Decreasing disruptive behavior
Overview
- Influence: Decreasing disruptive behavior
- Domain: Classroom
- Sub-Domain: Classroom management
- Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Potential to considerably accelerate
- Influence Definition: Disruptions by students often aimed to exert a negative influence on the greater classroom environment. Generally caused by a greater factor than just acting out. Can stem from boredom, lack of attention, the task being too challenging, the student not feeling heard, etc.
Evidence
- Number of meta-analyses: 2
- Number of studies: 140
- Number of students: 5,940
- Number of effects: 315
- Weighted mean effect size: 0.82
- Robustness index: 3
Meta-Analyses
| Journal Title | Author | First Author's Country | Article Name | Year Published | Variable | Number of Studies | Number of Students | Number of Effects | Effect Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journal of Special Education | Skiba, Casey, & Center | USA | Nonaversive procedures in the treatment of classroom behavior problems. | 1985 | Classroom disruptive behavior | 41 | 883 | 26 | 0.93 |
| School Psychology Review | Stage & Quiroz | USA | A meta-analysis of interventions to decrease disruptive classroom behavior in public education settings | 1997 | Decreasing disruptive behavior | 99 | 5,057 | 289 | 0.78 |
| TOTAL/AVERAGE | 140 | 5,940 | 315 | 0.86 | |||||