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Fan Zhang; Heather Erwin; Aaron Beighle – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: This study offers a comprehensive review of academic performance measurement instruments in physical activity and education settings, aiming to provide a comprehensive list of tools used for measuring academic performance in relation to variables associated with physical activity. Methods: Academic performance outcomes, including…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Physical Activities, Measurement Techniques, Thinking Skills
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Sullivan, William E.; Martens, Brian K.; Morley, Allison J.; Long, Stephanie J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
Activity schedules, guided compliance, and differential reinforcement are often used to reduce transition-related problem behavior in children with autism. One potential way to increase the effectiveness of these procedures when transitioning children from preferred to nonpreferred activities is to alter the motivating operations for…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Behavior Modification
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Robinson, Keith – Elementary School Journal, 2013
Multilevel modeling was used to investigate the relationship between poverty status, mathematics achievement gains, and behavioral engagement in learning over kindergarten. Data included information on 11,680 poor, low-income, and non-poor kindergartners from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K). Results…
Descriptors: Poverty, Mathematics Achievement, Achievement Gains, Learner Engagement
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Bardin, Julie A.; Lewis, Sandra – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2011
English and language arts teachers of braille-reading students in general education classes rated these students' academic engagement and the academic achievement of low- and average-achieving sighted students in the same classrooms. The braille readers were found to be statistically similar to the low-achieving students with regard to effort,…
Descriptors: Braille, Visual Impairments, English Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Didden, Robert; de Moor, Jan M. H.; Korzilius, Hubert – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Children with epilepsy are at risk for problems in daytime functioning. We assessed daytime sleepiness, on-task behavior and attention in 17 children (aged between 7 and 11 years) with epilepsy who visited a school for special education and compared these to 17 children from a control group who visited a regular school. Within the group of…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Epilepsy, Sleep, Educational Practices
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Cohen-Mimran, Ravit; Sapir, Shimon – Dyslexia, 2007
The role of central auditory processing in reading skill development and reading disorders is unclear. The purpose of this study was to examine whether individuals with specific reading disabilities (SRD) have deficits in processing rapidly presented, serially ordered non-speech auditory signals. To this end, we compared 12 children with SRD and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Test Results, Intervals, Time on Task
Zuk, Dorie; Danner, Fred – 1986
A study investigated the effects of microcomputers on children's attention to reading tasks and the relationship between previous reading achievement and grade level on such attentional behavior. Fifty-five third and fifth graders read two stories each, one presented on a microcomputer and one presented in print. Television cartoons and rock music…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Span, Books, Comparative Analysis