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Impact of School-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention Supports for African American Males in American Public Schools

Research has shown that African American males are performing poorly in American public schools and are disciplined at a higher rate than other ethnic and gender groups. Positive Behavior Intervention Supports (PBIS) has a long history of success with individual students and more recently in school-wide settings. School-wide PBIS offers schools the ability to tailor their rules, rewards, and consequences to the specific needs and culture of a school. This descriptive and quantitative study sought to determine if implementation with fidelity of SWPBIS positively correlated to reduced disciplinary measures. The object of this study was to determine in what ways disciplinary rates for African American males differ in American public schools that identify as using SWPBIS with fidelity as compared to American public schools that do not implement SWPBIS with fidelity. Disciplinary rates examined included ISS, OSS single incident, and OSS multiple incidents. Descriptive findings indicated that schools that implement SWPBIS show a lower rate of ISS and OSS incidents for African American males. The quantitative findings did not yield a statistically significance between schools with fidelity of implementation of SWPBIS and schools without fidelity of implementation of SWPBIS.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc699957
Date12 1900
CreatorsLuttrull, Pamelia D.
ContributorsHuffman, Jane Bumpers, 1950-, Bullock, Lyndal M., Ezzani, Miriam, Otto, Douglas
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatviii, 65 pages : illustrations (some color), Text
CoverageUnited States
RightsPublic, Luttrull, Pamelia D., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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