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Coimbra, Manuel; Cody, Robyn; Kreppke, Jan-Niklas; Gerber, Markus – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2021
Background: School-based physical education has been associated with a multitude of potential learning outcomes. Representatives of a public health perspective suggest that promoting physical activity in and outside the context of school is an important endeavour. While the importance of behavioural skill training to improve (motor) learning is…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Behavior Development, Skill Development, Exercise
Pop-Eleches, Cristian; Urquiola, Miguel – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
This paper: i) estimates the effect that going to a better school has on students' academic achievement, and ii) explores whether this intervention induces behavioral responses on the part of children, their parents, and the school system. For the first task, we exploit almost 2,000 regression discontinuity quasi-experiments observed in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Experiments
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Purdie, Nola; Carroll, Annemaree; Roche, Lawrence – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
This study examined the relationship between adolescents' academic and non-academic self-regulation (SR), authoritative parenting (as demonstrated by high levels of Involvement, Strictness, and Autonomy Granting), and parent self-efficacy in four areas. Participants were 214 Australian high school students and their parents. There was a moderate…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Self Efficacy, Adolescent Attitudes, High School Students