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DeBord, Karen – 1996
This two-part pamphlet assists parents and teachers in setting appropriate limits on children's behavior. Part 1 begins by illustrating the differences between punishment and discipline. It points to four basic reasons for misbehavior: (1) attention; (2) power; (3) revenge; or (4) inadequacy. Each of these reasons are fully defined, and advice for…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Behavior Standards, Child Behavior
Good, E. Perry – 1992
This book explains how many of the behaviors that adults use to "help" kids are, at best, ineffective and, at worst, destructive to the adults' relationships with children. Adults traditionally believe that external cues prompt correct behavior--the premise of stimulus-response psychology. However, the ideas discussed here revolve around the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Development, Child Development, Child Rearing
Johnson, Tracey L. – 1994
Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most commonly diagnosed behavior disorder among children in the United States. A frequently used and effective intervention for ADHD involves parent training for behavioral management. While parent training improves child compliance, parent-child interactions, and parenting skills, the effects…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Attention, Attention Deficit Disorders, Behavior Disorders
Warton, Pamela M. – 1993
This study investigated children's practices and ideas or perceptions about self-regulation for two particular aspects of schoolwork: completing homework and learning for a class test. Subjects were 86 Anglo children (ages 7, 9, and 11) who were interviewed about their practices and ideas concerning homework completion and test preparation.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Development, Educational Testing, Elementary Education
Petersen, Evelyn – 1997
To teach responsible behavior means to encourage children to be motivated from the inside and to follow rules that help themselves and others. This guide, part of the "Seeds for Success" series, provides advice for parents for creating in children an inner sense of responsibility by means of nearly 100 simple activity ideas designed for use with…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Child Rearing, Child Responsibility, Learning Activities
Carr, Sonya C.; Evans, Elizabeth D. – 1991
Inservice teacher education offered by Southeastern Louisiana University teaches rural special educators self-monitoring techniques for their students. A critical shortage of special educators has led to the hiring of minimally trained teachers, who need more training particularly in the areas of discipline and behavior management. A review of the…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Inservice Teacher Education
Patton, Patricia Lucey – 1992
This seven lesson curriculum sequence is designed to help teachers teach principles of Rational Behavior Training (RBT) which targets thinking behaviors, feeling behaviors, and behavioral responses to the environment. The program is appropriate for students with social and emotional disabilities and also develops reading, writing, spelling,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Campbell, Donald S.; And Others – 1983
From a co-operative education class in an urban high school, 16 adolescent males were identified as impulsive and as high-risk based on their performance on the Matching Familiar Figures test and the advice of teachers and counselors. Students participated in 12 to 15 videotaped group problem-solving sessions (20-25 minutes in length) over a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attention Span, Behavior Modification, Behavior Rating Scales
O'Loughlin, Michael; And Others – 1982
Recent research in metacognition suggests that efficient studying reflects the ability to employ deliberately planful or self-regulative study strategies. An instructional program based on this approach was developed to teach eighth graders how to study text. The sample of 50 eighth graders was divided into experimental (N=24) and control (N=26)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Grade 8, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
Block, Jack; Gjerde, Per F. – 1985
This paper examines the conceptual and empirical relationships differentially associated with antisocial behavior and undercontrol, two concepts that frequently are confused. The personality characteristics conceptually associated with antisocial behavior were specified by seven psychologists using the California Child Q-sort (CCQ) to describe…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Child Rearing, Children
Wilcox, Kathleen; Moriarty, Pia – 1976
To fulfill the requirements of the hierarchically stratified workplace, schools socialize students in terms of the socioeconomic status of their parents. Forty-five students in two first grade public schools--one in an upper-middle class neighborhood, the other in a lower-middle class neighborhood--were observed. Both classrooms and teachers were…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs, Educational Practices, Educational Research
McCombs, Barbara L. – 1982
In response to reports that many students entering military technical training lack not only effective reading skills and cognitive learning strategies, but also demonstrate skill deficiencies in exercising personal responsibility, the Motivational Skill Training Package was developed to help students acquire and implement positive self control in…
Descriptors: Learning Modules, Military Personnel, Military Training, Motivation Techniques
Tiffany, Phyllis G.; Tiffany, Donald W. – 1984
Three studies that measured the extent to which college students differed in the amount of control they experienced in situations relating to nuclear war and in ordinary life situations such as school, community, and home are described. In the first study, 91 college-level psychology students viewed the television film "The Day After,"…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Individual Power, Locus of Control, Mass Media Effects
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Holcomb, Lori B.; King, Frederick B.; Brown, Scott W. – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine the roles self-efficacy, specifically technology self-efficacy and distance education self-efficacy, and self-regulation play in students' learning via distance education. This study examines a system for evaluating distance education courses in a similar manner to those for traditional university courses.…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Student Characteristics, Success, Self Efficacy
McLaughlin, Karen E. – 1977
Higher education must be prepared to establish goals and assess its success in developing students who can function productively in a future society. One possible goal of the college experience is to develop self-directing or internally-controlled individuals. Examined were selected factors and their influence on students' locus of control.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Assessment, Higher Education, Individual Development
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