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To Praise And Ignore Classroom Behaviors, Or To Praise And Punish Classroom Behaviors: That Is The Question, Luther M. Kindall
To Praise And Ignore Classroom Behaviors, Or To Praise And Punish Classroom Behaviors: That Is The Question, Luther M. Kindall
Doctoral Dissertations
The present study involved an experimental analysis of behavior in which the relative efficacy of two behavioral management strategies and their functional relationship to three dependent behaviors (appropriate, time-off-task, and disruptive) were examined. One strategy involved verbally praising appropriate behaviors while concomitantly ignoring disruptive behaviors. The other strategy involved verbally praising appropriate behaviors while concomitantly softly reprimanding disruptive behaviors. The study also incorporated two adjunct investigations. These involved examining the rates of acceleration and deceleration of appropriate and disruptive behaviors during treatment and reversal phases, and examining the teacher's reactions to the two strategies.
Systematic Human Relations Training And Resident Assistant Effectiveness, William Foster Hayes Jr.
Systematic Human Relations Training And Resident Assistant Effectiveness, William Foster Hayes Jr.
Masters Theses
Systematic human relations training has been shown to be an effective method for training both by lay and professional counselors. However, its usefulness for resident assistants in a residence hall setting has been sparsely documented.
The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to reaffirm existing evidence that a systematic human relations training program can make a group of resident assistants more effective helper and (2) to determine whether this change in effectiveness can be detected in the immediate environment for the resident assistant, that being his res residents and supervisor. In order to establish the first objective, resident assistants …
A Comprehensive Evaluation Of The Status Of The School Health Education Program In Bedford County, Tennessee, Michael Henry Hamrick
A Comprehensive Evaluation Of The Status Of The School Health Education Program In Bedford County, Tennessee, Michael Henry Hamrick
Doctoral Dissertations
The primary purpose of this study was to comprehensively evaluate the school health program of Bedford County, Tennessee. The program was studied from four perspectives: (1) school health instructional practices as determined by personal interviews with school principals; (2) the status of students' health knowledge, attitudes, and behavior as revealed by responses to standardized health behavior inventories (H, B. I.’s); (3) students ' health interests which were based on in formal class interviews and open-ended questionnaires; and (4) community perceptions of local health problems and the schools' contribution to the alleviation of these problems as indicated by responses to mailed …
Malcolm S. Knowles: His Contributions To The Theory And Practice Of Adult Education, John A. Henschke Edd
Malcolm S. Knowles: His Contributions To The Theory And Practice Of Adult Education, John A. Henschke Edd
IACE Hall of Fame Repository
The central question of this study was: What are the contributions in theory and practice Malcolm S. Knowles has made to the emerging field of adult education? The nature of the study as contemporary history of a living person's educational work, required the findings to be preliminary. The source of information used to answer the central question were: interviews with and questionnaire responses of contemporaries of Knowles and Malcolm S. Knowles who served as "prime information resource;" writing so Knowles and others; and documents and proceedings of a variety of organizations influenced by Knowles. Sections were included on the influence …