Growing perceptions that students exploit information technology to evade academic assignments prompted surveys of student attitudes about unethical uses of information technology (e.g., cutting and pasting excerpts from Web sites without attribution) at two institutions. Students at a private church-affiliated college rated cheating behaviors as more offensive than their counterparts at a regional campus of a major research university. However, ordinal rankings of academically dishonest...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Attitudes, Personality Traits, Research Universities, Ethics, Cheating,...
Case study learning was integrated into a course designed to improve students' potential for academic success and increase student retention. Case studies related to self-regulation of behavior, motivation, and cognition for academic tasks were used to prompt students' critical thinking and facilitate deep learning of self-regulation topics, linking course theory with practice. This article explores the effectiveness of asynchronous computer-mediated collaborative case study learning as...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Holding Power, Undergraduate Students, Case Studies, Thinking Skills, Critical...
Discrete-trial teaching is an instructional method commonly used to teach social and academic skills to children with an autism spectrum disorder. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the indirect effects of discrete-trial teaching on 3 students' stereotypy. Instructions, feedback, modeling, and rehearsal were used to improve 3 teaching aides' implementation of discrete-trial teaching in a private school for children with autism. Improvements in accurate teaching were accompanied by...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Teaching Methods, Private Schools, Autism, Check Lists, Pervasive Developmental...
A multiple baseline design across participants was used to determine how teacher greetings affected on-task behavior of 3 middle school students with problem behaviors. Momentary time sampling was used to measure on-task behavior during the first 10 min of class. Teacher greetings produced increases in students' on-task behavior from a mean of 45% in baseline to a mean of 72% during the intervention phase. Teacher greetings represent an antecedent manipulation that can easily be implemented in...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Time on Task, Teacher Student Relationship, Middle School Students, Middle School...
Recently, nonmaternal center-based child care has been linked to problem behavior in young children (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 2003). In response, a comprehensive program to promote prosocial skills was evaluated in a classroom of 16 children between the ages of 3 years and 5 years. Classroom observations were conducted during evocative situations to determine the likelihood of problem behavior (noncompliance, vocal or motor disruptions, aggression) and preschool...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Comprehensive Programs, Child Health, Young Children, Play, Behavior Modification,...
A bicycle helmet program was evaluated in three middle schools using a multiple baseline across schools design. Two of the three schools had histories of enforcement of helmet use. During baseline many students riding their bikes to and from school did not wear their helmets or wore them incorrectly. A program that consisted of peer data collection of correct helmet use, education on how to wear a bicycle helmet correctly, peer goal setting, public posting of the percentage of correct helmet...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Behavior Modification, Behavior Change, Middle School Students, Physical Activities,...
From birth children are labeled, motivated and sometimes stifled by words. In the home, community ore school, it is obvious that children cannot escape words and their influence. This article describes the processes and the effects of words on children's journey to adulthood and underscores the importance of educators' understanding of positive messages.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foster Care, Labeling (of Persons), Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Affective...
This paper reports on a study that compared the practice of corporal punishment in ten basic schools in the Greater Accra District in Ghana. Five of the ten schools were designated as inclusive project schools (IPS) and the other five as non-inclusive project schools (NIS). The primary purpose was to find out if the inclusive project schools were more effective in eradicating corporal punishment from their schools than were the non-project schools. One hundred teachers responded to a six-item...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals), Inclusive Schools, Punishment, Discipline,...
Social networking is one of the latest trends to evolve out of the growing online community. Social networking sites gather data submitted by members that is then stored as user profiles. The data or profiles can then be shared among the members of the site. Membership can be free or fee-based. A typical social networking site provides members with a Web page or blog where they can post text, photos, and other content for visitors to view. Social networking sites have been expanding rapidly...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Elementary Secondary Education, Profiles, Social Networks, Web Sites, Computer...
Plagiarism is an ugly word. Copying someone else's work and attempting to claim credit for one's self is an act that involves a number of ethical failings--theft, laziness, coveting, and lying among others. Many educators blame the Internet for what they perceive as the rise of plagiarism. Although the Internet certainly enables more efficient plagiarism, blaming it for widespread copying is akin to blaming a bank robbery on the presence of cash in the building. This article presents several...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Plagiarism, Internet, Prevention, Ethics, Student Behavior, Teaching Methods, Higher...
Previous research has indicated that most students copy and paste notes from Internet sources in a mindless way; they typically paste large sections of text into their notes and then later can recall little of what they have stored. However, supplying students with a note-taking framework that restricts the amount of text that may be pasted can prompt them to engage in more selective pasting, and this seems to result in greater learning. But the extant research has not specifically addressed...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Notetaking, Web Sites, High Achievement, Academically Gifted, Cognitive Style, Study...
This study explores how a project-based approach, based on gifted education pedagogy, was implemented in a public school program where the majority of students were from low-income families. The 2 first-grade teachers in this study were able to change their teaching practices to include more strategies commonly found in gifted programs such as brainstorming, creating surveys, and collecting data. The teachers also indicated a greater comfort level with a child-centered and project-based...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academically Gifted, Group Activities, Educational Change, Low Income Groups,...
The topic of perfectionism is bound to surface when discussing the social and emotional development of gifted children and adolescents. The author has observed gifted and talented fourth graders who have exhibited perfectionism in a myriad of unhealthy ways. She was able to document and categorize the manifestations of perfectionism. In this article, she presents case studies that represent the different types of unhealthy manifestations of perfectionism in these children. The case studies are...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Academically Gifted, Grade 4, Case Studies, Emotional Development, Psychological...
This study examined the extent to which treatment integrity of 4 special education teachers was affected by goal setting, performance feedback regarding student or teacher performance, and a meeting cancellation contingency. Teachers were trained to implement function-based treatment packages to address student problem behavior. In one condition, teachers set a goal for student behavior and received daily written feedback about student performance. In a second condition, teachers received daily...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Goal Orientation, Student Behavior, Intervention, Special Education, Special...
The first half of this article reviews literature on some of the unmet needs of gay and lesbian students in schools and highlights educators' attitudes and beliefs toward individuals with differing sexual identities. Although the majority of literature reviewed in this article does not portray educators as being supportive of gay and lesbian needs, the author does not dismiss those teachers, educators, administrators, Gay Straight Alliance (GSA) groups, and allies across the country who educate...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Minority Groups, Homosexuality, Sexual Identity, Educational Environment, Student...
This study was designed to measure affective, behavioral, and cognitive variables in a sample of 3159 first-year students, and to compare these variables by the type of residence building in which the student lived. Students living in suite-style buildings reported a greater sense of belonging, and higher activity levels than students living in dormitory-style buildings. Furthermore, sense of belonging was predicted by high extraversion and low conscientiousness. This suggests that introverted,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Dormitories, College Freshmen, College Housing, On Campus Students, Student Surveys,...
We conducted an experimental analysis of children's relative problem-completion rates across two workstations under conditions of equal (Experiment 1) and unequal (Experiment 2) problem difficulty. Results were described using the generalized matching equation and were evaluated for degree of schedule versus stimulus control. Experiment 1 involved a symmetrical choice arrangement in which the children could earn points exchangeable for rewards contingent on correct math problem completion....
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Assignments, Workstations, Rewards,...
This paper argues the importance of examining the collective dimension of masculinities in the early school years through a description of a study into children's (young males') peer group relations. Specifically, the paper attends to the significance of the peer group in shaping behaviour, and in particular exaggerated "masculine" behaviours, and illuminates the inadequacies of conventional teacher practices that individualise and pathologise group behaviours. The nature and dynamics...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Peer Groups, Males, Masculinity, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Peer...
Over the past thirty years, numerous studies confirmed that new teachers do not have the requisite knowledge to understand the complex interrelationships among management, behavior, and academic tasks. An important missing piece in the literature is how the concerns of experienced teachers differ from those cited by beginning teachers. Based on previous research, this study compares beginning and experienced teachers' concerns with respect to managing classroom behavior, dealing with time...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Time Management, Teacher Attitudes, Beginning...
In the context of pressure to increase retention rates a wide variety of alternative educational programs has developed in Australia over the past few decades. The purpose of this paper is to provide a map of the alternative education landscape for marginalised youth in New South Wales, in order to reduce confusion and enable communication between programs, practitioners and scholars, locally and internationally. This paper focuses on two dimensions to do with the program's purpose in relation...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Nontraditional Education, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Youth, School...
The urban mission of two-year community colleges with open enrollment policies is to train, retain and graduate students from all walks of life, including the poor, displaced, under-employed, and unemployed. This mission can be undermined if management decisions are not informed by detailed enrollment data, especially on how the timing of student decisions affects their academic success. This paper explores enrollment flow at a large urban, community-based technical college to recommend and...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Urban Areas, College Applicants, Student Behavior, Technical Institutes, Community...
This article reports findings from a study of the perceptions of parents about the experience of long bus rides on their children. Twenty-six parents, whose homes were located on the longest bus route in a rural Midwestern school district, provided interviews regarding the experiences of a total of 37 students. In the analysis of the interview data, three themes emerged: (1) atmosphere on the bus, (2) length of the bus ride, and (3) safety. Notably parents expressed concerns about the fact that...
Topics: ERIC Archive, School Buses, Rural Schools, Parent Attitudes, Interviews, Student Experience, Child...
Bullying in rural school settings is clearly a problem and some of our students are suffering as a result. Bullying is defined in this study of 819 rural middle and high school students as when a student is exposed repeatedly to negative actions by one or more other students. Students responded to a questionnaire about how often and where bullying occurred and who students told. Analysis of the data reported frequencies, and the Pearson chi-square was used to test for significance (p less than...
Topics: ERIC Archive, High School Students, Rural Schools, Bullying, Middle School Students, Antisocial...
Research indicates that there is a correlation between exposure of violence in the media and in entertainment and student behavior. Many students have been victims themselves of violent, verbal, and physical assaults. Classroom teachers and educators continue to address this issue locally in classrooms and in their schools. Amid the various questions that emerge from the need to address violence and equity issues in society, three central questions stand out: What is Peace Education? What is...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Preservice Teacher Education, Multicultural Education, Student Behavior, Teacher...
There is a need for educational reform of zero tolerance policies in school disciplinary management procedures. Zero tolerance policies are rigid mandates of predetermined consequences for specific student misconduct. Common sense and fairness are not necessarily served by the application of inflexible disciplinary rules that do not address the circumstances surrounding particular situations. A disciplinary decision can have long-term implications for a student's future career, as well as to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Discipline Policy, Educational Change, Zero Tolerance Policy, Student Behavior,...
Canadian universities are struggling to address seemingly contradictory challenges pertaining to undergraduate education: high demand and underfunding. A number of instruments, including the National Survey of Student Engagement (National Survey of Student Engagement, n.d.), have led to greater priority being placed on the undergraduate experience. Yet, strategies to ensure student satisfaction with their education, through initiatives such as small classes and personal contact with faculty,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Undergraduate Study, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries,...
The disproportionate representation of minority students in special education programs has been a persistent problem in American education. Being labeled as disabled often has a negative impact on social relationships and self-concept and long-term outcomes such as graduation and employment. Disproportionate identification of students from certain ethnic and racial groups begins in general education when teachers view a child's poor academic performance and/or behavior as a problem inherent to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Racial Bias, Disproportionate Representation, Student Placement, Identification,...
Authors reviewed the theoretical history of the "motivation" construct, and its utilization within past/current health behavior research. Textbooks and review articles functioned as sources for the theoretical history review. Research published within a 10-year period (1993-2002) in four health promotion journals (all with impact factors greater than or equal to 1.0) comprised the systematically reviewed data. Only empirical studies containing the term "motivation" in the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Health Promotion, Textbooks, Health Behavior, Student Motivation, Student Behavior,...
The author documents pervasive racial disparities in the health of American children and analyzes how and how much those disparities contribute to racial gaps in school readiness. She explores a broad sample of health problems common to U.S. children, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, asthma, and lead poisoning, as well as maternal health problems and health-related behaviors that affect children's behavioral and cognitive readiness for school. If a health problem is to affect...
Topics: ERIC Archive, African American Children, Behavior Problems, School Readiness, Early Childhood...
HIV-related behaviors, self-reported using Web-delivered or paper-pencil modes, were collected from two convenience samples of college students at a major university in the southeastern U.S. To enhance the equivalence of the comparisons, a subset pool of participants from each group, proportionally matched on key demographic variables including age, gender, and race, was randomly selected to be included in the analysis. Multiple-regression analyses showed similar self-reporting patterns on HIV...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Drinking, Sexuality, Acquired...
The current need for physical activity has extended beyond the limited time given to students in physical education classes. In order for students to receive appropriate levels of physical activity (i.e., at least 60 minutes per day), it is necessary for physical educators to incorporate physical activity opportunities outside the traditional class setting. The purpose of this article is to discuss several strategies that can be used to help bridge the gap between physical education in school...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Physical Education, Recreational Activities, Physical Activities, Incentives,...
The behaviors of many college students have changed over the past 10 years. These behavioral changes include a rise in poor social skills, such as inappropriate actions and comments in social situations. It has become increasingly important for educators to incorporate proper behaviors and professional etiquette in their curricula for physical education teacher education (PETE) students, especially when preparing teacher candidates to teach students with disabilities. This article examines the...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Physical Education, Student Behavior, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities,...
Negative stress in physical education can reduce a student's enjoyment of physical activity and destroy the individual's desire to be a lifelong mover. The purpose of this article is to explore the concept of stress in physical education. Stress is defined as a substantial imbalance between the demand of a situation and the individual's capability to respond, when the consequences are important to the individual. The stress process consists of four stages: (1) a demand (which can be physical,...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Physical Education, Physical Activities, Depression (Psychology), Student Evaluation,...
This article is a follow-up to a larger study of 23 interns, drawn from a sample of approximately 100 elementary interns, and their year-long development. Teacher vulnerability was a dominating theme of that study, and several sources were identified and explored that mostly paralleled those discussed in the wider literature including the external forms connected to the bureaucratic nature of teachers' work, the busyness of teaching, administrator evaluation, and the rise of standardized...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Mentors, Student Behavior, Administrator Evaluation, Standardized Tests, Teacher...
This paper is intended to present a review of the literature on the socialization and teacher expectations of Jamaican boys, as well as an examination of how teachers are being prepared to address the gender issues that are implied. It is also hoped that this article can contribute to the search for possible policies and pedagogical strategies that might be useful in challenging boys to reconsider the effects of hardcore masculinity in their lives and especially at school. The paper will show...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Socialization, Student Behavior, Foreign Countries, Gender Issues, Males,...
Character education in American schools is experiencing a revival. Although the teaching of character waned from the 1960s through the 1980s, the rise in violent crime and a general feeling by the public that American children suffered a crisis in morals led to a resurgence of character education programs across the nation, with most states either mandating or supporting such education. Today, many schools are engaged in formal programs such as "Character Counts!" or the Heartwood...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Involvement, Ethics, Values Education, Citizenship Education, Moral Values,...
This case study contributes to a small but growing literature on African American educational leadership. Previous studies have shown that, building on a history of segregated schools for Black students staffed by Black teachers in which strong school-family-community relations were essential for the survival of their schools, Black principals understand the predominantly disadvantaged African American students and families they serve and communicate well with them. The danger of this analysis...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Community Leaders, African American Students, Urban Schools, Student Behavior,...
Educators in all disciplines are increasingly concerned about the disruptive behaviors often displayed by students in the college classroom. In order for physical education teacher education (PETE) candidates to learn effectively and become good educators, such behaviors must be addressed and modified. To do so, educators must first understand the origins of these behaviors and develop strategies to deal with them. Some strategies that will help to promote professional behaviors by PETE...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Ethics, Student Behavior, Behavior...
With the inclusion of students identified as at-risk or with serious behavior problems in general physical education, behavior management has become ever more challenging. A positive behavior-management plan that fosters behavior changes through support and intervention, rather than punishment used to control students, can prove effective. Physical educators need to identify, observe, and analyze the student behaviors they wish to prevent or develop; design and implement a plan, customized to...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Physical Education, Behavior Problems, Inclusive Schools, Student Behavior,...
The likelihood that students will make a successful transition to the college environment is often a function of their readiness--the degree to which previous educational and personal experiences have equipped them for the expectations and demands they will encounter in college. A key problem is that the current measures of college preparation are limited in their ability to communicate to students and to educators the true range of what students must do to be fully ready to succeed in college....
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Preparation, Academic Achievement, College Environment, School Readiness,...
The aims of this study were to characterize the spontaneous physical activity of children during school recess, and to estimate variation in physical activity associated with gender and age. A MTI actigraph (Model 7164) was used with a sample of 140 boys and 131 girls, 6 to 10 years of age. MTI counts were converted to METs using a regression equation developed for children. The number and average duration of periods of activity by intensity were calculated for each child during a 30 minute...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Intervals, Physical Activities, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Physical...
First Year Experience (FYE) programs have been implemented in universities and colleges to address the emergent needs of matriculating students. It is well documented that many students are not prepared for the rigors of postsecondary education and FYE programs are designed to supplement the necessary academic and life skills. These academic and life skills range from knowing the location of the library to seeking out appropriate personnel when personal issues arise. Evaluating programs...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Freshmen, Academic Persistence, Longitudinal Studies, Student Needs,...
This study examined the priority health behaviors among Chinese youth by administering a questionnaire to 1,917 undergraduates enrolled in three universities in China. The response rate was 89.7%. This survey found that 75.2% of the participants tried cigarettes at least once during their lifetime, over half had their first cigarette and alcoholic drink before age 15, and over 80% had their first cigarette and alcoholic drink by age 18. During the month preceding the survey, 50.6% consumed five...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Undergraduate Students, Health Education, Physical Activities, Health Behavior,...
By the time March comes around, students are anticipating spring break and warmer weather--not to mention the rapidly approaching end of the school year. To keep teachers sane during this March Madness, the author provides tips on how they can cope with the bad behaviors of their students. She also suggests that a school-wide behavior policy, such as the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports national program, can serve to keep expectations consistent as students work with different...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Student Behavior, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes, Educational...
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the melanoma and sun protection knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of college students attending a large Midwestern university. Further, gender and skin type (fair, medium, or dark) were examined as potential intervening variables. Results indicate that the college students studied had low knowledge levels related to melanoma and sun prevention behaviors. Their attitudes toward sun protection were in the medium range, being neither strongly positive nor...
Topics: ERIC Archive, College Students, Cancer, Health Behavior, Knowledge Level, Student Attitudes,...
Many commentators have indicated that our nation is in a crisis of character. This study examined the relationship between cheating and lying behaviors and constructs previous research has shown to be associated with health behaviors. Participants in the study were 700 students in grades 6-12 from a single southern school district. The questionnaire included items dealing with health and character issues, self-esteem, educational expectations/life goals, self-efficacy scale, and religious...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Cheating, Secondary School Students, Self Efficacy, Deception, Personality Traits,...
American children continue to be less physically active than they were a decade ago. Web-based programs (e-Learning), requiring minimal teacher training and expertise, could contribute to improvements in children's health-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of the e-Learning module Healthy Hearts 4 Kids (HH) on the physical activity knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of 233 fifth grade children. A 2x3 repeated measures design was...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Physical Activities, Learning Modules, Grade 5, Web Based Instruction, Physical...
Sexuality is considered by most religious traditions to represent general temptation, procreation or a way to strengthen emotional bonds. The purpose of this study was to determine if frequency of religious attendance and perceived degree of religiosity could distinguish between those students who have and have not participated in selected sexual behaviors. Data were collected from a convenience sample of undergraduate students (n = 408) at a southeastern university. Students voluntarily...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Undergraduate Students, Sexuality, Religious Factors, Student Behavior, At Risk...
According to this author, the single greatest threat to the public trust in higher education is alcohol. Specifically, it is high-risk drinking among college students and the lack of engagement by those who can help solve the problem. He contends that, for too many students, college is no longer about preparing for leadership roles and productive service to society, business and science, but rather about taking a vacation from the real world. Legions of binge-drinking graduates are leaving...
Topics: ERIC Archive, Higher Education, College Students, Academic Achievement, Alcohol Abuse, Drinking,...
More students are arriving at college today with emotional issues than just five years ago, and there has been dramatic growth in the severity of the problems. These students are creating a need for significant expansions in college counseling services. In this article, the author identifies the social forces underlying these issues and discusses how the new generation of emotionally troubled students strains college counseling services.
Topics: ERIC Archive, Counseling Services, School Counseling, Emotional Problems, Behavior Problems, Higher...