{"id":191,"date":"2012-01-20T21:52:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T21:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/?page_id=191"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:17:19","slug":"multi-site-study-of-us-3rd-graders-u-s","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/research\/independent-replications\/multi-site-study-of-us-3rd-graders-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Multi-site Study of US 3rd Graders U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Multi-site Study of US 3rd Graders\u00a0<\/strong>U.S.<\/h3>\n<p>A second independent study, randomized controlled trial of the effect of the <em>PATHS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em> curriculum was conducted in Rochester, New York and suburban Minnesota. Seven hundred eighty-one third grade students (422 experimental; 359 control) from 14 schools from 3 school districts (1 urban; 2 suburban) participated. Schools were the unit of randomization and analysis. The urban schools were comprised of mostly poor, minority students doing less well academically than the suburban students.<\/p>\n<p>Using hierarchical models of analysis, relative to control children, the <em>PATHS<sup>\u00ae <\/sup><\/em>curriculum had statistically positive benefits on children&#8217;s social information processing. Student receiving <em>PATHS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em>\u00a0showed less hostile attribution bias (p=.039), less aggressive social problem solving (p =.05), and less use of aggressive reactions to neutral provocations over time (p=.030), when compared to control students.<\/p>\n<p>Using data collected from the Teacher-Child Rating Scale analyses examining change found <em>PATHS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em>\u00a0to be related to a decrease in learning problems (p = .077) and lower rates of acting out behavior problems (p = .10) over time. Additionally, a significant district by condition interaction (p = .05) was noted for acting out behavior problems. Here, while the intervention and control urban students start at essentially the same levels of acting out problems, the students who received the <em>PATHS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em> curriculum lessened in acting out problems over time while the urban control students acting out behavior difficulties increased over the three years of the study.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>PATHS\u00ae <\/em>&amp; the<em> PATHS\u00ae Training LLC <\/em>logo are trademarks &amp; service marks of <em>PATHS\u00ae<\/em> Curriculum LLC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multi-site Study of US 3rd Graders\u00a0U.S. A second independent study, randomized controlled trial of the effect of the PATHS\u00ae curriculum was conducted in Rochester, New York and suburban Minnesota. Seven hundred eighty-one third grade students (422 experimental; 359 control) from 14 schools from 3 school districts (1 urban; 2 suburban) participated. Schools were the unit <a href='https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/research\/independent-replications\/multi-site-study-of-us-3rd-graders-u-s\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":187,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-191","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/191\/revisions\/454"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}