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Morgan Chitiyo; Komlantse M. Gossou; Victor Alasa; Ambumulire Itimu-Phiri; Fumane Khanare; Felix K. Kumedzro; Richard Makoni; Newlin Marongwe; Dominic Oko; Simon G. Taukeni; Emmanuel Zhanda – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2024
Schoolteachers worldwide continue to encounter challenging behavior in their classrooms. As a result, teacher preparation programs are receiving more scrutiny regarding how well they are preparing their teacher candidates to effectively address challenging behavior especially in line with the principles of whole schooling. The overarching purpose…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Teacher Education Programs, Cross Cultural Studies
Alison L. Zagona; Jennifer A. Kurth; Virginia L. Walker; Andrea Ruppar; Sheldon Loman; Sarah Bubash – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2024
Students with extensive support needs are at risk of demonstrating challenging behavior due to inadequate support of their individual needs or class-wide factors such as low quality of instruction. Students with extensive support needs are also among the students who are most likely to experience aversive interventions and be placed in segregated…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Intervention, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification
Lindsay Brown; Kalina Gjicali; Ha Yeon Kim; Carly Tubbs Dolan; Paul Frisoli; Mahmoud Bwary; J. Lawrence Aber – AERA Open, 2023
Despite widespread enthusiasm for remedial education programming with refugee populations, there is little rigorous evidence on how to design and implement such programs. We employ a cluster-randomized design of non-equivalent treatment groups to test the impact of access to two types of program enhancement: longer program duration and the…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Refugees, Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning
Nugent, Mary; Jones, Valerie; McElroy, Deirdre; Peelo, Mary; Thornton, Teresa; Tierney, Theresa – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2014
This article reports on a two year project in which educational psychologists offered consultation to groups of teachers, to help them find solutions to school-based problems. Teachers were drawn from within individual schools and from across a number of schools. Typically, teachers were trained by educational psychologists in group consultation…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Consultation Programs, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation
Glynn, Ted; Vaigro, Wendy – Exceptional Child, 1984
Examination of time-out data cummulated 2 1/2 years in a program for severely disruptive students has shown positive effects coincidental with major changes in program development, pointed to the need for extra attention to staff training at particular times, and has been useful in providing staff feedback and evaluating program development.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Evaluation, Recordkeeping
Epp, Kathleen Marie – Children & Schools, 2008
There is a paucity of literature on social skills therapy for students on the autism spectrum, revealing an urgent need for additional research. Past research has focused on the use of small groups or single-case study designs. The present study examines the effectiveness of a social skills therapy program for school-age children ages 11 through…
Descriptors: Autism, Hyperactivity, Group Therapy, Art Therapy
Garland, Marshall W.; Christian, Cinda – Online Submission, 2009
This report summarizes evaluation results for AISD's federally-funded Title IV safe and drug-free schools program activities for the 2007-2008 school year.
Descriptors: School Safety, School Districts, Program Evaluation, Federal Programs
Gooding, James; Fitsko, Michael – 1978
It is proposed that a disciplinary Saturday school may be a good alternative to student suspension because it solves many of the problems involved with suspending students from school. Allowing students to attend Saturday school rather than being suspended gives them an opportunity to improve their grades and to attend all their regular classes.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Discipline Policy, Discipline Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
Disciplinary Alternative Education Programs in Texas--What Is Known; What Is Needed. A Policy Brief.
Cortez, Albert; Robledo Montecel, Maria – 1999
In 1995, the Texas legislature established a policy that each school district must have an "alternative educational setting for behavioral management." This policy brief examines the ways in which this idea has been implemented in Texas, using data from the Texas Education Agency. Findings show that, for the most part, these alternative…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnicity

Pica, Louis, Jr.; Margolis, Howard – Preventing School Failure, 1993
Questions to ask when a behavior modification program is not working address the classroom environment, time factors, importance of emphasizing the positive, appropriate reinforcers, time lag before receiving reinforcement, criteria for reinforcement, reinforcer satiation, schedules of reinforcement, shaping to reduce inappropriate behaviors, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Classroom Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Hutchinson, William – 1996
A study assessed the levels of bullying behavior at Hale School, an independent boys' day and boarding school in metropolitan Perth, Western Australia. In excess of 900 boys completed a survey instrument in 1994 and 1996. Results indicated that, despite a widely publicized program and the publication of anti-bullying and harassment policies,…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Problems, Bullying, Elementary Secondary Education
Chalk, John – Special Education: Forward Trends, 1975
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education

Gerardi, Robert J.; Coolidge, Paula G. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1983
The authors suggest a preventive program for behavior problems in potentially learning disabled students prior to referral. This preventive program should include teacher workshops on behavior modification, affective training in the classroom, parent education on children's emotional development, inservice courses for all elementary teachers, and…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Elementary Secondary Education
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn. Office of Educational Assessment. – 1986
The report presents data on the effectiveness of Program Alternatives to Special Education (PASE), an effort to reduce the number of students referred to special education in New York City schools. Four major evaluation issues are addressed: number of students participating in PASE during the 1985-1986 school year; reasons for student selections…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Problems
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1984
This guide provides information about various types of alternative education programs that address the educational and behavioral needs of disruptive students. The programs suggested are aimed at students whose behavior is so disruptive that they must be removed from classes or from the school for varying lengths of time. These programs provide…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education, Guidance Programs