Graduate Program
School Psychology
Degree Name
Specialist in School Psychology
Semester of Degree Completion
2005
Thesis Director
Linda Leal
Thesis Committee Member
Caridad Brito
Thesis Committee Member
Christine McCormick
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of the tooling intervention, developed by Skinner, Skinner, and Cashwell (1998), through the use of verbal versus private reports of peers' prosocial behavior. Previous tootling studies have focused on private reports of prosocial behavior, but verbal reports of prosocial behaviors utilizing the tootling intervention have not been investigated. Two classrooms of 3rd grade students were taught to tootle by either verbally reporting or by privately writing down observed prosocial behaviors of their peers. Both classrooms were reinforced for reaching a desired number of tootles. The results of the current study suggest that verbally reporting prosocial behaviors may be more effective than privately writing them down.
Recommended Citation
Torbeck, Jessica, "The Tootling intervention: Verbal vs. private reports of prosocial behavior" (2005). Masters Theses. 1080.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/1080
