Margaret Sibley

The purpose of this project is to develop and validate Student Planning, Organization, and Time Management Scale (SPOTS), a multi-informant measure of organization, time management, and planning (OTMP) behaviors for use with secondary school students. OTMP behaviors are a set of higher order executive function skills that are essential for student success in secondary school. While student challenges with OMTP may first emerge in elementary school, they become more pronounced in secondary sc...

High school students with ADHD have poor access to evidence-based interventions in schools due to documented population-specific and setting-specific barriers. To overcome these barriers, the purpose of this project is to successfully implement and evaluate a peer- delivered low intensity intervention that targets organization, time management, and planning (OTP) and motivation deficits in high school students with ADHD and related impairments (STRIPES; Students Taking Responsibility and Ini...

In this study, researchers developed and tested school-based procedures to provide behavioral intervention for ninth grade students with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) or similar symptoms that interfere with success in school. About 5 to 10 percent of high school students have ADHD or related symptoms that cause organization and time management problems that often lead to course failure and dropout. These academic problems can further compound risk for deviant behaviors such...

Adolescents with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are at high risk for academic failure and school dropout. Middle and high school students with ADHD experience substantially more academic impairment than their peers, with an estimated one-third of students with ADHD ultimately dropping out of high school. Core symptoms of ADHD include disorganization and inattention, which make learning and retaining academic information difficult. Research has shown that students with ADHD h...