What did the researchers mean by ‘emotional and behavioural difficulties’ (EBD) and ‘self-management interventions’?
The researchers defined emotional and behavioural difficulties as emotional and behavioural problems which take the form of lack of attention, underachievement and inability to manage school work and behaviour. Self-management techniques help students to change and/or maintain appropriate behaviour through teaching them how to manage their behaviour themselves. The researchers explained that there are five commonly used self-management interventions: • Self-monitoring – this two-stage approach involved pupils observing and recording their own behaviour on a tick sheet. Students identify the target behaviour and make a record of it e.g. keep hands and feet to themselves, put hand up to answer questions, not to fiddle with pencils/pens. The researchers defined self-monitoring as a ‘multistage process of observing and recording one’s behaviour.’ First the student identifies the occurrence or non-occurrence of a target behaviour, then s/he records some aspect of the target behaviour at set
