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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Problem children--Education"”.
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School wide positive behavioral and intervention supports : the effectiveness of Tier 1 strategies
1 PDF file (iii, 39 pages)
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Efficacy of Transition Rooms: A Quantitative and Quasi-Qualitative Look
1 PDF file (99 pages)
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Functional behavior assessment: Procedures, components, and personnel
1 PDF file (67 leaves)
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Changing a Student’s Classroom Behavior Using Operant Conditioning Techniques
This experiment was designed to extinguish a sixth grade boy's undesirable classroom behaviors by the complete withdrawal of teacher attention, and to develop and increase in successive approximations, the child's desirable classroom behaviors by frequent and intermittent teacher attention. The …
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Inquiry-based learning in mathematics : the case of students with SEBD
This qualitative case study, which draws on an action research methodology, explores the use of Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL) in the teaching of Mathematics to students with Social, Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (SEBD). The aims of this research were: (i) to explore how students with SEBD …
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Operantly Conditioning a Boy’s Classroom Behavior
It was hypothesized that (a) if attending and correct responses were followed by approving attention from the staff, then the rates of attending and giving correct responses would significantly increase; (b) if yelling, rocking, and hitting were immediately followed by a command to stop, or by …
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A Descriptive Analysis of the Youth Study Center of Yakima, Washington, from 1957 to 1964
It is the purpose of this paper to record the history of the Youth Study Center, showing how and why it came about, and how it now fits into the total school picture in Yakima.
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A Survey of the Causes for Suspensions in the Junior High Schools of the Highline School District
… to (1) relate compulsory attendance to the problem of suspension, (2) survey the frequency of and causes for suspensions of junior high school students, (3) survey the course of action taken by the school, school district and/or the parents of the suspended student, and (4) to study the …
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A study of the effect of social skills training on the display of physical and verbal aggression in students with behavior disorders
<p>The purpose of this single subject design was to examine the effect of social skills training as displayed by students with behavior disorders. Social skills training was conducted with 12 to 14 year old multi-cultural students with behavior disabilities in a self contained learning environment. …
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Do pull-out programs create a mirage of long-term results for at-risk youth?
1 PDF file (vi, 61 pages)
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A Survey of Existing Programs for Problem Students in the First-Class Districts of Washington State
… of Washington State for students who had problems that had caused, or could have caused, their removal from the regular classes, and to analyze these programs in light of other programs that seem to be successful throughout the nation.
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Analysis of Personal and Social Characteristics Requisite for High Grade Institutional Teaching of Delinquent Children
The goal of this study was to select those particular characteristics pertinent to successful teaching, and by which a more intelligent selection of institutional teachers of delinquent youth could be made.
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State and local level implementation of schoolwide positive behavior support: An examination of the Texas Behavior Support Initiative (TBSI).
… suspensions, disciplinary alternative education placements, and expulsions of public schools in Texas; (b) investigated the overall effectiveness of schoolwide positive behavior support; and (c) determined the differences between rates of discipline records, in-school ¬suspensions, …
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Aerobic exercise as a tool to improve problematic student behavior in the classroom
… the effect aerobic exercise on the behavior of problematic students. The time period of exercise in this study was between 15 and 18 minutes, two days per week. Two types of aerobic exercise were used, running and progressive resistive exercise, in the form of circuit training. The subjects of …
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