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School Administrator Assessments of Bullying and State-Mandated Testing
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Lacey, Anna; Cornell, Dewey G. – Journal of School Violence, 2016
Bully victimization is associated with lower academic performance for individual students; however, less is known about the impact of bullying on the academic performance of the school as a whole. This study examined how retrospective administrator reports of both the prevalence of teasing and bullying (PTB) and the use of evidence-based bullying…
Descriptors: Bullying, State Policy, Administrator Attitudes, Testing Programs
Handling PBIS with Care: Scaling up to School-Wide Implementation
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Cressey, James M.; Whitcomb, Sara A.; McGilvray-Rivet, Susan J.; Morrison, Rebecca J.; Shander-Reynolds, Katherine J. – Professional School Counseling, 2015
This case study describes the leadership of a school counselor in implementing positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS) in a low-income, diverse elementary school with a modest level of external supports. After initiating a grade-level pilot program, the school counselor partnered with university-based consultants to expand the PBIS…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Program Descriptions, School Counselors, Program Implementation
Principals' Confidence in Managing Disruptive Student Behaviour. Exploring Geographical Context in NSW Primary Schools
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Wood, Paul Brian; Spandagou, Ilektra; Evans, David – School Leadership & Management, 2012
This article discusses the results from an initial quantitative analysis of survey data collected from the Principals and Behaviour Survey (PABS) conducted in New South Wales, Australia. PABS was built upon a foundation of existing validated studies measuring principals' attitudes to the inclusion of students with disabilities in mainstream…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Self Esteem, Self Efficacy
In-District Programs for Students with Autism: How Do New Jersey Special Education Directors Describe and Understand the Factors that They Think Influence Their Decision to Adopt and Use Applied Behavior Analysis?
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Cook, Irene – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examined the perspectives of New Jersey public school special education administrators on factors that influenced their decision to use or not use applied behavior analysis (ABA), an educational methodology, for their in-district programs serving children with autism. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has called…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Autism, Public Schools, Enrollment
District-Level Administrators' Perspectives on the Implementation of Functional Behavior Assessment in Schools
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Katsiyannis, Antonis; Conroy, Maureen; Zhang, Dalun – Behavioral Disorders, 2008
Since the reauthorization of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA; 1997) through the current reauthorization (IDEA 2004), disciplinary procedures and functional behavioral assessment (FBA) have been widely used in school districts to assist in the prevention and amelioration of problem behaviors. Although researchers have…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Discipline, Intervention, Disabilities
School Personnel's Professional Development Needs and Skill Level with Functional Behavior Assessments in Ten Midwestern States in the United States: Analysis and Issues
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Pindiprolu, Sekhar S.; Peterson, Stephanie M.; Bergloff, Hollie – Journal of the International Association of Special Education, 2007
The amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) require states address the training needs of in-service and pre-service personnel for developing and implementing positive intervention strategies (Gable, Quinn, Rutherford, & Howell, 1998; Shelladay & Stichter, 1999; The Center for Effective Collaboration and…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Intervention, Disabilities, School Personnel