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MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership, 2024
Strong, caring relationships with adult and peer mentors have long played a crucial role in helping young people thrive academically and overcome challenges they face while at school and at key points in their educational journey. These mentoring relationships for students can be provided at school through volunteer programs embedded in the school…
Descriptors: Mentors, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Low Income Students
Karen S. Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2021
For the Expanded Learning Summer Program (ELSP), at a midsized public school system in the Northeast, providing high quality programming that engages student interest and fosters active learning by all children was a top priority. This case study, undertaken during the summer of 2017, provided insight into how the ELSP aligned with the relevant…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Public Schools, School Activities, Evidence Based Practice
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Fite, Paula J.; Hendrickson, Michelle; Rubens, Sonia L.; Gabrielli, Joy; Evans, Spencer – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2013
Background: There is substantial evidence to suggest that aggressive behavior is associated with poor academic performance in school-aged children. However, less is known about how different subtypes of aggression are related to academic performance and what variables may account for this association. Objective: The current study examined unique…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness, School Activities, Aggression
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Evans, Steven W.; Schultz, Brandon K.; DeMars, Christine E.; Davis, Heather – Behavior Therapy, 2011
There are no empirically supported psychosocial treatments for adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). This study examined the treatment benefits of the Challenging Horizons Program (CHP), a psychosocial treatment program designed to address the impairment and symptoms associated with this disorder in young adolescents.…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, School Activities, Family Involvement, After School Programs
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Kelly, Courtney – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2011
This article examines an after-school program in which English language learners (ELLs) collaborated with their mainstream peers at an urban middle school to produce a multilingual video that addressed a social issue. The project, which was grounded in the tenets of critical and culturally relevant pedagogies, allowed the young people to mobilize…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Social Problems, Critical Theory, School Activities
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Niehaus, Kate; Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz; Adelson, Jill L. – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2012
This longitudinal study examined how academic self-efficacy, intrinsic motivation, and participation in an after-school program contributed to the academic achievement of Latino middle school students over the course of one school year. Participants were 47 Latino students in sixth through eighth grades who attended two public middle schools in…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, School Activities, Middle Schools, Self Efficacy
Dietel, Ronald – Phi Delta Kappan, 2009
To understand the effects of after-school programs, people need to understand the effects of various "dosages." The Harvard Family Research Project, an agency that devotes considerable resources to the study of after-school programs, recommends three categories for measuring dosage: (1) "intensity"; (2) "duration"; and (3) "breadth." Intensity is…
Descriptors: School Activities, After School Programs, Program Effectiveness, Attendance Patterns
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Kim, James S.; Samson, Jennifer F.; Fitzgerald, Robert; Hartry, Ardice – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
The purpose of this study was (1) to examine the causal effects of READ 180, a mixed-methods literacy intervention, on measures of word reading efficiency, reading comprehension and vocabulary, and oral reading fluency and (2) to examine whether print exposure among children in the experimental condition explained variance in posttest reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, School Activities, Intervention, Reading Fluency
Gamoran, Adam; Turley, Ruth N. Lopez; Turner, Alyn; Fish, Rachel – Online Submission, 2012
Disadvantages faced by Hispanic children in the U.S., compared to non-Hispanic Whites, have been widely reported. Economic differences account for some of the gaps, but the social isolation of Hispanic families also serves as a barrier to children's success. Whereas Hispanic families tend to have strong kinship networks, their social ties often do…
Descriptors: After School Programs, School Activities, Whites, Social Capital
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Kim, James S.; Capotosto, Lauren; Hartry, Ardice; Fitzgerald, Robert – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2011
The authors describe an independent evaluation of the READ 180 Enterprise intervention designed by Scholastic, Inc. Despite widespread use of the program with upper elementary through high school students, there is limited empirical evidence to support its effectiveness. In this randomized controlled trial involving 312 students enrolled in an…
Descriptors: Evidence, Control Groups, Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension
Chinen, Marjorie Harue – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation studies the short-term effects of attending an after-school program (i.e., LA's BEST) on student mathematic achievement. The effects of one, two and three years of participation are studied, as well as the extent to which the magnitude of these effects varies across grades in which participation occurs, and the extent to which…
Descriptors: Control Groups, School Activities, Mathematics Achievement, After School Programs
Martinez-Restrepo, Susana – ProQuest LLC, 2012
What are the socioeconomic implications of the time allocation decisions made by low-income adolescents? The way adolescents allocate their time between schooling, labor and leisure has important implications for their education attainment, college aspirations, job opportunities and future earnings. This study focuses on adolescents and young…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Pregnancy, Gender Differences, Outcomes of Education
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Townsend, Dianna – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2009
Adolescent English-language learners (ELLs) encounter increasingly difficult academic language as they progress through school. This article describes the design of an after-school intervention, Language Workshop, created to help middle school ELLs build their knowledge of academic vocabulary words. Evidence-based principles of vocabulary…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, School Activities, Intervention, Visual Aids
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Koenig, Kathleen; Hanson, Margaret – Science Scope, 2008
As our society becomes more technologically advanced and jobs require additional related skills, it is important that all girls, not just those interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (commonly referred to as the STEM disciplines), take advanced levels of science and math in high school. Evidence suggests that intervention…
Descriptors: School Activities, Intervention, Womens Education, Science Interests
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Epstein, Shira Eve – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2010
In this paper, I explore the experiences of fourth and fifth grade students engaged in Beyond Today, an urban after school program, that aimed to enact a social reconstructionist multicultural curriculum. The program gathered White, Black, and Latino/a youth to explore issues of discrimination and social justice and develop leadership towards…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Race, School Activities, Multicultural Education
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