rewards, research foundation, examples of reward use, and rules for effective reward implementation. The document also covers the potential negative effects of rewards and provides examples of reward systems in various educational contexts.
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Steve Goodman
University of Oregon
Michigan Department of Education
University
of Oregon
Michigan Department of Education
Define the challenge faced in many schools asthey consider the use of rewards.
Share research foundation
Provide examples of reward use at all grade
Provide examples of reward use at all gradelevels
Handout: “Rewards”
A presumed positive event/activity/object
Contrast with “reinforcer” which is change inbehavior as a result of contingent delivery of abehavior as a result of contingent delivery of aconsequence.
For “positive reinforcement” the event “is” positive
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positive reinforcement
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Initial behavior change
Sustained behavior change (Doolittle 2006)
Sustained behavior change (Doolittle, 2006)
Rewards can be used badly
But they do NOT inhibit intrinsic motivation
But they do NOT inhibit intrinsic motivation
Rewards can be used effectively in all schoolcontexts.contexts.
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…although rewards can control people’s behavior …the primary negative effect ofrewards is that they tend to forestall selfrewards is that they tend to forestall self-regulation.”
Deci et al., 1999 p. 659
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undermine intrinsic motivation and creativityof performance…A wide variety of rewardshave now been tested, and everything fromgood-player awards to marshmallowsproduces the expected decrements in intrinsicmotivation and creative performance…
Tegano et al., 1991
p. 119
Harlow, Harlow & Meyer (1950)
Rhesus monkeys
Would solve problems (puzzles) without obtainingrewards (no food, water, etc).
Presumption was that problem solving was
Presumption was that problem solving was“intrinsically motivated”
College Students (doing puzzles, writingnewspaper “headlines”)
Phase 1:
Observe time spent on task
Phase 1:
Observe time spent on task
Phase 2:
Reward
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Deci, Koestner & Ryan, 1999
Cameron, Banko & Pierce, 2001
Four different conceptualmodels
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Mind-body dualism
Hedonistic definition
1996
Akin-Little, Eckert, Lovett &Little, 2004
Reiss 2005
Reiss, 2005
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Be clear about what you define as a “reward”
We can use rewards badly
We
can use rewards badly
If rewards are delivered ambiguously
If what we deliver is not a “reward” from the learner’sperspective
(Reward as Punisher)
perspective.
(Reward
as Punisher)
If partial rewards are delivered when full reward isexpected/ promised (
Reward as Punisher
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found to increase free choice and task interest.This finding replicates”This finding replicates
Cameron and Pierce, 1994; Deci et al., 1999).
“When tasks … are of low initial interest,rewards increase free-choice and intrinsicrewards increase free choice, and intrinsicmotivation…”
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…programs that show increased intrinsic motivationare those programs that incorporate the elements ofgood, comprehensive behavioral intervention:
Relatively immediate reinforcement
Generalization strategies
Individualized InterventionIndividualized
Intervention
“The implication is that any blanket rejection ofprogrammed reinforcement
is entirely
programmed reinforcement … is entirelyunwarranted.”
Akin-Little, Eckert, Lovett, Little, 2004
p. 358
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Feingold & Mahoney 1975
Feingold & Mahoney, 1975
Roanne, Fisher & McDonough 2003 JABA
Flora & Flora 1999.
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Akin-Little & Little 2004 JBE
Feingold and Mahoney, 1975 Behavior Therapy : Five Second Graders
Baseline 1
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Baseline 3
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