ERIC Number: EJ744296
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 13
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Middle School Students' Preferences for Anti-Bullying Interventions
Crothers, Laura M.; Kolbert, Jered B.; Barker, William F.
School Psychology International, v27 n4 p475-487 2006
In this study, 285 middle school students in the United States were surveyed to obtain their preferences regarding anti-bullying intervention strategies. Participants rated their preferences for 15 common anti-bullying intervention strategies involving teachers, students, and non-teaching staff. The strategies were generated based on a review of the literature. Overall, students rated seven of the 15 strategies as being "sometimes" or "almost always" helpful. Participants tended to prefer intervention strategies in which teachers effectively managed their classrooms, thereby deterring bullying, as well as providing direct assistance to students. The results were also suggestive of students desiring teachers to be proactive in helping them solve bully-victim conflicts. Students tended not to prefer strategies that involved non-teaching staff. (Contains 2 tables).
Descriptors: Bullying, Middle School Students, Intervention, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes, Peer Relationship, Teacher Effectiveness, Classroom Techniques, Teacher Role, Teacher Student Relationship, Violence
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Middle Schools
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Language: English
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