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A Collaborative Approach To Address Student Behavior And Academic Achievement Across Systems, Beverly Ngozi Okereke
A Collaborative Approach To Address Student Behavior And Academic Achievement Across Systems, Beverly Ngozi Okereke
Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations
Academic achievement and in-classroom behaviors are two significant child outcomes that affect student success in school. According to Systems Theory, in order to truly understand the factors that affect these outcomes for children, one must look to the major systems that encapsulate the child (including their school and home environments). This project is a meta-analytic review that examined the effectiveness of measures representing each system in predicting child achievement and behavior: School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports (SWPBS) for the school as a system, level of parent involvement (high versus low) for the home system, and student motivation (intrinsic versus extrinsic) for …
The Relationship Between Online Classroom Incivility And Sense Of Community Of Online Undergraduate Students, John Spohn
The Relationship Between Online Classroom Incivility And Sense Of Community Of Online Undergraduate Students, John Spohn
Doctoral Dissertations and Projects
Incivility is not just bullying and physically threatening students. Uncivil behaviors include more mild forms of classroom disruption, including plagiarizing, posting terse responses, and continually asking for extensions for assignments. A student’s motivation for learning can be hampered, when subjected to incivility causing classroom disruptions. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between student incivility in the online learning environment, as scored by the Incivility in Online Learning Environments instrument, and the student’s sense of community, as measured by the Community Classroom scale. This quantitative study seeks to extend Tuckman’s model (1965) of the Theory of Group …
Evaluation Of A Middle School Positive Behavior Intervention Support Program, Tracie Michelle Grogan
Evaluation Of A Middle School Positive Behavior Intervention Support Program, Tracie Michelle Grogan
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Evaluation of a Middle School Positive Behavior Intervention Support Program
by Tracie Grogan
EdS, Mercer University
MA, Fort Valley State University BS, University of Georgia
Doctoral Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Education
Curriculum Instruction and Assessment
Walden University July 2016
School leaders at a middle school in a rural school district in Georgia were looking for ways to reduce poor student behavior, which has a negative impact on school climate. Judicious Discipline, a program based on Kohlberg's 6 stages of moral development, Bandura's social learning theory, and the 3 constitutional rights …