Effects Of Positive And Negative Reinforcement In Education

Within the discipline of education there are many specific areas one may choose to research. These topics can range from teaching styles to the psychological effects of mainstreaming special needs children into the classroom. For an undergraduate in the field of education one must figure out what they would like to know more about and how to properly research their chosen topic. After choosing a topic one must learn to sift through all the information already out there on their topic, one useful way to start is by google searching scholarly and academic journals. After narrowing one’s journal search to journals useful to their research, it is beneficial to look up the credentials of each journal to be sure they are reliable. For example, for this paper I researched academic journals and popular news sites on the effects of positive and negative reinforcement on children in the classroom. I chose this topic in hopes of figuring out later in the semester if schools that use positive reinforcement yields higher grades and overall better test results than schools that use negative …show more content…
I also used the ERIC database to find a journals entitled, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review and School Psychology Quarterly. Finally I searched Google News to find the popular journal entitled, International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences. After finding all of the journals I planned on using I researched each journals’ impact factor (an impact factor is a way of determining a journals reliability and