The Design of Behavior Modification Program with Token Economy in Elementary School

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200130.091How to use a DOI?

Keywords

environmental concern behavior, token economy, reinforcement, elementary school students

Abstract

Giving learning material in improving environmental care behavior of elementary school students is not only on environmental education but also needs to be strengthened towards the behavior of these students. Strengthening is provided through a program designed and developed to modify the behavior of the students based on operant conditioning using systematic reinforcement of target behavior. As preliminary research, this research aims to design and develop behavior modification programs through a token economy. Token is given based on the desired behavior performance and can then be exchanged for reinforcement in a predetermined economic system. The design of the token economy starts from identifying the target behavior, determining and selecting reinforcers, identifying the types and schedules of tokens, planning the distribution of tokens and exchanging strategies for applying token systems and planning inflation. The observation between rater shows that an agreement of 0.81 is interpreted as the consistency of the answers of the respondents to the measuring instruments used, there are no differences in assessment between the rater in measuring students awareness of the environment, so that it could be continued with designing token economy programs to improve the environmental care behavior of elementary school students. By the design and development of this program, it is expected that student behavior can be improved and become habituation in their daily activities, which encourages generalizations from the context of the school environment to other environments even though there is no reinforcement given.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fitria Siska Rijal
AU  - Tina Hayati Dahlan
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/07
TI  - The Design of Behavior Modification Program with Token Economy in Elementary School
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Educational Psychology and Pedagogy - "Diversity in Education" (ICEPP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 106
EP  - 109
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200130.091
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200130.091
ID  - Rijal2020
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