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Changing Study Behaviors Through Reinforcement Contingencies
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Jackson, Barry; Van Zoost, Brenda – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1972
All subjects showed significant increases in study habits. However, no condition produced a gain in academic performance beyond chance. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, College Freshmen, Reinforcement
Mass Intervention by Mail for an Academic Impediment
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Sieveking, Nicholas A.; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1971
Treatment by mail effected positive change in self reported procrastination and distraction for students who had relatively better study skills. The treatment produced no effect on grades. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, College Freshmen, Counseling
Contract Teaching of Academic Skills.
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Goldman, Gloria – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1978
In study-skills courses, individualized contracts requiring students to identify nonproductive study behaviors and agree on strategies for desired change were examined for effects on attitudes toward study and achievement. Contract students improved significantly on self-reported attitudes toward study, gained better grade point averages, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, College Students, Grades (Scholastic)
Effect of Interviewer Self-Disclosure and Interviewer-Subject Sex Pairing on Perceived and Actual Subject Behavior
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Hoffman, Mary Ann; Spencer, Gregory P. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1977
Content of interviewer self-disclosure regarding procrastination and study behavior as undergraduates was manipulated with all additional parameters of self-disclosure controlled. Results indicated that subjects in the positive disclosure condition expected to study significantly more hours and did study significantly more hours than subjects in…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, College Students, Counselor Characteristics, Helping Relationship
Self-Control of Study Behavior: Identification and Evaluation of Natural Methods.
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Heffernan, Thomas; Richards, C. Steven – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1981
Evaluated naturally occurring methods for self-controlling poor study behavior. Successful and unsuccessful subjects were interviewed and observed. The successful methods were evaluated in a controlled treatment study. The self-control techniques identified in the earlier steps received some further support in the last step. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, College Students, Higher Education
Effects of Information Feedback and Self-Administered Consequences on Self-Monitoring Study Behavior
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Richards, C. Steven; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1976
The hypotheses tested among college students (N=87) concerned about study habits were: (a) self-monitoring changes study behavior; (b) information feedback accounts for some of this change; and (c) this change can be enhanced by manipulating the quantity and quality of information feedback and self-administered consequences associated with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, College Students, Feedback
Improving Study Habits of Junior High School Students Through Self-Management versus Group Discussion
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Harris, Mary B.; Trujillo, Amaryllis E. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1975
Both a self-management approach, teaching the principles of behavior modification and self-control (n=36), and a group-discussion technique, involving discussion of study habits and problems (n=41), led to improvements in grade point averages compared with a no-treatment control group (n=36) for low-achieving junior high school students. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Discussion Groups, Grade Point Average