Date of Award
1-1-1992
Document Type
Dissertation - NSU Access Only
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Department
Child and Youth Care Administration
Advisor
June Delano
Keywords
Time-on-task, Grade 7, High Risk Students, Behavior Modification, Self-Evaluation, Adolescents, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Intervention, Junior High School, Middle School, Counseling Services, Educational Change, School Role, Learning Disabilities, Self-Control, Attention Control, Social Attitudes, Off-Task Behavior, Motivation.
Abstract
This practicum was designed primarily to increase the on-task behavior of the seventh and eighth grade special needs students in the classroom. Counseling intervention strategies were implemented to help the students learn self-management, motivational, decision-making and social skills. The teachers, principal and parents worked together in helping to facilitate the student's behavior change. The writer developed a student interview, a student behavior questionnaire, a student self-monitoring report and a teacher observation check-list. The counseling intervention program results were positive. Analysis of the data indicated that ten of the twenty student participants increased their time-on-task in the classroom; ten of the twenty special needs students increased their social skills and ten of the twenty special needs students' parents saw an improvement in on-task-time in the classroom, as indicated by homework and report card grades.