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Educational Equity, Academic Standards, and Countercontrol: Preventing Academic Deficits with Supplemental Interdependent Rewards
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Skinner, Christopher H.; Bennett, Jade; Richardson, Robert; Scott, Katie; Wheat, Laura S.; Martinez, James – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
School psychologists have been involved with developing and installing individual contingencies designed to remedy individual students' academic deficits. Group-oriented contingencies can be applied to broader efforts designed to prevent learning problems class-wide. Independent group-oriented rewards are frequently used in school settings to…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Academic Standards, Learning Problems, Learning Processes
Formalized Training and Specialization in School Neuropsychology
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Wendi I. Johnson; Amanda L. Skierkiewicz – Communique, 2025
School neuropsychology focuses on brain--behavior relationships and how these connections influence the learning process. This specialized field considers the individual and sociocultural factors that influence cognitive development, using targeted neuropsychological assessments to guide effective intervention. While grounded in pediatric clinical…
Descriptors: Neuropsychology, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Higher Education
Improving Fraction Understanding in Sixth Graders with Mathematics Difficulties: Effects of a Number Line Approach Combined with Cognitive Learning Strategies
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Barbieri, Christina A.; Rodrigues, Jessica; Dyson, Nancy; Jordan, Nancy C. – Grantee Submission, 2019
The effectiveness of an experimental middle school fraction intervention was evaluated. The intervention was centered on the number line and incorporated key principles from the science of learning. Sixth graders (N = 51) who struggled with fraction concepts were randomly assigned at the student level to the experimental intervention (n = 28) or…
Descriptors: Fractions, Mathematics Instruction, Intervention, Mathematical Concepts
Parental Questionnaire.
Bucks County Public Schools, Doylestown, PA. – 1970
The purpose of this questionnaire is to analyze parental attitudes toward the project by examining the parents' perception of their children in the project. Six open-ended sentences are presented which the parent is asked to complete as he sees fit. Additional comments are also solicited. (See TM 001 363 for description of the total project; see…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Curiosity, Learning Problems, Learning Processes
What Happens during Tutoring: An Investigation of Time Use, Questioning, and Learning Processes.
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Hixon, Karen K.; Sherman, Thomas M. – 1988
To investigate the reasons that tutoring is effective, a study was conducted of what happened during a series of tutoring sessions, and the effects of these events on students' behaviors and tutoring outcomes were analyzed. A total of 48 tutoring sessions, which included 6 tutors and approximately 25 college student-athletes, were tape-recorded by…
Descriptors: Athletes, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Higher Education
Our Other Youth: Handbook of Guidelines for Teachers and Other Adults Who Work with At Risk Kids and Discouraged or Defeated Learners.
Conrath, Jerry – 1986
This guide for educators who work with discouraged and defeated learners recommends ways to prevent problems and offers approaches to develop positive attitudes. The introduction dispels common fictions about discouraged learners. Part 1, "Profiles of Our Other Youth: Discouraged and Defeated Learners," describes behavioral and life situations,…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Conflict Resolution, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education