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Taylor, Rebecca D.; Oberle, Eva; Durlak, Joseph A.; Weissberg, Roger P. – Child Development, 2017
This meta-analysis reviewed 82 school-based, universal social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions involving 97,406 kindergarten to high school students (M[subscript age] = 11.09 years; mean percent low socioeconomic status = 41.1; mean percent students of color = 45.9). Thirty-eight interventions took place outside the United States.…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Social Development, Emotional Development, Intervention
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Rutter, Michael – Child Development, 1983
Argues that, in the assessment of school "effects," multiple indicators of school effectiveness are required, including scholastic attainment, classroom behavior, absenteeism, attitudes to learning, continuation in education, employment, and social functioning. Assesses empirical evidence on the extent to which schools may be effective…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Literature Reviews
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Barber, Brian K.; And Others – Child Development, 1994
The effects of parental control on child behavior were examined in a survey of 473 fifth, eighth, and tenth graders, who completed measures on parent behavior, family functioning, and their own behavior. The study found that psychological control was more predictive of adolescent internalized problems, whereas behavioral control was more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Elementary Secondary Education
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Caspi, Avshalom; And Others – Child Development, 1995
Assessed relationships between early temperament and behavior problems in a longitudinal study of 850 children from age 3 to 15. Temperament dimensions at ages 3 and 5 were correlated in theoretically coherent ways with behavior problems that were independently evaluated by parents and teachers at ages 9 and 11 and by parents as ages 13 and 15.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Child Behavior
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Feldman, S. Shirley; Weinberger, Daniel A. – Child Development, 1994
Hypothesized that individual differences in 81 sixth-grade boys' self-restraint would serve as a mediator between family factors in preadolescence and sons' delinquent behavior 4 years later. General family functioning at preadolescence, independent of other scores, predicted boys' level of self-restraint four years later. (MDM)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence
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Morison, Patricia; Masten, Ann S. – Child Development, 1991
A sample of 183 third through sixth grade students were administered the Revised Class Play (RCP). Seven years later, these children and their parents completed a questionnaire measuring the students' behavioral symptoms and social, athletic, and academic competence. The RCP scores were related to adolescent competence and psychopathology. (BC)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Aggression, Athletics