Centennial Honors College
Western Illinois University
Undergraduate Research Day 2012
Poster Presentation
Icy Snoddy
Don’t Be a Fool and Study Study Study Study!
Faculty Mentor: Mary Jensen
Special Education
Our teacher wanted our class to create a behavior plan to see how it would feel to try to
change a behavior with students who have behavioral problems in a classroom. Before I
started my project I noticed that in past classes that I would procrastinate for classes
when it came to studying for test or doing homework assignment the night before it was
due. In project I chose a negative behavior procrastination to be changed into a target
behavior, which was to go to the library and study. I planned to go to the library at least
five times a week for 2 ½ hours with 95% accuracy. My job was to record my daily
progress within a 10-week time frame. This project was suggested from my professor
to see how hard it would be to change a negative behavior to a positive behavior with
certain reinforcements to increase the desired behavior. I collected my data with daily
marking on the calendar that had a star for yes and a sad face for no, and at the end of
the week I counted to see if I completed my desired goal.