Increasing Elementary Students' Behavior Engagement through Applying Token Economy Technique

DOI

10.2991/icset-17.2017.85How to use a DOI?

Keywords

behavior engagement; token economy; elementary school students

Abstract

The purpose of present study was to examine the effect of token economy technique on increasing students' behavior engagement. The single subject design within multiple baseline across behavior was implemented on three students from SD Negeri Plalangan 1 Semarang. The behavior targets were to decrease duration of joking and to increase frequence of hand rising behavior during thematic learning. Results of present study showed that the token economy technique was effectively to reduce the duration of jokes and increase the frequencies of hand rising. This study affirmed the efficacy of token economy technique on increasing students' engagement.

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© 2017, 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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AU  - Aprilia Myda Hapsari
AU  - Catharina Tri Anni
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PY  - 2017/09
DA  - 2017/09
TI  - Increasing Elementary Students' Behavior Engagement through Applying Token Economy Technique
BT  - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference for Science Educators and Teachers (ICSET 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 519
SN  - 2352-5398
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