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Disruptive Student Behavior and Emotional Exhaustion in Dutch Primary Special Education Teachers: The Mediating Role of Teachers' Competence Beliefs
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Femke van den Brink; Manja Vollmann; Nouchka T. Tick – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Emotional exhaustion is prevalent among special education teachers (Brunsting et al. 2022). Previous research showed that disruptive student behavior is positively associated with teachers' emotional exhaustion (e.g., Kollerová et al. 2023). However, the underlying mechanisms are not yet fully understood. The present study investigated teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Special Education Teachers
The Relative Impact of School-Wide Positive Behavior Support on Teachers' Perceptions of Student Behavior across Schools, Teachers, and Students
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Wienen, Albert W.; Reijnders, Inge; van Aggelen, Marleen H.; Bos, Elske H.; Batstra, Laura; de Jonge, Peter – Psychology in the Schools, 2019
School-wide positive behavior support (SWPBS) is a systemic approach for implementing a proactive schoolwide discipline and for improving students' academic and behavioral outcomes by targeting the school's organizational and social culture. With a multilevel approach, the present study evaluates the relative effectiveness of SWPBS on teachers'…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Teacher Attitudes, Student Behavior, Teacher Student Relationship
Dynamic Testing of Gifted and Average-Ability Children's Analogy Problem Solving: Does Executive Functioning Play a Role?
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Vogelaar, Bart; Bakker, Merel; Hoogeveen, Lianne; Resing, Wilma C. M. – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
In this study, dynamic testing principles were applied to examine progression of analogy problem solving, the roles that cognitive flexibility and metacognition play in children's progression as well as training benefits, and instructional needs of 7- to 8-year-old gifted and average-ability children. Utilizing a pretest training posttest control…
Descriptors: Gifted, Problem Solving, Figurative Language, Educational Practices
How are Recommendations Concerning Reading and Spelling Disabilities Arrived at and Why Do Experts Disagree?
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Bus, Adriana G. – Psychology in the Schools, 1989
By means of educational and psychological tests, 10 reading specialists thought aloud about a simulated case of reading and spelling disability in fourth-grade boy. Protocols were transcribed and scored. Despite choosing from common information sources, experts differed substantially in diagnoses and recommendations. Found no indications for…
Descriptors: Educational Diagnosis, Foreign Countries, Grade 4, Intermediate Grades