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Children's Beliefs Concerning Their School Performance at the End of the First Grade in Finland
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Eskelä-Haapanen, Sirpa; Pakarinen, Eija; Lerkkanen, Marja-Kristiina – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This study examines primary-school children's beliefs about their school performance at the end of their first school year in Finland and feedback that they have received, and furthermore possible gender differences between these beliefs. Children from Grade 1 (N = 544), approximately 7 years old, were interviewed. The data were assessed using…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
Testing the Impact of the Whole-Day Good Behavior Game on Aggressive Behavior: Results of a Classroom-Based Randomized Effectiveness Trial
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Wilcox, Holly C.; Petras, Hanno; Brown, Hendricks C.; Kellam, Sheppard G. – Prevention Science, 2022
Three generations of developmental epidemiologically based randomized field trials of the Good Behavior Game (GBG) have been delivered to Baltimore elementary schools. With the collaboration of family and community partners, all three trials were directed at decreasing proximal targets of aggressive behavior and improving learning in first-grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Educational Games, Student Behavior, Behavior Modification
When Interrupted Intervention Leads to Failure: A Correlation Study of the Three-Tiered Reading Model in Grades K-2
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Weis, Beverly Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The three-tiered reading model is a widely practiced instructional scheme that moves students in and out of reading intervention groups during the school year. Though designed to treat students who need extra help learning to read, this interruption of reading interventions may hinder some students' progress. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Models, Reading Difficulties, Intervention
Empirically Derived Subtypes of Child Academic and Behavior Problems: Co-Occurrence and Distal Outcomes
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Reinke, Wendy M.; Herman, Keith C.; Petras, Hanno; Ialongo, Nicholas S. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
The aim of this study was to identify classes of children at entry into first grade with different patterns of academic and behavior problems. A latent class analysis was conducted with a longitudinal community sample of 678 predominantly low-income African American children. Results identified multiple subclasses of children, including a class…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Behavior Problems, Academic Failure, African American Children
Reading Attitude of Struggling Elementary Students
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Chang, Sau Hou – Online Submission, 2010
The present study investigated the reading attitude of struggling elementary students at risk for reading failure. Twenty-nine first-grade and 32 second-grade struggling readers were given the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (McKenna & Kear, 1990). First-grade struggling readers favored more academic reading activities while second-grade…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Reading Difficulties, Elementary School Students, At Risk Students
An Examination of the Convergent and Discriminant Validity of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
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Hill, Crystal R.; Hughes, Jan N. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2007
This study examined the factor structure of the parent and teacher versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; R. Goodman, 1997) with a sample of first-grade children at risk for educational failure. The 5-factor model previously found in studies using exploratory factor analysis was fit to the data for both parent and teacher…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Parents, Ethnic Groups, Test Validity