The Residential Youth Center, based in the inner city, was established to house those "high risk" youths who were not being reached by existing manpower programs. The staff consisted of indigenous, nonprofessional personnel who worked intensively with families. The project was able to effect tremendous behavioral changes in dozens of…

The purposes of this study were to: (1) produce self-control of academic behavior in a ninth-grade typing and an eleventh grade accounting class by providing continuous self-generated feedback through various devices; (2) to assess the relative merits of each device; and (3) to study those factors accounting for behavior change under…

Described and evaluated is a Marion County, Florida, program which applied the team teaching method to instruction of 45 educable mentally retarded 10- to 14-year-old students. It is stressed that the philosophy of the middle schools and of team teaching is to provide a means of meeting individual needs of students. Described are the program's…

The original purpose of the project (of which this book is an outgrowth) was to investigate the processes of value assimilation and behavioral change; the book has come to describe the economic absorption and cultural integration of Mexican Americans and Negroes into a predominantly Anglo society. The host society consisted of Anglos; they more…

A nursery school teacher received three types of training in self-observation skills, which were compared with regard to their effects on the accuracy of the self-observations. Minimal training consisted of a brief description of the behaviors to be recorded. The feedback condition incorporated daily information about the accuracy of the…

A major goal of the elementary and secondary schools is to help each person become an efficient and autonomous learner. Outlined in this report are skills abstracted from the literature on such topics as verbal learning, problem solving, study habits, and behavior modification. The learner-oriented skills are presented so that they may be…

An extension of previous attempts at modifying children's cognitive styles is discussed. Specifically, the present study employed sociometric peer models in order to ascertain whether: (1) impulsivity is modifiable through observation of salient models, and (2) sociometrically selected peer models are more effective than unselected models in the…

Compensatory education, criminal rehabilitation and training the hard-core unemployed are all forms of resocialization. Resocialization programs operate on the assumption that values, attitudes, and ability can be permanently altered as a result of outside intervention. The importance of resocialization is evidenced by the vast amounts of money…

The report describes an academic, compensatory education preschool program for educable mentally retarded children 3-5 years of age. Goals are to teach, through behavior modification techniques, language skills and behavior patterns necessary to succeed in school. Language teaching is based on an adaptation of the Bereiter-Englemann method, and…

A multifactor instrument, the Bentler Interview Developmental Scale (BIDS), was used to measure developmental changes in children from birth to age 7. The device consisted of 115 age related items to which the mother responded. Data was gathered through interviews of the mothers of sample children throughout the United States. Reliability of the…

The report reviews the third year of a 4-year demonstration and research project, Programing Interpersonal Curricula for Adolescents (PICA). General purpose is to develop remedial procedures for adolescents with both scholastic and social or behavioral problems. In a half day educational program 12 such students study academic and interpersonal…

Three nonprofessionals, including those with limited education and advanced age, received training to become effective behavior modification agents (therapists). Each was then individually observed and videotaped in his work with a retarded child. Therapists' performances were not adequate for effecting the desired changes in the childrens'…

Six groups of disadvantaged, unemployed adults in vocational training centers were measured for cognitive performance gain, attitude change, and self-reported behavior change after a televised course in consumer information. The course consisted of 16 half hour programs which used a non-classroom format followed by discussions. General conclusions…

Based on background research showing that both impulsive and inhibited children are deficient to better-adjusted classmates in ability to conceptualize alternative solutions to real-life problems and potential consequences to a given act, a study was conducted to aid the child in thinking for himself of ways to solve his own interpersonal problems…

Presented are 12 programed instruction exercises in writing letters of the alphabet, spelling words, addition, numeral-number association, subtraction, color words chart, answering basic questions about stories, sentences, paragraphs, and paragraph titles for elementary school children who demonstrate a learning disability and/or behavior problem.…