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Jessica Bouchard; Jennifer S. Wong – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
Adolescents face many difficulties when transitioning to high school, particularly when it comes to their social circles and maintaining friendships. As these challenges can have long-term consequences, providing support to youth during this period is essential. The YWCA Youth Education Programs (YEP) in Vancouver, BC offer group-based,…
Descriptors: Mentors, Peer Relationship, Gender Issues, After School Programs
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Jane Perryman; Sandra Leaton Gray; Eleanore Hargreaves; Katya Saville – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
The normal lives of schools were significantly affected by the recent global pandemic. Some countries closed all schools nationally, others such as the USA closed at a local level according to state law. Much of the focus of research in this area is on the effect on children and learning loss, but this paper uses secondary analysis of data from a…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Professionalism, COVID-19, Pandemics
Ji Hye Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The expansion and universalization of educational opportunities in many parts of the world raised expectations that education inequality could be alleviated. Contrary to expectations, however, empirical evidence on educational inequality has been revealed. This is because qualitative differentiation of education programs at a certain level of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Transitional Programs, Middle School Students
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Petra Engelbrecht; Hannelie Louw; Julialet Rens – Perspectives in Education, 2024
This paper focuses on exploring the transition South African learners make from Grade 7 to Grade 8, with an emphasis on the experiences of all the role players in two school cultures during this transition phase. This qualitative exploratory research project was placed in a constructivist research paradigm. The data were analysed in an exploratory…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Transitional Programs, Foreign Countries
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Mahmud, Arif – Pastoral Care in Education, 2021
Research demonstrates that pupils do not always have the necessary social and emotional intelligence to cope with the transition to secondary school successfully. This paper explores a context-specific intervention designed to enhance key social and emotional skills after a secondary school transition. The intervention was designed with reference…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development
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Nagle, Tori – Georgia Educational Researcher, 2020
This piece summarizes one teacher's experiences during the abrupt move to digital learning due to COVID 19. This is not a full research study.
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Virtual Classrooms, Transitional Programs, Middle School Teachers
Cohlhepp, Christina F. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this study is to explore student perceptions regarding the transition from elementary school to middle school and to provide an opportunity for student voice to be included in the develop of an improved, data-informed, comprehensive transition program designed to assist all students as they move through this transition. Secondary…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Transitional Programs, Learner Engagement, Elementary School Students
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2019
Large numbers of qualified students do not apply to and enroll in college. Yet, earning a college degree is one of the primary pathways for economic success and is increasingly required for good jobs and high wages. A number of programs and practices aim to improve college readiness and enrollment, including "Take Stock in Children's®…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Graduation, Higher Education, Middle School Students
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education