Behavior change

Praise

Intervention (counseling)

Head start

Psychiatry

Mathematics education

Developmental psychology

Multiple baseline design

Psychology

Set (abstract data type)

Programming language

Computer science

Social psychology

Psychology in the Schools

This study evaluated the effects of a teacher prompting procedure to increase teacher behavior specific praise (BSP) using an Apple Watch. Participants included three Head Start general education teachers. An ABAB design across participants was used to examine the effects of Smart Watch‐based prompts on teachers' praise rate. The study consisted of four phases: (a) baseline, (b) teacher praise training and intervention, (c) withdrawal from intervention, and (d) reimplementation of intervention. Implementation of the intervention was associated with increases in both BSP and general praise for all participating teachers. Although averages did not meet the criterion set by the researcher of one statement per minute, these findings suggest a functional relation between implementation of the procedure and increases in teacher praise.

Increasing teachers' use of behavior specific praise via Apple Watch prompting