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Connect with Kids: Teaching Character Traits to Improve Student Behavior

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Intervention Details

Subject

Non-Academic Area

Academic Program

General Education

Duration

One to two weeks after the video and discussion lesson, with ongoing activities throughout the school year

Grades

N/A

Personnel

General Education Teacher

Intervention Summary

Connect with Kids is a program that targets the development of core character values in students, specifically focusing on behavior, knowledge, attitudes, and values.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on behavior for middle and high school students

No effect on behavior for elementary school students

Source

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2006). Connect with Kids. Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/intervention/204.

Data Sample by Population

These charts show the characteristics of the student populations studied. When assessing programs, you may want to prioritize interventions that yielded success in a similar demographic environment as your school or district.

The subgroup population data as studied here are not available. That means that while this study may work well for your setting, we cannot say based on the published study and results from our system’s reading of that study what the school/district subgroup characteristics were when evaluated here.