Step-by-Step: Teaching Students to Self-Monitor · 2019-06-23 · Self-Determination Step-by-Step: Teaching Students to Self-Monitor Mr. Payton silently sat back in his chair and

Self-Determination

Step-by-Step:Teaching Students

to Self-Monitor

Mr. Payton silently sat back in hischair and looked out at his students,who were supposed to be independent-ly working on various projects. Henoticed—and not for the first time-that a number of his students wereunable to manage their own behaviorand work independently of adultsupervision. Mr. Payton felt over-whelmed because he was unable toconstantly monitor and regulate all ofhis students' behaviors, especially giventhat their needs were so diverse.

Some of his students required con-stant prompting to remain on-task.Others needed prompting to work withtheir partners when they were instruct-ed to do so, whereas a few neededreminding to work alone during desig-nated times. In addition, a number ofstudents needed their academic workmonitored.

Mr. Payton knew that it is humanlyimpossible to continuously monitor allof his students' behaviors. Conse-quently, he set out to find a type ofstrategy that he could use to help hisstudents manage their own behaviors.It was during his research that Mr.Payton stumbled upon a group ofself-management interventions called"self-monitoring. "

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Figure 1 . Five Typ** ^ Seif-Management Strategies Tiiat Can Foster Seif-Reguiated Performance

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Self-monitoring interventionstypically require a student to self-observe his or her own behavior andself-record whether or not he or she wasengaging in the target behavior.

Goal setting interventions usuallyentail having a student create behaviortargets also known as goals.

Self-evaluation interventionscharacteristically involve teachinga student to assess his or her behavioragainst a set standard.

Self-instruction interventions requireteaching a student how to use self-statements to direct his or her behavior.

\ / s t r a t e g y instruction interventions are ^ \Y typically used to teach a student a series |I of steps to follow to complete a task IV autonomously. J

Self-observation is the actof observing one's ownbehavior.

Self-recording is the act ofrecording the observationone made about his or herown behavior.

Note. Self-monitodng and its subcomponents are highlighted because suggested steps to create and implement these types ofinterventions are the focus of this article.

SeK-Management

An overarching goal in education is toenable students to become indepen-dent and self-sufflcient individualswho are able to manage their behav-iors without the assistance of others(Cooper, Heron, & Heward, 2007; Lan,2005). When students are able to man-age their own behaviors (also knownas self-regulation), they do not rely onexternal controls, such as teacherprompting.

In general education classrooms,teachers are facing an increasinglydiverse population of students with anarray of needs. As illustrated in theeadier story, it is not feasible for ateacher to constantly manage a stu-dent's behavior. Add 20 to 30 childrento the equation and the task becomesdaunting. One group of interventionsthat have been successfully taught andused by students at all grade levelswith a wide range of abilities is self-management interventions.

Are There Different Types ofSelf-Management Interventions?

There are flve types of self-manage-ment interventions that are frequentlyused to help foster self-regulated per-formance: (a) self-monitoring, (a) goalsetting, (c) self-evaluation, (d) self-instruction, (e) strategy instruction(Cooper et al., 2007; Keller, Brady, &Taylor, 2005; Mace, Belfiore, & Hutch-inson, 2001; Nelson & Hayes, 1981;Reid & Lienemann, 2006; Schunk,2001). See the concept model in Figure1 for a bdef explanation of each type.

For What Kinds of Students AreSelf-Management InterventionsDesigned?

Self-management interventions can betaught to and used by students from awide vadety of backgrounds and witha diverse range of abilities, includingstudents in preschool (e.g., Reinecke,Newman, & Meinberg, 1999), elemen-tary school (e.g., Lannie & Martens,2008), middle school (e.g., Gureasko-

Moore, DuPaul, & White, 2007), highschool (e.g.. Chalk, Hagan-Burke, &Burke, 2005), and college (e.g., Keller,et al., 2005) settings. Students withlearning disabilities (e.g.. Saddler,2006), emotional and behavioral dis-abilities (Mooney, Ryan, Uhing, Reid, &Epstein, 2005), attention deflcit hyper-activity disorder (ADHD; Reid, Trout, &Schartz, 2005), autism (Lee, Simpson,& Shogren, 2007), and cognitive dis-abilities (e.g., King-Sears, 2008) havealso successfully used self-managementinterventions.

What Can Self-ManagementInterventions Help Students Do?

Self-management interventions can beused to help students manage a varietyof social and academic behaviors. Thebehavior(s) that are selected forchange with a particular interventionare known as the target behavior (s).Typically, when a student is taughthow to use a self-management inter-vention, only one behavior or a set of

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related behaviors is targeted for reme-diation at a time. Some examples oftarget behaviors include, but are notlimited to, attention to task (e.g., Reid,1996), academic productivity (e.g.,Harris, Friedlander, Saddler, Frizzelle,& Graham, 2005), academic accuracy(e.g., Maag, Reid, & DiGangi, 1993),homework completion (e.g., Gureasko-Moore et al., 2007), disruptive behavior(e.g.. Lam, Cole, Shapiro, & Bambara,1994), and various social behaviorssuch as peer communication and play(e.g.. Marchant et al., 2007). Therefore,educators can teach their students self-management techniques to help themregulate a range of, or selection of theirown, academic and/or social behav-iors.

What Are the Benefits of TeachingStudents to Self-Manage?

There are a number of benefits associ-ated with fostering students to self-regulate their behaviors. For example,

• Self-management strategies can bedifferentiated to meet the needs of awide range of students.

• They are typically less invasive thanteacher-managed strategies (Fan-tuzzo. Polite, Cook, & Quinn, 1988).

• They may be more effective thanteacher-regulated interventions(DuPaul & Stoner, 2002).

• Students who effectively use self-regulatory processes or self-manage-ment skills tend to have higher lev-els of self-efficacy, motivation, andschool achievement (Zimmerman,2002).

• These students typically use appro-pdate help-seeking behaviors inorder to learn how to do somethingindependently instead of sittinghelplessly or looking for someoneelse to do it for them (Newman,2002).

• Students who learn how to effec-tively use a small number of self-management strategies can poten-tially manage a variety of behaviors(Cooper et al., 2007), which willhelp them throughout their schoolcareers and after they graduate(Lan, 2005).

SeH-Monitoring

Self-monitoring is considered to be oneof the first steps to self-regulatedbehavior (Schunk, 2001). It is one ofthe most researched group of self-man-agement interventions (Cooper et al.,2007), and research results suggest thatstudents at all grade levels (includingthose who are typically developing andthose who have cognitive or behavioraldisabilities) can successfully learn touse and benefit from self-monitoringinterventions (e.g.. Lam et al, 1994;Mooney et al., 2005; Reid, 1996; Reidet al., 2005).

In determining whether or not self-monitoring is possible for an individualstudent, a critical element is discover-ing if the student is or is not able toidentify or note when he or she hasengaged in the behavior targeted forremediation (Mace et al, 2001; Nelson& Hayes, 1981). Also, one needs toascertain if the student understandsthat the target behavior is either social-ly or environmentally inappropriate.Without these two elements, it isunlikely that the student will be able toregulate his or her own behavior.

Self-Monitoring and Graphing

Although having a student graph his orher behavior is not a necessary compo-nent of self-monitoring, researchresults have suggested that a combina-tion of having a student record andgraph his or her behavior may be moreeffective than using recording alone(DiGangi, Maag, & Rutherford, 1991).In addition, it is possible that graphingis motivational to students (e.g.. Har-ds, Graham, Reid, McElroy, & Hamby,1994), and students who graph theirown behavior begin to spontaneouslycreate goals for themselves and self-evaluate their performance, which areother important processes of self-regu-lated behavior. Therefore, teachersshould include a graphing componentwhen they implement self-monitoringinterventions to help foster the devel-opment of other self-regulationprocesses. The graph can be used asthe recording sheet or in combinationwith another self-monitodng sheet. Anexample of the steps to use for self-

monitodng is given in the section thatfollows.

Implementing Self-Monitoringin the Classroom

In order to implement self-monitodngwith a student, it is recommended thatthe teacher employ the following steps(modified from Gooper et al., 2007;Hallahan, Lloyd, Kosiewicz, Kauffman,& Graves, 1979; Hards et al., 1994;Maag et al., 1993; Raffedy & Raimondi,2009; Rankin & Reid, 1995).

Step 1 : Identify the Target Behavior.The first step is for the teacher to iden-tify the behavior (or related behaviors)he or she wants to target. This behav-ior should be worded in positive,rather than negative terms wheneverpossible. For example, if a student isconstantly off task and the teacherwould like to increase his or her on-task behavior, the teacher would iden-tify on-task behavior as the targetbehavior, opposed to identifying off-task behavior.

Step 2: Operationally Define theTarget Behavior Once a teacher identi-fies the target behavior, he or sheneeds to operationally define it. Inother words, the teacher needs tocreate a detailed description of whatthe behavior looks like so that it canbe observed and measured (Gooper etal, 2007). Sometimes it is helpful toalso give a nonexample. How each per-son defines on-task behavior may vary,and what is considered on-task in oneenvironment may not be the same inanother. Therefore, a teacher wouldhave to operationally define on-taskbehavior within the context of a partic-ular environment and/or activity. Forinstance, if a teacher would like a stu-dent to increase his or her on-taskbehavior dudng independent mathpractice while using a self-monitodngintervention, on-task behavior could beoperationally defined as

(a) looking at the self-monitodngcard or the math practice sheet,(b) wdting on the self-monitor-ing card or the math practicesheet, (c) using manipulatives tocount, or (d) asking the teacherfor help. (Rafferty & Raimondi,2009, p. 289)

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Step 3: Collect Baseline Data. Afterthe teacher operationally deflnes thetarget behavior, baseline data shouldbe collected. In order to make aninformed decision about the need toremediate the target behavior or theintervention to use, it is recommendedthat the teacher gather at least three tofive pieces of baseline data. In addi-tion, if it is decided that remediation isappropriate, these data will supply theteacher with preintervention informa-tion that can be used to analyze thestudent's progress once the interven-tion has been implemented.

There are a number of ways thatteachers can collect data. TVvo com-monly used methods are frequencycount and time sampling procedures,which are briefly explained in the fol-lowing paragraphs (see Cooper et al.,2007, for more information about theseand other data collection methods):

• Frequency count procedures are usedto count the number of times abehavior occurs. Discrete behaviorsare often measured using frequencycounts. Frequency counts are easilyused when a permanent product isevaluated. For example, if the targetbehavior is "academic productivity"and the teacher wants the studentto finish more math problems inde-pendently, he or she can monitorthe student's progress by simplycounting the number of math prob-lems the student completes on aworksheet each day.

• Time sampling procedures providean estimate of time that a student isengaged in the target behavior. Forhigh-rate behaviors that cannot bemeasured using a permanent prod-uct, teachers often use this data col-lection method. For example, timesampling procedures can be used tomeasure a student's on-task behav-ior (such as the one operationallydefined in the previous step).

Although time sampling proce-dures only provide an estimate ofthe student's engagement in thebehavior, it is often unrealistic for ateacher to continuously watch a sin-gle student's behavior for anyextended amount of time. Therefore,

teachers use this method because itallows them to engage in otherteaching activities while intermit-tently collecting data.

With this set of procedures,teachers observe and record theoccurrence or nonoccurrence of thetarget behavior at fixed intervals.For this type of assessment, ateacher would also need his or herown cueing device to prompt himor her to observe and record thestudent's behavior. From these data,the teacher could then calculate apercentage—in this example a per-centage of time on-task—by divid-ing the number of intervals the stu-dent was observed on-task with thetotal number of intervals he or shewas observed. Then, that answershould be multiplied by 100 to get apercentage. (Figure 2 provides anexample of a recording sheet and

ble-digit numbers with regrouping,but makes careless mistakes, this isa performance deficit and self-moni-toring would be appropriately usedto increase academic accuracy.However, if the student does notknow how to add double-digit num-bers with regrouping, then thiswould be considered a skill deficitand self-monitoring would not beappropriate for this behavior.

• The teacher should assess howoften the student will have theopportunity to engage in the targetbehavior. If it is a behavior thatwould be expected infrequently,self-monitoring may not be anappropriate intervention to use. It isrecommended to choose behaviorsthat would be expected at least afew times a week to several times aday. (Baseline data should be usedto make an informed decision.)

[S] elf-monitoring should only be used with skillsthat the student already possesses, and the deficit is

in the student's performance of the skill.

steps to collect data using a timesamphng system.)

Step 4: Determine If It Is an Appro-priate Behavior to Remediate. Thefourth step involves having the teacherdetermine whether or not the targetbehavior is an appropriate behavior toremediate by teaching the student toself-monitor. The following criteriashould be evaluated before the deci-sion is made to create and implement aself-monitoring program (see Figure 3for a condensed checklist; The IRISCenter for Training Enhancements,n.d., Rankin & Reid, 1995):

• It should be understood that self-monitoring is a self-managementintervention; it is not a learningstrategy. Therefore, self-monitoringshould only be used with skills thatthe student already possesses, andthe deficit is in the student's per-formance of the skill (Graham,Harris, & Reid, 1992). For example,if a student knows how to add dou-

• Developmental and cognitive levelsshould be taken into account. If theexpectation of the behavior is devel-opmentally inappropriate or if a stu-dent is unable to identify the occur-rence or nonoccurrence of a behav-ior because it is too complex, thenself-monitoring is unlikely to work.

• The teacher also needs to assesswhether or not the student can con-trol the behavior. In other words, isthe behavior voluntary or involun-tary? Self-monitoring is not appro-priate for behaviors a student is notable to control. For example, if astudent has tics from a genetic dis-order, it is not appropriate to useself-monitoring to remediate thisbehavior.

• Sometimes a behavior may be toosevere to use self-monitoring inter-ventions to remediate, and externalcontrol procedures may be neces-sary to help establish control overthe behavior prior to assisting thestudent to self-manage it. These

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The teacher should take the stu-dent's culture into consideration. Ifthere are cultural reasons why thechild engages in the behavior theteacher would like to remediate,then it is not typically appropriateto remediate the behavior. Forexample, if a teacher would like toincrease the number of times a stu-dent makes eye contact with anadult during a conversation, and

1. Using a tactile promptingdevice as well, Mrs. Deanwill use the device to prompther to observe and recordAngelica's behavior onceevery minute for 30 minutes.

2. When Mrs. Dean feels theprompt, she will look atAngelica and assess whetheror not she is on-task. She willput a plus if she is and aminus if she is not.

3. When Mrs. Dean is done, shewill count the number ofpluses and divide by 30. Thenshe will multiply that numberby 100 to get the percentageof time Angelica was on-task.

there is a cultural reason behindwhy the child does not make eyecontact, then it would be inappro-priate to remediate this behaviorunless this is something that hasbeen discussed and agreed uponwith the child's parents.

Step 5: Design Procedures and AllMaterials. After the teacher determinesthat the target behavior can be appro-priately remediated using self-monitor-ing techniques, he or she needs todesign all of the procedures andmaterials.

The teacher needs to decide if thestudent will seli-tnonitor during anactivity or after the activity eachday or occurrence.

If a student is to monitor his orher behavior during an activity, theteacher needs to create a self-moni-toring card where the student willrecord his or her observations whencued. For example, for the targetbehavior of "on-task behavior,"which was operationally definedearlier, it would be an appropriatebehavior to have the student assessperiodically while completing atask. (An example of a self-monitor-ing card is provided in Figure 4.)

If the student is only going tomonitor after an activity, then theteacher might elect to have the stu-dent simply graph his or her behav-ior over time. For example, if thetarget behavior is to "increase aca-demic productivity" defined as thenumber of math problems a studentcompletes each day, the teachermight elect to have the studentcount the number of math prob-lems completed each day atid graphthem. The student could, however,also be prompted to do this periodi-cally throughout the session.(Examples of graphs are providedin Figures 5 and 6.)

If the student is going to be expect-ed to self-tnonitor periodically whileengaging in an activity, the teacherwill need to decide how the studentwill be cued to observe and recordhis or her behavior. Typically, audi-tory cues are used, such as akitchen timer set to beep at setintervals, or prerecorded beeps thatare emitted through a tape or com-pact disc player. Tactile promptingdevices that vibrate at fixed inter-vals are also very effective.

The teacher needs to plan to moni-tor the student's progress after he orshe is taught how to use the inter-vention. The teacher should contin-ue to use the method used to collectbaseline data so that he or she canappropriately assess the student'sprogress.

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Step 6: Teach the Student How toSelf-Monitor. After the teacher designsthe procedures and all of tbe materials,he or sbe sbould train tbe student toself-monitor using the following steps(modified from Hallahan et al., 1979;Harris, 1986)

• The teacher and the student shoulddiscuss the importance of the targetbebavior and tbe idea of self-moni-toring. This step is very importantbecause witbout student buy-inmost interventions are unlikely towork (Rankin & Reid, 1995).

• The student should be taught todiscriminate between engaging inthe target behavior and not engag-ing. It would be useful to share theoperational deflnition of the bebav-ior with the student and modelexamples and nonexamples of thebehavior.

• The teacher should show the stu-dent how to monitor his or herbehavior at designated times.

• The student should then be taugbthow to record his or her behavioron the self-monitoring card (ifapplicable).

• Tbe student should then be taugbthow to transfer the total number forthe day to the graph.

• The teacher should model the stepsin their entirety.

• The teacher should then have thestudent practice the steps, and theteacher should provide guided prac-tice when necessary. This stepshould be repeated as many timesas necessary.

• Wben the student is able to inde-pendently practice the steps withoutany guidance at least two or threetimes in a row, the student shouldbe ready to self-monitor.

Step 7: Monitor Student's Progress.Once the student begins to independ-ently use the self-monitoring interven-tion, the teacher should monitor tbestudent's progress. Tbe teacher shoulduse the data to make informed instruc-tional decisions. For example, theteacher might assess wbetber or nottbe student is able to independently

Figure 3. Checklist to Help Determine Whether Seif-Monitoring is avAppropriate intervention to Remediate the Target Behavior or Not

Questions to Determine IfSelf-Monitoring Is an Appropriate Intervention

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Does the student possess the skills to engage in the targetbehavior (i.e., a performance deficit)?

Would tbe student be expected to engage in the target behaviorat least a few times a week?

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Is tbe bebavior voluntary?

Is the bebavior one that does not evoke harm on the student,the people around him or her, or the environment?

Is it clear that the student does not engage in the behavior forcultural reasons?

If you answered "yes" for all of the questions, then self-monitoring may be anappropriate intervention to use.

If you answered "no" for any of the questions, then self-moniloring isprobably not an appropriate intervention to use.

Noie. Adapted from The IRIS Center for Training Enhancements, (n.d.). SOS: Helpingstudents become independent learner» (page 3). Retrieved from http://isis.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/sr/chalcycle.htm. Courtesy of the IRIS Center, Peabody College.

Figure 4. An Exampie of a Seif-Monitoring Card That CouidBe Used to Seif-Monitor On-Tasic Behavior

At this moment, am I doing my work?

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monitor his or her behavior over time.If not, retraining should be undertaken.In another instance, the teacher mightevaluate if the student's behavior ischanging without the use of additionalreinforcers. If not, the teacher can helpthe student create a goal and identify areinforcer that the student wouldreceive upon achieving the goal.(Please note that social reinforcementshould always be paired with tangiblereinforcers [e.g., stickers] so that whentangible reinforcers are removed, thestudent can continue to receive socialpraise.) As the student becomes morecompetent using the intervention, theteacher can monitor the student'sbehavior less frequently.

Step 8: Fade Use of Intervention.Eventually, the use of the self-monitor-ing matedals (i.e., self-monitodngsheet, graph, and cueing mechanism)should be faded. The eventual goal isto help the student monitor his or herbehavior without the intervention. Thepoint is to help the student internalizethe process, but still maintain appropri-ate levels of engagement in the targetbehavior. Internalizing the behaviorcan be done by having the studentgradually observe and record his or herbehavior less and less frequently.During this time, however, the teachershould continue to monitor the stu-dent's progress. If the student's engage-ment in the target behavior falls out-side of the acceptable range, then it ispossible that the student is not readyto self-monitor without aid, and theintervention should be faded at a laterdate.

Checking in on Mr. Poyton

After Mr. Payton discovered self-moni-toring interventions in his research, hefollowed the steps provided in this arti-cle to help him create and implement aself-monitoring intervention programfor those students who were not able tomanage their own behaviors, particular-ly while they were supposed to be com-pleting independent work when he wasworking with small reading groups.

Because this was Mr. Payton's firstattempt at creating and implementingthis type of program, he wanted tomake it as easy on himself as he could.

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while Still meeting the students' indi-vidual needs. Mr. Payton felt that someof his students needed to focus onremaining on-task; these students neverseemed to finish their work. Another

in order to finish their work and to fin-ish it with accuracy. In addition, Mr.Payton could devote his time and atten-tion to his reading groups, because hecould monitor the students' progress by

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group of students, however, always fin-ished their work, but made carelessmistakes possibly because they rushedthrough their work. In an attempt tomeet the needs of both groups, Mr.Payton decided to focus on two relatedtarget behaviors—academic productivityand academic accuracy. He defined aca-demic productivity as the number ofitems the student attempted to completewhether they were right or wrong, andacademic accuracy was defined as thenumber of items the student accuratelycompleted. Focusing on these two relat-ed behaviors, Mr Payton believed thathe could meet the needs of both groups,because the students had to be on-task

collecting their worksheets and usingfrequency counts

After Mr Payton identified the targetbehaviors, operationally defined them,and decided how he would measure theidentified behaviors, he collected base-line data and completed the checklist todetermine the appropriateness of usinga self-monitoring intervention to reme-diate his students' behavior. He used allof the information he obtained to makean itiformed decision about the proce-dures and materials he created toimplement the self-monitoring program.

Mr Payton decided that the studentswould monitor their behavior after theindependent work time and the stu-

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dents would graph their performanceover time. To do this, Mr. Payton knewthat this would take a little bit of plan-ning in the beginning, but the materi-als he created could be used again orshared with other teachers. For exam-ple, Mr Payton realized that he neededto create answer keys for the worksheetshe gave to the students in order forthem to correct their own worksheetsand graph their performance. In addi-tion, he needed to create and design agraph that the students could use.

Mr Payton then created a lessonplan to teach his students how to usethe self-monitoring intervention. Heused the steps described in this articleas a framework for his lesson. Becausethere were a total of five students in hisclass that would benefit from this pro-gram, he decided to instruct them in asmall group setting rather than individ-

ually. He did, however, individuallyassess the students' ability to independ-ently practice the steps.

It hcts been a month since Mr.Payton first implemented the self-moni-toring progratn, and he continues tocollect data on the students' perform-ance. He is quite impressed with theprogress that each student is making.The students who were twt completingtheir work are now completing more ofit, and some of the students are com-pleting all of it The students who fin-ished their work with mistakes are nowcompleting their work with more accu-racy. Mr. Payton has been able todevote more of his attention to teachingduring small group instruction, ratherthan redirecting student behaviors. Heplans to continue to monitor his stu-dents' performance and eventually fadethe use of the intervention. Until then.

Mr Payton will continue to engage inthe same reflective processes that heused when creating and initially itnple-menting this self-monitoring program.

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