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Direct linkJoseph A. Durlak, Editor; Celene E. Domitrovich, Editor; Joseph L. Mahoney, Editor – Guilford Press, 2025
The definitive work on social and emotional learning (SEL) research and practice is now in an extensively revised second edition, featuring all-new and thoroughly updated chapters. The world's leading SEL scholars describe state-of-the-art interventions that build students' competencies for managing emotions, showing empathy for others, forming…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Educational Research, Educational Policy, Program Implementation
Sanetti, Lisa M. H., Ed.; Kratochwill, Thomas R., Ed. – APA Books, 2014
Treatment integrity, in its broadest sense, is the extent to which an intervention is implemented as intended. Over the past 3 decades, understanding of treatment integrity has greatly evolved. This book summarizes the current state of our knowledge of treatment integrity on such topics as: (1) how it fits into the larger contexts of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Implementation, Evidence Based Practice, Ethics
Griffin, James P., Jr.; Miller, Erica – Counseling Psychologist, 2007
This article is a response to a number of articles that use a culturally relevant prevention (CRP) approach for ethnic and racial minorities. The reaction is from a research practitioner's viewpoint. The authors argue in favor of determining an operational definition of cultural relevance by implementing prevention services with fidelity in the…
Descriptors: Cultural Relevance, Prevention, Ethnic Groups, Health Promotion
Baxter, Pamela; Jack, Susan – Qualitative Report, 2008
Qualitative case study methodology provides tools for researchers to study complex phenomena within their contexts. When the approach is applied correctly, it becomes a valuable method for health science research to develop theory, evaluate programs, and develop interventions. The purpose of this paper is to guide the novice researcher in…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Researchers, Case Studies, Qualitative Research
Fain, Terry; Turner, Susan; Ridgeway, Greg – RAND Corporation, 2010
In 2000, the California State Legislature passed the Schiff-Cardenas Crime Prevention Act, which authorized funding for county juvenile-justice programs and designated the Corrections Standards Authority (CSA) (formerly named the Board of Corrections) the administrator of funding. A 2001 California Senate bill extended the funding and changed the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Crime Prevention, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness
National Council of La Raza, Washington, DC. – 1983
The Research Secretariat on Social Services and Community Development was one of the five Hispanic research task forces funded by the Ford Foundation to determine Hispanic research priorities. Its three major purposes were the following: (1) to develop an Hispanic research and policy agenda which recommends research activities and prioritizes…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Community Development, Health Programs, Hispanic Americans
Basch, Charles E. – Health Education (Washington D.C.), 1984
Effectiveness of school health education programs is judged by the extent the programs are disseminated and maintained in the classroom. This paper reviews concepts, strategies, and methods used to study dissemination and implementation, specifies functions of this research, and describes procedures that evaluate effectiveness of dissemination and…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Evaluation Methods, Health Education, Information Dissemination
Peer reviewedRohrbach, Louise Ann; And Others – American Behavioral Scientist, 1996
Observes the preponderance of heavily marketed drug prevention programs (Project DARE, QUEST Skills for Life) over the more effective psychosocial-based programs. Reviews the literature on determinants of diffusion and recent research on strategies to increase diffusion of these programs. Considers implications for policy and future research. (MJP)
Descriptors: Change Agents, Counseling, Decision Making, Drug Abuse
Download full textPelavin, Diane; And Others – 1991
A case study was done of the Boston University management and operation of the Chelsea (Massachusetts) school system including perceptions of key participants and outcomes of the first year of the partnership. Despite unanticipated levels of hostility between various groups and slow funding, which slowed some first year objectives, the project…
Descriptors: Administrative Change, Case Studies, College School Cooperation, Curriculum Development
Rooth, Edna – 2000
The Lifeskills Project in South Africa provides services to communities in lifeskills facilitation training. Empowerment and capacity building in course and workshop participants is an underlying theme, with emphasis on self-concept enhancement for community enhancement. Aims of the Lifeskills Project include: (1) training facilitators in…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Action Research, Adult Basic Education, Community Development
