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Tsegaw, Sisay Ayalew – Journal of Education, 2023
The aim of this study was to examine the impact of Reading for Ethiopia's Achievement Developed Community Outreach (READ CO) project intervention on students' oral reading fluency, reading comprehension, academic achievements, and listening comprehension. It also aimed at identifying the students and teachers' awareness and practices about the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Achievement, Reading Programs, Community Programs
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Skarzynski, Piotr Henryk; Swierniak, Weronika; Gos, Elzbieta; Gocel, Maria; Skarzynski, Henryk – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to describe and assess a hearing screening program of first-grade children in Poland. The program aimed to detect hearing disorders and increase awareness among parents of hearing problems. Method: A hearing screening program was conducted in all elementary schools of the biggest region in Poland. A total of…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Clinical Diagnosis, Screening Tests, Incidence
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Pacey, Carol A.; Marsh, Paul C. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2013
Limited public outreach programs about Arizona native fish exist and those that do are passive, fee-based, or Web-oriented, while others limit their geographic range. The program this article addresses sought to improve this situation with development of a state-wide outreach program with a goal to educate Arizona's children about native fish with…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Teaching Methods, Wildlife, Multimedia Instruction
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Shanahan, Marie-Claire; Pedretti, Erminia; DeCoito, Isha; Baker, Lindsay – School Science and Mathematics, 2011
This paper describes a subset of results from a large-scale two-year independent evaluation study conducted with the "Scientists in School" (SiS) outreach program and two large school boards in Ontario, Canada. Specifically, it explores the responses of elementary students (n= 811) from typically underrepresented groups in science…
Descriptors: Role Models, Females, Outreach Programs, Career Choice
Gamoran, Adam; Turley, Ruth Lopez; Turner, Alyn; Fish, Rachel – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The purpose of this study is to test the effects on children's social, behavioral, and academic outcomes of an intervention, Families and Schools Together (FAST), when implemented in two novel ways: (a) in schools with predominantly Latino children and (b) on an entire grade-level cohort instead of with individual families targeted for the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Parent Participation, Academic Achievement