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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Evid Based Pract Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2023 Mar 3;9(1):78–86. doi: 10.1080/23794925.2023.2183434

Table 2.

Teachers’ Intended and Actual Use of Behavioral Classroom Management Intervention Components (N = 65)

Intended use
M (SD)
Actual use
M (SD)
p for comparison between intended and actual

All students Students with ADHD symptoms All students Students with ADHD symptoms All students Students with ADHD symptoms
Tier 1 Practices

Specific praise 6.00 (1.09) 5.57 (1.58) 5.55 (1.02) 4.98 (1.63) p = .001 p < .001
Precorrections 6.19 (.88) 6.03 (1.12) 6.00 (1.02) 5.77 (1.10) p = .03 p = .02
Brief and specific behavior corrections 6.24 (.78) 6.14 (1.03) 5.79 (.89) 5.72 (1.13) p < .001 p < .001

Tier 2 Intervention

Daily behavior reports 4.31 (2.09) 4.61 (1.84) 4.15 (2.15) 4.50 (2.00) p = .28 p = .32

Notes. Intended and actual use variables were measured on a scale from 1 (low) to 7 (high).

a

Self-reported actual use of specific praise for the two referent groups differed significantly from each other (p = .007)