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EXAMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE WHY TRY PROGRAM FOR
CHILDREN RECEIVING RESIDENTIALLY BASED SERVICES AND
ATTENDING A NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL
by
David Baker
________________________________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
December 2008
Copyright 2008 David Baker
Object Description
| Title | Examining the effectiveness of the Why Try Program for children receiving residentially based services and attending a non-public school |
| Author | Baker, David |
| Author email | dbaker@victor.org; bakers19@sbcglobal.net |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-06-18 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2008-09-09 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hocevar, Dennis |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Hentschke, Guilbert Zimmer, John |
| Abstract | The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the Why Try Program with children living in group homes, or Licensed Children's Institutions (LCI), receiving residentially based services who are also attending a Non-Public School (NPS). This study was a quasi-experimental study using a pre-post independent group design with a nonequivalent control group. A 16 week series of Why Try Program groups was administered to the experimental group, and pre/post test results of the experimental and control groups were compared.; Participants consisted of approximately 42 students in the experimental group and 36 from the control group. Experimental and control groups consisted of students from two similar NPS campuses who were also receiving residentially based services at similar LCI's. All students were assessed using through pre/post test of the General Self-Efficacy (GSE) assessment and all three of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA). Assessments included evaluation forms completed by the primary care givers, teachers and the youth themselves.; Findings indicate that the experimental group showed significant increases in their perceived self-efficacy scores for pre to post test. Positive growth was also found in several of the syndrome scales measured by the ASEBA forms. The most profound was that of the youth self report which indicated significant growth in eight of ten of the measured syndrome scales. Results, as a whole indicated the Why Try Program to be an effective intervention tool for the youth involved in the study. |
| Keyword | why try; NPS; LCI; non-public school; group homes; SED; severly emotionaly disturbed |
| Geographic subject | educational facilities: Mountain Valley School |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Coverage date | after 2001 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1589 |
| Rights | Baker, David |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Baker-2384 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume44/etd-Baker-2384.pdf |
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| Full text | EXAMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE WHY TRY PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN RECEIVING RESIDENTIALLY BASED SERVICES AND ATTENDING A NON-PUBLIC SCHOOL by David Baker ________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION December 2008 Copyright 2008 David Baker |
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