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Peer reviewedSkinner, Christopher H. – Journal of School Psychology, 2002
Researchers have posited that when students work on assignments with many discrete tasks, that each completed discrete task may be a conditioned reinforcer. If the discrete task completion hypothesis is accurate, then relative task completion rates should influence choice behavior in the same manner as relative rates of reinforcement. Results of a…
Descriptors: Assignments, Reinforcement, Student Behavior, Theory Practice Relationship
