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Too Good for Violence: Teaching Conflict Resolution Strategies and Prosocial Skills to Elementary School Students

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Intervention Details

Subject

Non-Academic Area

Academic Program

General Education

Duration

N/A

Grade

3

Personnel

General Education Teacher

Intervention Summary

Too Good for Violence is a curriculum that aims to reduce violence and improve student behavior by teaching skills such as conflict resolution, goal setting, and decision-making, as well as promoting character values like caring, cooperation, and respect. The program includes teacher resources, such as a scripted curriculum, student workbooks, and evaluation tools, and can be implemented in classrooms. It also includes optional parental and community involvement elements.

Statistical Finding Summary

Positive effect on behavior

Positive effect on knowledge, attitudes, and values

Source

U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse. (2006). Too Good For Violence (TGFV). Retrieved from https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/WWC/intervention/250.

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.