REVIEW OF RESEARCH INVOLVING APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS IN THE CLASSROOM.

This article presents a review of research involving applied behavior analysis in the classroom. A number of studies failed to meet the technological criterion because of inadequate description of procedures or results. However, some of the studies reviewed apparently are technologically adequate because the descriptions of procedures appear to be clear enough for replication by other investigators. In general, all of the studies reviewed appear to relate technological description to basic concepts of the science of behavior. Most studies would also be judged effective by those most directly concerned with the behaviors under investigation. This is ironic, since much of the prior research in the special education settings used academic improvement as the target behavior under investigation.