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The study found that when middle school teachers praised students at least as often as they reprimanded them, class-wide on-task behavior improved by 60–70%. Students speaking out of turn, texting, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This study examined the effect of a videotape feedback intervention on the on-task behavior rate of a fourth-grade male in a self-contained ...

https://doi.org/10.5749/jamerindieduc.58.1-2.0084 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jamerindieduc.58.1-2.0084 Copy URL The purpose of this study was to examine ...

Elementary students spend nearly a third of their time off task, with distractions more likely to happen when children are working on their own or receiving whole-group instruction at their desks.

In the spring, fidget spinners were spinning through classrooms across the country, much to many teachers’ annoyance. They were the latest craze in a series of educational products to help students ...

Kindergartners and first graders with high maintenance temperaments showed less disruptive behavior and more active engagement and on-task behavior in the classroom, thanks to a program that helps ...

This month, state lawmakers proposed a “Student Behavior and School Climate Task Force." Arrests on school grounds are up, as are complaints of poor student behavior across the state. Delaware ...

One of the most consistent research findings of the past century suggests that there are two types of leader behaviors that are associated with effective leadership: Task-focused and ...

Ruscio, John, Dean Whitney, and Teresa M. Amabile. "How Do Motivation and Task Behaviors Affect Creativity? An Investigation in Three Domains." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 97-022, ...

We are hitting that time in January when many people who made New Year’s resolutions are discovering that it is hard to keep them. In another few weeks, most people who resolved to change their ...