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Children's Physical Activity Levels during Primary School Break Times: A Quantitative and Qualitative Research Design
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Powell, Emma; Woodfield, Lorayne A.; Nevill, Alan A. M. – European Physical Education Review, 2016
The overall aim of this study was to assess the diversity of primary school children's physical activity (PA) during outdoor recess. The study was grounded in a mixed method approach, assisting in the identification of multifaceted predictors of children's PA, including insights to social behaviours during break time. Data were obtained from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Elementary School Students, Children
Collaborative School Turnaround: A Study of the Impact of School Federations on Student Outcomes
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Chapman, Christopher; Muijs, Daniel – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2013
School federations are groups of two or more schools operating under a single governance structure. The study reported in this article compared federations designed to raise performance in low-attaining schools against a matched sample of their non-federated counterparts. The findings are based on quantitative analysis of data collected in…
Descriptors: School Turnaround, Matched Groups, Data Analysis, Effective Schools Research
Exploring Support for Dyslexic Adults in the English Workforce: Lessons Learnt from the Story of an Adult Dyslexia Group
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Bell, Sheena – Support for Learning, 2009
Dyslexia support is likely to be in place for students within educational establishments in England. However, there are a significant number of adults with dyslexia in the English workplace who are no longer involved in education and for whom ongoing support is necessary to enable them to reach their potential in a world of increasing literacy…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Group Structure, Foreign Countries, Reading Difficulties
Christian Community in Action: Bruderhof Schools
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Spielhagen, Frances R.; Cooper, Bruce S. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2007
The Bruderhof communities in the United States have organized their own private schools with a distinctly Christian philosophy of education, adding to the interesting mix of American private and religious schools. Rooted in early 20th century German pedagogy, romanticism, and shared responsibility, Bruderhof schools represent the essence of a…
Descriptors: Religious Cultural Groups, Private Schools, Religious Education, Educational Philosophy
School Ties: A Social Network Analysis of Friendships in a Multilingual Kindergarten.
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Thompson, Linda – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1996
Presents a microanalysis of data from the Box Hill Nursery Project, an ethnolinguistic study carried out in the northeast of England, into children's language and social behavior during their first term in nursery school. Identifies characteristics of dense friendship networks. Concludes that understanding friendship networks can help teachers in…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
Complexities and Compromises: The New Era at Parkview School.
Radnor, Hillary A. – 1990
A case study of a mixed comprehensive school with an age range of 11-16 investigates the management of the first externally imposed change on the secondary school system during the years 1987-89. Implemented in 1986, the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is a national examination for all 16-year-olds delivered through the subjects…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Foreign Countries, Group Structure, Interaction