THE EFFECT OF RESPONSE CARDS ON DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOUR DURING ALBANIAN LANGUAGE CLASS

Response Cards (RC) are reusable cards that allow all students to independently answer all questions posed by the teacher. The cards are either pre-printed with letters for answering true/false or multiple choice questions, or are a blank laminated surface to be written-on for open-ended questions. Response Cards offer students plenty of opportunities to interact when they are learning a new material, or when repeating a material learned before. They also enable teachers to assess the understanding of each student, react instantly and adapt the lesson and the class to the circumstances. The goal of this study is to assess the effect that the using of RC in the class of Albanian language will have on the students' disruptive behavior. The RC was used in combination with the Single-Student Responding (SSR) through an ABAB type design. Seven students of the fourth grade in the "Jorgji Dilo" school in Elbasan, Albania were the sample for the data collection. The disruptive behavior was measured during SSR and RC, by partial intervals' recording in the observation of each student in each session. Results showed that when RC was used the average number of intervals with disruptive behavior fell by 5.3 and that there were no differences between genders. It is not only productive, but also essential and indispensable to implement effective instructing techniques such as RC, which highly evaluate the active responses of the students. Teachers must deal with disruptive behavior, but they also should see deep in their teaching techniques. Future studies should examine the long-term use of response cards on the social behaviors of students. Researchers should also examine the potential effects of using response cards during multiple subjects to determine the generality of findings.