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Cheng, Michèle P.; Mercer, Sterett H.; Saqui, Sonja – Contemporary School Psychology, 2023
Incorporating student choice is an effective intervention to improve task engagement that may also promote skill and behavioral generalization. In this study, we evaluated the effectiveness of a reading fluency intervention that incorporated student choice of topic and instructional passages using a delayed multiple baseline across student design.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Student Interests, Reading Fluency
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Wilson, Joshua; Potter, Andrew; Cordero, Tania Cruz; Myers, Matthew C. – Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
Purpose: This study presents results from a pilot intervention that integrated self-regulation through reflection and goal setting with automated writing evaluation (AWE) technology to improve students' writing outcomes. Methods: We employed a single-group pretest-posttest design. All students in Grades 5-8 (N = 56) from one urban, all female,…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Pilot Projects
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Azevedo, Liane B.; Vidoni, Carla; Dinsdale, Sarah – Physical Educator, 2016
Less than 50% of a PE lesson is usually spent in MVPA. A dependent-group contingency strategy, "Fair Play Game," has shown effectiveness in increasing MVPA during PE lessons among students from affluent schools. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of this strategy on MVPA among students from an undeserved…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Physical Education, Team Sports, Electronic Equipment
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Stroebe, Wolfgang; van Koningsbruggen, Guido M.; Papies, Esther K.; Aarts, Henk – Psychological Review, 2013
Theories of eating regulation often attribute overweight to a malfunction of homeostatic regulation of body weight. With the goal conflict model of eating, we present a new perspective that attributes the difficulty of chronic dieters (i.e., restrained eaters) in regulating their food intake to a conflict between 2 incompatible goals--namely,…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Body Weight, Nutrition, Eating Habits
Zisserson, Rebecca N. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Smoking is an increasing problem among college-age individuals. Despite having the desire to quit smoking, many students are unable to achieve this goal. One factor that contributes to difficulties in the self-control of smoking is the effect of temptation contexts on the valuation of goals related to smoking cessation. Contextual cues may…
Descriptors: College Students, Cues, Intervention, Smoking
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Jenkins, Joseph; Terjeson, Kari J. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2011
This study examined effects of goal setting, frequency of progress monitoring, and method of evaluating progress on the number of instructional change prompts generated by reading-curriculum-based measurements (CBM). Participants were 31 high-incidence special education students in grades 2-6 selected from 8 schools. Following baseline…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Goal Orientation, Evaluation Methods, Incidence
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers