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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Daniels, Brian; Volpe, Robert J.; Briesch, Amy M.; Fabiano, Gregory A. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2014
This study examines the factor structure, reliability and validity of a novel school-based screening instrument for academic and disruptive behavior problems commonly experienced by children and adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Participants included 39 classroom teachers from two public school districts in the…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Behavior Problems, Intervention, Evidence
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David Ferguson, Tyler; Briesch, Amy M.; Volpe, Robert J.; Daniels, Brian – School Psychology Quarterly, 2012
Although direct observation is one of the most frequently used assessment methods by school psychologists, studies have shown that the number of observations needed to obtain a dependable estimate of student behavior may be impractical. Because direct observation may be used to inform important decisions about students, it is crucial that data be…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Observation, Time Perspective, Decision Making
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Briesch, Amy M.; Chafouleas, Sandra M. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
In the late 1980s, J. W. Fantuzzo and colleagues conducted a review of the self-management literature in order to better define the characteristics of this class of interventions. Results indicated that many interventions were minimally student-directed despite the title "self-managed" and that student-managed interventions demonstrated…
Descriptors: Self Management, Intervention, Student Behavior, Behavior Modification
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Chafouleas, Sandra M.; Briesch, Amy M.; Riley-Tillman, T. Chris; McCoach, D. Betsy – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
The purpose of this study was to develop and provide an initial examination of a self-report measure of intervention usage called the Usage Rating Profile-Intervention (URP-I). From an initial pool of 55 items, results of exploratory factor analysis and reliability estimates supported a measure containing 35 items and four factors as relevant…
Descriptors: Intervention, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis, Self Evaluation (Individuals)
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Riley-Tillman, T. Chris; Chafouleas, Sandra M.; Christ, Theodore; Briesch, Amy M.; LeBel, Teresa J. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
Direct behavior ratings (DBRs) combine aspects of both systematic direct observation and behavior rating scales to create a feasible method for social behavior assessment within a problem-solving model. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether accuracy of DBRs was affected depending on the behaviors selected to be rated using a DBR.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Social Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales
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Schlientz, Mine D.; Riley-Tillman, T. Chris; Briesch, Amy M.; Chafouleas, Sandra M.; Walcott, Christy M. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2009
To date, extant research has not established how rater training affects the accuracy of data yielded from Direct Behavior Rating (DBR) methods. The purpose of the current study was to examine whether providing users of DBR methods with a training session that utilized practice and performance feedback would increase rating accuracy. It was…
Descriptors: Training, Student Behavior, Behavior Rating Scales, Feedback (Response)