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The efficacy of a self-management program emphasizing self-assessment and self-recording was investigated with a class of nine behaviorally disordered boys (10-13 years old). Following baseline and untrained self-record phases, two training phases in which Ss were reinforced for accurate self-recording were implemented. A final self-record phase followed the training phases. The reliability of the students' self-recording increased through the training phases and maintained at an accurate rate during the final self-record phase. Concurrent decrease in disruptive behavior was demonstrated. Academic response rate did not deteriorate and, in individual cases, showed improvement during the course of the program. (Author/SB)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert