Latino male students lag far behind their Latina and European American counterparts in academic achievement (Yosso & Solorzano, 2006; Moll & Ruiz, 2002). One potential explanation for this discrepancy is the pressure to resist school behaviors (Fordham & Ogbu, 1986) that Latino male students may encounter from their same-sex and same-ethnic peer group members. The current dissertation research explores how messages of school resistance from peers impact Latino student achievement and how self-monitoring strategies (i.e., regulating one's behaviors; Snyder, 1974) may provide a coping strategy for this school resistance. In Study 1, Latino and European American male and female undergraduate students (N=95) completed peer school resistance items and reported GPAs. Analyses revealed that while male students reported higher perceptions of peer school resistance than female students, peer school resistance was only negatively correlated with achievement for Latino male students, and was unrelated to achievement for European American male students. In Study 2, Latino and European American male and female undergraduate students (N=413) completed self-monitoring items and reported SAT math scores. Analyses revealed that self-monitoring strategies were positively correlated with achievement for Latino male students, but were unrelated to achievement for Latina and European American male and female students. While Studies 1 and 2 used correlational methods, in Study 3, Latino high school students (N=174) who were randomly assigned to read messages of high or low peer school resistance completed self-monitoring items, thoughts about achievement items, and an achievement task (i.e., AIMS math items). Analyses revealed that high peer school resistance encouraged Latino male students to present more negative thoughts about achievement compared to low peer school resistance. Additionally, self-monitoring was positively related to achievement for Latino male students. Peer school resistance and self-monitoring had no effects on Latina students' thoughts or achievement. These findings demonstrate the negative impact of peer school resistance on Latino male student achievement, and the positive effects of self-monitoring on achievement for this cultural group. This research aims to offer new perspectives on the Latino male student achievement gap. Implications for future research are discussed.

The powerful technical capabilities of smartphones offer unprecedented opportunities for collecting dietary information. We have developed an enhanced smartphone application called MyEnergyBalance, which permits imaged-based self-monitoring of all foods consumed, and links to a convenient and user-friendly web-based dietary assessment tool. The primary objective of this pilot study was to determine if the MyEnergyBalance app (with use of images) in combination of the associated website improves dietary recall compared to diet analysis on the MyEnergyBalance website alone. We also generated preliminary data on the usability of the MyEnergyBalance iPhone app and website. This pilot study was a crossover study design of healthy, college students. Participants were randomly assigned to two groups. Both groups consumed their normal diet for the first day with one group recording their food intake with image functions of the MyEnergyBalance app, while the other group did not use the app. On the second day, all participants logged into the MyEnergyBalance website to record their food intake from the previous day; one group using the images from the app to assist in recalling what they ate, while the other group recalled what they ate from memory. The diet analysis results were compared to those obtained using the ASA24 website. The groups were then crossed over to the opposite vs no-image assisted recalls. Ten participants (seven females and three males) aged 20 to 22 years completed this study. The average BMI of all participants was 23.12 kg/m2 (ranging from 18.95 to 32.28 kg/m2). There was no statistically significant differences in the estimates of the energy intake between the MyEnergyBalance app and website compared to ASA24. The SUS mean score for the MyEnergyBalance app and website was 86 and 69.5, respectively. A strong, negative correlation was found between the system usability scale scores and the absolute differences in energy intake of the MyEnergyBalance app and ASA24. Although we were not able to demonstrate a significant benefit of the images from the iPhone app at improving food recall (perhaps due to the small study sample size), we were able to demonstrate a high usability score for the iPhone app, average usability score for the website, and a significant correlation between subjects' usability scores and relative accuracy of the subjects' food recall using the images from the iPhone app. A future study with a larger sample size will hopefully provide more information on the efficacy of image-based food recalls.

Cette étude porte sur les relations entretenues entre les modalités de mise en scène de soi au cours des interactions et le processus de construction identitaire individuel. Elle vise à comprendre pourquoi certains acteurs sont plus enclins que d’autres à conformer leurs attitudes aux individus et situations qu’ils sont amenés à rencontrer. Pour ce faire, nous avons eu recours à des méthodes qualitatives comme quantitatives. L’analyse de discours sur soi, fondée sur la lecture d’autobiographies et récits de vie, a permis de souligner la part active des individus dans le processus d’autoconstruction mis en œuvre. La diffusion d’un questionnaire permettant de mesurer leurs capacités à modeler leur face en fonction des injonctions externes (le monitorage de soi) ainsi que leurs particularités identitaires objectives (critères sociodémographiques) comme subjectives (conscience de soi et estime de soi) a révélé, grâce aux scores ainsi relevés et aux traitements de variables qui en ont découlé, toute l’importance des facteurs sociaux dans la définition des comportements individuels. Ainsi, pour comprendre les spécificités individuelles en termes de présentation de soi comme d’identité il importe tout autant d’éclairer les ancrages sociaux des acteurs que la façon dont ils les traitent, ceci afin d’approcher au plus près du phénomène de « subjectivation de l’objectif » qu’ils mettent en œuvre pour se singulariser. Fort de ce résultat, une troisième analyse porte plus particulièrement sur la période d’émergence de l’âge adulte (de 18 à 27 ans) qui est marquée par une rupture avec les injonctions normatives relatives à l’enfance et l’adolescence sans être parfaitement associée aux exigences de l’âge adulte. Cet âge de la vie, qui accorde plus de libertés aux individus en matière d’expérimentations (notamment dans les domaines des études, du travail et des relations), est associé aux scores les plus élevés en monitorage de soi. Ce résultat conduit à établir un parallèle entre les conditions de vie des individus et les modalités d’adaptation de leurs faces. Autrement dit, et pour ce qui concerne la portée générale de cette recherche doctorale, l’expérience de vie au quotidien constitue le facteur principal de la plus ou moins grande tendance des acteurs à adopter et présenter les attitudes qu’ils considèrent comme attendues d’eux. / This study focuses on relations between self-presentation modalities during interactions and individual identity construction process. It aims to understand why certain people are more disposed than other to conform their attitudes to individuals and situations they are led to meet. To do this, we resorted in both qualitative and quantitative methods. The analysis of self-speech based on reading autobiographies and narratives of life led to underline the active part of individuals in the autoconstruction process implemented. The broadcasting of a questionnaire to measure their abilities to shape their face in regard to external injunctions (self-monitoring) and their objective identity peculiarities (sociodemographic criteria) as subjective (self-consciousness and self-esteem) revealed, thanks to the scores thus raised and the treatment of variables that resulted, all the importance of social factors on the definition of individual behaviors. Then, to understand individual specificities in terms of self-presentation as identity, it is equally important to light social anchors of actors as much as how they treat them, in order to approach in closer of “subjectivation of objective” phenomenon they implement to singularize themselves. Considering this result, a third analysis focuses more particularly on the emerging adulthood period (from 18 to 27 years old), which is marked by a rupture with normative injunctions related to childhood and adolescence without being perfectly associated to adulthood requirements. This period of life, which allows more freedom to individuals in terms of experimentations (in particular in the fields of studies, work and relationships), is associated with the highest scores in self-monitoring. This result leads us to establish a parallel between living conditions of individuals and the modalities of adaptation of their faces. In other words, and about the general scope of this doctoral research, daily life experience constitutes the main factor of more or less big tendency of actors in adopting and present the attitudes they consider as expected from themselves.

Ensaio clínico, aleatorizado, prospectivo, sem cegamento, realizado em duas Unidades Básicas de Saúde, em uma cidade do interior do Estado de São Paulo, em 2011. O estudo teve como objetivo avaliar os efeitos de uma intervenção educativa sobre a automonitorização da glicemia capilar (AMGC) no domicílio, no controle metabólico. Foram constituídos dois grupos de usuários com diabetes mellitus, um grupo que participou do Programa de AMGC no domicílio e em cuidado usual (grupo controle) e um do Programa de AMGC no domicílio e de uma intervenção educativa (grupo intervenção). O estudo foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa e registrado na Clinical Trials.gov (NCT01475422). A população do estudo foi de 342 usuários com DM. O recrutamento foi realizado por meio de convocações por agentes comunitários de saúde, correspondência via correio e contato telefônico. A amostra foi constituída por 91 usuários com DM que aceitaram participar do estudo. A alocação dos grupos foi do tipo aleatorização simples com o uso de um software estatístico. Os grupos controle e intervenção participaram de duas avaliações, uma basal e uma ao final do estudo. A basal consistiu na avaliação das variáveis sociodemográficas, das clínicas, dos hábitos de vida, das relacionadas ao Programa de AMGC, do controle metabólico e dos exames laboratoriais. A avaliação final consistiu na avaliação das variáveis de controle metabólico e exames laboratoriais. Para o grupo intervenção, foi oferecida uma intervenção educativa estruturada, em grupo, semanal, com 60 minutos de duração cada encontro, por 12 semanas. A ferramenta educativa utilizada no grupo intervenção foram os Mapas de Conversação. Para a análise, foram utilizados os testes não paramétricos Qui quadrado de Pearson e o Exato de Fischer para comparação entre proporções, o Teste Qui-quadrado de Tendência Linear para avaliação de tendências proporcionais de aumento ou redução entre as variáveis ordinais. Em todas as análises, foi adotado o nível de significância estatística de 5% (p <= 0,05). Os resultados mostraram que, ao comparar os grupos, as características foram semelhantes. A maioria era do sexo feminino, eram casados, com idade média de 62,1 anos e escolaridade de quatro a sete anos de estudo. Houve melhora nos valores de índice de massa corporal, circunferência abdominal, pressão arterial diastólica, glicemia plasmática de jejum, colesterol HDL, colesterol LDL e triglicerídeos, no grupo intervenção. O grupo controle apresentou melhora dos valores de pressão arterial sistólica e diastólica, glicemia plasmática de jejum, colesterol HDL e colesterol LDL. Houve aumento dos valores de hemoglobina glicada nos grupos intervenção e controle. Conclui-se que não houve melhora do controle metabólico, estatisticamente significante. No entanto, é possível afirmar que a intervenção educativa para AMGC no domicílio apresentou significância clínica, repercutindo de modo peculiar na saúde dos participantes / Clinical, randomized and prospective trial, without blinding, in two Basic Health Units in an inner city of the state of São Paulo. The study aims at evaluating the effects of an educative intervention over the self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) at home for metabolic control. Two groups of participants were formed: one group participated in the SMBG program at home and with usual care (control group), while the other group participated in the SMBG at home and with educative intervention (intervention group). The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee e registered in the website ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01475422). The study had a population of 342 participants with Diabetes Mellitus. The recruiting was performed by convening of community health workers either by mail or phone call. The sample was constituted by 91 users with Diabetes Mellitus that accepted to participate in the study. The groups\' allocation was performed by simple randomization with the use of a statistical tool. The control and intervention groups participated in two evaluations: a basal evaluation and another at the end of the study. The first evaluation consists on the assessment of socio demographic variables, as well as variables related to the clinics, lifestyle, SMBG program, metabolic control and laboratorial exams. The second evaluation consists on assessing variables related to both metabolic control and laboratorial exams. For the intervention group, it was offered a structured educative intervention, in-group, weekly, with 60 minutes each meeting for 12 weeks. The educative tool used by the intervention group was the Conversation Map. For the analysis, two non-parametric tests were used. Pearson\'s chi square and Fisher\'s exact tests were used for comparing proportions. On the other hand, the chi-square test of linear trend was used to evaluate the proportional trends of either increase or decrease between the ordinal variables. For all the analysis, a significance statistical level of 5% (p <= 0.05) was adopted. Similar characteristics could be observed when comparing the results of both groups. Most part of participants were females, married, with an average age of 62.1 years old and schooling from four to seven years of study. In the intervention group, an improvement was observed in the following measures: body mass index, abdominal circumference, diastolic blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglycerides. The control group showed improvement in measures of systolic and diastolic blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, HDL cholesterol and LDL cholesterol. Moreover, an increase on the values of glycated hemoglobin was observed in both groups. It was observed that there was not statistical significant improvement of the metabolic control. However, it was possible to confirm that an educative intervention for SMBG at home presented a clinical significance, which in turn, resonates in a special way on the health of participants

Estudo retrospectivo, realizado em quatro Unidades Básicas de Saúde, em uma cidade do interior do Estado de São Paulo, em 2009. O objetivo foi avaliar a glicemia capilar e o controle metabólico das pessoas com diabetes mellitus (DM) cadastradas no Programa de Automonitorização da Glicemia Capilar no domicílio, em quatro Unidades Básicas de Saúde do Distrito Oeste da Secretaria Municipal de Saúde de Ribeirão Preto-SP. A amostra foi constituída por 97 usuários com DM, no período de novembro de 2005 a dezembro de 2008. Para a coleta de dados, foram utilizados dois formulários contendo as variáveis demográficas, clínicas, relacionadas ao Programa e ao controle metabólico. Os dados foram obtidos mediante consulta às planilhas de perfil glicêmico e ao prontuário de saúde. Para a análise, utilizaram-se estatística descritiva e os testes de Shapiro-Wilk, teste de Levene, teste de Wilcoxon, teste de Mann-Whitney e teste de Kruskal-Wallis. Os resultados mostraram que a maioria dos sujeitos era do sexo feminino (73,2%), com um predomínio da faixa etária de 60 a 69 anos. O tempo de participação no Programa variou de 5 a 42 meses, mediana de 33 meses. A média do número de medidas de glicemia capilar no domicílio ao longo de um mês, no início do Programa, foi de 34,08 medidas e após, no mínimo, seis meses teve discreta redução para 33,61 medidas. O percentual de medidas realizado foi de aproximadamente 65,15% no início e 64,89% após seis meses de participação no programa de AMGC. No que diz respeito à glicemia capilar no domicílio, observou-se que houve uma melhora nas glicemias de jejum, depois do almoço e durante a madrugada (p<0,05). Em relação ao número de hipoglicemias, nota-se uma discreta melhora na média após, no mínimo, seis meses de participação no Programa (0,49 / ± 1,09). A porcentagem de hipoglicemia no início da participação foi de 2,28% episódios (± 5,26%) e, no mínimo, seis meses de participação no Programa foi de 1,68% episódio (± 3,80%). No início da participação no Programa, os episódios de hiperglicemia foram de 36,65% episódios (± 27,88%), com mediana de 32,22% e, no mínimo, seis meses de participação no Programa foi de 30,80% episódios (± 29,15%), com mediana de 23,08%. Ao investigar o número de medidas de glicemia capilar no domicílio em relação ao sexo, obteve-se que, no início da participação no Programa, as mulheres realizavam uma média de 36,27 ± 17,53 medidas de glicemia capilar ao longo de um mês, enquanto os homens 28,12 ± 14,60, portanto, estatisticamente significativo (p = 0,029). Após, no mínimo, seis meses de participação no Programa, os homens realizaram um número maior de medidas ao longo de um mês (35,61 / ± 22,43). Por outro lado, constatou-se redução de medidas de glicemia capilar das mulheres (28,15 / ± 14,85), quando comparado o início, e, no mínimo, seis meses de participação no Programa, não sendo estatisticamente significativo (p = 0,141). Recomenda-se ao Programa de Automonitorização da Glicemia Capilar no domicílio um Programa de Educação em diabetes mellitus visando à obtenção de resultados efetivos quanto ao controle glicêmico e metabólico dos usuários com DM. / Retrospective study, made in four Primary Health Care Units, in a city in the inland of the State of São Paulo, in 2009. The aim was to evaluate the Capillary Glicemy and the metabolic control of people with diabetes mellitus (DM) accessed in the Program of Selfmonitoring of Capillary Glicemy at home, in four Primary Health Care Units of the West District of the Secretaria Municipal da Saúde de Ribeirão Preto-SP (Municipal Health Secretariat of Ribeirão Preto - SP). The sample was composed of 97 users with DM, from November 2005 to December 2008. For the data collection, two forms with demographical and clinical variables, the ones related to the Program and the ones about the metabolic control variables were used. The data were obtained through consultation to the spread sheets of glicemic profile and to the health records. For the analysis, descriptive statistics and the Shapiro-Wilk, Levene, Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used. The results showed that most subjects were female (73,2%), with predominance of 60 to 69-year-old age group. The time of participation in the Programme varied from 5 to 42 months, average of 33 months. The average of the number of capillary glicemy measures at home throughout a month, in the beginning of the Programme, was of 34,08 measures and, at least, six months later, it had a slight reduction to 33,61 measures. The percentile of obtained measures was approximately 65,15% in the beginning and 64,89% after six months of participation in the AMGC programme. With regard to the capillary glicemy at home, an improvement in the fast, after lunch and during the dawn glicemies was observed (p<0,05). In relation to the number of hypoglycemias, a fair improvement in the average number after, at least, six months of participation in the Programme was noted (0,49 / ± 1,09). The percentage of hypoglycemia in the beginning of the participation was 2,28% episodes (± 5,26%) and, at least, six months of participation in the Programme was 1,68% episode (± 3,80%). In the commencement of participation in the Programme, the hyperglycemia episodes were of 36,65% episodes (± 27,88%) , with an average of 32,22% and, with at least, six months of participation in the Programme was of 30,80% episodes (± 29,15%), with an average of 23,08%. When investigating the number of measures of capillary glicemy at home in relation to sex, it was obtained that, in the beginning of the Programme, the women made an average of 36,27 ± 17,53 measures of capillary glicemy throughout a month, while men 28,12 ± 14,60, therefore, statistically significant (p = 0,029). After, at least, six months of participation in the Programme, the men made a bigger number of measures throughout a month (35,61 / ± 22,43). On the other hand, a reduction of measures of capillary glicemy of the women was found (28,15 / ± 14,85), when compared to the beginning, and, at least, six months of participation in the Programme, not being statistically significant (p = 0,141). The Programme of Education on diabetes mellitus is recommended to the Programme of Self-monitoring of Capillary Glicemy at home aiming at the obtainment of effective results about the glicemic and metabolic control of users with DM.

The dissertation aims to examine the potential for diabetes self-management education (DSME) technology interventions to be used by underserved adults in routine clinical practice and issues regarding its use that may be unique to this population. In Chapter One, the problems of providing sufficient access and appropriate DSME to underserved adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is introduced and their significance is described. In Chapter Two, a systematic review of the literature and meta-analysis synthesizes data from 3,257 subjects that participated in 13 randomized controlled trials that examined the effect of health information technology (HIT) DSME interventions on glycemic control in medically underserved adults. Chapter Three presents the general and technology-related characteristics of the urban, underserved sample of adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus from eight federally qualified health centers who participated in the Mobile Diabetes Detective (MoDD) randomized controlled trial. It also describes the technology training required to support use and engagement during the MoDD intervention period. In Chapter Four, the potential for broad dissemination of a novel HIT DSME intervention, MoDD, into everyday clinical practice is examined using the RE-AIM framework (Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance). In Chapter Five the findings of these studies are summarized and the overarching conclusions are presented, which include the strengths, limitations and implications for practice, policy and future.

Ensaio clínico, aleatorizado, prospectivo, sem cegamento, realizado em duas Unidades Básicas de Saúde, em uma cidade do interior do Estado de São Paulo, em 2011. O estudo teve como objetivo avaliar os efeitos de uma intervenção educativa sobre a automonitorização da glicemia capilar (AMGC) no domicílio, no controle metabólico. Foram constituídos dois grupos de usuários com diabetes mellitus, um grupo que participou do Programa de AMGC no domicílio e em cuidado usual (grupo controle) e um do Programa de AMGC no domicílio e de uma intervenção educativa (grupo intervenção). O estudo foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa e registrado na Clinical Trials.gov (NCT01475422). A população do estudo foi de 342 usuários com DM. O recrutamento foi realizado por meio de convocações por agentes comunitários de saúde, correspondência via correio e contato telefônico. A amostra foi constituída por 91 usuários com DM que aceitaram participar do estudo. A alocação dos grupos foi do tipo aleatorização simples com o uso de um software estatístico. Os grupos controle e intervenção participaram de duas avaliações, uma basal e uma ao final do estudo. A basal consistiu na avaliação das variáveis sociodemográficas, das clínicas, dos hábitos de vida, das relacionadas ao Programa de AMGC, do controle metabólico e dos exames laboratoriais. A avaliação final consistiu na avaliação das variáveis de controle metabólico e exames laboratoriais. Para o grupo intervenção, foi oferecida uma intervenção educativa estruturada, em grupo, semanal, com 60 minutos de duração cada encontro, por 12 semanas. A ferramenta educativa utilizada no grupo intervenção foram os Mapas de Conversação. Para a análise, foram utilizados os testes não paramétricos Qui quadrado de Pearson e o Exato de Fischer para comparação entre proporções, o Teste Qui-quadrado de Tendência Linear para avaliação de tendências proporcionais de aumento ou redução entre as variáveis ordinais. Em todas as análises, foi adotado o nível de significância estatística de 5% (p <= 0,05). Os resultados mostraram que, ao comparar os grupos, as características foram semelhantes. A maioria era do sexo feminino, eram casados, com idade média de 62,1 anos e escolaridade de quatro a sete anos de estudo. Houve melhora nos valores de índice de massa corporal, circunferência abdominal, pressão arterial diastólica, glicemia plasmática de jejum, colesterol HDL, colesterol LDL e triglicerídeos, no grupo intervenção. O grupo controle apresentou melhora dos valores de pressão arterial sistólica e diastólica, glicemia plasmática de jejum, colesterol HDL e colesterol LDL. Houve aumento dos valores de hemoglobina glicada nos grupos intervenção e controle. Conclui-se que não houve melhora do controle metabólico, estatisticamente significante. No entanto, é possível afirmar que a intervenção educativa para AMGC no domicílio apresentou significância clínica, repercutindo de modo peculiar na saúde dos participantes / Clinical, randomized and prospective trial, without blinding, in two Basic Health Units in an inner city of the state of São Paulo. The study aims at evaluating the effects of an educative intervention over the self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) at home for metabolic control. Two groups of participants were formed: one group participated in the SMBG program at home and with usual care (control group), while the other group participated in the SMBG at home and with educative intervention (intervention group). The study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee e registered in the website ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01475422). The study had a population of 342 participants with Diabetes Mellitus. The recruiting was performed by convening of community health workers either by mail or phone call. The sample was constituted by 91 users with Diabetes Mellitus that accepted to participate in the study. The groups\' allocation was performed by simple randomization with the use of a statistical tool. The control and intervention groups participated in two evaluations: a basal evaluation and another at the end of the study. The first evaluation consists on the assessment of socio demographic variables, as well as variables related to the clinics, lifestyle, SMBG program, metabolic control and laboratorial exams. The second evaluation consists on assessing variables related to both metabolic control and laboratorial exams. For the intervention group, it was offered a structured educative intervention, in-group, weekly, with 60 minutes each meeting for 12 weeks. The educative tool used by the intervention group was the Conversation Map. For the analysis, two non-parametric tests were used. Pearson\'s chi square and Fisher\'s exact tests were used for comparing proportions. On the other hand, the chi-square test of linear trend was used to evaluate the proportional trends of either increase or decrease between the ordinal variables. For all the analysis, a significance statistical level of 5% (p <= 0.05) was adopted. Similar characteristics could be observed when comparing the results of both groups. Most part of participants were females, married, with an average age of 62.1 years old and schooling from four to seven years of study. In the intervention group, an improvement was observed in the following measures: body mass index, abdominal circumference, diastolic blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triglycerides. The control group showed improvement in measures of systolic and diastolic blood pressure, fasting plasma glucose, HDL cholesterol and LDL cholesterol. Moreover, an increase on the values of glycated hemoglobin was observed in both groups. It was observed that there was not statistical significant improvement of the metabolic control. However, it was possible to confirm that an educative intervention for SMBG at home presented a clinical significance, which in turn, resonates in a special way on the health of participants

The following study compared the use of the MotivAider as a self-monitoring tactile device between an elementary age student with ADHD and his teacher to increase ontask behavior. The design of this study was an alternating treatments design, which helped to determine the more effective condition. The results of this study indicated that the use of the MotivAider by the student was more effective than the use of the device by the teacher.

Thesis (MPH.) --University of Limpopo, 2009 / Please refer to the document

Self-regulation (SR) and executive functioning (EF) are important factors for successful student outcomes. Research suggests that executive skills facilitate the process of behavioral self-regulation. Well-developed SR and EF skills make learning more likely. Proper SR has the ability to improve attention levels and EF includes the use of working memory, both of which are essential components of the information processing system that students use continuously. One type of SR, referred to as self-management, involves a cycle of observing and recording one’s own behavior, then evaluating one’s self-assessments against those of an external observer. Self-management interventions have previously been found to reduce students’ inappropriate and off-task behaviors as well as increase classroom preparedness, on-task behavior, and academic performance. This study investigated the impact of a self-management intervention on a middle school student’s classroom preparation behaviors and his EF skills. Results suggest the participant’s overall classroom preparation behaviors were enhanced through his participation in the intervention. A few significant changes were also found in the participant’s pre- and post-intervention EF scores.