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Sater, Gary M.; French, Doran C. – Journal of Special Education, 1989
On a peer sociometric measure, 101 learning-disabled and 156 low-achieving students received lower ratings than 608 normally achieving students. Parent/teacher behavior ratings for 77 of the learning-disabled and low-achieving students found that children rejected in peer sociometric ratings exhibited lower social competence and more behavior…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Education, Interpersonal Competence

Goldsworthy, Richard C.; Barab, Sasha A.; Goldsworthy, Elizabeth L. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 2000
This article describes a computer game that supports the development of learners' social problem-solving skills. In a controlled three-group design, the group using the prototype game performed significantly better than an attention-placebo control and comparably to a therapist-directed group on measures of problem solving and engagement. However,…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Computer Assisted Instruction, Games, Instructional Effectiveness
Yoder, John H. – 1988
The study evaluated the effectiveness of an adaptation of the Behavior Rating Scale (BRS), a child observation form, as a screening device for identifying learning disabled children in the primary schools of Botswana. Children (N=620) in two different primary school grades (standards 5 and 7) and two different types of schools (Setswana Medium and…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Krupnick, Martin I.; Ratcliffe, Kevin, J. – 1978
The Devereux Adolescent Behavior Rating Scale was used to investigate the effects of age and sex on the classroom behavior of 294 educationally handicapped adolescents. An analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicated that the five age groups (12, 13, 14, 15, 16 years) were significantly different on one behavioral scale (heterosexual interest). Analysis…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales
Gladstein, Barbara A. – 1978
Teacher and peer ratings of 37 mainstreamed educationally handicapped (EH) elementary aged children and 37 non-EH controls were analyzed according to the Rochester Teacher and Peer Rating Scales' independent behavioral competence factors and combined teacher-peer integrated behavioral competence domains. Results indicated significant differences…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Education, Exceptional Child Research