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Fussy, Brooklyne – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Decreasing gang activity in inner city neighborhoods is an essential component to reducing violence and improving our society as a whole. This study was conducted to help generate awareness and a better understanding as to how schools can be best utilized as a protective factor against youth gang activity. The participants consisted of 6 educators…
Descriptors: Prevention, Teacher Attitudes, Juvenile Gangs, Youth Problems
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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
Turtura, Jessica E.; Anderson, Cynthia M.; Boyd, R. Justin – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2014
Multitier prevention systems consist of a continuum of interventions to address the needs of all students. Within such systems, Tier I supports are in place for all students and are designed to enhance prosocial (social behavior interventions) and academic (instructional interventions) skills. Tier II interventions supplement the Tier I…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Intervention, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior
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Strickland-Cohen, M. Kathleen; Kennedy, Patrick C.; Berg, Tricia A.; Bateman, Lisa J.; Horner, Robert H. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2016
For decades, research has shown that function-based support is effective in reducing the frequency and severity of problematic student behaviors. One way for schools and districts to implement these supports effectively is by building local capacity to intervene with function-based interventions at the first signs of persistent problem behavior…
Descriptors: School Districts, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Student Behavior, Positive Behavior Supports
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Rasheed, Saleem A.; Fore, Cecil, III; Jones, Arthur; Smith, Latisha – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2012
The research literature on the use of Functional Behavioral Assessments (FBA) to develop Behavior Intervention Plans (BIP) for students with emotional/behavioral disorders, who present problem classroom behaviors for use in the schools, is well documented. There are school-wide, district-wide, and state-wide plans that are currently being…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Self Management, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders
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Al Agili, Dania E.; Park, Hyoun-Kyoung – Journal of School Health, 2012
Background: Adolescent tobacco use has been a serious public health issue, resulting in longer duration of tobacco use and higher nicotine dependence in adulthood. This study identified the current status of tobacco use among middle schools students in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and the factors leading to tobacco use, to provide information on how to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Incidence, Adolescent Attitudes