The purpose of the study was to determine if special education children classified as emotionally handicapped riding school buses for longer time periods exhibit more behavior disorder characteristics than children classified as emotionally handicapped exhibit riding buses for shorter time periods. The study was restricted to one midwestern metropolitan school district's seventy-five elementary and middle school children classified as emotionally handicapped under Indiana Rule S-1 definition.Data was collected from school bus drivers, school aides, and school administrators. The data was recorded and analyzed for thirteen separate behavioral characteristics.Findings1. A total of 79 percent of the disobedient and disruptive behavior on school buses occurred when emotionally handicapped students were scheduled to ride buses for longer than thirty-one minutes.2. Boys had 85 percent of the total recorded problem behaviors on school buses.3. Girls were responsible for 15 percent of the total problem behavior reports on school buses.4. Eighty-one percent of all problem behaviors on school buses for emotionally handicapped boys and girls occurred for students scheduled to ride school buses longer than thirty-one minutes.Conclusions1. The length of time an emotionally handicapped student was transported needed to be shortened to less than thirty minutes travel time.2. Classroom placement or location needed to be centralized to reduce the length of time for school bus trips transporting emotionally handicapped students.3. Training programs for school bus drivers in. student management, behavior modification, assertive discipline and psychology of the emotionally handicapped child has major implications for changes in student behavior.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BSU/oai:cardinalscholar.bsu.edu:handle/178199 |
| Date | 03 June 2011 |
| Creators | McClintock, Leslie H. |
| Contributors | Wagner, Ivan D. |
| Source Sets | Ball State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Format | 2, ix, 204 leaves ; 28 cm. |
| Source | Virtual Press |
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