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Van Wasshenova, Emily; Boardley, Debra; Geers, Andrew; Tull, Matthew; Steiner, Victoria – American Journal of Health Education, 2023
Background: Affective associations have been shown to predict physical activity, but interventions designed to manipulate affective associations are limited. Purpose: To increase physical activity through manipulation of affective associations toward physical activity using the values component from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in…
Descriptors: Correlation, Patients, Affective Behavior, Intervention
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Clevenger, Kimberly A.; Moore, Rebecca W.; Suton, Darijan; Montoye, Alexander H.K.; Trost, Stewart G.; Pfeiffer, Karin A. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2018
This study examined if accelerometer-based assessments of physical activity were responsive to changes in physical activity level commensurate with performing structured versus unstructured activity in youth. Youth (6-16 years; N = 206) participated in a simulated after-school program that included structured and unstructured games on four…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Children, Adolescents
Soobin Kim; John Yun; Barbara Schneider; Michael Broda; Christopher Klager; I-Chien Chen – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
We study the long-term effects of a psychological intervention on longitudinal academic outcomes and degree completion of college students. All freshmen at a large public university were randomized to an online growth mindset, belonging, or control group. We tracked students' academic outcomes including GPA, number of credits attempted and earned,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Longitudinal Studies, Grade Point Average, College Freshmen
Malakowsky, Daniel James – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A modified extensive reading literacy intervention was examined in this study. The problem was English Learner third and fourth-grade students reading standardized tests scores were low and educators were uncertain as to which type of intervention was best to improve English Learner student oral reading fluency and reading comprehension. This…
Descriptors: Reading Instruction, Intervention, English Language Learners, Reading Fluency
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Working, Christopher – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2018
The use of technology in elementary mathematics instruction tends to be low-level, despite its affordance of supporting the development of students' high-level reasoning ability. This study builds upon a sociocultural view of learning and was designed to determine what effect a technology-mediated dialogic learning intervention has on third-grade…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics
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Jacob, Robin T.; Goddard, Roger D.; Kim, Eun Sook – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2014
It is often difficult and costly to obtain individual-level student achievement data, yet, researchers are frequently reluctant to use school-level achievement data that are widely available from state websites. We argue that public-use aggregate school-level achievement data are, in fact, sufficient to address a wide range of evaluation questions…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data, Information Utilization, Educational Assessment
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Leone, Lucia A.; Allicock, Marlyn; Pignone, Michael P.; Walsh, Joan F.; Johnson, La-Shell; Armstrong-Brown, Janelle; Carr, Carol C.; Langford, Aisha; Ni, Andy; Resnicow, Ken; Campbell, Marci K. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
Action Through Churches in Time to Save Lives (ACTS) of Wellness was a cluster randomized controlled trial developed to promote colorectal cancer screening and physical activity (PA) within urban African American churches. Churches were recruited from North Carolina (n = 12) and Michigan (n = 7) and were randomized to intervention (n = 10) or…
Descriptors: Churches, Peer Groups, Counseling Services, Gender Differences
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Shah, Megha K.; Kieffer, Edith C.; Choi, Hwajung; Schumann, Christina; Heisler, Michele – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Background. Pregnancy is an opportune time to initiate diabetes prevention strategies for minority and underserved women, using culturally tailored interventions delivered by community health workers. A community-partnered randomized controlled trial (RCT) with pregnant Latino women resulted in significantly improved vegetable, fiber, added sugar,…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Hispanic Americans, Females, Health Promotion
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Cowdery, Joan; Majeske, Paul; Frank, Rebecca; Brown, Devin – American Journal of Health Education, 2015
Background: Although there are thousands of health and fitness smartphone apps currently available, little research exists regarding the effects of mobile app technology on physical activity behavior. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to test whether Exergame smartphone applications increase physical activity levels. Methods: This was a…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Physical Activity Level
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Paek, Hye-Jin; Jung, Yumi; Oh, Hyun Jung; Alaimo, Katherine; Pfeiffer, Karin; Carlson, Joseph J.; Wen, Yalu; Betz, Heather Hayes; Orth, Julie – Health Education Journal, 2015
Objective: To evaluate the short-term outcome of the social marketing approach used in Project FIT, we developed a school- and community-based programme for promoting healthful eating and physical activity in kindergarten to 5th-grade children and their parents. Design: A 2-year quasi-experiment for children and two cross-sectional surveys for…
Descriptors: Marketing, Social Influences, Health Promotion, Eating Habits
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O'Neill, James M.; Clark, Jeffrey K.; Jones, James A. – Journal of School Health, 2016
Background: In elementary grades, comprehensive health education curricula have demonstrated effectiveness in addressing singular health issues. The Michigan Model for Health (MMH) was implemented and evaluated to determine its impact on nutrition, physical fitness, and safety knowledge and skills. Methods: Schools (N = 52) were randomly assigned…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Health Promotion, Physical Fitness, Randomized Controlled Trials
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MacDonald, Megan; Esposito, Phil; Hauck, Janet; Jeong, Irully; Hornyak, Joseph; Argento, Angela; Ulrich, Dale A. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2012
Children with Down syndrome (DS) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) frequently have difficulty riding a two-wheel bicycle. The purpose of this study was to investigate an intervention using an adapted bicycle and individualized instruction to teach 71 youth to ride a standard two-wheel bicycle. Youth with DS (n = 30) and ASD (n = 41) between the…
Descriptors: Autism, Down Syndrome, Exercise, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Saftner, Melissa Ann; Martyn, Kristy Kiel; Lori, Jody Rae – Journal of School Nursing, 2011
The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore family and peer relationships (including support and influence on risk behavior) among sexually active European American and African American adolescent girls in the context of risk behaviors documented on retrospective event history calendars (EHCs) and in interviews. The EHCs were completed by…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Females, School Nurses, Adolescents
Unger, Kelly L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In response to the ever increasing demand to compete in a global economy, the United States needs to prepare its students with the appropriate technical knowledge and communication skills to be competitive in the 21st century (Watson, 2007). Students must begin utilizing current technology tools during their K-12 educational experience and online…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Secondary School Teachers, Intervention, Technology Integration
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Caesar, Lena G.; Nelson, Nickola Wolf – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2014
This pilot study examined the feasibility of a home-school partnership for improving emergent literacy skills in Spanish-speaking pre-school children of migrant farmworkers. Parents were requested to send labeled drawings of family activities to their children's classroom for supplementing bilingual language and literacy instruction. Participants…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Family School Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Emergent Literacy
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