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Gulyas, Paul A. – 1979
A means was developed to reduce the necessity for discipline among the 25 students who were the most chronic discipline problems at Thomas Jefferson High School, a 1,500-student school in suburban Pittsburgh. The students were identified by assigning point values to various disciplinary measures administered to students. The 25 students met with a…
Descriptors: Corporal Punishment, Discipline, Discipline Problems, High School Students
Krantz, S.; McDermott, H.; Schaefer, L.; Snyder, M. A. – 2003
This report describes a project for teaching students to implement social skills in the classroom, playground, and lunchroom. The hope is to reduce the inappropriate behavior that occurs in these areas. The targeted population consisted of a middle to lower income elementary school in Illinois. After analyzing the data collected, it was revealed…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Cooperative Learning, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students
Raaum, Alfhild M. – 1978
Data for this study were gathered from primary sources (interviews, government records, minutes of meetings, correspondence, and tapes of programs), as well as secondary sources including the two reports "The Action Study of Educational Uses of Satellite Communications in Remote Alaskan Villages" and "The Educational Satellite…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Communications Satellites, Demonstrations (Educational), Educational Problems
Burnett, Sara Jane; Wichman, Ann Marie – 1997
This paper describes a program for minimizing students' inability to relate present day school mathematics to real-world experiences, including the high-tech communities around them. The targeted population consisted of second grade elementary students in a growing middle class community located in a suburb of a large metropolitan area in the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Childrens Literature, Grade 2, Instructional Effectiveness
Novick, Phyllis Thomas – 1979
This five-session research-based program trains parents in various skills through a series of experiential learning activities. An introductory chapter reviews the problem initiating the study, the purpose, importance, assumption, limitations, and plan of the study, along with a definition of terms. Next, a literature review examines materials…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Child Rearing, Communication Skills, Learning Activities
Smith, William A. – 1976
Techniques for applying Brazilian adult educator and political organizer Paulo Freire's theory of "conscientizacao" are discussed. Freire's pedagogy is designed to liberate both oppressor and oppressed from the victimization of the oppressive system through "conscientizacao" or consciousness raising. The term refers to the developmental processes…
Descriptors: Developmental Stages, Doctoral Dissertations, Educational Innovation, Educational Principles