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Hermann, Hans – Alliance for Excellent Education, 2019
Changes in their brains, combined with a greater awareness of peers and events around them, make adolescence a key time for students to figure out who they are, what they aspire to be, and what they want to do in the world. This Alliance for Excellent Education report explores how human identity and self-regulation develop during adolescence and…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Metacognition, Self Control, Adolescent Development
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Costa, Ana; Faria, Luísa – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2016
This study examines the developmental trajectories of ability and trait emotional intelligence (EI) in the Portuguese secondary school. Within a three-wave longitudinal design, 395 students (M[subscript age] = 15.4; SD = 0.74) completed both the Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire (ESCQ) and the Vocabulary of Emotions Test (VET). Results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Emotional Intelligence, Longitudinal Studies
Savitz-Romer, Mandy; Bouffard, Suzanne M. – Harvard Education Press, 2012
How can an understanding of adolescent development inform strategies and practices for supporting first-generation college goers? In "Ready, Willing, and Able," Mandy Savitz-Romer and Suzanne Bouffard focus on the developmental tasks and competencies that young people need to develop in order to plan for and succeed in higher education. These…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Developmental Tasks, Adolescents, Access to Education
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Noam, Gil G.; Malti, Tina – New Directions for Youth Development, 2008
The authors introduce the RALLY (Responsive Advocacy for Life and Learning in Youth) approach. RALLY is a school- and afterschool-based approach addressing academic success, youth development, and mental health for youth. Based on developmental and relational principles, RALLY's main goals are to promote students' resiliency, development, and…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Youth Programs, Advocacy, After School Programs
Holcomb-McCoy, Cheryl C. – 1997
During the past 20 years, much has been written on the ethnic/racial identity development of adults. Recently, attention toward adolescents' ethnic identity development has increased; to explicate this new research, a model of ethnic identity development proposed by Phinney (1989) is explored here. The model classifies adolescents into one of four…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Cultural Awareness