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Norwalk, Kate E.; Dawes, Molly; Hamm, Jill V.; Farmer, Thomas W. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2021
The purpose of the present study was to assess the effects of a professional development program on sixth grade teachers' use of social dynamics management (SDM) practices. SDM practices represent teachers' active attempts to incorporate classroom social dynamics into everyday instructional and behavior management strategies. Sixth grade teachers…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Peer Relationship, Classroom Techniques, Social Isolation
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Motoca, Luci M.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Hamm, Jill V.; Byun, Soo-yong; Lee, David L.; Brooks, Debbie S.; Rucker, Nkecha; Moohr, Michele M. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2014
Directed consultation is presented as a professional development framework to guide and support teachers in the implementation of evidence-based interventions that involve contextual and process-oriented approaches designed to be incorporated into daily classroom management. This approach consists of four components: pre-intervention observations…
Descriptors: Consultation Programs, Faculty Development, Classroom Techniques, Intervention
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Hamm, Jill V.; Lambert, Kerrylin; Little, Todd D.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Harris, Mallory V. – Elementary School Journal, 2021
This study examines the ties of sixth-grade teachers to their interdisciplinary team colleagues and explores the dimensions of their efficacy beliefs for their own and their colleagues' teaching. Teachers (n = 238; 83% female, 88% White) from 26 middle schools completed surveys about the relational aspects of ties to team colleagues, the…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Interdisciplinary Approach, Grade 6, Middle School Teachers
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Hoffman, Abigail S.; Hamm, Jill V.; Lambert, Kerrylin; Meece, Judith – Journal of Experimental Education, 2020
This study focused on academic and social correlates of collaborator preferences of African American and White sixth-graders in mathematics classrooms in fall and spring. Students' appraisals of emotional risk were examined as a moderator. Nomination procedures identified collaborator preferences, group affiliations, and social centrality;…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Group Membership, Preferences, African American Students
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Faircloth, Beverly S.; Hamm, Jill V. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011
Dynamic features of peer network experiences (membership fluidity and network interconnectedness) were examined for their role in African American and White early adolescents' sense of belonging in mathematics classrooms. Because these dynamic features are naturally present in adolescents' peer group affiliations, attention to them provides a more…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Peer Groups, Mathematics Instruction
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Chen, Chin-Chih; Hamm, Jill V.; Farmer, Thomas W.; Lambert, Kerrylin; Mehtaji, Meera – Remedial and Special Education, 2015
This study examined subtypes and stability/change in peer victimization involvement among students with exceptionalities. Data were collected over spring of fifth grade and fall/spring of sixth grade with 1,861 students in 36 rural schools as part of a cluster randomized trial of a context-based intervention (Supporting Early Adolescent Learning…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Peer Relationship, Bullying, Victims
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Farmer, Thomas W.; Hamm, Jill V.; Petrin, Robert A.; Robertson, Dylan; Murray, Robert A.; Meece, Judith L.; Brooks, Debbie Sprott – Exceptionality, 2010
This study involved a pilot examination of the impact of the Supporting Early Adolescent Learning and Social Strengths (SEALS) model on the 6th grade academic and social context following the transition to middle school. Two middle schools from a high poverty Appalachian school district were randomly assigned to the intervention and control…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Intervention, At Risk Students, Early Adolescents
Hamm, Jill V. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine teachers' attunement to student peer group affiliations as a factor in students' experiences of the school social-affect context. First, the author and her colleagues hypothesize that teacher attunement will be greater in intervention versus control schools following initial SEALS training. Second, they…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Intervention, Bullying, Student Adjustment