This document discusses different types of overcorrection procedures used as penalties for inappropriate behaviors: (1) Restitutional overcorrection requires students to return the environment to its previous state and improve it further; (2) Positive practice overcorrection involves students repeatedly practicing the correct behavior; (3) Negative practice overcorrection has students repeatedly practice the wrongly displayed behavior. Examples are given of each type, such as a student who writes on desks being required to clean their desk and five others.

1. Overcorrection

2. Overcorrection
 Overcorrection procedures involve having the
student engage in repetitive behavior as a penalty
for having displayed an inappropriate
action. There are three different types of
overcorrection procedures:
1. Restitutional
2. Positive practice
3. Negative practice (not officially an overcorrection
procedure, but in the same family of
interventions)

3. Restitutional (Pampasan)
 In this variation, the student must return the
environment to the previous condition (before the
display of the "bad" behavior AND make it even
better. So if a youngster throws trash on the floor,
s/he is required to pick up that piece/item that
was thrown AND much more (perhaps all the
other trash on the floor, the material that fell
behind the radiator, or even the garbage in the
hallways/yard of the school).

4. Positive practice ( Perlakuan positif)
 Upon having committed an infraction, the student
must repeatedly practice the correct behavior for
that situation.

5. Negative practice (perlakuan
negatif)
 Upon having committed an infraction, the student
must repeatedly practice the wrongly displayed
behavior.

6. EXAMPLES
 Example 1
 Restitutional Overcorrection
 ✍ Diana writes all over her desk with crayons.
 She is required to clean her desk and
 five other desks in the classroom.
 ✍ Pedro eats nonnutritive substances, such as
 trash and cigarette butts. He is required to
 clean out his mouth, pick up and throw
 away the trash, and clean five trash cans.
 ✍ Joseph bites his peers while participating
 in free play time in the classroom. He is
 required to brush his teeth, cleanse and
 medicate his victim’s wounds, and apologize
 to everyone in the classroom.
 ✍ Shelly doesn’t keep her clothing on. She is
 required to wear extra clothing and to
 improve the appearance of her classmates
 by buttoning or zipping their unfastened
 clothing and/or combing their hair.

7. Example 2
 Positive Practice Overcorrection
 ✍ Maggie runs down the hall. She is directed
 to walk appropriately up and down the
 hall five times.
 ✍ Manuel interrupts class by talking out
 without raising his hand. He is directed to
 raise his hand, get called on, and speak 20
 times.
 ✍ Jennifer throws a softball and hits other
 students during P.E. activities. She is told
 to throw the ball back and forth appropriately
 with another student 20 times.

8. Example 3
NEGATIVE OVERCORRECTION
1) Was caught smoking in the bathroom?
-My former biology teacher used to make kids
come into his room after school, stand by the
window, and smoke a pack of cigarettes. After the
students turned green, they were sent home. I'm
not sure he ever "cured" anyone of smoking, but
they did stop smoking in the bathroom across the
hall from his room.