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Julie E. Doty; Nathan E. Thompson – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2024
Near-peer tutoring (NPT) programs are popular vehicles to supplement traditional delivery of medical school curricula, including for anatomy laboratory (AL) content. While NPT programs can result in improved preclinical coursework performance for tutees, little to no data specifically show a benefit of NPT in AL course performance. In 2021, NYIT…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Peer Teaching, Medical Students, Medical Education
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Wazir Ali; Abdul Rahman; Ravik Karsidi; Niamatullah Baloch – Issues in Educational Research, 2025
Education is a transformative force with the potential to reshape socio-political structures, promote equity, and drive social progress. However, in Pakistan, elite capture presents a significant challenge to the education system, spreading disparities and restricting access to quality education by marginalised communities. Therefore, our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Politics of Education, Equal Education, Access to Education
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Lincove, Jane Arnold; Parker, Adam – Education Economics, 2016
Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are used to reduce poverty while incentivizing investments in children. Targeting CCTs to certain groups of children can improve efficiency, but positive effects on eligible children may be offset by reductions in investments for ineligible siblings. Using data from Nicaragua, we estimate program effects on…
Descriptors: Poverty, Siblings, Eligibility, Foreign Countries
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Cusick, Anne; Camer, Danielle; Stamenkovic, Alexander; Zaccagnini, Melissa – Journal of Peer Learning, 2015
Research training should facilitate effective researcher role development. While researcher roles require the performance of specialised knowledge and skill, they also require development of personal research identities within social contexts. Interaction with research peers can provide opportunities for reflective role development. Ad-hoc…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Researchers, Trainees, Program Development
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Reisel, John R.; Jablonski, Marissa R.; Munson, Ethan; Hosseini, Hossein – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2014
Peer-led Team Learning (PLTL) is an instructional method reported to increase student learning in STEM courses. As mathematics is a significant hurdle for many freshmen engineering students, a PLTL program was implemented for students to attempt to improve their course performance. Here, an analysis of PLTL for freshmen engineering students in…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Teaching Methods, Peer Teaching, STEM Education
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Michael, Kurt D.; Albright, Abby; Jameson, John Paul; Sale, Rafaella; Massey, Cameron; Kirk, Alex; Egan, Theresa – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2013
Given the prevalence of mental health difficulties among children and adolescents, schools have become a suitable context for providing psychological services to those who may otherwise go untreated. The co-occurrence of mental health impairments and academic problems has been widely cited, and many school mental health (SMH) programmes have begun…
Descriptors: Cognitive Restructuring, Behavior Modification, Rural Schools, School Health Services
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Tyre, Ashli; Feuerborn, Laura; Pierce, Jennifer – Preventing School Failure, 2011
When many students are tardy at the secondary level, teachers must continually restart instruction or delay beginning instructional periods throughout the school day. To address the considerable amount of instructional time lost caused by high rates of tardiness, the authors investigated the results of schoolwide intervention to reduce student…
Descriptors: Intervention, Tribally Controlled Education, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Program Effectiveness
Cetinavci, Ugur Recep; Topkaya, Ece Zehir – Online Submission, 2012
In a year-long preparatory English class in a state university in Turkey, students are expected to develop knowledge and skills related to language including grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading, writing ,and speaking. In this context students and teachers are challenged in considering how much accuracy should be emphasized in the learning and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Program Evaluation, Comparative Analysis
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Duarte, Danielle; Hatch, Trish – Professional School Counseling, 2015
Sixty-four federal Elementary and Secondary School Counseling (ESSC) program grants were awarded in 2009. One awarded school district implemented a comprehensive school counseling program based on the ASCA National Model at three high-needs elementary schools. This case study describes a district initiative that provided prevention education for…
Descriptors: Prevention, Grants, Federal Programs, School Counseling
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Azevedo, Viviane; Robles, Marcos – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Conditional cash transfer programs (CCTs) have two main objectives: reducing poverty and increasing the human capital of children. To reach these objectives, transfers are given to poor households conditioned on investments in their children's education, health, and nutrition. Targeting mechanisms used by CCTs have been generally successful in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Attendance
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Macpherson, Reynold – International Journal of Educational Management, 2013
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to report the process, findings and implications of a three-year evaluation of integrated health centres (IHCs) established in three secondary schools in Cornwall by the School-Based Integrated Health Centres (SBIHC) partnership. Design/methodology/approach: When the partners had completed the capital works, an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Health Services, Secondary Schools, Longitudinal Studies
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Hough, David L. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2011
More than 2,300 teachers in 241 schools across 25 states participating in a professional development approach to character education classroom management known as Development Designs 1 and Developmental Designs 2 (DD1 & DD2) were studied throughout the 2008-2009 academic school year. Data from this longitudinal program evaluation indicate that…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Poverty, Program Evaluation, Program Implementation
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Yeung, Ryan; Gunton, Bradley; Kalbacher, Dylan; Seltzer, Jed; Wesolowski, Hannah – Education and Urban Society, 2011
Enacted in 1997, the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) represented the largest expansion of U.S. public health care coverage since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid 32 years earlier. Although the program has recently been reauthorized, there remains a considerable lack of thorough and well-designed evaluations of the program. In…
Descriptors: Public Health, Average Daily Attendance, Health Insurance, Children
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Converse, Noelle; Lignugaris/Kraft, Benjamin – Remedial and Special Education, 2009
This study investigated the impact of a school-based mentoring program on at-risk students' office referrals, unexcused absences, and school attitude. Students who participated in the mentoring program had statistically significant reductions in office referrals and statistically significant improvements in school attitude. Based on an analysis of…
Descriptors: Mentors, School Attitudes, At Risk Students, Program Effectiveness
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Harris, Mary Beth; Franklin, Cynthia – Children & Schools, 2009
A school social worker and three social work interns in a semirural alternative high school with a predominant Hispanic student enrollment evaluated the Taking Charge group intervention. The group is an evidence-based life skills intervention for adolescent mothers, and it was evaluated on its efficacy for improving participants' school…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Intervention, Grade Point Average, Mothers
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