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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"classroom intervention"”.
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Mystery Motivator Calendar: An Interdependent Group Contingency, Variable Ratio, Classroom Intervention
<p>Classroom behavior management problems are often seen as one of the primary barriers to achieving an educational environment conducive for academic and social-emotional growth of students. The literature indicates there is a need for evidence-based, easy-to-implement classroom behavioral …
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Classroom intervention to change peers' attitudes towards children who stutter: a pilot study six months post-intervention
The Classroom Communication Resource (CCR) intervention was developed to improve peer attitudes towards children who stutter (CWS). This pilot study will inform the feasibility of a Randomised Control Trial (RCT) through the following aims: 1. To analyse selected procedural aspects including …
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Investigating Qualities of Teachers' Feedback Conversations for Fostering Reasoning and Feeling of Self-Worth in Learners: A tool called Feedback Mapping
… the educational literature as a powerful classroom intervention. However few tools exist that allow teachers to understand their own feedback practice. This study details a method for evaluating the feedback experiences of students. The feedback conversations of middle school science …
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THE CLASSROOM PASSWORD GROUP CONTINGENCY WITH RANDOMIZED REINFORCERS
… investigated and demonstrated some promise as a classroom intervention is The Classroom Password. Following the implementation of The Classroom Password intervention with randomization components, student behavior on a class-wide and individual target student level demonstrated an increase in …
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Explicit Reflection in an Introductory Physics Course
This dissertation details a classroom intervention that supplements assigned in-class problems in weekly problem sets with reflective activities that are aimed to assist in knowledge integration. Using the framework of cognitive load theory, this intervention should assist in schema acquisition …
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The Effects of the Tootling Intervention Using Daily Reinforcement
… extend the literature on the effectiveness of a classroom intervention known as Tootling (Skinner, Skinner, & Cashwell, 1998) in decreasing disruptive classroom behavior as well as increasing academically engaged classroom behavior. Tootling is a strategy that encourages and prompts students to …
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The effectiveness of a classroom-based intervention for social aggression
This study sought to determine if a six session classroom intervention coupled with a teacher education program was sufficient to alter behaviors related to socially aggressive behaviors of fourth grade students. The treatment manual for this intervention was developed by Pamela McDonald Schaber …
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Border crossings : how students negotiate cultural borders during digital video production
… the utilisation of video production in the classroom, as well as how learners interact and negotiate cultural issues while producing video. The data was analysed with a custom-made multimodal toolkit as proposed by Baldry and Thibault (2006). By employing Kress and Van Leeuwen's four strata …
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An Analysis of the Effects of Prereferral Interventions on the Reduction of Inappropriate Classroom Behaviors
… student problems within the mainstream classroom environment. These included: (a) the educational community's failure to meet the intent of P.L. 94-142, (b) an increasing number of individuals with mild disabilities, (c) the high cost of special education, (d) the lack of objectivity in …
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Reconceptualizing the Role of Identity in Social Work Education Through Liberation Pedagogy
… experiences, social work students took part in a classroom intervention to understand how White racial identity development occurs and the role that emotional regulation has in difficult conversations which shapes behavior and action. Findings: quantitative analysis using both linear mixed models …
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Promoting Prosocial Behavior to Prevent Aggression and Bullying in Middle Schools: An environment, person, and behavior-focused intervention
The most common school-based interventions to prevent victimization from bullying use disciplinary methods and increase playground supervision. While enforcement approaches can prevent bullying, the effects are often short term and may lead to undesirable side effects. Thus, it seems a positive …
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Educational Standards, Teacher Preparation, and Metacognition Instruction for Elementary Students: Studies in Pre-College Engineering Education
… for educators from national policy to specific classroom intervention. Although presenting different styles of writing - due to different journals requirements - and various methods of research, all purpose to further research and instruction in pre-college engineering.</p> <p>The research …
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Constructing L3 selves: A study of undergraduate learners' motivation to learn a third language in China
… course of one year of learning an L3 and whether classroom intervention could help learners to construct their L3 motivation. This research adopted a longitudinal case study design and was situated in a state university in China. Students who had chosen to learn an L3 as their major and English …
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An interactive approach to vocabulary intervention for speech-language pathologists in the classroom: multiple language levels and modalities
… reading comprehension and vocabulary knowledge. Intervention research suggests that students who are struggling to read at grade level benefit from additional direct instruction. The present study proposed a vocabulary intervention for struggling readers, led by a speech-language pathologist …
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How visual representations affect undergraduate students’ use and understanding of engineering concepts during problem solving
… that affect student’ problem solving and 2) a classroom intervention based on the findings from the think-aloud interviews to test the generalizability of my first finding. My work contributes to the community by applying a well-known theoretical framework that describes how people process …
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Implementing dialogic education approaches in Chinese science classrooms: A design-based research
… as part of the iterative design process. A classroom intervention was devised underpinned by design principles based on dialogic education. These principles were derived from a literature review and the findings of the exploratory study. A coding scheme for analysing dialogues in Chinese …
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The Effects of Tootling Combined with Public Posting in High School Classrooms
… behaviors in four general education high school classrooms. The study employed an A/B/B+C multiple baseline design across classrooms. The primary focus of the study was to assess potential increases in academically engaged behavior across intervention conditions. Students in the traditional …
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The Effects of Training and Consultation Conditions on Teachers’ Self-Reported Likelihood of Adoption of a Daily Report Card
School-based interventions for students with Disruptive Behavior Disorders (DBDs) are available, but are often not adopted. This study examines the relative effects of four training and consultation conditions (TCC) on teachers’ self-reported ratings and rankings of the likelihood of adoption of an …
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The impact of fetal alcohol syndrome on a child's classroom performance : a case study of a rural South African school
… which pose considerable challenges in the classroom. This case study explores the classroom environment and educational outcomes of learners with FAS in a rural South African school. The study was conducted at Elizabethfontein Primary School (EFPS), a farm school near Clanwilliam in the …
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