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Teachers' use and children's preferences of rewards in elementary school Networking 175 GRAY, S. (1963). The psychologisf in the schools, New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. HOBBS, N. (1966). Helping disturbed children: Psychological and ecological strategies. American Psychologist, 21, 1105-1 115. H U B E R ~ , T., & HUEBNER, E. S. (1988). A national survey of burnout among school psychologists. Psychology in fhe Schools, 25, 54-61. HIJEBNER, E. S., WISE, P. S., ANCELET, B., HAHN, B
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April
1991
TEACHERS
USE
AND CHILDREN’S PREFERENCES
OF REWARDS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JOHN
W. FANTUZZO CYNTHIA
A. ROHRBECK
University
of
Pennsylvania
George Washington University
A.
DIRK
HIOHTOWER
AND
WILLIAM
C.
WORK
University
of
Rochester
This
study examined teacher reports of reward
use
and students’ preferences for rewards
across elementary school grades. Forty-eight urban elementary school teachers indicated
which of four basic categories of rewards (edible, tangible, activity, and
social
rewards)
they use in their classrooms and their evaluation of the effectiveness of these rewards
for their age group
of
students. Ninety-eight second through fifth graders randomly
selected to represent the students assigned to these teachers were individually
administered a reward preference survey. Findings
revealed
high reward
use
by teachers.
Children reported a wide variety
of
reward preferences, with no significant gender
or
age differences found. Additionally, there
was
no clear relationship between teacher
use and children’s preferences. Implications for intervention programming are
discussed.
For decades behaviorally oriented school psychologists have been designing and
investigating the effectiveness
of
school-based intervention strategies. These efforts have
produced scores
of
effective strategies to control behavior problems and enhance academic
performance (Sulzer-Azaroff
&
Mayer,
1987).
However, in recent years, the significance
of these achievements has been called into question by the recognition that teachers are
not utilizing this stockpile
of
effective techniques (Witt,
1986).
This realization has resulted
Requests for reprints should be sent to John W. Fantuzzo, Graduate School
of
Education, University
of Pennsylvania, 3700 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6216.
176
Fantuzzo, Rohrbeck, Hightower, and Work
in a more careful study of factors involved in teacher utilization of school-based inter-
ventions. The two most basic questions that have guided this study are: What interven-
tions do teachers find most acceptable? and What strategies do teachers actually use?
Repeatedly, teacher administration of positive rewards has been identified
as
the
most acceptable and widely used classroom intervention (Kazdin,
1980;
Martens,
Peterson, Witt,
&
Cirone,
1986;
Witt, Elliot,
&
Martens,
1984).
Martens et al.
(1986)
found that, along with redirection
of
students to more appropriate behavior, regular
and special education teachers identified teacher administration
of
rewards as the easiest
to use, the most frequently used, and the most effective classroom intervention.
Although these findings come as no surprise, little is known about the comparative
prevalence or effectiveness
of
specific types of rewards that are used by teachers in inter-
ventions
for
elementary school children. Sulzer-Azaroff and Mayer
(1 977)
have identi-
fied four major categories
of
rewards that are used in school-based, positive reinforce-
ment interventions: edible, tangible, activity, and social. Researchers who have identified
similar categories (Christian,
1983;
Forness,
1973)
have also proposed that these
categories reflect
a
hierarchy or developmental progression
of
reward preference that
goes from more primitive and concrete edible and tangible rewards for younger students
to more abstract higher-order social incentives for older students. Although these
hierarchies have been theorized, there is little empirical support to validate them. Further-
more, little is known about how accurately teachers use rewards. In addition to the prin-
ciple
of
contingency, the most important aspect of the effective use of reinforcement
procedures is the selection
of
potent reinforcers. It is unclear the extent to which teachers
have an accurate sense
of
what rewards the children in their classrooms prefer. The
findings from one study suggest that fifth- and sixth-grade teachers are only moderately
successful at identifying their students’ preferences for rewards (Jacob, Daly, King,
&
Cheramie,
1984).
The aim of the current study was to provide
a
clearer picture of the relationship
between teacher use and child preferences of alternative rewards in elementary school.
In particular, four questions were addressed:
1.
To what extent do teachers use rewards?
2.
Are there grade differences in the number and type
of
categories of rewards that
3.
What types
of
rewards do elementary school children prefer?
4.
What is the relationship between the reward that teachers use and their students’
teachers use?
preferences?
METHOD
Subjects
The five participating schools in this study were randomly selected from all
34
elementary schools in an urban school district. All
69
teachers from grades
1
through
5
in each school were asked to participate;
5%
of these were minority teachers. The
selection process resulted in
48
teachers
(6
males and
42
females) volunteering
(70%).
These teachers had a median age range from
36
to 40 years, their mean number of years
teaching was
16.38,
and the mean number
of
years at their current grade level was
6.38.
The majority of teachers were tenured
(n
=
45).
No
data were collected from the other
21
teachers
as
they did not volunteer to participate,
so
it is impossible to
assess
differences
between volunteers and nonvolunteers. Additionally, a sample
of
98
male and female
children were randomly selected from each participating teacher’s class in grades
2
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