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Kaitlyn G. O'Hagan; Leanna Stiefel – Remedial and Special Education, 2025
Research increasingly seeks to answer the question: does special education work? This is different than asking if specific interventions have positive effects and instead aims to identify system-wide impacts. We systematically review published quantitative research on the impact of receiving special education services on student outcomes using…
Descriptors: Special Education, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Educational Research
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Baris Bulunmaz; Ramazan Bilge – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2024
During the pandemic period, there have been such upheavals from production methods to distribution strategies, and from supply methods to corporate functioning. Accordingly, it would not be wrong to say that all companies and sectors, regardless of national or international, are part of this fundamental transformation. When the education sector…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Program Effectiveness
Aphipanyo, Phrapalad Soravit – Online Submission, 2021
The objectives of this research are: 1) to study the effect of meditation practice on the emotional quotient (EQ) of students in Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University; 2) to compare EQ of students before and after meditation practice of the students. The 217 sample students in the Faculty of Education were selected by Stratified Random…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Emotional Intelligence, Program Effectiveness, Undergraduate Students
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Deutsch, Joe; Waldera, Roman; Linker, Jenny; Schnabel, Ethan – Physical Educator, 2022
Daily physical activity (PA) benefits children's and adolescents' overall health while reducing the likelihood of obesity. Elementary school physical education (PE) classes provide opportunities for children and adolescents not only to participate in PA but also to build the knowledge and skills needed to be physically active across their…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Elementary School Students, Knowledge Level
Morris-Hayes, Jennifer J. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Professional learning communities (PLCs) are an essential avenue for high-quality change and work. Maintaining unity among groups with differing opinions is challenging. This mixed-methods study aimed to assess elementary teachers' current perceptions of PLCs to determine their effectiveness by answering four research questions: What are the…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Faculty Development, Elementary School Teachers
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Lam, Arena C.; Berliner, BethAnn; Barrat, Vanessa X. – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2021
Even before COVID-19, school districts wanted to understand if school-based telemedicine services met student health needs during the school day and helped keep students in school all day, every day. Specifically, districts were interested in knowing if telemedicine enabled students with a school-day health issue to return to class instead of…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Urban Schools, Age Differences, Instructional Program Divisions
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Alegre, Francisco; Moliner, Lidon; Lorenzo-Valentin, Gil; Maroto, Ana – South African Journal of Education, 2021
The academic effects of learning statistics and probability through peer tutoring were analysed in the research reported on here. Two hundred and eight students enrolled in Grades 7, 8 and 9 participated. Fixed- and same-age peer tutoring was implemented 3 times per week for 6 weeks. Each tutoring session lasted approximately 25 minutes. The main…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Lein, Amy E.; Jitendra, Asha K.; Harwell, Michael R. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
This meta-analysis synthesized the available empirical evidence on the impact of interventions on the development and enhancement of mathematical word problem solving skills for K-12 students with learning disabilities (LD) and those with mathematics difficulties (MD). A total of 33 studies met inclusion criteria for this meta-analysis. After…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems
Pamela Sveitlana Gibbs – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Advancements in technology have increased so rapidly that calls for education reform centering on STEM have become louder and louder. Particularly, many researchers and educators are focusing on math, because of its pivotal role in STEM, and the low-performance ratings of students within the United States. One of the potential reforms being…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Game Based Learning, Video Games, Middle School Students
Mesa, Michael P.; Roehrig, Alysia; Funari, Chelsea; Durtschi, Shawna; Ha, Cheyeon; Rawls, Erik; Davis, Cheron – Grantee Submission, 2021
A substantial amount of evidence suggests that students, particularly those from economically disadvantaged households, experience summer reading loss. Available evidence suggests this is due to a lack of participation in literacy-focused activities and access to books during the summer break from school. The current study investigated whether…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Summer Programs, Literacy Education
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Amitay, Gila; Rahav, Giora – Preventing School Failure, 2021
This study was designed to elicit comprehensive information about drop-out youth's schooling experiences in a successful alternative school. We combined a triangular measurement design from the perspectives of the students, their parents, their teachers, and the researchers. The study is based on 82 semi-structured interviews with students (n =…
Descriptors: Failure, Nontraditional Education, Student Empowerment, Dropouts
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Stohlman, Shelby L.; Cornell, Dewey G. – Journal of School Health, 2019
Background: Threat assessment is a widely recommended practice used by schools to investigate and respond to student threats of violence; however, students are often reluctant to disclose threats. Methods: We developed an online educational program for students to increase their understanding of threat assessment and the need to report serious…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Violence, Disclosure, Risk
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Coskuner, Zeki; Büyükçelebi, Hakan; Kurak, Kemal; Açak, Mahmut – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
Life skills are applicable psycho-social skills and abilities to develop desired qualities such as self-confidence and socialization. In this context, the research aims to investigate how participation in sports activities during secondary education affects an individual's life skills. In the research, the sample group consists of a total of 698…
Descriptors: Athletics, Secondary School Students, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
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Onyeaso, Adedamola Olutoyin; Onyeaso, Chukwudi Ochi – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Background: The need for training of schoolchildren on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as potential bystander CPR providers is growing globally but Nigeria is still behind and lacks basic necessary data. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of age, gender and school class on CPR skills of Nigerian secondary school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Gender Differences, Age Differences
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Pandya, Samta P. – Gifted and Talented International, 2017
Based on a single-group one-year long evaluation study with 1,625 gifted children aged from 225 schools in 15 cities, this article examines whether participation in a spiritual education program increases their emotional intelligence. Results showed that gifted children's emotional intelligence scores were higher post--spiritual education program…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Emotional Intelligence, Spiritual Development, Program Effectiveness
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