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Direct linkAlicia Nicole Cooper Denton – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study sought to explore the importance of mentorship programs for Black adolescent females. Due to the unique challenges that Black women face regarding the intersectionality of race, gender, and socioeconomic status, they are in need of mentorship programs to overcome these challenges. The Critical Race Feminist Theory was the theoretical…
Descriptors: Mentors, Personal Narratives, African Americans, Females
Peer reviewedFelicity Roux; Sharyn Burns; Jacqueline Hendriks; HuiJun Chih – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
There is a high prevalence of adolescent girls with ovulatory menstrual (OM) dysfunction, which is associated with school absenteeism and mental health challenges. Low menstrual health literacy among this group has evoked calls to review OM health education. This qualitative study sought to explore gaps in current OM health education and to…
Descriptors: Females, Physiology, Adolescents, Health Education
Download full textLeslie D. Leve; Maria L. Schweer-Collins; Elizabeth Bates – Grantee Submission, 2022
Objective: The prevention of delinquency can have long-term benefits for both the individual and society. Previous work has demonstrated positive effects of Treatment Foster Care Oregon (TFCO) on reducing delinquency across a 2-year period for adolescent females involved in the juvenile justice system. The present study examined whether the…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Adolescents, Females
Sebahat Altundag – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Objective: The study aimed to evaluate the short-term effects of education given on genital hygiene to female students attending a special education center. Methods: We interviewed 52 girls selected by meeting the inclusion criteria, using a quasi-experimental method, the single group pre-test post-test model in a special education institution…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities, Hygiene, Human Body
Emily N. Cyr; Kathryn M. Kroeper; Hilary B. Bergsieker; Tara C. Dennehy; Christine Logel; Jennifer R. Steele; Rita A. Knasel; W. Tyler Hartwig; Priscilla Shum; Stephanie L. Reeves; Odilia Dys-Steenbergen; Amrit Litt; Christopher B. Lok; Taylor Ballinger; Haemi Nam; Crystal Tse; Amanda L. Forest; Mark Zanna; Sheryl Staub-French; Mary Wells; Toni Schmader; Stephen C. Wright; Steven J. Spencer – Child Development, 2024
Girls and women face persistent negative stereotyping within STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics). This field intervention was designed to improve boys' perceptions of girls' STEM ability. Boys (N = 667; mostly White and East Asian) aged 9-15 years in Canadian STEM summer camps (2017-2019) had an intervention or control…
Descriptors: Females, Womens Education, STEM Education, Summer Programs
Shannon McNatty; Karen Nairn; Margie Campbell-Price; Mike Boyes – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2025
The long-term impacts of adolescent girls' outdoor learning are rarely represented in the outdoor literature. This research explored the stories of 11 young women reflecting on an immersive month of school outdoor learning, in a remote part of New Zealand. These young women were recruited following a larger survey of school alumni. During…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Adolescents, Females, Womens Education
Manuel M. Molina-López; Susana González-Pérez; M. Carmen García-Centeno; Miryam Martínez-Martínez – SAGE Open, 2024
This study explores the realm of authentic leadership theory to examine how female teenagers can enhance relational authenticity and develop authentic leadership skills through a specialized program. Employing multigroup Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), we assess the impact of this leadership intervention on female teenagers, comparing pre- and…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Leadership Training, Skill Development
Wallman-Jones, Amie; Mölders, Claudia; Schmidt, Mirko; Schärli, Andrea – Journal of Dance Education, 2023
The Feldenkrais Method® (FM) is a form of somatic education aiming to increase brain-body communication, reportedly via interoceptive mechanisms. Although empirically proven to improve perceived interoceptive ability and psychological well-being in adults, feasibility in adolescents remains unclear. We therefore used a combined randomized…
Descriptors: Dance, Well Being, Adolescents, Females
Serena Canaan – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2024
School tracking is the practice of separating students into tracks or classrooms based on their academic achievement. While school systems around the world use tracking, some track more heavily than others. Tracking is controversial, as low-income students are more likely than high-income students to be placed in low-achieving classrooms or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Track System (Education), Early Adolescents, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
Vener, Susan M.; Gillis, Alison M.; Poulson, Claire L. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Catatonia is a syndrome characterized as a cluster of difficulties in verbal and motor behavior that interferes with everyday function. This study analyzed the effects of a prompt-fading behavioral treatment package on the verbal behavior of an adolescent girl with autism and catatonia. Data were collected on three verbal responses previously…
Descriptors: Females, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Verbal Communication
Hite, Rebecca L.; Spott, Jessica L. – Journal of STEM Outreach, 2022
This study investigated how a STEM outreach program, focused on promoting adolescent girls' interests in STEM, augmented parents' and teachers' (adults) perceptions of doxa (socialization that enhances or stymies girls' STEM interests) after the event, at home and school, respectively. To this end, we provided participating adults with in-event…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Teachers, Parents
Christian Thurstone; Ryan Loh; Sonja O'Leary; Sophia Bruce; Kristie Ladegard – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: There are known health disparities in adolescent substance treatment access and engagement. The purpose of this project is to compare outcomes from school- and clinic-based substance treatment and to evaluate if providing school-based substance treatment reduces disparities in treatment access and engagement. Method: This quality…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Substance Abuse, Outcomes of Treatment, Drug Rehabilitation
Emmanuel Orkoh; Uchenna Efobi – Evaluation Review, 2024
Behaviour change communication (BCC) remains a central component of the interventions used in the fight against malaria in Ghana. However, there is limited evidence of its effectiveness. This study evaluated the effects of BCC strategies on knowledge (symptoms, causes and prevention) and overall knowledge of malaria among Ghanaian women aged…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Change, Health Behavior, Diseases
Aktas, Gamze; Öncü, Emine – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Objective: To compare the effectiveness of the training provided by the professional and caregivers in developing menstrual care skills of girls with intellectual disabilities. Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted with 22 moderate girls with intellectual disabilities randomly assigned to G-I and G-II. Both groups received training…
Descriptors: Females, Physiology, Daily Living Skills, Moderate Intellectual Disability
Allaire-Duquette, Geneviève; Chastenay, Pierre; Bouffard, Thérèse; Bélanger, Simon A.; Hernandez, Olivier; Mahhou, Mohamed Amine; Giroux, Patrick; McMullin, Sophie; Desjarlais, Estelle – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
Many girls believe they have little natural ability in computer science and girls' perception of self-efficacy beliefs for programming is generally low. Offering engaging hands-on programming activities could be a beneficial strategy to increase girls' self-efficacy beliefs for programming since it has the potential to offer them exposure to…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Programming, Workshops, Experiential Learning
