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Pamela R. Buckley; Katie Massey Combs; Karen M. Drewelow; Brittany L. Hubler; Marion Amanda Lain – Evaluation Review, 2025
As evidence-based interventions are scaled, fidelity of implementation, and thus effectiveness, often wanes. Validated fidelity measures can improve researchers' ability to attribute outcomes to the intervention and help practitioners feel more confident in implementing the intervention as intended. We aim to provide a model for the validation of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Evidence Based Practice, Program Development
H. Alix Gallagher; Benjamin W. Cottingham; Leah Faw – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2025
The CORE Districts, a nonprofit formed by large urban districts in California, received a Networks for School Improvement grant from the Gates Foundation to launch a network focused on improving ninth-grade on-track rates. CORE based its approach on the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Breakthrough Collaborative model, where a hub identifies…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, High Schools, High School Students, Grade 9
Marie-Andrée Somers; Michelle Dixon; Claudia Solís-Román; Megan Schwartz; Olivia Lalanne; Bryce Marshall; Lauren Lee; Osvaldo Avila – MDRC, 2025
LifeSkills Training is the only program to prevent substance use disorder among adolescents that has evidence of effects on substance use outcomes from multiple randomized controlled trials. Evaluations have shown that the version for middle school students reduces their use of substances in high school, but these studies were conducted in the…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Middle School Students, Substance Abuse, Drug Use
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Marios Pittalis; Ute Sproesser; Eleni Demosthenous; Eleni Odysseos – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
The aim of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate an intervention program focusing on developing Grade 5 and 6 students' functional thinking. The innovative aspect lies in addressing simultaneously various aspects of function--input--output, covariation, correspondence, and object--in terms of manipulating tasks that involve functional…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Instruction
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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
Roy A. Roberts Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A qualitative approach was utilized in this study to examine four transition programs' best educational practices in building transition programs for eighth to ninth grade. An analysis of a retrospective study of the four transition programs provided data to support recommendations for best educational practices to build a transition program for…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Program Implementation, Transitional Programs, Middle Schools
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Woongbin Park; Hyuksoo Kwon – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is multifold: First, to develop an educational program using artificial intelligence (AI) in middle school free semester system of South Korea. Second, to verify the program's effectiveness, the study clarified the definition of AI and AI education and considered their meaning in technology education. This study used…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle Schools, Artificial Intelligence, Program Effectiveness
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Cai, Qijie Vicky; Hong, Huili; McNary, Scot W.; Song, Liyan – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2023
To broaden participation in robotics education, a free, after-school robotics program has been designed and developed at a public university. As part of a longitudinal study, this paper reports the first iteration of the program, offered to 12 students from Grades 3 through 7 in spring 2022. Three preservice teachers were trained as…
Descriptors: Program Development, Robotics, Computation, Thinking Skills
Erica D. Parker – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this research was to determine what components of academic and therapeutic clinical day programs ensure success for students with mental health diagnoses as they transition back to conventional educational settings. This study focused on the importance of developing students' capabilities to fulfill their own needs within Maslow's…
Descriptors: Day Programs, Transitional Programs, Traditional Schools, Clinics
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Kai Zhuang Shum; Emily Barry; Sarah M. Kiefer; Sarah Fefer; Shannon M. Suldo; Kristen E. Mahony-Atallah; John Ferron; Jacqueline Blass; Letty L. DiLeo; Hallie Lothrop; Nicolette Bauermeister – Grantee Submission, 2024
As the youth mental health crisis continues to worsen, there is a need for more evidence-based social-emotional interventions that can be applied in schools -- the setting in which youth are most likely to seek and receive mental health treatment (Simon et al., 2015). Further, exploring ways to culturally adapt interventions for marginalized…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Social Emotional Learning, Evidence Based Practice
Janissa Nuneville – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Customary practice in schools is that educators work in silos, often neglecting the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues to truly meet all students' needs. As students transition from middle school to high school, a clear bridging process is vital to set students up for success. Conventional parameters will need to be dismantled, and…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Principals, Middle Schools, High Schools
Sharon L. James – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Purpose and Method of Study: The purpose of this mixed-method case study program evaluation was to assess the effectiveness of a middle-level career exploration program to determine whether any program adjustments should be implemented for overall student success. From a population of 152 core classroom teachers, 55 teachers responded to a survey…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Career Exploration, Program Effectiveness, Middle Schools
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Cheng-Ji Lai – International Education Studies, 2024
Despite the increasing popularity of dual language education programs in Taiwan, limited research assesses their effectiveness. This study evaluated eight English Immersion Programs (EIPs) in Taiwan, representing a dual language education model, using the "Guiding Principles for Dual Language Education" (GPDLE) framework. Interviews with…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Bilingual Education Programs, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Amanda Smith; Leslie Grant – School Community Journal, 2024
This report from the field shares information describing a pilot program that addressed the literacy needs of middle school culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students. One of the authors played a key role in designing and implementing the Building Bonds family literacy program. This program was made to engage these students and their…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Middle School Students, Student Diversity, Cultural Differences
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Lin Liu; Bruce G. Taylor; Weiwei Liu; Nan D. Stein – Prevention Science, 2024
Using a randomized controlled trial, we investigated changes in both sexual harassment (SH) perpetration and victimization of 2104 middle school students in New York City who received divergent saturation and dosage levels of "Shifting Boundaries," an SH prevention program, which was represented by the length of the program. We assessed…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Victims, Prevention, Comparative Analysis
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