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Committee for Children, Seattle, WA. – 1992
"Second Step" is a curriculum designed to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in children aged 9 through 12 years, increasing their levels of social competence by teaching skills in empathy, impulse control, and anger management. This guide is part of the "Second Step" series, which includes curricula for…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Patterns, Elementary School Curriculum, Elementary School Students
Beland, Kathy – 1992
This document is the Spanish language supplement to "Second Step, Grades 1-3," a violence-prevention curriculum designed to reduce impulsive and aggressive behavior in young children and to increase their social competence. The supplement cannot be used by itself, as only a portion of the entire curriculum has been translated into…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior, Bilingual Education, Curriculum
Burke, Kay – 1992
Developed by teachers and staff developers and blending research with personal experience, this book offers more than 200 problem-solving strategies suitable for elementary, middle, and high school. It includes problem-solving and decision-making models, observation checklists, reflective logs, divided journals, social contracts, and graphic…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Brainstorming, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques
Janney, Rachel – 1989
The case study is designed to be used with the inservice training program developed by the Child-Centered Inservice Training and Technical Assistance Network (Syracuse, New York), which provides services to professional and paraprofessional personnel working with students with severe disabilities receiving their education in regular education…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Modification
Carnahan, Robert E.; And Others – 1981
Since the identification of stress and the relationship of individual stress responses to physical and mental health, medical and behavioral professionals have been training individuals in coping strategies. To investigate the possibility of teaching cognitive coping skills to a nonclinical population in an academic setting, 41 college students…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Modification, Biofeedback, Classroom Techniques
Mock, Karen R.; And Others – 1978
This study investigated whether the stimulant methylphenidate (Ritalin) would differentially affect performance on a test of cognitive style by hyperactive children. Subjects were 55 children, (ages 7 to 15) referred to the Learning Clinic at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada for hyperactivity and/or learning problems. A paired…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style
LeCompte, Margaret D.; Stewart, Ida Santos – 1979
This study examines the manner in which a group of kindergarten children viewed their kindergarten experience, how those views changed over time, and the extent to which those views were affected by background variables and preschool experiences. Eighty-three randomly selected urban kindergarten children were interviewed three times over a 7-month…
Descriptors: Content Analysis, Early Experience, Interviews, Kindergarten Children
Soto-Padin, Jose L. – 1968
Information on social behavior independence, and intelligence was gathered on 74 Head Start subjects (Anglo, Negro, and Mexican-American) aged 5 to 7 years, for the development of a scale to measure the level of independence in small children. The following hypotheses were tested: (1) Level of independence will differentiate ethnic groups. Ranking…
Descriptors: Achievement, Age Differences, Anglo Americans, Behavior Rating Scales
Harrison, Algea Othello – 1975
Aspects of problem-solving measured here are delay of gratification, field-dependence independence, and the relection-impulsivity dimension. The following hypotheses are proposed (1) Those subjects who score high on externality will not delay gratification as those who score low, but they will score lower on measures on field-independence than…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Youth, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1975
This study on self-confrontation in teacher training presents the students' repeated assessments of subject-object relations both during the experiment and six weeks and two years after the experiment. For the experiment the student teachers were confronted with their own video-recorded micro-lessons; identification experiences and self-evaluation…
Descriptors: Closed Circuit Television, Experiments, Individual Development, Microteaching
Pepper, Roger S.; Drexler, John A., Jr. – 1971
The first phase of the study was a 2 x 2 factorial design, with locus of control and instructional method (lecture and demonstration) as independent variables and honor point average (HPA) as the dependent variable. The second phase used correlational techniques to test the extent to which reading performance and traditional predictors of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, College Admission, College Programs
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Johnson, Stephen M. – Developmental Psychology, 1970
The purpose of this study was to examine self-reinforcement as an agent of behavior change with children who were deficient in desired attention behaviors. Twenty three first and second grade school children were taught through external reinforcement procedures to raise their level of attention on a simple discrimination task. Subjects in one…
Descriptors: Attention Span, Behavior Change, Behavior Standards, Behavioral Science Research
McKee, John M. – 1971
The case for behavior modification and some examples of its application in a variety of correctional settings are presented. The principles, techniques, and strategies utilized in programs designed to induce behavior change are largely determined by the model of causality to which one subscribes. A new approach to human behavior, which is the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Theories, Behavioral Science Research, Correctional Rehabilitation
Lepper, Mark R. – 1976
Four experiments focused on ways children could be trained to imitate others in imposing on themselves higher performance standards in game situations. The study also attempted to determine whether this internal achievement motivation behavior would be transferred by the children to situations such as learning in a classroom. The subjects were 122…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Games
Nelson, Jack L.; Hering, William S. – 1976
The intent of this paper is to assist social studies teachers in a thoughtful consideration of differing views on academic freedom. Practical information serves as background for forming a set of principles to guide decisions about teaching that involves controversial methods or content. Case studies illustrate several ways in which academic…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Censorship, Civil Rights, Educational Environment
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