Program Description

Behavior intervention intended for students seeking to escape an academic task by being disruptive. Students receive a limited number of passes to take a brief (8-12 min.) break to engage in preferred activities without disrupting instruction. However, students are given incentive to conserve passes to redeem for rewards later.

Cost

Free

Intended Population

• Intervention

Grade

• Elementary School

Intended Group Size

• Individual

ELL/DLL

• Unspecified

Multisensory Applications

• Unspecified

Computer-Based Delivery

• None

Scripted

• Instructor Scripted

Comprehensive or Skill Specific

• Skill Specific

Placement Tests

• No

Accelerated Learning

• No

Assessment to Monitor Skills Mastery

• No

Error Correction Built In

• No

Fidelity Measures Provided by Publisher

• No

Research Summary

Studies revealed reductions in problem behavior and increased academic engagement with the Class Pass intervention. Some participants in the studies demonstrated maintenance of the positive effects.

Study Citations

Andreu, M. (2016). Using the class pass intervention (CPI) for children with disruptive behavior (Unpublished master's thesis). University of South Florida. Retrieved from https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/6168

Collins, T. A., Cook, C. R., Dart, E. H., Socie, D. G., Renshaw, T. L., & Long, A. C. (2016). Improving classroom engagement among high school students with disruptive behavior: Evaluation of the class pass intervention. Psychology in Schools, 53(2). doi:10.1002/pits.21893

Cook, C. R., Collins, T., Dart, E., Vance, M. J., Mcintosh, K., Grady, E. A., & Decano, P. (2014). Evaluation of the class pass intervention for typically developing students with hypothesized escape-motivated disruptive classroom behavior. Psychology in the Schools, 51(2), 107-125. doi: 10.1002/pits.21742.

Narozanick, T., & Blair, K.-S. C. (2018). Evaluation of the class pass intervention: An application to improve classroom behavior in children with disabilities. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions. doi: 10.1177/1098300718806650.

Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

• Promising practice