A study examined the effects of one aspect of trainer behavior on teachers' classroom behavioral change. The trainer behavior studied was elicitation of trainee public commitment. Seventeen teachers participated in a series of workshops from the Stallings' Effective Use of Time program. These workshops were team led by teacher, principal, and…

Fifty-four elementary school children previously identified as consistently inattentive were involved in an extraclassroom treatment program comparing three conditions. Changes in behavior did not transfer to regular classroom, and training for teachers did not affect in-class attention scores of subjects. (Author)

Group assertion training has employed a variety of techniques including bibliotherapy, behavioral rehearsal, and didactic lecture presentations. Whether didactic information affects behavior, structure, and/or self-evaluation is unknown, and it is not clear whether behavioral practice enhances the effects of didactic training upon behavior,…

A paraprofessional was trained to provide an individualized reading, math, and language arts program to a 9-year-old educable mentally retarded boy in a regular classroom. A 5-month period of reading sessions with the classroom teacher emphasizing oral reading and comprehension contingent on word acquisition and imitation training for word…

Evaluated was the effectiveness of a 10-session parent training program to instruct three sets of parents in methods of behavioral management techniques with their emotionally disturbed children (ages 5- to 8-year-old) who were receiving short term treatment in a residential facility. Home visits before and after training recorded rates of…

The Pupil Role Interview was developed and administered to students in Follow Through and non-Follow Trhough programs. Data was gathered concerning the instrument's reliability and construct validity, and comparisons were made among programs on the basis of interview responses. Findings confirmed the hypothesis of a relationship between Follow…

An investigation was conducted to determine the effects of instruction upon the dental health behavior of university students. The experimental group of 68 subjects, all elementary education majors, were exposed to a three--stage dental health motivational model: Dental Health Skills Instruction (four hours of laboratory instruction), Cognitive…

The study examined effectiveness of a team approach for two etiologically distinct groups of children (acquired brain injury, N=7; congenital brain injury, N=10). Results revealed significant pre-post gains for both groups. Significant team therapy effects were evident across four developmental domains and five behavioral processes. Progress was…

This digest reviews and summarizes what is known about effective school-wide behavioral management systems. Emphasis in such systems is on consistency throughout the building and across classrooms with the entire staff, both professional and nonprofessional, uniformly implementing common strategies. Common features of school-wide behavioral…

This study, an approach to controlling "acting-out" behaviors of handicapped children in elementary schools, describes the use of a home-based dependent group contingency to eliminate the destructive behavior (fire-setting, vandalizing property) of a mildly retarded eight-year-old boy. (Author/PN)

Determined the effectiveness of a voluntary educational program on the drinking attitudes and behaviors of college students (N=1,000). Survey results revealed that for those subjects who participated in the program, there was a significant improvement in their drinking attitudes and behaviors. (Author/RC)

Tested the efficacy of several programs using feedback about carbon monoxide as strategies for deterring experimentation with cigarettes in sixth-grade children (N=405). Compared to no-treatment controls, the only program to reduce experimentation with cigarettes was the information-only program. Several programs had increases in rates of…

A wide variety of health disciplines use proxy measures to determine the extent to which a given program has had an effect. A framework for obtaining proxy measures of behavior includes the components of: exposure; attention; comprehension; yielding; retention and retrieval; decision making; action; and continuation. (JN)