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Alexandra Sandoval; Edmond P. Bowers – Journal of Youth Development, 2025
Youth participation in community-based, structured out-of-school time programs (OST) has been found to promote positive developmental outcomes by providing youth with resources to build interpersonal relationships and essential life skills. The increasing prevalence and multiplicity of youth participation in these activities leads us to expand the…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Middle School Students, Low Income Groups, Participation
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Sabin, Claire; Bowen, Anne E.; Heberlein, Erin; Pyle, Emily; Lund, Lauren; Studts, Christina R.; Shomaker, Lauren B.; Simon, Stacey L.; Kaar, Jill L. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2023
Objective: In response to the rise in mental health needs among youth, a school-based resilience intervention was implemented for sixth graders at an urban middle school. The goal of this analysis is to examine improvements in key mental health parameters among students who endorsed negative affectivity at baseline. Method: A total of 285…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Resilience (Psychology), Intervention
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Sharma, Eliza – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2023
The study aims to examine the readiness of Indian parents towards online classes at kindergarten and junior school levels, by identifying the perceived barriers, perceived effectiveness and health impact of online classes on young children. The study is based on data collected across a random sample of 750 parents of students studying at junior…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Online Courses, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Ruit, Peter; Korthagen, Fred; Schoonenboom, Judith – Educational & Child Psychology, 2019
Aim: This study examines the effects of an intervention aimed at making the primary school pupils aware of their core qualities and promoting their use of these qualities. Method/Rationale: This article reports on a quasi-experimental study among 1346 pupils from 17 primary schools, based on insights from positive psychology. Findings: By using a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Well Being, Intervention, Individual Characteristics
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Waterman, Emily A.; Edwards, Katie M.; Banyard, Victoria L. – Journal of School Violence, 2022
This paper examines the likelihood of violence in successive cohorts of students in a small city during the implementation of a youth-led sexual violence prevention initiative. We compared the likelihood of violence among students who were in 8th, 9th, and 10th grade before the programming to the likelihood of violence among students who were in…
Descriptors: Violence, Antisocial Behavior, Probability, Sexual Abuse
Mersin, Nazan; Durmus, Soner – Online Submission, 2020
This study is a qualitative study that seeks to analyse the awareness of primary school pre-service mathematics teachers on famous mathematicians and to examine the change in their awareness. It is designed as exploratory case study. The study group consists of 30 primary school pre-service mathematics teachers, who are senior-level students in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics
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Wake, Susan J.; Birdsall, Sally – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
Environmental educators remain challenged by how to encourage people to make connections between environmental quality and human development in a way that is socially just and equitable for all living things. This article explores links between performance-based learning and environmental education pedagogy as one way to address this challenge.…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Teaching Methods, Ecology, Elementary School Students
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Campbell, Laurie O.; Sutter, Claudia C.; Lambie, Glenn W. – Reading Psychology, 2019
Students' reading losses during the summer are a concern for schools in the United States. The purpose of this investigation was to examine fourth grade students' (N = 5,113) reading development over the summer. The results indicated that students in the lowest two quartiles made achievement gains over summer while these same students evidenced…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction, Reading Achievement
Cordier, Amy L. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Young children's social and emotional skills (SE skills) are highly predictive of the ease with which they transition to kindergarten as well as their success in the K-12 school system and in life after graduation (Belfield et al., 2015; Blair, 2002; Denham, 2006; Denham et al., 2014; Graziano et al., 2007; Jones et al., 2017; Moffitt et al.,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Social Emotional Learning, Skill Development, Interpersonal Competence
Meghan Gowan – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This research applied current thinking in the fields of positive education, positive youth development, and global education to a culturally-relevant, social-emotional learning curriculum. The Kenya Education Empowerment Project (KEEP) curriculum facilitated social-emotional learning through dialogically-based classroom lessons and opportunities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Emotional Learning, Individual Characteristics, Program Effectiveness
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Hasan, Amer; Jung, Haeil; Kinnell, Angela; Maika, Amelia; Nakajima, Nozomi; Pradhan, Menno – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2021
This paper examines the child development outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time. One cohort was eligible to access playgroups during the first year of a five-year project cycle, beginning at age four. The other cohort became eligible to access these services during the third year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Intervention, Preschool Children
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Schlange, Kallie; Franzen-Castle, Lisa; Walther, Ashley; Dunker, Tara; Krehbiel, Michelle – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Many youth programs focused on improving health outcomes have not examined parent/caregiver perceptions post-participation even though they may significantly influence youth behaviors. The primary purpose of this study was to examine changes in adult perceptions of youth- and family-related behavior after youth participated in a 12-week…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Health Promotion, After School Programs
Christopher, Emily – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The demographics of school-aged students in the U.S continue to shift, with increasing numbers of students coming from historically underrepresented minority populations. Yet the percentage of white, female teachers remains disproportionately high. Using a framework revised from Garmon's (2004) study in which he found experiential factors;…
Descriptors: Whites, Females, Women Faculty, Preservice Teachers
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Muschkin, Clara G.; Ladd, Helen F.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bai, Yu – Educational Policy, 2020
Based on growing evidence of the long-term benefits of enriched early childhood experiences, we evaluate the potential for addressing gender disparities in elementary school through early care and education programs. Specifically, we explore the community-wide effects of two statewide initiatives in North Carolina on gender differences in academic…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Grade 4
Holly Yvonne Freeman Pope – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation examines the digital game-based learning experiences of historically underserved students in their elementary mathematics classes. Using the Digital Math Game-Based Experience Framework, I describe their experience in terms of the mathematical proficiency gains, cultural models of high functioning digital math game players, and…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Video Games, Educational Technology, Elementary School Students
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