The Token System

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Token systems have a high success rate and have been shown to improve behaviors within the classroom. Most statistics reported undesirable behavior was reduced to low occurrences. (Donaldson, DeLeon, Kahng, & Fisher, 2014) According to Fiksdal (2014), students were actively engaged in the lesson 95% of the time using the token system. Soares, Harrison, and Vannest (2016) reported that token economies were more successful with older students than with younger students. Their research consisted of 5-6 year olds and 6-10 year olds in two different groups. According to their findings, the 6-10 year olds were more invested in getting incentives for good behavior. Their hypothesis concluded that the older students understood what behavior would

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