Department of Special Education and Communication Disorders
Document Type
Learning Object
Date of this Version
12-2013
Citation
Strategy brief
Building and Sustaining Student Engagement series (December 2013)
Barkley Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Abstract
Conclusion
Individual student behavior monitoring is useful at all grade levels as part of a behavior changes strategy, starting early in a child’s education and continuing throughout high school. Through monitoring and teaching students to set behavior goals, schools can expect improved behavior, and behavior monitoring is an essential element of efforts to change individual student behavior. Its use has strong research support when part of a more comprehensive plan to monitor and intervene to change individual behaviors.
School personnel can also use long term behavior monitoring as a way to identify student who are at risk for dropping out or other negative outcomes and to intervene earlier before problems escalate. Others have advocated for school wide behavior screening to occur on a regular bases throughout elementary school years.
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