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Daniel Schmidt – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Six experiments were conducted with graduate students to assess resurgence of compound (i.e., multi-step) academic responding under free operant procedures. Participants learned two different interobserver agreement (IOA) methods -- compound behaviors -- through instructional phases before beginning the experimental phases. Each experiment…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Behavior, Student Reaction, Responses
Klaft, Jenna M.; Codding, Robin S. – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2022
Management of classroom behavior is one of the primary responsibilities of teachers, yet teachers report they receive little to no training in this area. Research demonstrates that classrooms with poor behavior management lead to negative outcomes for students and teachers. Behavioral Skills Training (BST) may be an effective model for supporting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior, Skill Development, Student Behavior
Johnson, Thomas C.; Frick, Melodie H. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2016
This study investigated millennial students' responses to an armed gunman threat and shelter-in-place warnings that occurred on a university campus. Using descriptive statistics and quantitative analysis, several significant differences were found for students' responses for sheltering-in-place and engaging in protective behaviors. Baxter Magolda'…
Descriptors: Investigations, Generational Differences, Statistical Analysis, School Safety
Robinson, Peter M. – Issues in Educational Research, 2018
Surface approaches to learning materials and tasks are a commonplace challenge to teachers, and they prove difficult to shift, even among students who are otherwise talented or motivated to learn. The present study investigates a theory that surface approaches are triggered by a suboptimal, aversive response to learning stimuli, which overrides…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Teaching Methods, Student Motivation
Payne, Ruth – Educational Review, 2015
The use of systems of rewards and sanctions within behaviour policies has now been adopted formally in UK schools. Such systems potentially represent competing theoretical ideas when considered alongside current approaches to teaching and learning. There is also opportunity for inconsistent use of rewards and sanctions resulting from the absence…
Descriptors: Rewards, Sanctions, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior
Goodin, Laura M. – Online Submission, 2012
In this action research project report, the teacher researcher focused on the problem of lack of achievement of students in middle school social studies classes. The purpose of the project was to increase motivation and engagement of students by incorporating the use of technology; thereby, increasing achievement. A total of 105 sixth-grade…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Middle School Students, Check Lists, Action Research
Fisher, Gloria; And Others – 1992
This study was undertaken to evaluate Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention and comprehensive health activities in public secondary schools in Mississippi. The Comprehensive School Health Curriculum (CSHC), for implementation in junior, middle, and senior high schools, was designed to promote improved knowledge and behaviors related to the…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Behavior Change, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Evaluation

Sandel, Robert H.; Sydow, Debbie – Inquiry, 1997
Because of a 50% drop-out rate of first-year to second-year students at Mountain Empire Community College, retention was identified as a priority. Students and faculty were surveyed to determine causes of student withdrawals, a summer retreat was held, and a retention task force was created to develop a comprehensive retention plan for the fall of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research, Enrollment Management
Searcy, Robert D. – 1993
In spring 1993, the Student Government Association (SGA) of Calhoun Community College (CCC), in Alabama, initiated a survey of all CCC students in day and evening classes at the main campus and at two off-campus sites to determine student opinions regarding CCC agencies, services, and student activities. Of the 410 students who returned completed…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, College Role, Community Colleges, Extracurricular Activities
Haines, Michael P. – 1996
This document describes an effort to change perceptions of social norms and examines the effect of this change on binge drinking and alcohol-related problems at Northern Illinois University (NIU). The first section of the report discusses the historical and theoretical basis for this approach to prevention. The next section describes a…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Education, College Environment, College Students
Cozin, M. L. – 1999
In an effort to reveal how closely cheating at community colleges resembles that at four-year colleges in both kind and quantity, a survey similar to the one used by Donald L. McCabe for university students was administered to 298 students at Raritan Valley Community College. A summary of the results are included in this report. The survey data…
Descriptors: Cheating, Codes of Ethics, Community Colleges, Discipline Problems
Court, Prudence; And Others – 1995
A program was implemented in an elementary school to improve students' social skills, thereby reducing physically and verbally aggressive behavior and reducing off-task behavior. The targeted population consisted of second, third, and sixth graders in two northern Illinois elementary schools, one situated in a low socioeconomic neighborhood, the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Change Strategies