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An evaluation of a character education program on students with developmental disabilities
… of this study was to examine the effects of a character education program on students with developmental disabilities. Both the experimental (n=20) and the control (n=14) groups were administered a pre-test during the same week. Following this, a six-week character education program was …
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A program evaluation of the character education program at a junior high school in Saint Louis County
… 1996; Riley, 2001). The purpose of this program evaluation is to examine how association between student-to-student and student-to-teacher, which includes fighting and bullying, disrespect and insubordination, have been affected from the inception of a school-wide character education …
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The Bully-Free School Zone Character Education Program: A Study of Impact on Five Western North Carolina Middle Schools.
… threads of effective Bully-Free School Zone character education programs as perceived by administrators, teachers, and parents in five middle schools in Western North Carolina. Through this strategic inquiry, I attempted to determine if the views of administrators, teachers, and parents were …
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The effectiveness and value of a character education program administered to a group of second and third grade students with learning disabilities
… to determine the effectiveness and value of a character education program when administered over a six-month period to a convenience sample of second and third grade students eligible for special education. The subjects for this study attend Parkview Elementary School in Stratford, New Jersey, …
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The Effects Of A Responsibility-based Character Education Program On Middle School Academic Achievement And School Climate At An International School In East Africa
… research was to determine the effectiveness of a character education program on middle school student academic performance, effort and attitude about their school located in an international setting. Middle school students at the participating international school were assigned to either an …
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What is the result when responsive classroom techniques are used as both a classroom management and character education program without implementing the whole approach?
… can be used as a classroom management system and character education program, without implementing the entire approach. The six approaches used were class meetings, stress the deed not the doer, time-outs, voices of authority, social conferences and logical conferences. The research was conducted …
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Character Education Program in a Single-Sex, Urban Charter High School: Learning from Teacher and Student Perceptions of Its Implementation.
… who are taught the Illinois State Board of Education’s social and emotional learning standards are granted skills that help them make positive contributions to society. Well-rounded individuals have acquired abilities that allow them to make sound decisions, interact with others, and develop …
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A Comparison Of Character Education Programs And Their Effects On Academic Achievement, Behavior, And Attendance
… significant relationships existed between character education and the number of incidents of crimes and violence, attendance rates, and academic achievement in Florida public schools. Proponents of character education such as Lickona (1991) and Murphy (1998) posited that there was a …
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An integration approach to character education in the high school
<p>Character education provides many opportunities for students to learn how to be responsible citizens in their schools and communities by developing moral and virtuous traits. However, this path to maturity seems to create many challenges for today's students. Recent events in public schools and …
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Impact of character education on a third grade inclusion classroom
<p>The purpose of this study was to implement a character education program with a third grade inclusion classroom at Cooper's Poynt School in Camden, New Jersey. This study was conducted in efforts to improve relationships and interpersonal skills using qualitative action research. Character …
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The Effects of Empathy on Prosocial Behavior Among Middle School Children
… Included is a description of the empathy program implemented to sixth graders, including the results of this research project conducted by a Graduate Student at SUNY Brockport. The definition of empathy, prosocial behaviors, and characteristics of bullies and victims was explored. The …
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Character Education Programs and Student Suspension Rates from School: Do Character Education Programs Decrease Student Suspensions from Regular Instructional Public Elementary Schools in Texas?
The purpose of this study was to determine if character education programs impact the suspension rates of students from regular instructional public elementary schools in Texas. The data was also examined to determine if the number of years since a school's implementation of a character education …
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Character Education: A Relationship with Building Health
… investigate the relationship between the use of character education programming and school health. Measuring and improving school health is a process that supports social, emotional, ethical and civic education. Hoy, Tarter, and Kottkamp define this concept as a healthy school is one in which the …
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Virtue ethics and character development at the United States Air Force Academy.
… that service academies "develop officers of character." "Character," by its very nature, is deep; it is an embedded aspect of one's personhood. As such, character will invariably draw upon one's deeply-held beliefs. But our pluralistic, liberal nation is—and should be—anathema to mandate …
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Designing, implementing, and evaluating a homework policy and its effects on discipline at the George L. Hess educational complex
… individuals. This policy would enhance our Character Education Program by promoting student responsibility and signify to the student that his/her work is similar to an employee in their work place. Without a homework policy, the lack of a student's true accountability undermines the …
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Proactive measures in combating bullying in schools: examining the effectiveness of the Bucket Fillers program in character building education
… implementing proactive solutions in the form of character building education to address bullying. The purpose of this research was to examine the character education program, Bucket Fillers, and its effectiveness on reducing bullying in one public elementary school by examining questionnaires …
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Character Education in Public Schools: Building an Effective Program
Educational leaders, families, and politicians debate the methods for teaching, the materials taught, and the content learned (Benninga, Berkowitz, Kuehn, and Smith, 2006; Kohn, 1997). These stakeholders all agree, however, that a major goal for education is to produce learned, productive members …
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The Effects of Character Education on Student Behavior.
<p>Character education has been a part of public schooling in the United States since its beginning. It has undergone dramatic changes over the years, from didactic instruction to service learning; it continues to evolve as more and more schools become involved in teaching students right from …
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The Perceptions of Students, Teachers, and Parents Regarding the Value of the LIFESKILLS and Lifelong Guidelines Program.
… prompting many schools to adopt and implement character education programs. Character education has been defined as educating students to understand, act upon, and care about universal virtues like respect, truthfulness, responsibility, and caring. There are many character education programs …
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