An evaluation of a three-component multiple schedule to indicate attention availability.

Abstract

Students may engage in high rates of social approach responses at inappropriate times throughout the school day. One intervention that has been used to teach students appropriate and inappropriate times to access attention is a multiple schedule of reinforcement. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of a multiple schedule that indicated when attention was available or not available in a bilingual preschool classroom during small-group instruction. Results showed that the intervention was effective in bringing students' social approaches under stimulus control.