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American Institutes for Research, 2015
Assessing individuals' social and emotional (SE) knowledge, attitudes, and skills is a complex task. It requires careful consideration of the assessment purpose, rigor, practicality, burden, and ethics. Once you have considered these factors and have determined that you are, in fact, "Ready to Assess," you are ready to act and choose an…
Descriptors: Social Development, Emotional Development, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes
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Ryan, Julie Anne – British Educational Research Journal, 2007
This qualitative study used data from semi-structured interviews with eight school counsellors working with adolescents in secondary education and asked them how they perceived counselling interventions as helping to raise achievement. The present context in secondary education is perceived as results led. This adheres to government policy as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
Bachtel, Dolores H.; Smallwood, Wayne N. – 1978
A group of 20 middle school students worked to improve the bowling, skating, and swimming skills of 50 moderately mentally handicapped children, while also providing the handicapped children with increased individual interaction, and increased social self-management skills. Assessment instruments were designed to measure the objectives. The…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Mental Retardation, Moderate Mental Retardation, Program Development
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Cosden, Merith A.; And Others – Teacher Education and Special Education, 1990
Twenty-eight regular and special education teachers surveyed indicated that they would like to teach more social skills but were constrained by limited resources and training. Teachers preferred proactive approaches over reactive responses and were about evenly split between wanting to conduct social skills instruction as a discrete content area…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum, Disabilities, Interpersonal Competence
Research for Better Schools, Inc., Philadelphia, PA. – 1976
An overview is presented of the "Skills for Ethical Action" (SEA) instructional materials relative to other instructional approaches in the field of moral/values/ethical education, and information about anticipated learner outcomes is offered. The program is intended for junior high school students. Several major existing theoretical…
Descriptors: Behavior, Bibliographies, Curriculum, Ethical Instruction
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TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1997
Lists documents and videotapes recently entered into the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) and ECER (Exceptional Child Education Resources) databases that address the issue of enhancing the social competence of adolescents with disabilities at school and at work. Each listing includes a description of the content of the material. (CR)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disabilities, Educational Environment, Interpersonal Competence
Graham, Marilyn Troth – 1989
Curriculum content for adolescents with behavioral disorders should emphasize academic learning as well as social and behavioral skill development. "Therapeutic academics" is proposed as a process of teaching academics that is therapeutic in its systematic focus on the behavioral and social needs of students. A therapeutic academic curriculum…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Adolescents, Behavior Development, Behavior Disorders
Helgeson, David C.; And Others – Education and Training in Mental Retardation, 1989
Three adolescents with developmental disabilities and severe behavior problems received eye-contact skill training using a contingency management approach in a community-based residential treatment center. The intervention produced significant increases in positive eye contact across two social settings. Staff reports of increased social…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Contingency Management, Developmental Disabilities
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Morton, L. L.; And Others – Guidance & Counselling, 1993
Grade 12 students participated in a 1-semester cooperative education program and were monitored using the Personal Skills Map by Nelson & Law. Results indicate greater improvement in scores for the scales related to Interpersonal skills than for those in the areas of Career and Life-effectiveness skills. (LKS)
Descriptors: Assertiveness, Cooperative Education, Cooperative Programs, Emotional Development
Tasmanian Education Dept., Hobart (Australia). – 1985
This guide provides an outline of possible course content for a 2-year physical education studies program during years 9 and 10. Teachers will need to supplement the ideas and materials presented in the guide with ideas and information of their own, using the guide as a starting point and resource for developing their own programs. Most of the…
Descriptors: Athletics, Curriculum Development, Foreign Countries, Health Education
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Cartledge, Gwendolyn – Journal of Reading, Writing, and Learning Disabilities International, 1987
Social incompetence is a significant cause of postsecondary maladjustment for the learning disabled. The literature is reviewed on factors critical to occupational success; social development of the learning disabled; major social incompetencies (specifically, social perception and problem solving, task-related social behaviors, and social…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Generalization, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence
Knutson, Laurie – 1986
The workbook is designed to help foster parents and youth in substitute care to work together to assess, develop, and practice employment skills, and to maintain a record of demonstrated skills that will accompany the youth throughout his or her stay in foster care. The workbook begins with a comprehensive skills assessment, and each skill is…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Basic Skills, Career Planning, Education Work Relationship
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Montague, Marjorie – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1988
Forty-nine adolescents were studied to investigate the initial and long-term efficacy of job-related social skills instruction for students with mild to moderate handicaps. The study determined that students could acquire the skills during classroom instruction and use the skills effectively in simulated situations that reflected actual work…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Generalization
Brown, Gwyn M.; Greenspan, Stephen – 1983
Traditionally, school-based approaches to remediating deficits in social competence have focused on building aspects of temperament and character. The Socially Adept Verbalizations of Youth (SAVY) Curriculum, consisting of a series of exercises and activities, preceded by brief introductory lessons, was designed to develop social judgment skills…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Competency Based Education
Devine, Marion; And Others – 1994
This publication focuses on the vignette studies done as part of an evaluation of the development of those transferable and personal skills which had been given prominence by the Technical and Vocational Education Initiative (TVEI) in Scotland. It presents results of a qualitative study of individual practices. Four vignettes are based on…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Case Studies, Critical Thinking, Disabilities
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