Marilyn Watson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5180965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marilyn Watson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marilyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Watson |
| SIGNATURE | WATSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Developmental Studies Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Learning to Trust
This book describes an approach to classroom management and discipline based on attachment theory. An overview of attachment theory research and a detailed description of its implications for teaching and classroom management are provided. One teacher, Laura Ecken, and her second/third-grade class in a high-poverty school are chronicled across two years as she manages her class, guided by attachment theory. Laura’s day-by-day and week-by-week eff…
Competition in the Classroom
Most of Laura’s students loved competitive games, but throughout their first year together, the games almost always ended up in hurt feelings, tears, or even physical fights, unless they were closely supervised or vigorously refereed. During the second year, Laura decided to introduce cooperative games both on the playground and in the classroom. Although Laura needed to monitor the cooperative games closely to keep them cooperative, gradually a …
Victor Anthony Battistich (1952–2008)
Effects of the Child Development Project on Students' Drug Use and Other Problem Behaviors
A six-district study of educational change
Caring school communities
There recently has been a renewed appreciation of the importance of social context to effective schools. This article describes an ongoing program of research on schools as caring communities. The research spans about a decade and a half and involves a diverse set of elementary schools from across the United States. The findings indicate that sense of school community can be enhanced for both students and teachers, that it is associated with a wi…
Teacher practices associated with students' sense of the classroom as a community
Prevention Effects of the Child Development Project
The Child Development Project is a comprehensive school program to reduce risk and bolster protective factors among children. It includes classroom, school, and family involvement elements that, collectively, help schools become caring communities of learners-environments that are characterized by supportive social relationships, a sense of common purpose, and a commitment to prosocial values; that are responsive to children's developmental and s…
Creating classrooms that students experience as communities
Although prior research has shown sense of community in schools to be related to many positive student characteristics, effective interventions that can create or enhance this sense have not been demonstrated. In this paper we describe a comprehensive elementary school program, implemented by teachers, that was successful in creating a sense of community in the classrooms, as perceived by students. The program was implemented in three elementary …
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students' Attitudes, Motives, and Performance
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students' sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Major findings were that: (a) within schools, individual students' sense of school community was significantly associated with almost all of the student outcome measures, (b) Between schools, school-level community and pover…
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students’ Attitudes, Motives, and Performance
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students’ sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Major findings were that: (a) within schools, individual students’ sense of school community was significantly associated with almost all of the student outcome measures, (b) Between schools, school-level community and pover…
Enhancing Children’s Prosocial Behavior in the Classroom
A program designed to enhance children’s prosocial development was conducted in three suburban elementary schools for 5 consecutive years, focusing primarily on a single cohort of children as it moved from kindergarten through fourth grade. Repeated observations were conducted each year to assess program implementation and student interpersonal behavior in classrooms in the three “program” schools and in three “comparison” schools. Analyses of th…
Enhancing Children's Prosocial Behavior in the Classroom
A program designed to enhance children's prosocial development was conducted in three suburban elementary schools for 5 consecutive years, focusing primarily on a single cohort of children as it moved from kindergarten through fourth grade. Repeated observations were conducted each year to assess program implementation and student interpersonal behavior in classrooms in the three "program" schools and in three "comparison" schools. Analyses of th…
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students’ Attitudes, Motives, and Performance
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students’ sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Major findings were that: (a) within schools, individual students’ sense of school community was significantly associated with almost all of the student outcome measures, (b) Between schools, school-level community and pover…
A six-district study of educational change
Prevention Effects of the Child Development Project
The Child Development Project is a comprehensive school program to reduce risk and bolster protective factors among children. It includes classroom, school, and family involvement elements that, collectively, help schools become caring communities of learners-environments that are characterized by supportive social relationships, a sense of common purpose, and a commitment to prosocial values; that are responsive to children's developmental and s…
Creating classrooms that students experience as communities
Although prior research has shown sense of community in schools to be related to many positive student characteristics, effective interventions that can create or enhance this sense have not been demonstrated. In this paper we describe a comprehensive elementary school program, implemented by teachers, that was successful in creating a sense of community in the classrooms, as perceived by students. The program was implemented in three elementary …
Teacher practices associated with students' sense of the classroom as a community
Enhancing Children’s Prosocial Behavior in the Classroom
A program designed to enhance children’s prosocial development was conducted in three suburban elementary schools for 5 consecutive years, focusing primarily on a single cohort of children as it moved from kindergarten through fourth grade. Repeated observations were conducted each year to assess program implementation and student interpersonal behavior in classrooms in the three “program” schools and in three “comparison” schools. Analyses of th…
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students' Attitudes, Motives, and Performance
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students' sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Major findings were that: (a) within schools, individual students' sense of school community was significantly associated with almost all of the student outcome measures, (b) Between schools, school-level community and pover…
Enhancing Children's Prosocial Behavior in the Classroom
A program designed to enhance children's prosocial development was conducted in three suburban elementary schools for 5 consecutive years, focusing primarily on a single cohort of children as it moved from kindergarten through fourth grade. Repeated observations were conducted each year to assess program implementation and student interpersonal behavior in classrooms in the three "program" schools and in three "comparison" schools. Analyses of th…
Enhancing Children’s Prosocial Behavior in the Classroom
A program designed to enhance children’s prosocial development was conducted in three suburban elementary schools for 5 consecutive years, focusing primarily on a single cohort of children as it moved from kindergarten through fourth grade. Repeated observations were conducted each year to assess program implementation and student interpersonal behavior in classrooms in the three “program” schools and in three “comparison” schools. Analyses of th…
Enhancing Children's Prosocial Behavior in the Classroom
A program designed to enhance children's prosocial development was conducted in three suburban elementary schools for 5 consecutive years, focusing primarily on a single cohort of children as it moved from kindergarten through fourth grade. Repeated observations were conducted each year to assess program implementation and student interpersonal behavior in classrooms in the three "program" schools and in three "comparison" schools. Analyses of th…
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students' Attitudes, Motives, and Performance
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students' sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Major findings were that: (a) within schools, individual students' sense of school community was significantly associated with almost all of the student outcome measures, (b) Between schools, school-level community and pover…
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students’ Attitudes, Motives, and Performance
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students’ sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Major findings were that: (a) within schools, individual students’ sense of school community was significantly associated with almost all of the student outcome measures, (b) Between schools, school-level community and pover…
Teacher practices associated with students' sense of the classroom as a community
Prevention Effects of the Child Development Project
The Child Development Project is a comprehensive school program to reduce risk and bolster protective factors among children. It includes classroom, school, and family involvement elements that, collectively, help schools become caring communities of learners-environments that are characterized by supportive social relationships, a sense of common purpose, and a commitment to prosocial values; that are responsive to children's developmental and s…
Creating classrooms that students experience as communities
Although prior research has shown sense of community in schools to be related to many positive student characteristics, effective interventions that can create or enhance this sense have not been demonstrated. In this paper we describe a comprehensive elementary school program, implemented by teachers, that was successful in creating a sense of community in the classrooms, as perceived by students. The program was implemented in three elementary …
Caring school communities
There recently has been a renewed appreciation of the importance of social context to effective schools. This article describes an ongoing program of research on schools as caring communities. The research spans about a decade and a half and involves a diverse set of elementary schools from across the United States. The findings indicate that sense of school community can be enhanced for both students and teachers, that it is associated with a wi…
Effects of the Child Development Project on Students' Drug Use and Other Problem Behaviors
A six-district study of educational change
Victor Anthony Battistich (1952–2008)
Learning to Trust
This book describes an approach to classroom management and discipline based on attachment theory. An overview of attachment theory research and a detailed description of its implications for teaching and classroom management are provided. One teacher, Laura Ecken, and her second/third-grade class in a high-poverty school are chronicled across two years as she manages her class, guided by attachment theory. Laura’s day-by-day and week-by-week eff…
Competition in the Classroom
Most of Laura’s students loved competitive games, but throughout their first year together, the games almost always ended up in hurt feelings, tears, or even physical fights, unless they were closely supervised or vigorously refereed. During the second year, Laura decided to introduce cooperative games both on the playground and in the classroom. Although Laura needed to monitor the cooperative games closely to keep them cooperative, gradually a …
Psychology (12 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (6 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Prosocial behavior (6 works) · Academic achievement (5 works)