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4-H Summer Camp Program For Youth-At-Risk, Carol A. Daniels
4-H Summer Camp Program For Youth-At-Risk, Carol A. Daniels
All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023
To grow up healthy, young people need support, love, and encouragement from caring, principled adults. They need homes, schools, congregations, and communities that are accepting, affirming, and safe (Roehlkepartain , 1997). Youth and Families with Promise (YFP), a mentoring program for youth-at-risk sponsored by Utah State University Extension, is one such community endeavor. The YFP program is offered as a community service with the goal of increasing social, emotional, family, and educational assets of youth between the ages of 8-14. The program is designed to improve the youth's chances of success and to increase their ability to become and remain …
Using A Classwide Peer-Assisted Self-Management Program To Improve Classroom Behavior Of Secondary-Age At-Risk Students, Katherine J. Mitchem
Using A Classwide Peer-Assisted Self-Management Program To Improve Classroom Behavior Of Secondary-Age At-Risk Students, Katherine J. Mitchem
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
Classroom management is still one of the top-rated concerns of general educators and public school administrators, even though there exist a number of empirically supported interventions that improve classroom behavior. The current research, consisting of two studies, examined the effectiveness, feasibility, and acceptability of one of these interventions, a classwide peer-assisted, self-management program. Using a multiple baseline design across classes, the first study investigated the effects of the Peer-Assisted Learning (PAL) Game on appropriate classroom behavior of three classes of seventh-grade language arts students and of 10 target at-risk students. The PAL Game consisted of teacher instruction in self-management and …