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An Exploratory Study of the Modification of Color and Racial Concept Attitudes in Preschool Children
Williams, John E.; Edwards, C. Drew – Child Develop, 1969
Research supported in part by grant no. HD-02821-01 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Color, Concept Formation, Middle Class Culture
Download full textHunsaker, Alan C. – 1981
The effect of general and subject-specific prompts in eliciting a zero- or low-probability behavior in three Hispanic gang members, selected because of their artistic or writing abilities, was examined by monitoring their behavior in submitting any original work, written or pictorial, that could be published in a community newsletter. Dependent…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Contingency Management, Creative Activities, Cues
Floyd, Jerald D. – 1982
Two resource centers were funded by the Illinois Alcoholism Prevention Initiative to facilitate primary prevention and health promotion efforts at the local level. Located in DeKalb and Springfield, the centers assisted the Illinois State Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Division of Alcoholism in building a body of…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Alcoholism, Behavior Change, Community Health Services
Foster, Carl; And Others – 1981
Based on recommendations of a District Attendance Task Force, in 1980 the Ganado School District (a Navajo Reservation District) formulated an Attendance Improvement Plan which decreased the primary school's absentee rate 37% over previous years and which dramatically increased Friday attendance. The primary school targeted "high risk"…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Attendance
Petkau, H. P.; Wheeler, A. E. – 1981
A correlation is sought between a teacher's stages of professional growth and levels of invitational teaching. It is posited that stages of teacher professional growth are sequential, with each stage involving specific types of classroom behavior. Stage one is characterized by self concern, or a teacher-centered period. In the second stage,…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Group Dynamics, Interpersonal Competence, Positive Reinforcement
Weber, Wilford A. – 1981
One hundred sixty-three experienced, knowledgeable, elementary and secondary teachers were asked to identify classroom management strategies they believed to be most crucial to their teaching effectiveness. In rank order, the eight most frequently selected managerial strategies were: (1) using positive reinforcement; (2) applying logical…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques, Discipline, Elementary Secondary Education
Paine, Stan C.; And Others – 1978
Nine elementary grade children, each referred originally for low levels of peer interaction in free-play situations in school, participated in a study designed to assess the effects of treatment "booster shots" on the maintenance of social behavior. An intervention package, consisting of social skills tutoring and a recess-based point…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Ruppel, George – 1978
In an investigation of the effectiveness of self-managed reading improvement programs, a program incorporating self-monitoring (observing and recording relevant activity), self-reinforcement (increasing the probability of some target behavior by the self-presentation of positive consequences or the removal of negative consequences), and shaping…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Positive Reinforcement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
Chan, Adrian; And Others – 1978
This paper presents a perspective on advocacy and Advocate Counseling and its relationship to institutional racism. The Advocate Counseling Model is described as a vehicle for teaching citizens to act in an assertive and affirmative manner when confronted with public and private institutional problems, including institutional racism. Legal…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Theories, Economically Disadvantaged
Broughton, Sam F. – 1978
Reinforcement for academic performance has been shown to increase both correct academic responding and rates of on-task behavior. Reinforcement for attending and on-task behavior has failed to increase correct academic responding in many studies, but it has produced vicarious and sociometric changes. The occurrence of vicarious and sociometric…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Change, Class Activities, Comparative Analysis
DeJames, Patricia L. – 1980
Teachers and parents should seek effective ways of developing relationships with children to exert positive influence on their psychological, mental, and emotional health. The manner in which a child is treated or talked to by parents and teachers contributes to future abilities to cope, solve problems, engage in decision-making strategies,…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Child Development, Communication Skills, Discipline
BLAKE, KATHRYN A.; AND OTHERS – 1961
THE WORK OF AN EARLIER COOPERATIVE RESEARCH PROJECT (NO. 470) WAS EXTENDED THROUGH THIS INVESTIGATION BY COMPARING THE MOTIVATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND LEARNING PERFORMANCE OF A GROUP OF INSTITUTIONALIZED MENTALLY RETARDED CHILDREN WITH GROUPS OF SUPERIOR, NORMAL, AND MENTALLY RETARDED NONINSTITUTIONALIZED SUBJECTS. DATA ON THE…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Aspiration, Correctional Institutions, Gifted
CHARLESWORTH, ROSALIND; HARTUP, WILLARD W.
FOR 5 WEEKS, 2 OBSERVERS MADE DAILY VISITS TO A LABORATORY PRESCHOOL TO COLLECT INFORMATION ON THE AMOUNT AND KINDS OF POSITIVE SOCIAL REINFORCEMENT CHILDREN GIVE TO EACH OTHER IN NURSERY SCHOOL. SEVENTY CHILDREN (AGED 3 YEARS 4 MONTHS TO 4 YEARS 9 MONTHS) WERE GROUPED INTO 2 OLDER AND 2 YOUNGER CLASSES. EACH CHILD WAS OBSERVED IN RANDOM ORDER FOR…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Behavior Patterns, Nursery Schools, Observation
National Education Association, Washington, DC. Project on Utilization of Inservice Education R & D Outcomes. – 1972
The learning module described is for the use of special education or regular classroom elementary teachers who have children with attention problems. The primary focus of the module is upon a behavior modification approach to increase teacher skill in promoting attention in the exceptional child classroom. Included in the description of this…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Behavior Change, Child Development, Exceptional Persons
Evertson, Carolyn M. – 1975
Praise and criticism data were collected during a two-year correlational study of a selected sample of second- and third-grade teachers chosen for their consistency in producing student learning gains averaged over four years, and these data were analyzed to determine the effect that praise, criticism, rewards, and punishment had on learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Classroom Techniques, Discipline
