The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of duration and frequency of timeout (with instruction) from reinforcement (performance) on attentiveness and attitude of students in a university band. Sixteen music selections were presented during eight rehearsals across seven twelve-minute experimental conditions. / Timeout periods were of fifteen, thirty or forty-five seconds duration and varied in frequency from three to eighteen randomly ordered stops during each of the six experimental ratios under investigation. Experimental temporal ratios ranged from thirteen to seventy-five percent in the timeout conditions. / Student attentiveness was defined as the percentage of students overtly on task. Data were collected across fifteen second intervals by two independent observers trained in behavioral techniques (average reliability .96) and tabulated on a form designed specifically for this study. / Attitude was assessed on preference forms whereby students rank ordered selections performed. / Results indicated a significantly higher offtask rate during timeout periods than during performance periods. Additionally, significant differences were found in off-task rates between the 0% and 13% timeout conditions and between the 25% and 38% conditions. / No significant differences in student offtask rates were found among isolated fifteen, thirty or forty-five second instructional periods nor did offtask rates vary significantly across continuous temporal intervals. / Graphic analysis indicated student offtask rates increased slightly as timeout frequency increased. In addition, elapsed performance time following conductors' cut-offs likewise increased with timeout frequency. / Results of attitudinal measures indicated that students discriminated between selections prepared for performance and those perceived as sightreading. / Students also expressed a preference for the experimental selections which required the fewest timeout periods. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-07, Section: A, page: 2989. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1980.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74215 |
| Contributors | SPRADLING, ROBERT LEDFORD., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 78 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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