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Mithaug, Deirdre K. – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2002
This study found six students (ages 5-7) with multiple disabilities correctly used a choice card to set goals, assign worksheets, complete work, and evaluate results more frequently during independent work sessions that followed a student choice condition than in independent work sessions that followed a teacher choice condition. (Contains 8…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Goal Orientation, Independent Study, Multiple Disabilities
Pinkerton, John; Stein, Mike – Children and Youth Services Review, 1995
Notes that the challenge for state child welfare services when young people leave care is to prepare them to cope with pressures surrounding this transition. Reviews existing research to explore current practice in England and Northern Ireland, and considers whether recent legislative reform in the two jurisdictions will help develop policy and…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Coping, Foreign Countries, Foster Care
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Lovitt, Thomas C.; Higgins, A. Kyle – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 1996
A 6-step process for translating educational research findings into practice is explained. A collaborative project was implemented by 10 experienced secondary teachers of youth with mild disabilities to help students develop self-management skills. Benefits to the students and teachers are documented. (DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Educational Research, Mild Disabilities
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Reis, Sally M. – Roeper Review, 1995
This study of 12 older women who achieved eminence in their respective fields after the age of 50 involved development of a model of talent realization that included the following factors: abilities, personality traits, environmental factors, and the perceived social importance of their talent, merged into a combined belief in self and a desire to…
Descriptors: Females, High Achievement, Models, Older Adults
Kamii, Constance; And Others – Phi Delta Kappan, 1994
Because they are not guided by an overall goal based on scientific theory, the six national education goals are fragmentary, contradictory, and insufficiently concerned about developing student autonomy--education's true aim. Teachers can help children develop autonomy by encouraging them to make decisions and enforce their own rules, fostering…
Descriptors: Accountability, Developmental Tasks, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
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De La Paz, Susan – Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, 1999
Middle-school students with (n=6) and without (n=16) learning disabilities were taught a strategy for planning and writing expository essays using the Self-Regulated Strategy Development approach to instruction. Positive results were found for students with and without learning disabilities. Students' papers became longer, more complete, and…
Descriptors: Essays, Expository Writing, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Disabilities
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Markel, Geraldine – Performance Improvement, 2000
Suggests that professionals can use a human performance system to better balance their professional and personal lives. Illustrates the components of the human performance system, and describes nine steps for professional and personal self-management using a systems approach. Identifies attitudinal barriers to success. Includes a performance…
Descriptors: Independent Living, Performance, Planning, Professional Personnel
Scott, Terance M. – Reaching Today's Youth: The Community Circle of Caring Journal, 1998
Shows how moving away from the token economy and contingency-contracting concepts of behavior management in the classroom is an effective way to teach self management skills to students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Supplies detailed instructions for implementing a successful self-management program. (MKA)
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Modification, Elementary Secondary Education, Hyperactivity
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Bryan, Tanis; Sullivan-Burstein, Karen – Remedial and Special Education, 1998
Three studies examined the effects of different interventions used with elementary students with learning disabilities and typical students on spelling and math homework completion and weekly quiz performance. Three intervention strategies resulted in significant increases in homework completion: giving students real-life assignments, using…
Descriptors: Assignments, Classroom Techniques, Elementary Education, Homework
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Schapiro, Susan R.; Livingston, Jennifer – Innovative Higher Education, 2000
College freshmen and sophomores (n=342) in an elective class designed to teach active learning strategies and critical thinking completed the Dynamic and Active Learning Inventory. Results supported the theory that self-regulated learning requires not only active, deliberate learning strategies, but also includes a natural dynamic component that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Active Learning, College Students, Critical Thinking
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Luciano-Soriano, M. Carmen; Molina-Cobos, Francisco J.; Gomez-Becerra, Immaculada – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2000
A say-do-report correspondence training was implemented to break the functions of present conditions given by a history of contingencies maintaining chronic inadequate patterns of behavior in two adolescents with mental retardation and language deficits. All behaviors changed and were maintained, even after eliminating the components involved in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Language Impairments
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Shimabukuro, Serena M.; Prater, Mary Anne; Jenkins, Amelia; Edelen-Smith, Patricia – Education and Treatment of Children, 1999
A study investigated the effects of self-monitoring of academic productivity and accuracy on the academic performance and on-task behavior of three male students (ages 12-13) with both learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders. Students made gains in academic productivity and accuracy and their on-task behaviors improved across all…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification
Koegel, Lynn Kern; Koegel, Robert L.; Harrower, Joshua K.; Carter, Cynthia Marie – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1999
This article presents an overview of several pivotal response interventions. Areas discussed include responsivity to multiple cues, motivation to initiate and respond appropriately to social and environmental stimuli, and self-regulation of behaviors. The trend to streamline intervention by targeting behaviors that have a widespread effect on…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Cues
Koegel, Lynn Kern; Koegel, Robert L.; Shoshan, Yifat; McNerney, Erin – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1999
A study involving 6 children with autism investigated whether self-initiations might be associated with highly favorable post-intervention outcomes. Results found that children who had highly favorable outcomes exhibited more spontaneous self-initiations at pre-intervention. Further study indicated children could learn a variety of…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Modification, Cues
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Peterson, Lloyd D.; Young, K. Richard; West, Richard P.; Peterson, Mary Hill – Education and Treatment of Children, 1999
The use of a programmed generalization strategy in general education classrooms was evaluated with 29 middle school students. Results indicated that the intervention, i.e., social skills training and self-monitoring with teacher matching, led to generalization of improved student behavior in up to six different class settings. (Author/CR)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Generalization, Inclusive Schools
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