Public Posting and Awareness of External Evaluation:

Abstract

Room cleaning and self-monitoring behaviors of nine 12 to 14 year old behaviorally disturbed children in residential treatment were studied. The study consisted of nine phases including an existing token system baseline, a nonintervention baseline, two self-monitoring phases, two self-monitoring plus public posting phases, an awareness of external evaluation phase, a private feedback phase and a public feedback phase. It was found that (1) all interventions resulted in an improvement of room-cleaning behaviors over baseline levels; (2) public posting of room-cleaning scores did not result in a performance increase over that obtained with self-monitoring alone; (3) awareness of external evaluation resulted in an increase in room-cleaning performance over levels obtained with self-monitoring and public posting; (4) private and public feedback did not result in increases in room-cleaning performance over levels obtained with awareness of external evaluation alone; and (5) accuracy of self-recording improved ...