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Download full textMontana Office of Public Instruction, 2020
The Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is administered by the Montana Office of Public Instruction every two years to students in grades 7 through 12. The purpose of the survey is to help monitor the prevalence of behaviors that not only influence youth health, but also put youth at risk for the most significant health and social problems…
Descriptors: School Safety, Health Behavior, Risk, High School Students
Shapiro, Amy – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2009
Student evaluations of a large General Psychology course indicate that students enjoy the class a great deal, yet attendance is low. An experiment was conducted to evaluate a personal response system as a solution. Attendance rose by 30% as compared to extra credit as an inducement, but was equivalent to offering pop quizzes. Performance on test…
Descriptors: Test Items, Instructional Effectiveness, Learning Strategies, Classroom Techniques
Direct linkMcCombs, Jennifer Sloan; Orr, Nate; Bodilly, Susan J.; Naftel, Scott; Constant, Louay; Scherer, Ethan; Gershwin, Daniel – RAND Corporation, 2010
High-quality out-of-school-time (OST) programs have a positive effect on youth development, but many cities have found it difficult to address the challenges of expanding and improving the quality of programs offered to underserved and high-need students. In response, The Wallace Foundation sponsored an initiative to help five cities increase…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Management Information Systems, Financial Support, Data
Peer reviewedVisscher, Adrie J.; Bos, Klaas T. – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 1993
The use of the Absence Registration System (ARS), a computer-assisted system that supports registration of absent students, and its effects on truancy were studied in 30 Dutch urban secondary schools. Reasons why results do not show a significant reduction in absenteeism are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: Attendance, Attendance Patterns, Attendance Records, Computer Uses in Education
