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Servoss, Timothy J. – Youth & Society, 2017
Despite a nationwide trend to increase security measures in schools, their effectiveness in reducing or preventing student misbehavior remains largely unexamined. In addition, there is concern that increased security may have unintended negative side effects and is applied inequitably across students of disparate racial/ethnic backgrounds. The…
Descriptors: School Security, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Grade 10
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Lane, Kathleen Lynne; Oakes, Wendy Peia; Swogger, Emily D.; Schatschneider, Christopher; Menzies, Holly Mariah; Sanchez, Jeremy – Behavioral Disorders, 2015
We report findings of a convergent validity study examining the internalizing subscale (SRSS-I5) of the newly adapted Student Risk Screening Scale for Internalizing and Externalizing (SRSS-IE12) with the internalizing subscale of the Teacher Report Form (TRF; Achenbach, 1991) conducted in 13 schools across three states with 195 kindergarten…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Behavior Problems, Cutting Scores, Decision Making
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Slocum, Lee Ann; Simpson, Sally S.; Hipwell, Alison E.; Loeber, Rolf – Youth & Society, 2011
The article discusses a research instrument developed and utilized by the Pittsburgh Girls Study that asked young girls (ages 7 and 8) and their caretakers to report on the girls' involvement in a variety of problem behaviors. In this article, the authors evaluate whether comprehension, prevalence, and caretaker-child concordance of problem…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Females, Drug Abuse, Age Differences
Dick, Andrew D. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine possible relationships between participation in extracurricular activities and student achievement, participation in extracurricular activities and attendance, and participation in extracurricular activities and behavior. The setting for this study was a high school in western Nebraska. Data for 275 of the…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Socioeconomic Status, Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement
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Gottfried, Michael A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2009
The literature on school absences has focused predominantly on the reasons for student truancy, or it has assessed only aggregate student absences in their effect on achievement. However, this study brings forth a new issue: the relationship between types of absences--excused versus unexcused--and school performance. With a quantitative model of…
Descriptors: Truancy, Standardized Tests, Mathematics Tests, Attendance Patterns
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Segal, Carmit – Journal of Human Resources, 2008
This paper investigates the determinants and malleability of noncognitive skills. Using data on boys from the National Education Longitudinal Survey, I focus on youth behavior in the classroom as a measure of noncognitive skills. I find that student behavior during adolescence is persistent. The variation in behavior can be attributed to…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Gender Differences, College Students, Males