Abstract
Research concerning verbal interactions within classrooms suggests a positive relation between the positive verbal responses of the teacher and an increase of student initiated responses. The increase of student initiated responses generally leads to a gain in positive attitudes toward the teacher and subject matter. A gain in achievement has also been related to the increase in student participation. The purposes of this research were (1) to measure the effects of an increase of positive verbal reinforcement upon the achievement and attitudes of randomly selected World of Construction pupils, (2) to determine whether the four teachers increased their frequency of verbal reinforcement with their experimental groups while they maintained their pretreatment interaction pattern with their control groups, and (3) to ascertain the effect of the presence of an observer in the classroom. One hundred sixty-seven students participated in the study. There were a total of seventy-eight in the control groups and eighty-nine in the experimental groups. The one hundred sixty-seven students and four teachers/schools were randomly selected from eleven junior high schools in the Dallas Independent School District. ...
Stamboolian, John Kerope (1972). The effect of positive verbal reinforcement upon achievement and attitudes of selected industrial arts classes. Texas A&M University. Texas A&M University. Libraries. Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /DISSERTATIONS -186175.