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Suping Liu; Lixin Ren – Prevention Science, 2025
Parental emotion socialization is crucial to children's development, yet emotion-focused parenting programs are scarce in non-Western contexts. In this study, we developed a four-week emotion-focused parenting program based on the principles of emotion coaching for Chinese families with preschool-aged children. This program integrated parent group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Parents, Parent Child Relationship
Ceria, Emerson T. – Online Submission, 2021
This study is about an innovative project designed to address the educational process of non-face-to-face learning in school. The objective of this study is to assess the effectiveness of the school-home learning clinic project of Pandayan Elementary School in the province of Bulacan, Philippines. A descriptive research design was used in this…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Elementary Schools, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries
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Tkach, Rochelle; Gallagher, Tiffany L. – Reading Horizons, 2020
Research on this intervention program aimed to address whether digital technology (i.e., apps on tablets) contributes to struggling early readers' (4-6 years old) on-task behavior and level of engagement while learning prerequisite emergent literacy skills (e.g., phonemic awareness, phonics, word recognition and decoding). The research also…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Handheld Devices, Technology Integration, Multimedia Instruction
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Pitt, Catherine; Luger, Rosemary; Bullen, Ann; Phillips, Diana; Geiger, Martha – South African Journal of Education, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to present a preliminary, qualitative review of a therapeutic programme for preschool children and their parents in severely under-resourced contexts to aid the development of the underlying skills required to be ready for formal school. A team of two pairs, each comprising an occupational therapist and a community…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Parents, School Readiness, Occupational Therapy
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LaCour, Misty M.; McDonald, Connie; Tissington, Laura D.; Thomason, Gina – Reading Improvement, 2013
This study sought to determine if, by providing parents with a workshop on the use of dialogic reading techniques during the storybook reading event in the home, Pre-Kindergarten children's attitude and interest in reading would improve. Parents completed a survey prior to the workshop and two months following completion of the workshop. Through…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Reading Improvement, Reading Attitudes
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Deslandes, Rollande; Rivard, Marie-Claude – School Community Journal, 2013
The new Québec curriculum is different from other curriculum reforms in that it is based on a competency approach, both cross-curricular and disciplinary. It thus means a move from knowledge-based to competency-based assessments which represents a real challenge to parents who may find it hard to understand learning assessments and their child's…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Competency Based Education, Educational Assessment
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Weber, Christine L.; Stanley, Laurel – Gifted Child Today, 2012
The focus of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a series of free workshops for parents of gifted children. The parent education workshops provided research-based information as recognized by experts in the field of counseling gifted children. Content areas include the characteristics of gifted children, identification, appropriate…
Descriptors: Gifted, Parenting Styles, Parent Education, Parent Workshops
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Rogasner, Marjorie – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2010
How often have we said: "The parents are not involved--they are just not interested." My two-year action research study evaluated a variety of methods which led to more immigrant parent participation in family workshops. The study took place in a Chicago public school, in a first grade bilingual classroom. All of the families are Spanish…
Descriptors: Parent Workshops, Program Effectiveness, Immigrants, Action Research
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Auerbach, Susan; Collier, Shartriya – Teachers College Record, 2012
Background/Context: As accountability pressures have mounted toward ever-higher targets under the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, low-achieving schools have sought new tools for raising achievement. The association between parent involvement and student achievement is well established, though the association is an indirect relationship mediated…
Descriptors: Accountability, Immigrants, Reading Skills, Family Literacy
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Smylie, Lisa; Maticka-Tyndale, Eleanor; Boyd, Dana – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2008
The effectiveness of a multidimensional Canadian sex education programme was evaluated using 240 Grade Nine students. The intervention was offered by representatives from various community groups and involved instructional classes on anatomy/physiology of the reproductive system and sexually transmitted infections, a video and group discussion on…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Contraception, Group Discussion, Intervention
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Sobel, Andrea; Kugler, Eileen Gale – Educational Leadership, 2007
In 2004, immigrant-rich Annandale High School in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., launched a focused effort to bring more parents of students from immigrant families into school leadership. Nearly half of the parents of Annandale High students are immigrants to the United States--and they come from more than 80 different countries.…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Communication Strategies, Immigrants, Partnerships in Education
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Kosterman, Rick; Hawkins, J. David; Haggerty, Kevin P.; Spoth, Richard; Redmond, Cleve – Journal of Drug Education, 2001
Sessions of a parent-training intervention were tested to determine their effect on parenting practices. Rural families (N=209) were assigned to an intervention or control group. Parents in the intervention group noted improvements in parenting behaviors. Effects were most pronounced among mothers. The study increased plausibility that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Drug Education, Mothers
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Tremblay, Claudia; Begin, Huguette – International Journal of Early Childhood, 2000
Examined effect of a workshop on issues and prevention of child sexual abuse on the knowledge of mothers of kindergarten-age children while children attended a class on the prevention of sexual abuse in school. Found that mothers in the workshop improved their knowledge, while mothers who did not attend, but whose children did, showed no change in…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Kindergarten Children, Knowledge Level, Mothers
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Burgess, Joanne C. – Reading Improvement, 1982
Indicates that a program for parents of preschool children that emphasized the teaching of language and cognitive skills to children was successful in improving the school readiness scores of those children. (FL)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Skills, Parent Role, Parent Workshops
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Pinsker, Mark; Geoffroy, Kevin – Family Relations, 1981
The Behavior Modification workshop reduced deviant child behaviors and parental perceptions of problem child behaviors, whereas the Parent Effectiveness Training group increased positive parental consequations, family cohesion, and decreased family conflict. Both Behavior Modification and Parent Effectiveness Training groups significantly…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Comparative Analysis, Family Problems, Outcomes of Education
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