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Chen, Pei-Yu; Scheibel, Gretchen A.; Henley, Vanessa M.; Wills, Howard P. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2022
Middle school students with social and behavioral concerns need additional support. The current study investigated the effects of Class-Wide Function-related intervention teams adapted for middle school contexts (CW-FIT MS) and self-management (SM) in a sixth-grade reading class. CW-FIT MS was implemented, subsequently, for students with data…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Reading Instruction
Chen, Pei Yu; Scheibel, Gretchen A.; Henley, Vanessa M.; Wills, Howard P. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Middle school students with social and behavioral concerns need additional support. The current study investigated the effects of class-wide function-related intervention teams adapted for middle school contexts (CW-FIT MS) and self-management (SM) in a sixth-grade reading class. CW-FIT MS was implemented, subsequently, for students with data…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Middle School Students, Self Management, Grade 6
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Speight, Renee; Whitby, Peggy; Kucharczyk, Suzanne – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2020
Positive behavior interventions and supports (PBIS) improve student behavior. Yet, teachers may not receive adequate training to implement PBIS at the classroom level. This study evaluated class-wide function-related intervention teams (CW-FIT) as a classroom-level behavior management system to determine whether the behavior of middle school…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Teacher Behavior, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers
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Morris, Nancy – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2021
In collaboration with an urban public school, teacher candidates at a nearby university created a social-emotional skills project called Knight Brigade. The author discusses the project planning, implementation, and results as part of this ongoing partnership.
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Preservice Teachers, Social Development
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Bruhn, Allison L.; Rila, Ashley; Mahatmya, Duhita; Estrapala, Sara; Hendrix, Nicole – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2020
Data-based individualization (DBI) is a systematic process used to guide teachers in making decisions related to students' responsiveness to intervention. Whereas this process has been used extensively with academic interventions, far less is known about DBI used within the context of behavioral interventions. In this study, elementary general and…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Behavior Problems, Intervention, Behavior Modification
Caldarella, Paul; Williams, Leslie; Jolstead, Krystine A.; Wills, Howard P. – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2017
Classroom management is a common concern for teachers. Music teachers in particular experience unique behavior challenges because of large class sizes, uncommon pacing requirements, and performance-based outcomes. Positive behavior support is an evidence-based framework for preventing or eliminating challenging behaviors by teaching and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Music Education
Stormshak, Elizabeth A.; Seeley, John R.; Caruthers, Allison S.; Cardenas, Lucia; Moore, Kevin J.; Tyler, Milagra S.; Fleming, Christopher M.; Gau, Jeff; Danaher, Brian – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study evaluated the efficacy of a family-centered preventive intervention, the Family Check-Up (FCU), delivered as an online, eHealth model to middle school families. To increase accessibility of family-centered prevention in schools, we adapted the evidence-based FCU to an online format, with the goal of providing a model of service delivery…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Family Programs
Maxwell, Kevin Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to examine differences between academic and behavioral outcomes for three cohorts of sixth grade boys enrolled at Starlight Middle School, a large, urban school in the Midwest. A comparison was made between pre-, partial, and full intervention data, during three consecutive years of implementation of School-wide…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Comparative Analysis
Caldarella, Paul; Williams, Leslie; Jolstead, Krystine A.; Wills, Howard P. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Classroom management is a common concern for teachers. Music teachers in particular experience unique behavior challenges because of large class sizes, uncommon pacing requirements, and performance-based outcomes. Positive behavior support (PBS) is an evidence-based framework for preventing or eliminating challenging behaviors by teaching and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Music Education
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Bruhn, Allison Leigh; Woods-Groves, Suzanne; Fernando, Josephine; Choi, Taehoon; Troughton, Leonard – Behavioral Disorders, 2017
Multitiered frameworks like Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) have been recommended for preventing and remediating behavior problems. In this study, technology-based self-monitoring was used as a Tier 2 intervention to improve the academic engagement and disruptive behavior of three middle school students who were identified as…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Positive Behavior Supports, Intervention, Prevention
Smolkowski, Keith; Seeley, John R.; Gau, Jeffery M.; Dishion, Tom J.; Stormshak, Elizabeth A.; Moore, Kevin J.; Falkenstein, Corrina A.; Fosco, Gregory M.; Garbacz, S. Andrew – Grantee Submission, 2017
This article presents the results of an evaluation of Positive Family Support, an ecological family intervention and treatment approach to parent supports and family management training developed from a history of basic and translational research. This effectiveness trial, with 41 public middle schools randomly assigned to intervention or control,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers
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Ramsey, Michelle L.; Jolivette, Kristine; Kennedy, Christina; Fredrick, Laura D.; Williams, Camille D. – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2017
Two functionally-indicated choice-making interventions were implemented by a classroom teacher to determine the effects on the percentage of task completion, accuracy, and classroom disruption for 9 sixth through eighth grade participants with emotional and behavioral disorders in a residential math classroom using a reversal design. Results…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Antisocial Behavior, Student Behavior, Adolescents
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Sørlie, Mari-Anne; Ogden, Terje – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2015
Results from the first study of the three-level School-Wide Positive Behavior Support model in Europe (SWPBS, called N-PALS) are presented. Using a strengthened nonrandomized design, data was collected from more than 1,200 teachers and 7,640 students at four measure points over four school years in 28 Norwegian intervention schools and 20…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Modification, Positive Behavior Supports, Student Behavior