Author: Brian Toledo MartinsPublisher:
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Category : Behavior modification
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
This study investigated the effects of the Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Program on student discipline in a TK-8 elementary school. Discipline data used for the analysis consisted of office referrals, detentions, and suspensions. Office referral data were collected for two different groups of third-grade students, which included 73 from 2015-2016 and 89 from 2017-2018. Detentions and suspensions were collected from two different groups of eighth-grade students, 86 from 2015-2016 and 89 from 2017-2018. Independent samples t-tests were used to determine if there are significant differences in the number of referrals, detentions, and suspensions between students during the 2015-2016 school year, when the PBIS Behavioral Intervention Supports (PBIS) program was in year one of implementation and students during the 2017-2018 school year when the PBIS program was in year three of implementation. The results of the study suggest that there is no significant difference in the mean number of office referrals, detentions, and suspensions between year one of PBIS implementation during the 2015-2016 academic school year and year three of PBIS implementation during the 2017-2018 academic school year.