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Ortiz, Jennifer; Bray, Melissa A.; Bilias-Lolis, Evelyn; Kehle, Thomas J. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2017
The Good Behavior Game (GBG) is a group contingency intervention that has effectively reduced disruptive behavior and improved classroom management in many replications, for various settings and populations. The student composition of American public schools is changing, leading to culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms with unique…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Hispanic American Students, Educational Games, Student Behavior
Jitendra, Asha K.; Harwell, Michael R.; Dupuis, Danielle N.; Karl, Stacy R. – Grantee Submission, 2016
This paper reports results from a study investigating the efficacy of a proportional problem-solving intervention, schema-based instruction (SBI), in seventh grade. Participants included 806 students with mathematical difficulties in problem solving (MD-PS) from an initial pool of 1,999 seventh grade students in a larger study. Teachers and their…
Descriptors: Schemata (Cognition), Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts
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Fruth, Jason D. – Reading Improvement, 2014
This quantitative study addresses the problem of reading and behavioral performance in elementary school by examining the impact of a universal preventive intervention on both the proximal and distal outcomes of students in the fourth grade at a mid-western elementary school. These proximal outcomes (disruptions per student per hour) were measured…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Reading Difficulties, Behavior Problems, Elementary School Students
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Koegel, Robert L.; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1992
This study of teaching methods in language interventions with three preschool children with autism found greater improvements in responding and considerably less disruptive behavior during the natural language (using functional stimuli and natural reinforcers) teaching condition compared to the traditional language condition. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Early Intervention
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Woodward, John; Baxter, Juliet – Exceptional Children, 1997
A year-long study of an innovative approach to mathematics, which emphasized in-depth problem solving and achievement of automaticity through math games, found such methods to be viable for students with average and above average academic abilities, but students with learning disabilities or at-risk students need much greater assistance if they…
Descriptors: Educational Games, High Risk Students, Inclusive Schools, Instructional Effectiveness
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Markus, Gregory B.; And Others – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1993
Students in an undergraduate political science course that integrated classroom instruction and community service (n=37) were significantly more likely than were those in traditional discussion sessions (n=52) to report that they had performed to their potentials, learned to apply principles, and developed a greater awareness of social problems.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness