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Hatzichristou, Chryse; Lianos, Panayiotis; Lampropoulou, Aikaterini – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2017
In this study, an evidence-based program aiming to promote psychological well-being and resilience within the context of Greek schools is presented. It is based upon a multidimensional model that synthesizes different theoretical domains, placing emphasis on different goals depending on the needs of the school community during unsettling times.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Well Being, Psychological Patterns, Resilience (Psychology)
Fletcher, Trina Lolita – ProQuest LLC, 2017
African American and Black women are twice as likely to enroll in higher education in comparison to Black men. However, when it comes to engineering degrees awarded in 2015, only 24% of the Black recipients were women. A potential solution may be to introduce engineering to pre-college Black female students through extracurricular program. Being…
Descriptors: Females, Engineering Education, Single Sex Schools, Outcomes of Education
Stohr, Amber D. – West Virginia Department of Education Office of Research, Accountability, and Data Governance, 2015
The Special Education Technology Integration Specialist (SETIS) program provides professional development for special education teachers to assist them in achieving proficiency with 21st Century Technology Tools. The program completed its eighth and ninth rounds during the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 school years, training more than 30 special…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Faculty Development, Technology Integration, Program Evaluation
Reichenberg, Monica – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2015
The present study is a follow up study to a quantitative intervention study where two intervention programs, Reciprocal Teaching and Inference Training, were practiced. This study aims at capturing the potentials benefits and qualitative aspects of one of the programs evaluated, Reciprocal Teaching. More specifically, I have investigated the video…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Comprehension, Mental Retardation, Inferences
Deke, John; Dragoset, Lisa – Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., 2012
The regression discontinuity design (RDD) has the potential to yield findings with causal validity approaching that of the randomized controlled trial (RCT). However, Schochet (2008a) estimated that, on average, an RDD study of an education intervention would need to include three to four times as many schools or students as an RCT to produce…
Descriptors: Research Design, Elementary Secondary Education, Regression (Statistics), Educational Research
Lee, Jaekyung; Finn, Jeremy; Liu, Xiaoyan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2012
This study contextualizes an effect-size-like index of educational treatment effects or any group mean differences in academic achievement by referencing time. The new effect size metric can enrich effect size interpretations while serving as a supplement (but not substitute) for conventional standardized effect size measures. Specifically, the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Program Evaluation, Validity, Effect Size
Thurston, Allen – Education Endowment Foundation, 2016
"Talk of the Town" is a community led approach to supporting the speech, language and communication (SLC) skills of children and young people, aged 0-19, living in areas of social disadvantage. It is delivered by the Communication Trust. This evaluation reports on a randomised controlled trial undertaken with 2696 pupils in 64 primary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Infants, Children
Deschesnes, Marthe; Drouin, Nathalie; Tessier, Caroline; Couturier, Yves – Health Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how a Canadian intervention based on a professional development (PD) model did or did not influence schools' capacities to absorb a Healthy School (HS) approach into their operations. This study is the second part of a research project: previously published results regarding this research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Professional Development, Capacity Building
Urdegar, Steven M. – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2014
My Virtual Reading Coach (MVRC) is an online program for students who have been identified as struggling readers. It is used as an intervention within the Response to Intervention (RtI) framework, as well as for students with disabilities. The software addresses reading sub-skills (i.e., comprehension, fluency, phonemic awareness, phonics, and…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Response to Intervention, Disabilities
Maxwell, Bronwen; Connolly, Paul; Demack, Sean; O'Hare, Liam; Stevens, Anna; Clague, Lucy – Education Endowment Foundation, 2014
The Summer Active Reading Programme aimed to improve reading skills and particularly comprehension by raising children's engagement in, and enjoyment of, reading at the transition from primary school to secondary school. The programme was delivered by Booktrust, an independent charity that aims to change lives through engaging people with reading.…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Reading Programs, Reading Skills, Reading Comprehension
Bobbera, Robert L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The school principal's role is demanding. Responsible for complex systems impacting student learning, the principal must possess knowledge in varied areas of the educational system. Rising from the roots of the teaching principal, the leadership paradigm of modern school principals has evolved over time. With the integration of digital…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Principals, Capacity Building, Action Research
Zarske, Malinda S.; Yowell, Janet L.; Ringer, Heidi L.; Sullivan, Jacquelyn F.; Quiñones, Patricia A. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2012
This paper describes the longitudinal impacts of a partnership between the University of Colorado Boulder's K-12 Engineering Education initiative and the St. Vrain Valley School District. Together, university and high school educators created a replicable pre-college engineering model in a nine-school feeder system, which serves many Colorado…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering, College School Cooperation, Partnerships in Education
Coban, Aysel Esen; Hamamci, Zeynep – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2009
The aim of this study was to compare the effects of a didactic stress management program, group counselling, and a control group on school counsellors' stress coping strategies. Thirty-four school counsellors were randomly assigned to either a didactic stress management group, group counselling, or a control group. The didactic stress management…
Descriptors: Stress Management, Group Counseling, Outcomes of Treatment, Coping
Epp, Kathleen Marie – Children & Schools, 2008
There is a paucity of literature on social skills therapy for students on the autism spectrum, revealing an urgent need for additional research. Past research has focused on the use of small groups or single-case study designs. The present study examines the effectiveness of a social skills therapy program for school-age children ages 11 through…
Descriptors: Autism, Hyperactivity, Group Therapy, Art Therapy
McNeil, Keith – 1991
A research design is described for the situation in which a program, particularly a compensatory education program funded by Chapter 1 of the Hawkins Stafford Act of 1988, can be evaluated when there is no available comparison group and no pretest data. The design requires content specialists to identify which objectives on the posttest were…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Pretests Posttests