Challenging behaviors range from disobedience to outright physical violence in the school setting. A variety of different terms are used to describe these behaviors, including "antisocial behavior, aggression, bad behavior, difficult behavior, and problem behavior." The term "challenging behavior" was chosen for this paper…

This study evaluated how college students reacted to an Early Alert notice about their grades. Undergraduate students in 19 specific courses were sent a notice if they were receiving a C minus or below at the 5-week point of the semester. The study investigated whether students who received the notice actually performed better than did control…

This 25-minute videotape briefly describes the current condition of many of England's secondary school grounds and shows what can be done to improve them. Empowering students to help in redesigning the surrounding school grounds into a conservation area is described. Examples are provided showing how grounds influence student social relations;…

Previous research on small-group collaboration identifies several behaviors that significantly predict student learning. These reports focus on student behavior to understand why, for example, large numbers of students are unsuccessful in obtaining explanations or applying help received, leaving unexplored the role that teachers play in …

Although afterschool programs for children have been operating for many years in some communities, the afterschool movement, the great national awakening to the opportunity afterschool offers, is just a few years old. As public demand for afterschool has grown, so also has the demand for accountability. That is particularly true in programs…

A review of the critical literature provides a brief history of systematic observation of classroom behaviors, long valued as an important data collection method in educational research. Milestones in systematic observation of classrooms are traced back to 1914 and the development and use of the Special Strategies Observation System (SSOS) through…

Current theories of learning have emphasized the value of dialogue for student engagement and achievement (Cazden, 2001; Bruffee, 1992). Research has also shown that the nature of classroom discourse depends greatly on the teacher (Anderson, Rourke, Garrison, & Archer, W., 2001). These issues are relatively well understood in face-to-face…

The secondary school counselor, as quasi-ombudsman, differentiates between the role of counselor as consultant (where the counselor's primary task is to aid the individual to develop strength to resolve personal difficulties himself) and role of counselor as ombudsman (where the counselor can go over the head of a recalcitrant teacher to correct…

Study results show that most citizens did not consider a week-long campus disturbance to be a legitimate form of social protest and that their attitudes toward campus dissent were related to attitudes toward campus freedom of expression and beliefs about campus life. (Author)

This study, which attempts to evaluate the assessment of various forms of social behavior by teachers and college students, is an extension of an earlier investigation (Stanton 1973). (Author)

Author tried to account for the astonishing outburst of student violence in Japan. (Author/RK)

Examines briefly whether Congress had a clear rationale for involvement in campus affairs, and how Congress could respond to the public's desire to halt disruptions, and then analyzes how effective the federal aid cutoff riders were in curtailing campus disruptions and punishing student demonstrators. (Author/PG)

A discussion of the Flexible Grading System, whereby the student decides, within certain restrictions, what relative weighting is to be placed on each of his examinations. (Author)

A 10 percent random sample survey which elicited the political attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, as well as the social backgrounds, of students at the University of Chicago, in 1970, produced data indicating that there is very little direct effect on activism by social background. (Author/JM)

Article focused on whether or not to use behavioral objectives in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of their educational efforts. (Author/RK)