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A Meta-Analytic Review of Components Associated with Parent Training Program Effectiveness
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Kaminski, Jennifer Wyatt; Valle, Linda Anne; Filene, Jill H.; Boyle, Cynthia L. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008
This component analysis used meta-analytic techniques to synthesize the results of 77 published evaluations of parent training programs (i.e., programs that included the active acquisition of parenting skills) to enhance behavior and adjustment in children aged 0-7. Characteristics of program content and delivery method were used to predict effect…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Training, Parent Child Relationship, Program Effectiveness
Oral Communication Instruction in the U.S.A.: Emerging Issues.
Lieb-Brilhart, Barbara – 1979
This review of the status of speech instruction is divided into five parts, each addressing a separate issue. The first part describes the context for a change in approaches to communication instruction. The second part lists those ingredients essential to a good program, including the communication functions of controlling, feeling, informing,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Educational Assessment, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education
Basic Skills Issues and Choices: Approaches to Basic Skills Instruction. Volume 2.
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Reed, Linda, Ed.; Ward, Spencer, Ed. – 1982
Resulting from a project involving district, state, and federal educational agencies, the papers in this, the second of two volumes, are intended to provide information from research and practice that can help school districts in their efforts to make decisions about goals and methods of basic skills instruction. The topics of the papers in the…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education