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Knackstedt, Kimberly M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Seclusion and restraint are aversive behavioral practices used in schools for control and punishment. The practices were first used in psychiatric hospitals as a means of control over patients. Eventually, the practices began being used in schools alongside other aversive and exclusionary discipline practices, including corporal punishment,…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Disabilities, Predictor Variables, Inclusion
Moss, Tony – Kansas State Department of Education, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to open the methods, construction and assumptions of a new performance benchmark to examination, critique, and improvement by technical experts. The paper begins with known technical questions about this new benchmark. In includes suggestions made by technical advisors. It then details the construction of the…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Performance Based Assessment, Benchmarking, State Departments of Education
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Miller, Meghan; Nevado-Montenegro, Adriana J.; Hinshaw, Stephen P. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2012
We prospectively followed an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of preadolescent girls with ADHD (n = 140) and matched comparison girls (n = 88) over a period of 10 years, from middle childhood through late adolescence/young adulthood. Our aim was to examine the ability of childhood measures of executive function (EF) to predict…
Descriptors: Females, Reading Achievement, Attention Deficit Disorders, Late Adolescents
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Morrison, Gale M.; D'Incau, Barbara – Exceptional Children, 2000
A study of 41 students who had special education histories and who were recommended for expulsion found most students exhibited additional emotional and behavioral risk factors or were experiencing stressful family circumstances. Conduct problems that accompanied disabling conditions were likely to lead to full expulsion hearings or dismissal from…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Development, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education