This study attempted to determine whether parent educators in the Florida Follow Through Model were affected by their work in the program. The following changes in parent educators were studied: (1) Significant increase in feelings of self-esteem, (2) significant changes in teaching behavior, and (3) changes in life style. Self-esteem was assessed…

Studies conducted at Stanford University and the University of Chicago in the use of student feedback in the training of beginning teachers are reported, compared, and discussed. In the Stanford study 80 subjects were divided into three treatment groups and one control group, and each subject was videotaped four times. Students of the subjects…

Parents of young children feel a keen obligation to maintain adequate control over their child's behavior. In this paper, factors are examined that in all probability affect the adult's success in maintaining sensible control and changing child behavior when it seems necessary to do so. Five such factors are: (1) the child's desire to please his…

Traditional forms of psychotherapy have dealt with helping the client change in order to better cope with society. This speech suggests that another form of psychotherapy would encourage the therapist to work to change society. The author contends that since social conditions are often the cause of psychosis, social conditions ought to be the…

This paper explores the ramifications and limitations of communication theory and decision theory in analyses of the developmental process. To date, change theory has been of only limited use as a basis for analyses of process in specific developmental efforts and for comparative studies among projects. It is possible that a more adequate basis…

The results of a 3-year project that developed a practical program for the wide-scale implementation of behavior modification in urban schools are presented in this paper. The major outcomes of the project were (a) a practical, cost-effective behavior modification program that reduces discipline problems, increases student motivation, and…

The study described here is an attempt to answer the question: does the classroom ratio of non-white to white pupils influence the quality of the behavior of the participants in integrated classrooms? And, if so, is there an optimum ratio of classroom racial composition? To carry out such an investigation, an instrument designed to provide a…

The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to determine whether alcoholics will show greater persistance in responding under punishment in a simple operant task as compared to nonalcoholics; and (2) with this task, under what conditions alcoholics will suppress their responses to the same extent as nonalcoholics. In the task, all subjects during…

Using a deliberately confusing and frustrating game exercise, the author attempts to present the student's perception of the conflicting demands that the school system places upon him. Despite the dearth of literature on behavior therapy as it relates to the adolescent, the author believes that the behavior therapist can help the adolescent. After…

One hundred and five teacher trainees participated in different types of student teaching. The Teacher Perception Q Sort was used to evaluate changes in perception. Five factors were measured: a) self revealing/self concealing, b) learner/teacher centeredness, c) broad/narrow view of teaching, d) process/facts oriented, e) freeing/controlling…

Giving sixth-grade teachers information as to how their pupils described their actual and their ideal teacher on 12 items of teacher behavior significantly changed in the direction of the pupils' initial ratings of their ideal teacher, and also made the teachers more accurate in predicting their pupils' descriptions of the teacher. Subjects of the…

The report is the third in a six part research report. The construction and evaluation of a treatment model using short term placement in a token economy to modify deviant behavior is described. Between 1968 and 1970 the treatment model was replicated on a total of 44 subjects ranging in age from 8 to 12 years. Eight groups of six subjects each…

An ongoing behavioral model for implementing staff development and evaluation procedures is proposed, which systematically focuses on assessing and facilitating behavioral change in the classroom and enables the educational executive to assess what is actually happening there. The administrator is thus provided with the necessary information to…

Ways of helping coaches to counsel unemployed adults in the solving of their personal problems are explored in this manual. Originally printed as two separate volumes, this reprinting of the study has bound the two together. Volume I involves a general discussion of life's problems and of the need to solve them. This volume contains four parts.…

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