First-year Self-Report Outcomes of a Character Education Experiment with Elementary Students

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dc.contributor.advisorGottfredson, Gary Den_US
dc.contributor.authorHarak, Elise Tourisen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-02-01T20:23:41Z
dc.date.available2007-02-01T20:23:41Z
dc.date.issued2006-12-10en_US
dc.description.abstractInstruction in social competence in elementary grades may provide a means of preventing later problem behaviors. Previous studies indicate that school-based social competency curricula sometimes lead to decreases in problem behaviors. This randomized, controlled trial measures the efficacy of the Second Step program in twelve schools. The assessment of efficacy is based on 11 scales in a pre- and post- test, student self-report survey. These scales measure: (a) outcomes directly targeted by the curriculum, (b) school climate, and (c) other related outcomes. Results for students in six intervention schools are compared to students in six randomly equivalent control schools. After the first of three years of intervention, there is a statistically significant main effect for treatment on Engagement in Learning, an interaction of treatment with individual characteristics on Sense of School as a Community and Self-Restraint, and positive but not significant effect sizes on Self-Restraint and Hostile Attribution Bias.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/4211
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducation, Social Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducation, Educational Psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledViolence preventionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledprogram evaluationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledsocial competenceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledSecond Stepen_US
dc.titleFirst-year Self-Report Outcomes of a Character Education Experiment with Elementary Studentsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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