INTERTEACHING: THE EFFECTS OF QUALITY POINTS ON EXAM SCORES

• Published in: Journal of applied behavior analysis Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 369 - 374
• Main Authors: Saville, Bryan K., Zinn, Tracy E.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2009; Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior; The Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
• Subjects: Adolescent; Behavior; Behavior Patterns; Biological and medical sciences; College Instruction; College students; Cooperative Learning; Educational Measurement - methods; Educational psychology; Educational Status; exam performance; Female; Fraternities & sororities; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Instructional Effectiveness; interteaching; Learning; Learning Strategies; Male; Methods; Psychology; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Psychopedagogics. Didactics; quality points; Reading; Research methodology; Scores; Student Evaluation; Students; Studies; Teaching - methods; Undergraduate Students; Undergraduate Study; Universities; Young Adult; Human; college instruction; quality points; Behavioral analysis; interteaching; Instruction; Performance; Peer tutoring teaching; exam performance; Teaching; College academic achievement
• ISSN: 0021-8855; 1938-3703
• DOI: 10.1901/jaba.2009.42-369

Although previous studies have found interteaching to be an effective alternative to traditional methods of instruction, few studies have examined which of its components contribute to its effectiveness. In the current study, we examined whether manipulating quality points had an effect on our students' exam scores. In two sections of an undergraduate general psychology course, we used interteaching but alternated between quality points and no quality points several times throughout the semester; we also counterbalanced the order of presentation across sections. We found that quality points did not have an effect on exam scores.