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Aitken, Angelique; Harlan, Alison; Hankins, Katy; Michels, John; Moore, Tara C.; Oakes, Wendy P.; Lane, Kathleen Lynne – Beyond Behavior, 2011
In this study, the authors examined the effects of a systematic functional assessment-based intervention (FABI) to identify the function of a third-grade student's off-task behavior and create a plan to increase academic engaged time (AET). The FABI was designed and implemented in an urban elementary school with a comprehensive, integrated,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Urban Schools, General Education
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Martin, Scott B.; Ede, Alison; Morrow, James R., Jr.; Jackson, Allen W. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2010
This paper provides observations of physical fitness testing in Texas schools and physical education teachers' insights about large-scale testing using the FITNESSGRAM[R] assessment (Cooper Institute, 2007) as mandated by Texas Senate Bill 530. In the first study, undergraduate and graduate students who were trained to observe and assess student…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Physical Education, Group Discussion, Focus Groups
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Wright, Jim; Cleary, Kristi S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2006
Increasingly, elementary schools across America are adopting prereferral intervention models that follow a structured problem-solving consultation process to reduce referrals to special education and to improve student academic outcomes. One feasible and affordable systems-level solution for a school that must deliver reading interventions of high…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Tutors, Prereferral Intervention, Reading Fluency