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Understanding Each Other - Developing Positive Relationships With Challenging Students, Ann M. Van Buskirk Ph.D., Kimberly Oliver Robinson Ph.D.

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Everyone has encountered someone who is hard to like and may not "fit" well with our own personality. As parents, we do not choose the temperament of our children, and as educators we often do not choose the students in our classroom. Studies have suggested that for every 10 students, 2-3 will be a "perfect match" for the teacher, 6-7 may be a “good fit” and often at least one student will present significant challenges for her or his teacher. Many of the challenges faced by parents and educators in working with students are exacerbated by lack of understanding and …

The A-B-Cs Of Behavior: May The Environment Be With You, Denise C. Duke

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This presentation will provide participants with knowledge about behavior (both positive and problem) and how environmental events and people can influence it. This is valuable information that can be used in the home, school and community. It will include a description and discussion of the 3-term contingency (Antecedent-Behavior-Consequence) that can be observed and manipulated in virtually every behavior of interest. Discussions will include setting events (slow triggers) as well as immediate triggers for problem behavior. This conversation will also include insights into factors that increase or decrease the value of a particular result of a behavior. Additionally, operational definitions for …

Class Dojo: An Awesome Progress Monitoring Tool!, Patricia J. Wolf

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

ClassDojo is a FREE classroom management platform for teachers, parents and students. Class Dojo helps teachers to encourage specific student behaviors through real-time teacher-to-student feedback through the web and mobile devices. The software automatically generates behavior reports that can be shared with parents and students. Behaviors tracked by the app can be customized. Participants in this session will learn basic skills in usage of ClassDojo and the advantages to using this effective progress monitoring tool. Class DOJO can also be customized for IEP progress monitoring or Multi-tiered PBIS Support. Learn how to use class dojo as a school wide management …

Pbis And Rti : Best Practices And Practical Applications Using Technology, Maggie Kjer Phd, Pearson

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

This presentation will focus on the practical application of PBIS and RTI for Behavior within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) for K-12. The common challenges expressed by districts in establishing these systems will be reviewed, as will the requisite components and processes for a complete PBIS rollout. The presenters will discuss these challenges, and how districts have utilized available online tools to help overcome them, and have more successful processes and better outcomes for their students. Creating a positive climate more conducive to learning and more preventative of problem behaviors, establishing a systematic approach to discipline, identification of students …

Collaborating With Families: Supporting And Including Caregivers In Early Intervention, Chris R. Watts, Kimberly Ann Resua, Jennifer Stapel-Wax

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

An essential element of early intervention services is the inclusion of families throughout the intervention process. Caregiver-mediated intervention consists of caregiver coaching and collaboration, supporting interactions between the caregiver and child, as well as supporting caregiver learning and competence (Friedman & Woods, 2012). In order to implement caregiver-mediated intervention, early intervention providers must hone their abilities to collaborate with and support caregivers to deliver high-quality services, empower caregivers, and build competence (Friedman & Woods, 2012). It is important for interventionists to build consensus with caregivers on the child’s short term and long term goals, as well as opportunities for learning …

Excellence For All: A Community Viable Coaching Initiative Throughout Georgia, Jennifer Stapel-Wax, Tabitha Nelson

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

As professionals in the area of child development, we strive to ensure that all children who are in need of early developmental support receive the highest quality evidence-based intervention in their natural environments, regardless of their location. This can be achieved through collaborative coaching partnerships between specialized coaches, early childhood professionals and caregivers, empowering each team member with expert knowledge and practical skills to successfully support all children in obtaining their fullest developmental potential. Though each team member brings a specific level of knowledge and experience to the collaborative partnership, there are important processes that must occur to ensure all …

Building District-Level Capacity For The Sustainability Of Pbis, Michele F. Flowers

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Are you struggling with how to make PBIS work in your District? Are you frustrated and or concerned about staff buy-in? Are you worried that your staff will not know how to support the framework and deal with student misbehavior? Are you pondering on how you can overcome the barriers? Then this session is for you. There are several key factors that enhance PBIS sustainability in schools. Among the most critical identified include use of data, teaming and staff buy-in, administrator support, and the availability of ongoing resources. Administrator support is perceived as an important key feature because it serves …

Collaborative And Proactive Solutions: Successfully Treating Oppositional Behavior In Children, Moshe R. Manheim

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Collaborative Proactive Solutions, from Ross Greene's groundbreaking book "The Explosive Child," provides a practical, realistic problem solving methodology for children with oppositional and behavioral disorders. Moshe Manheim, a psychotherapist with over 30 years of experience working with kids and families is certified by Dr. Greene in the CPS methodology. The presentation will discuss the application of CPS for typically developing as well children with special needs.

The CPS methodology relies on careful communication with the child to define the problem; the use of empathy to align with and engage the child; a review of the child’s and parent’s (or teacher’s) …

Early Identification And Screening Of Infants And Toddlers With Autism And Related Disorders, Naima D. Bond, Erica Chapman

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Early Identification and Screening of Infants and Toddlers with Autism and Related Disorders

Parents and childcare providers are in a unique position to increase early identification and screening of infants and toddlers. Caregivers and early childhood educators are usually the first to observe developmental differences in children. Because early intervention can have dramatic impacts on later outcomes, it is imperative to increase the awareness of early red flags and the ability to identify developmental concerns in infants and toddlers before they reach preschool age. Research in the field of Autism and related disorders recommends that early intervention is key to …

Teaching Social Skills In The Community To Individuals With Autism, Lisa Cymbor, Chiara Cunningham, Dana Zavatkay

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Often times social skills are missed as a significant clinical need for children with high functioning autism when they are successful academically. Social skill deficits impact an individual’s ability to make meaningful friendships, to participate fully in a fully inclusive setting (e.g., public school), and to participate in community activities with their peers and family (e.g., sports events, restaurants, baseball/soccer games, etc.). This presentation will describe a model for providing social skills instruction to children with autism while fully included in a typical summer day camp program. This program was developed in partnership between the Marcus Autism Center and a …

Conducting Functional Behavior Assessments And Functional Analyses In Schools, Andrea Zawoyski, Dana T. Zavatkay

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

According to IDEIA (2004), students who engage in problem behavior that interferes with their ability to attain a meaningful education must receive a functional behavior assessment (FBA). Although methods used in FBAs were derived from research with individuals who have autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other developmental disabilities, FBAs yield important information to guide treatment of problem behavior for students regardless of their disability status. The purpose of the FBA is to identify reasons why problem behavior occurs (i.e., the function of problem behavior) so that an effective treatment plan can be developed. The exact methods that should comprise an …

Function Based Interventions, Pbis, And North Metro Gnets Student Successes, Cassandra A. Holifield Dr, Kimberly Thorpe, Jessica Schuster

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Functional Behavioral Assessments are generally considered to be a problem-solving process for addressing student problem behavior. FBAs rely on a variety of techniques and strategies to identify the purposes of specific behavior that help IEP teams select interventions that directly address the problem behavior. A functional behavioral assessment looks beyond student behavior itself. The focus when conducting a functional behavioral assessment is to identify significant, pupil-specific social/emotional, affective, cognitive, and/or environmental factors associated with the occurrence (and non-occurrence) of specific behaviors. The broader perspective of an FBA offers a better understanding of the function or purpose behind student behavior. Behavior …

Operational, Now What? Sustaining High Quality Methods Of Pbis Implementation., Dr. Oatanisha R. Dawson, April Kilroy, Amy Yacobacci

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

Since 2011 Glynn County Schools’ commitment to SW-PBIS has been a collaborative effort between school leaders, teachers and stakeholders. Within each phase, challenges to PBIS implementation were met that could have potentially compromised its effectiveness. During the readiness stage, teacher buy-in and stakeholder support had to be tackled head-on. Creativity, faculty and staff motivation, and parental involvement were a concern as each school emerged into full implementation. Now, after acquiring and maintaining operational status, Glynn County’s school leaders merge trend data with survey results to prioritize target areas. In this session, school leaders will highlight strategies to reduce office discipline …

Improving Student Outcomes: A Comprehensive Program For At-Risk Students, Heather P. Bradley

Georgia Association for Positive Behavior Support Conference

In 2014 our school system piloted a program to help ninth students who were at-risk for failure to graduate. The results were far better than we ever could have imagined.

The program involves several steps. First, we identified at-risk students based on behavior referrals, attendance, number of nurses visits, and poor grades. Once these students were identified, they were given the opportunity to participate in a program that involved social skills classes (two days a week), Anger Replacement Training (one day per week), and Check-In, Check-Out and study skills/organizational training (two days per week). Students were able to set short-term …

Georgia International Conference On Information Literacy Program [2015], Georgia International Conference On Information Lieracy

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Inter-Rater Reliability And Validity Of The Australian Football League's Kicking And Handball Tests, Ashley Cripps, Luke S. Hopper, Christopher Joyce

Health Sciences Papers and Journal Articles

Talent identification tests used at the Australian Football League’s National Draft Combine assess the capacities of athletes to compete at a professional level. Tests created for the National Draft Combine are also commonly used for talent identification and athlete development in development pathways. The skills tests created by the Australian Football League required players to either handball (striking the ball with the hand) or kick to a series of 6 randomly generated targets. Assessors subjectively rate each skill execution giving a 0-5 score for each disposal. This study aimed to investigate the inter-rater reliability and validity of the skills tests …

Pathway Efficiency And Relative Age In The Australian Football League Talent Pathway, Ashley Cripps, Luke S. Hopper, Christopher Joyce, James Veale

Health Sciences Papers and Journal Articles

Sporting bodies invest substantial resources into the identification and development of talented junior athletes. However, low retention of junior athletes into senior competition has been reported. One mechanism affecting retention may be selections biased by relative age. This study examined the pathway involvement and birth distribution of athletes (n=2519) selected into the Australian Football League Talent Pathway, over six seasons. Only half of athletes selected into professional teams had any involvement in the talent pathway. Birth distributions at every pathway stage were biased towards relatively older athletes, with relatively older athletes more likely to be de-selected as the pathway progressed. …

Does Motor Competence Affect Self-Perceptions Differently For Adolescent Males And Females?, Elizabeth Rose, Dawne Larkin, Helen Parker, Beth Hands

Health Sciences Papers and Journal Articles

Little is understood about the impact of level of motor competence on self-perceptions in adolescence, in particular how this may differentially affect girls and boys. A sample of 1,568 14-year-old participants (766 girls and 802 boys) were grouped into four motor competence levels (very low to high) based on the McCarron Assessment of Neuromuscular Development (MAND). Self-perceptions were assessed using the Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents. Boys had higher self-perceptions of global self-worth, athletic competence, and physical appearance, whereas girls had higher scores for close friendships and behavioral conduct. Main effects in the predicted direction were found for motor competence for …

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Graduate Catalog, Georgia Southern University

Graduate Catalogs

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A Model For Measuring The Contribution Of Form To Perception Of Biological Sex In Point-Light Actors, Michael Mintz

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

People are able to judge the sex of actors represented in point-light displays. Much of the previous literature has focused on the contribution of motion information to this judgment, or has focused specifically on information gathered from the shoulders and hips. The purpose of the current study is to model how form information, based upon the distance between the dots representing a point-light actor’s key joints, the shoulder, hip, elbow, knee, wrist, and ankle points, contributes to the perception of biological sex. In a pilot study, 6 naïve observers responded to 63 computer generated stimuli that ranged from extremely female …

Injunctive And Descriptive Norms Effect On Physical Activity, Monica Lynn Ehn

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Nearly half of adults in the United States do not meet the recommended guidelines for both aerobic and strengthening activities despite the benefits of regular physical activity (National Center for Health Statistics, 2014; US Department of Health and Human Services, 2008). The purpose of the current study was to test whether normative feedback (i.e., descriptive and descriptive plus injunctive norms) affects levels of physical activity. Participants wore a Fitbit Zip pedometer to record exercise behavior and received normative feedback messages sent to their mobile phones. Participants were 52 undergraduate students with a mean age of 18.66 (SD = 0.83); 27 …

Gender Differences In Social Support During Injury Rehabilitation, Chelsey Ann Bruns

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Athletic injury can be a stress-inducing event that could have negative consequences on the psychological health of the athlete (Anderson & Williams, 1988; Gould, Udry, Bridges, & Beck, 1997). Injuries not only challenge the athlete physically, but also mentally challenge their ability to cope and overcome. A growing amount of research has indicated social support as a key factor in the rehabilitation process for an injured athlete (Yang, Peek, Lowe, Heiden, & Foster, 2010). Athletic injury causes an emotional disruption, and social support could influence the athlete’s reaction to the injury and his or her ability to cope with rehabilitation …

A Graduate Recital In Voice, Branden D. S. Haralson

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Branden D. S. Haralson, baritone, presented his graduate voice recital on Friday, April 3, 2015, at 6:00 p.m., in Davis Hall of the Gallagher-Bluedorn Performing Arts Center on the University of Northern Iowa campus. The recital was presented in collaboration with pianist Dr. Robin Guy, and included works by Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, and Duparc. This abstract discusses musical and historical features of the works performed.

Perceived Relational Evaluation : Biological, Psychological, And Physical Health Correlates, Emily Christina Banitt

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Humans have a fundamental need to belong, and being rejected or devalued elicits strong emotional reactions such as stress and anxiety (Leary, 2001). Low perceived relational evaluation (PRE), as a type of rejection, occurs when one person in a relationship believes his or her significant other does not regard his or her bond with the other person as valuable, close, or important (Leary, 2001). The goal of the research was to examine the interrelations among PRE, cortisol (biological stress), relationship quality, and physical and psychological within dating couples. Undergraduate female students (N = 109) who were involved in dating relationships …

The Relationship Between Transformational Leadership Behavior, Adult Attachment And God Attachment, Deboarah Foulkes

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Transformational leaders are charged with the undertaking of not only accomplishing tasks, but also engaging followers in a manner that will achieve these tasks. An interaction with the follower is needed to achieve this, and the quality of that interaction may be impacted by environmental stressors. Past studies suggest that adult attachment orientation will determine the quality of interpersonal interactions. Additionally, past studies also suggest that an attachment to God influences the quality of interpersonal interactions and how one copes with stress. A correspondence model of God attachment posits that a person’s attachment to God will be similar to their …

Pedagogical Reasoning Of Pre-Service Teachers: Juggling Priorities And Managing Resources, Jennifer Lynn Rasmussen

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

The purpose of this study was to examine the cognitive and motivational factors related to the development of self-regulated teaching. These factors were defined by Shulman (1986; 2006) as theoretical, practical and moral knowledge for pedagogical reasoning. This study occurred in a clinical, instructional setting specifically designed to provide pre-service teachers with the environmental factors necessary to support the development of self-regulated instructional decision making. These factors included specific modeling of teacher thinking, regular formative feedback, instructional autonomy and strategic reflection. An instructional sequence based on Schunk and Zimmerman’s (1998; 2007) Model of the Development of Self-Regulatory Skill was applied …

An Investigation Of Adversity In Christian Living And Proposal For Discipleship Response, Christopher Payne

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

With numerous ministries teaching a cultural gospel comprised of prosperity and pleasure, people have the impression that a saving faith limits personal hardships. Jesus taught his disciples the truth about hardship and how to struggle well and the Church is called to do likewise. This thesis will present five key biblical truths to equip Christians for growing their faith through personal struggle. Moreover, the project will give leaders a guide for discipling hurting church members. The author will research current and historical discipleship materials and models, examine current teachings on faith and struggle, explore relevant biblical teachings, and survey fifty …

The Relationship Between Autonomy, Partner Understanding, And Intimacy In A Sample Of Heterosexual Marital Relationships, Timothy Williams

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The current study examined three research questions. First, do Personality, Partner Understanding, and Autonomy correlate with Intimacy? Second, does self-reported Autonomy correlate with self-reported Intimacy experienced in the marriage after controlling for Personality? Third, Does Partner Understanding correlate with the Partner Intimacy reported in the marriage after controlling for Personality? The study revealed Neuroticism, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Autonomy to be significantly correlated with Intimacy. Results also revealed Autonomy to be a significant predictor of Intimacy after controlling for Personality and Partner Personality. Examination of Standardized Beta Coefficients revealed Autonomy to be the strongest predictor of Intimacy among variables included in …

High Fedelity Simulation: Its Impact On Self-Confidence And Satisfaction In Learning Among Sophomore And Senior Students, Kim Simoneaux Hurst

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of selected aspects of high fidelity simulation among students enrolled in a baccalaureate nursing program and the influence of these perceptions on students’ satisfaction and self-confidence in learning. In order to collect the necessary data, the Satisfaction and Self-confidence in Learning and Simulation Design Scale instruments were used. These instruments were completed by both sophomore and senior baccalaureate nursing students following simulation lab experiences. The majority of students surveyed was female of the Millennial Generation and averaged a GPA of 3.14. There were approximately equal numbers of sophomore and senior …