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Reddy, Linda; Dudek, Christopher M. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
The present study utilized a randomized control trial to test the efficacy of a teacher coaching and formative assessment model combined with visual performance feedback to enhance teachers' classroom practices. The sample included 89 general education teachers, stratified by grade level, and randomly assigned to one of two conditions: (1)…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Program Effectiveness
Dulfer, Katherine J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This dissertation focused on the process of designing, implementing, and formatively evaluating an eight week Classroom Aide Professional Development Training Program (CAPD-TP) on behavior management and academic instruction within the context of a New Jersey state approved private special education school for students with behavioral and/or…
Descriptors: Teacher Aides, Professional Development, Program Design, Program Implementation
Winkler, Carol K.; Fortner, C. Kevin; Baugh-Harris, Sara – Forum on Public Policy Online, 2013
Every year 1.3 million U.S. high school students drop out of school with one quarter of female students failing to graduate on time. Female dropouts are more likely to be unemployed, to earn less when they are employed, to become pregnant before the age of 20, to become obese, to smoke, and to drink more heavily than their male counterparts. This…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Womens Education, Womens Studies, Disadvantaged Environment
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Morris, Pamela; Millenky, Megan; Raver, C. Cybele; Jones, Stephanie M. – Early Education and Development, 2013
This article tests the hypothesis that children's learning environment will improve through a social and emotional learning (SEL) intervention that provides preschool teachers with new skills to manage children's disruptive behavior by reporting results from the Foundations of Learning (FOL) Demonstration, a place-randomized, experimental…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior
O'Connell, Erin B. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the impact of Positive Behavior Support (PBS) on office discipline referrals (Category 1), suspensions (Category 2), and absence of infractions (Category 3) in an urban public elementary school in New Jersey. A sample of 267 second, third, fourth, and fifth grade students provided the data for the research. A chi-square…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Positive Reinforcement, Discipline, Student Behavior
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Femia, Elia E.; Zarit, Steven H.; Stephens, Mary Ann Parris; Greene, Rick – Gerontologist, 2007
Purpose: This study explored whether adult day service (ADS) use was associated with reductions in behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia (BPSD) in individuals with dementia. Design and Methods: We used a quasi-experimental design to compare a group of 133 persons with dementia (PWDs) who initially enrolled in an ADS program to a…
Descriptors: Correlation, Program Effectiveness, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Psychological Patterns
Adams, William H.; Bielicki, Raymond J. – 1982
An alternative educational program, ADVANCE (Alternative Design for Vocational and Necessary Cognitive Education), was developed for emotionally disturbed secondary school students in New Jersey. To develop and modify social behaviors needed to complete academic and vocational training to facilitate a return to the mainstream of secondary…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Emotional Disturbances, Individualized Education Programs, Mainstreaming
Simmerman, Herbert R., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study investigated the use of organizational learning community principles to effectively manage organizational change. Target is a pseudonym for a small public school in Southern New Jersey that has provided educational services to students with special needs since 1969. In 2004 Target began providing services to a new population of students…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Intervention, Behavior Modification, Organizational Change
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Handleman, Jan S.; Harris, Sandra L. – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2005
There is increasing evidence that Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is an effective, and often superior, method to teach children with Autism Spectrum Disorders ASD), than other methods. The Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center of Rutgers University (DDDC) has been using ABA for more than thirty years to teach toddlers, young children,…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Behavior Modification, Children, Adults