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Reena Cheruvalath, Ajay Ramchandra Gaude
Classroom intervention focusing on peer interaction persuades children to develop positive behaviour. Peer interaction plays a significant role in managing problem behaviour among adolescent children. It facilitates identifying weaknesses in children’s justification for their problem behaviour. Thus, the study aimed to propose a classroom intervention based on meta-cognitive strategies to subdue problem behaviours among secondary school children. The activities were prepared to inoculate the three components of metacognitive skills—awareness, control and regulation. The study conducted on 36 secondary school children shows a positive change in the behaviour among students who have done the intervention. A quasi-experimental design is used for the study. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses of the data were done. A repeated measures ANOVA (RMA) indicated a significant effect on the outcome, p < .05. Post-intervention interview results showed students’ interest in regulating their problem behaviours. The implication is that the proposed learner-centred class intervention can be part of the secondary school curriculum.
