The investigation of teaching premack principle to the mothers of mainstreaming students who are the investigation of increasing students? doing homework-action research

In this research, it is aimed to investigate the effect of teaching premack (granny) principle to the mothers of mainstreaming students who are students? work behaviours (doing homework).Action (instructor) research, one of the qualitative research methods, has been used in this thesis.Research subjects have been mothers of five children who are students at Adnan Ağır Special Education School and have been recognized as mentally handicapped by counselling service and guided to mainstreaming classes.In the research, to be able to accumulate the data, family information form, criterion referenced test related to the concepts, criterion referenced test related to the operations, the form of determining awareness before and after school, family interviews, homework control charts, generalized form, continuous form and social validity form have been used.During the experimental study, it has been defined the pre-test levels of the five mothers at the processes of concepts and operations intended to gain in the research with three different sessions before practising the developed family education programme. After the pre-test levels of the mothers have been defined, two sessions of family education programme have been implemented to the group. Then, product operation has been conducted with one of the research subjects.In the research, the data of the research has been displayed as tables and the tables have been interpreted qualitatively.At the end of the research findings are as follows:-After applying Family Education Programme to the mothers included in the research, they have reached all of the sub-goals of the concepts such as reinforcement and premack (granny) principle, and the operation processes. Thus, it is understood that Family Education Programme has led to the acquisition of concepts and the operation processes by mothers.-After the experimental process has been finished 7, 14 and 21 days later, mothers have reached all of the sub-goals of the concepts such as reinforcement and premack (granny) principle, and the operation processes. Thus, it is understood that when Family Education Programme has been implemented to the mothers, the acquisition of concepts and the operation processes shows the continuity after 7 and 14 days.-After applying Family Education Programme, it is understood that mothers have generalized premack (granny) principle as three skills according to the data obtained from generalization forms applied to the mothers.-After applying Family Education Programme to the mothers, a product operation has been conducted with the kid of one of the research subjects and it is observed that F. has done his homework for a week.-At the end of this study, mothers have stated that they have been satisfied with the study and they will recommend the programme to other families. They also have expressed that the programme is an effective method to make the students do homework and they have seen the mistakes while making the students do homework during this programme.Key Words: Parents Education, Homework, Premack Principle