The Journal of Educational Research · 1971 · 12 citations · 2 references
Public HealthEducational PsychologyPsychologyBehavior Change TheoryExperimental PsychologyIndividual DifferencesBehavior ChangeBehavior Change StrategiesBehavioral AssessmentBehavioral InterventionsExperimental Analysis Of BehaviorOperant ConditioningBehavior Change TechniquesControl Group DesignMatched Control Group
The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of a treatment procedure which combined psychological conditioning with a well-known study technique (RSQ3R) upon the academic performance of “high-risk” students’ It was hypothesized that Ss exposed to this procedure would demonstrate higher GPA’s than a comparable control group, The results were in the predicted direction.
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