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Task Interspersal

Task Interspersal is an instructional strategy within antecedent-based interventions that involves embedding a low-effort or high-success task among more challenging tasks to increase motivation, task engagement, and compliance by reducing aversiveness and delay to reinforcement.

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Increasing On-Task Behavior in an Elementary Student During Mathematics Seatwork by Interspersing Additional Brief Problems

Merilee McCurdy, Christopher H. Skinner, Kay Grantham et al. · School Psychology Review · 2001 · 110 citations

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Getting remedial mathematics students to prefer homework with 20% and 40% more problems: An investigation of the strength of the interspersing procedure

Gary L. Cates, Christopher H. Skinner · Psychology in the Schools · 2000 · 101 citations

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Varying Problem Effort and Choice: Using the Interspersal Technique to Influence Choice Towards More Effortful Assignments

Eric J. Billington, Christopher H. Skinner, Holly M. Hutchins et al. · Journal of Behavioral Education · 2004 · 68 citations

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Getting Students to Choose to Do More Work: Evidence of the Effectiveness of the Interspersal Procedure

Eric J. Billington, Christopher H. Skinner · Journal of Behavioral Education · 2002 · 65 citations

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TOO MUCH REINFORCEMENT, TOO LITTLE BEHAVIOR: ASSESSING TASK INTERSPERSAL PROCEDURES IN CONJUNCTION WITH DIFFERENT REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES WITH AUTISTIC CHILDREN

Marjorie H. Charlop, Patricia F. Kurtz, Janice P. Milstein · Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis · 1992 · 49 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. CH
    Christopher H. Skinner

    University of Tennessee at Knoxville, United States

    5 publications · 310 citations

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  2. KV
    Karen V. O’Connor

    University of Missouri, United States

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  3. CL
    Claire L. Poulson

    Queens College, CUNY, United States

    1 publications · 17 citations

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  4. TS
    T. Steuart Watson

    Mississippi State University, United States

    1 publications · 110 citations

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  5. CS
    Carla Schmidt

    University of Missouri, United States

    1 publications · 33 citations

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Institutions

22

  1. University of Tennessee at Knoxville

    Knoxville, United States

    5 h-index

    9 publications

    526 citations

  2. Mississippi State University

    Starkville, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    532 citations

  3. Knoxville College

    Knoxville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  4. Florida Institute of Technology

    Melbourne, United States

    1 h-index

    5 publications

    215 citations

  5. The Graduate Center, CUNY

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    34 citations

  6. University of Missouri

    Columbia, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    66 citations

  7. Kennedy Krieger Institute

    Baltimore, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    49 citations

  8. University of Kansas

    Lawrence, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

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Venues

  1. Journal of Behavioral Education

    4 publications · 119 citations

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  2. Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis

    JABA · 3 publications · 135 citations

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  3. Behavioral Interventions

    1 publications · 26 citations

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  4. Research in autism spectrum disorders

    1 publications · 17 citations

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  5. PubMed

    Repository · 1 publications · 10 citations

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