Contingency and Self Management Training for Teens

Incentives for Individuals:

The daily report also helps our staff determine the delivery of the incentives that we provide for individuals as well as the student body for their good performance. Most incentives which we provide are in the form of leisure time activity based on performance.

For example, once a student completes the daily lesson, at 80% correct or above, that student may leave the classroom for the Student Lounge.   If a student completes all class periods meeting the performance criterion, that student may go home and not attend the 7 th hour study period.

There are long term incentives that allow honor-roll students to buy-off finals exams. A student can earn up to 1900 points a semester and for 300 points they can buy of final tests and earn extra vacation days.

Because we measure our students' performance daily, and assess them with weekly quizzes, we are confident in our measurement of their content skills.   Comprehensive exams are optional for honor roll students and give all students one more opportunity to raise their grades.  

Group Incentives:

All students benefit from school-wide daily success. In the group incentive, we collapse and shorten Fridays for everyone if they achieve a 97% group average in going to class, on time, completing a lesson, and not disrupting others. Last year our students averaged 97.35% for the school year in maintaining their classroom performance.

Weekly Group Average for 2005-06

Weekly Group Data for 2005-06 across four variables.
Class Attendance, Punctuality, Lesson Completion
and a measure of Classroom Deportment.
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