This paper describes the design and investigation of a high-school-affiliated esports program based on an enrichment learning model. In it, the authors detail the connections between esports and learning, self-reported impacts of the program and demographic differences among them, students' attitudes toward program features, and equity in results…

This is the technical appendix for the report: "Social-Emotional Learning and Academic Growth: Insights from an Innovative Research-Practice Partnership." Contents of the appendix include: (1) Sample; (2) The Student Success Network (SSN) Survey; and (3) Analytic Framework and Estimates. [For the full report, see ED615830.]

Teachers' perspectives of play differ widely because of social and cultural influences that can be seen in their values and beliefs about play in different countries. In a global community, sharing educators' knowledge of play and their perspectives of how to educate children through the use of play would be appropriate and complementary in…

The SELF Foundation engaged 287 students at Key, Revere, and Welch middle schools in afterschool tutorials and enrichment activities to support their academic, social, and emotional development. Program impact was measured using reading and math performance, attendance, and disciplinary actions of SELF Foundation students compared to…

This project provides a comprehensive overview of the research literature on social anxiety disorder (SAD) in adolescents and concludes by offering a set of 10 group therapy lesson plans for SAD that therapists can use in their practice. The overview includes a description of social anxiety disorder and highlights various theories of anxiety. The…

Three properties of the Test of the Hierarchy of Inductive Knowledge (THINK)--that the levels of social competence assessed are cumulative/hierarchical, age-dependent, and related to criterion estimates of behavior--were tested with 120 educable mentally retarded children (ages 9-14 years). (Author/DLS)

The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) is used to assess the behavioral problems and social competencies of children. Its broad usage in both practitioner and research contexts has led to misapplications as compared to the CBCL's original intended purpose. In addition, the composition of the normative sample presents particular difficulties for…

This document contains the results of the Primary Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire which was administered to 7,852 students between the ages of 8 and 11 years in schools in England during the 1991-1992 school year. The preliminary sections of the report introduce the work being done by the Schools Health Education Unit at the University of…

This document contains the results of the Health Related Behaviour Questionnaire which was administered to 20,218 students between the ages of 11 and 15 years in schools in England in 1992. The preliminary sections of the report explain the questionnaire and the survey, list the Schools Health Education Unit's databanks, describe the 1992 sample,…

A needs assessment was conducted with clients of the Rehabilitation Center for Brain Dysfunction (Irvine, California) and other local populations of learning-disabled adults. This report discusses the background of the problem addressed by the needs assessment, presents the results of an in-depth analysis of the responses to the survey instrument,…