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Elizabeth B. Dowdell; Raina V. Lamade; Austin F. Lee; Ann Schuler; Robert A. Prentky – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
Adolescent behavior now occurs offline and online. Frequently studied and treated independently, the relationship between offline problem behaviors and online risk taking is not well understood. This study asked whether there are any problematic behaviors predictive of online risk taking by high school students. Using a 2009 dataset of 2,077 high…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, High School Students, Behavior Problems, Mental Health
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Dewey G. Cornell; Jordan Kerere; Timothy Konold; Jennifer Maeng; Kelvin Afolabi; Francis Huang; Deanne Cowley – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Although behavioral threat assessment and management (often shortened to "threat assessment") has become widely used in US schools, no studies have systematically examined how frequently schools conduct threat assessments and how threat assessment rates vary as a function of student and school demographics. Of particular concern is that…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Violence, School Safety, Student Evaluation
James Robert Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to determine the primary reasons that students are assigned exclusionary discipline consequences. Another purpose involves ascertaining the degree to which differential consequences are present by student ethnicity/race in the discipline consequence assigned for the same misbehavior.…
Descriptors: Discipline, Grade 6, Behavior Problems, Educational Practices
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Wilkerson, Kimber L.; Afacan, Kemal – Education and Urban Society, 2022
Although out-of-school school suspensions have been correlated with negative school outcomes, they are still a common formal response given to students whose behavior is deemed problematic. Being suspended multiple times within an academic year results in students losing even more instructional time. In this study, we used longitudinal data for…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Suspension, Repetition
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Hwang, NaYoung; Fitzpatrick, Brian – AERA Open, 2021
Parents and educators commonly assume that male teachers serve as more effective disciplinarians for boys than female teachers. Do schools tend to assign male teachers to teach boys with perceived behavioral issues? Our study uses administrative data in Indiana to investigate male teacher assignment in elementary school. We find that boys with at…
Descriptors: Males, Gender Differences, Behavior Problems, Teacher Placement
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Huang, Francis L.; Olsen, Amanda A.; Cohen, Daniel; Coombs, Nicketa – Preventing School Failure, 2021
The beneficial relationship of school climate with various positive student outcomes has been demonstrated in several studies, though the relationship has not been thoroughly explored with regards to a student's likelihood of being suspended from school. The relationship of school climate and out-of-school suspensions was investigated using a…
Descriptors: Grade 10, High School Students, Educational Environment, Suspension
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Islam, Khairul – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2021
Suspension and expulsion are adversely related to negative outcomes of students, such as falling behind academically, an increased risk of absenteeism or dropout from schools. Suspension discrepancy due to ethnicity is evident and well known in the United States. The proper understanding of factors affecting suspension may lead to intervention…
Descriptors: Suspension, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Student Characteristics
Lacy, Martha – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study was conducted to determine if middle school female students were exhibiting violent behavior in a large mid-south urban school district. The subjects were all middle school female students within 30 middle schools in a large mid-south urban school district from 2012-2013 until 2016-2017. Information about middle school female students'…
Descriptors: Violence, Females, Middle School Students, Student Behavior
Office for Civil Rights, US Department of Education, 2023
The 2020-21 Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) is a mandatory survey of all public school districts and schools serving students in preschool through grade 12 in the 50 states, Washington, D.C., and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and therefore includes data from 17,821 public school districts and 97,575 public schools. The CRDC measures student…
Descriptors: Discipline, Educational Environment, Public Schools, Behavior Problems
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Burnette, Anna Grace; Huang, Francis; Maeng, Jennifer L.; Cornell, Dewey – Psychology in the Schools, 2019
Threat assessment is a violence prevention strategy used to investigate and respond to threats to harm others. In 2013, Virginia mandated the use of threat assessment teams for threats to self and to others, effectively subsuming suicide assessment with threat assessment and raising questions about the distinction between the two practices. In a…
Descriptors: Suicide, Incidence, Violence, Prevention
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Young, Ellie L.; Moulton, Sara E.; Julian, Alex – Preventing School Failure, 2021
The authors compared data from a social-emotional-behavior screener (i.e., the "Student Risk Screening Scale--Internalizing and Externalizing" [SRSS-IE]) with data from a high school early warning system. Data from 2,256 suburban high school students were used. Research questions examined the degree to which student demographic variables…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Social Development, Emotional Development, At Risk Persons
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Tan, Kevin; Heath, Ryan D.; Das, Aditi; Choi, Yoonsun – Youth & Society, 2019
Victimization and problem behaviors during middle school detrimentally influence student learning. However, less is known about how they may cooccur and collectively affect high school graduation and whether the interrelationships vary by gender. Using data from a nationally representative cohort of seventh-grade students from the National…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Victims, Bullying, Student Behavior
Rafa, Alyssa – Education Commission of the States, 2018
Suspensions and expulsions have long been employed in schools to discipline students for disruptive behavior and maintain a safe school environment. However, a growing body of research suggests that these types of disciplinary interventions negatively impact student achievement and increase both students' risk of dropping out and their likelihood…
Descriptors: Suspension, Expulsion, Discipline Problems, Behavior Problems
McMasters, Sherry Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
School administrators develop, recommend, and carry out policy for school districts. The policy can have long lasting effect on students. Ideology and gender of the administrator can influence adoption and implementation of individual school's policy. A study consisting of quantitative and qualitative measures was utilized to determine the…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Zero Tolerance Policy, Discipline Policy
Nowicki, Jacqueline M. – US Government Accountability Office, 2018
Research shows that students who experience discipline that removes them from the classroom are more likely to repeat a grade, drop out of school, and become involved in the juvenile justice system. This can result in decreased earning potential and added costs to society (lost tax revenue and incarceration). The Government Accountability Office…
Descriptors: Discipline, African American Students, Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education
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