MITIGATING STUDENTS’ DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR THROUGH OPERANT CONDITIONING

Education

One of the biggest problems today that every teacher is facing is the ongoing need to address behavioral problems: disruptive student behavior, to be precise. These behaviors are disruptive to the teacher instruction and classroom discussions. Creating a classroom environment includes proactive methods of handling the problems to help address these disruptive behaviors. This study aimed to mitigate the students’ disruptive behavior through Operant Conditioning. A true experimental design was utilized in this study. This tested the effectiveness of positive reinforcement and negative punishment in mitigating the student’s disruptive behavior. The respondents was the Grade 6 pupils, particularly the section 5 in Cateel Central Elementary School, comprising 24 pupils. Results shown that before the intervention, the total number of occurrences of disruptive behavior during the pre-intervention was significantly high yielded 1105 total occurrences. After the intervention, the total number of occurrences of disruptive behavior among grade 6 pupils has been reduced to 711 occurrences. Overall, the results suggest that the intervention had a significant effect on the measured outcome, as evidenced by the statistically significant difference between the pre and post-intervention scores. The intervention had a positive effect on reducing disruptive behaviors among the students.

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