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Li, Zhenyi; Lei, Wanpeng – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2023
Supporting socio-economically disadvantaged students to improve their academic resilience is vital in promoting social mobility and halting intergenerational transmission of poverty. Based on the baseline data 2013-2014 from the China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) database, this paper examined the impact of preschool education experience on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Education, Program Effectiveness, Economically Disadvantaged
Deirdre Dlugonski; Avery Douglas; Jamie Henning; Johanna M. Hoch – American Journal of Health Education, 2024
Background: Adolescent girls are at an increased risk of low physical activity and the associated health consequences. Girls Can Move!, an after-school intervention guided by social cognitive theory, was designed to increase physical activity. Purpose: To examine the feasibility and initial effectiveness of Girls Can Move! Methods The 8-week…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Females, Physical Activity Level, Adolescents
Noman Khanani; Anastasia E. Raczek; Yan R. Leigh; Claire Foley; Mary E. Walsh; Eric Dearing – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2023
Growing up in poverty presents numerous nonacademic barriers that impede academic progress for economically disadvantaged students (Duncan and Murnane, 2016). Because schools alone have limited capacity to address the systemic nature of economic inequalities that directly affects student outcomes, policymakers and researchers in recent years have…
Descriptors: Poverty, At Risk Students, Low Income Students, Economically Disadvantaged
Gorard, Stephen; Siddiqui, Nadia; See, Beng Huat – Research Papers in Education, 2022
Pupil Premium funding has been provided to schools in England since 2011, to reduce socio-economic segregation, and the attainment gap between disadvantaged pupils and their peers. There is little evidence it works. Some stakeholders are now considering whether funding should cease, or have a new objective. Evaluating the impact of such a funding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Educational Attainment, Disadvantaged
Reynolds, Adam; Yavuz, Olcay – Education Leadership Review of Doctoral Research, 2022
There is a lack of consensus among school districts on how best to mitigate reading and math learning loss during the summer months. The purpose of this quasi-experimental quantitative exploration study was to determine if there was a statistically and practically significant effect of an educational program on summer learning loss in reading and…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Gains, Program Effectiveness
National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2022
Helping English learners and economically disadvantaged students read as well as their more advantaged peers is a struggle for many schools. This study tested WordGen Elementary, a program to improve fourth- and fifth-grade students' ability to understand the academic language used in school and support their reading achievement. This Study…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Economically Disadvantaged
Reynolds, Adam – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this quasi-experimental quantitative exploration study was to determine if there was a statistically and practically significant effect of an educational program on summer learning loss in reading and mathematics in grades five and six students. Also, the study aimed to determine whether growth was impacted by demographic variables…
Descriptors: Literacy, Mathematics Skills, Achievement Gains, Summer Programs
Cshenal Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Closing the achievement gap is critical to the future of the nation, but more importantly it provides economically disadvantaged students a learning experience equivalent to their peers. Many districts attempt to battle low performance in Title I schools through special programs or addressing issues such as class size instead of taking into…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Elementary Schools, Advanced Placement Programs, Elementary Education
Smith, Rebecca; Ralston, Nicole C.; Naegele, Zulema; Waggoner, Jacqueline – Professional Educator, 2020
This longitudinal qualitative study investigated the impact on teacher participants of using a unique laboratory approach to professional development: the Team Teaching and Learning (TTL) framework, which integrates five traits from Garet, Porter, Desimone, Birman, and Yoon's (2001) empirical research on teacher professional learning, including…
Descriptors: Team Teaching, Professional Development, Program Effectiveness, Program Length
Bleiberg, Joshua – AERA Open, 2021
Policymakers have long sought to raise expectations for students through standards-based reform. I examine the extent to which the Common Core State Content Standards (CC) affected student achievement and the size of achievement gaps. I merge together data on preparation for and implementation of the CC with the National Assessment of Educational…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Mathematics Achievement
Parker, Michele; Ficklin, Kelly; Mishra, Margaret – Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal), 2020
This study investigated the influence of Engineering Is Elementary (EiE) professional development on teachers' self-efficacy of integrating engineering into the K-5 curriculum in a rural school district in southeastern North Carolina. In fall 2016, the researchers conducted an embedded mixed-method study. The focus of this paper is the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Rural Schools, Public Schools, Elementary School Teachers
Thrash, Courtney; Yin, Ming; Baumgartner, Erin – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2021
Greater utilization of certain Literacy by 3 classroom practices is associated with the increased likelihood of a campus exceeding district average growth in reading. Though the Literacy by 3 program has been in the Houston Independent School District (HISD) since the 2014-2015 school year, this study is the first to examine the relationship…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, School Districts, Classroom Techniques, Program Effectiveness
Kinman, Cassondra Dee – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study compared the number of discipline referrals in a Middle Tennessee elementary school for two years, during the implementation of School-Wide Positive Behavior Intervention Supports (SWPBIS). This study also examined the relationship between the number of discipline referrals and academic achievement by comparing TCAP scale scores in both…
Descriptors: Positive Behavior Supports, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Discipline
Nagler, Eve M.; Lobo, Priya – Health Education Journal, 2019
Objective: Low socioeconomic status young people in low- and middle-income countries use tobacco at higher rates than their wealthier peers. School-based tobacco use prevention interventions that employ a life skills approach are effective at preventing tobacco use. In India, the Salaam Bombay Foundation (SBF) has implemented a multiyear,…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Promotion, Daily Living Skills, Intervention
Orr, Aline – Online Submission, 2021
This report summarizes grade-level promotion and graduation outcomes for 2,163 Austin Independent School District (AISD) students who participated in the DELTA Program in 2019-2020. Seventy-four percent of DELTA students in 9th through 11th grades were promoted to the next grade level and of the DELTA students in 12th grade, 83% graduated from…
Descriptors: Credits, Graduation Rate, High School Graduates, Outcomes of Education