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Egan, Suzanne M.; Beatty, Chloé – Irish Educational Studies, 2021
The aim of the current study was to investigate how children in Ireland adapted to the change in schooling, and particularly their use of screen devices to support their learning at home, during a period of lockdown due to the COVID-19 crisis in early 2020. This research draws on data from 506 parents of children aged 1-10 years in Ireland who…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Brady, Bernadine; O'Regan, Connie – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2009
The youth mentoring program Big Brothers Big Sisters is one of the first social interventions involving youth in Ireland to be evaluated using a randomized controlled trial methodology. This article sets out the design process undertaken, describing how the research team came to adopt a concurrent embedded mixed methods design as a means of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Educational Technology
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Kiernan, Gemma; Axford, Nick; Little, Michael; Murphy, Cliona; Greene, Sheila; Gormley, Michael – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2008
This study examined the multiple factors that contribute to the school readiness and early school progress of children living in an urban disadvantaged area. Structured interviews were undertaken with parents of children who had recently started school to elicit information about those aspects of children's health, and their home and neighbourhood…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Disadvantaged Youth, Parents, Foreign Countries