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

By Eric J. Billington, Christopher H. Skinner. 2002

68 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Statistics and Probability

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Eric J. Billington
2. Christopher H. Skinner
3. John C. Malone
4. Holly M. Hutchins
5. Brian C. Poncy
6. Theodore J. Christ

In Education

1. Eric J. Billington
2. Christopher H. Skinner
3. Holly M. Hutchins
4. Theodore J. Christ

In Statistics and Probability

1. Eric J. Billington
2. Christopher H. Skinner
3. John C. Malone
4. Holly M. Hutchins
5. Brian C. Poncy
6. Theodore J. Christ

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• Varying Problem Effort and Choice: Using the Interspersal Technique to Influence Choice Towards More Effortful Assignments (2004, background): “Basic research and theory suggests that when given the choice of two behaviors and all else is held constant, organisms are more likely to choose to engage in the behavior that requires the least amount of effort (Aparicio, 2001; Billington & Ditommaso, 2003; Billington & Skinner, 2002).”