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		<title>Behavior contracts that work</title>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2010/01/17/behavior-contracts-that-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Smart Classroom Management, the site where he presents tips based on his book, Michael Linsin offers three reasons for not using behavior contracts. After a brief introduction that is generally pretty accurate, he argues that (a) &#8220;behavior contracts label students,&#8221; (b) &#8220;external rewards are short term,&#8221; and (c) &#8220;follow through is a bear.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why animal research matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In &#8220;Like a Rat: Animal research and your child&#8217;s behavior&#8221; that they penned for Slate, Alan Kazdin and Carlo Rotella explain why it is sensible to infer methods for modifying human behavior from research on rats, pigeons, and monkeys. They quite clearly show how what we know from systematic research on infra-human organisms applies to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting negative reinforcement wrong</title>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2009/04/04/getting-negative-reinforcement-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 21:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it isn&#8217;t the most misunderstood concept in the analysis of behavior, &#8220;negative reinforcement&#8221; has got to be among the top two or three. (Suggest competitors in the comments!) People often misuse this term, employing it as a synonym for &#8220;punishment.&#8221; 
For grins, I located a couple of examples illustrating this problem. They follow:

In an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Songs revised</title>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2009/03/05/songs-revised/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime back, I posted an entry about songs that I used to make some basic rules of behavior modification memorable for students in my classes. This post reprises that post and updates it. 
Please note that the songs associated with each &#8220;rule&#8221; are not meant to convey exactly the same sentiment as the rule; the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Progressive education and behavior modification</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…For Teaching ELL, ESL, &#38; EFL Larry Ferlazzo, a teacher of high school students who are learning English, reports that he adopted what sounds like a response-cost system for managing behavior and found it quite successful. Under the title &#8220;Have You Ever Taught A Class That Got &#8216;Out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saul Axelrod on management</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saul Axelrod, who has conducted lots of research about implementing and refining procedures for managing behavior in classrooms, presented a workshop on &#8220;Classroom Management Problems and Procedures for Solving Them&#8221; at the National Autism Conference in 2007. It&#8217;s available as free video.
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This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pennypacker on PT</title>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2009/02/02/pennypacker-on-pt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Precision Teaching Rick Kubina has added another podcast to his published collection: It&#8217;s an interview with Hank Pennypacker (from 31 January 2009). Professor Pennypacker has been teaching about the appropriate analysis of behavior for many years, influencing many folks in positive ways. When you take the opportunity to jump over to Precision Teaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freed kids and behavior mod</title>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/12/30/freed-kids-and-behavior-mod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People, including B. F. Skinner, often talk about the philosophical proposition that operant principles reduce humans to animals whose behavior is determined by features of the environment, denying the be-loved construct of free will. For a variety of reasons (just one here: Read Dan Wegner&#8217;s excellent The Illusion of Conscious Will), I am pretty well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some resources</title>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/07/22/some-resources/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a result of prowling around the Internet for a while, I&#8217;ve been assembling resources about applications of behavioral principles to problems relevant to the content of this blog. Of course, one of the foremost areas of application is improving the lives of individuals with autism. Indeed, applied behavior analysis (ABA) is sometimes misunderstood as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on control</title>
		<link>http://behaviormod.info/2008/07/10/reflections-on-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JohnL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over on Another Brick in the Wall, Donna posted an entry about the term &#8220;classroom control.&#8221; It got me thinking about the concepts of control, management, and teaching. Here&#8217;s her lead
Teachers use the term &#8220;classroom control&#8221; for classroom management techniques. I have also used those terms. Lately I have been thinking about how much control [...]]]></description>
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