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Margaret A. Enlow – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research examined if a lecture-based intervention increased the DEI knowledge, awareness, and readiness to change in undergraduate public health students. Topics included a systematic review of DEI activities in undergraduate public health classrooms/academic programs, determining reliability of an adapted tool to measure knowledge,…
Descriptors: Public Health, Intervention, Lecture Method, Diversity Equity and Inclusion
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Corcoran, Casey T.; Miller, Elizabeth; Sohn, Lisa; Chugani, Carla D. – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
As colleges seek to respond to campus sexual assault, administrators are making policies, programs, and resources related to sexual violence available to students and members of the school community online. Keeping this content current and accessible can be challenging in the context of rapidly changing information and competing priorities across…
Descriptors: Rape, Check Lists, College Students, School Policy
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Orkin, Melissa; Pott, Martha; Wolf, Maryanne; May, Sidney; Brand, Elyssa – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
The current pilot study assessed the impact of a motivational intervention on the task-avoidant behaviors, task-engagement behaviors, and skill growth of elementary-age readers attending a remedial summer reading program. We randomly assigned students (ages 7-10) either to an experimental condition (n = 24) that integrated strategies emphasizing…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Improvement, Reading Motivation, Reading Difficulties
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Liu, Jia; Liu, Shan; Yan, Jin; Lee, Elizabeth; Mayes, Linda – School Psychology International, 2016
A randomized controlled experimental pilot study was conducted in order to investigate the effect of life skills training on behavior problems in left-behind children (LBC) in rural China. Sixty-eight LBC were recruited from a middle school in rural China. The intervention group took a ten-week-long life skills training course. The Child Behavior…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Behavior Problems, Daily Living Skills, Rural Population
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Vugs, Brigitte; Knoors, Harry; Cuperus, Juliane; Hendriks, Marc; Verhoeven, Ludo – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2017
The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a computer-based executive function (EF) training in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Ten children with SLI, ages 8 to 12 years, completed a 25-session training of visuospatial working memory, inhibition and cognitive flexibility over a 6-week period. Treatment outcome was…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Training, Pilot Projects, Foreign Countries
Ojiambo, Deborah – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This pilot study investigated the impact of group activity play therapy (GAPT) on displaced orphans aged 10 to 12 years living in a large children's village in Uganda. Teachers and housemothers identified 60 preadolescents exhibiting clinical levels of internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. The participants' ethnicity was African and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Play Therapy, Counseling Effectiveness
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Mireault, Gina; Trahan, Jessica – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2007
Tantrums, or emotional reactions that are out of proportion to a situation, appear to be a common childhood phenomenon--yet have drawn little research attention. This pilot study describes tantrum precipitants; their frequency, intensity, and duration; and parental responses in a small community sample (N = 33) of 3- to 5-year-olds. Tantrum…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Pilot Projects
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Gilmore, Bill; Brown, Dave Laurie Rose; Van Midden, Ngaire; Mead-McEwan, Lois; Bretherton, Maureen; Broere, Christine; Buxton, Jocelyn; Hutchings, Andrea – Kairaranga, 2004
The Seeds for Success pilot project involved RTLB, Ministry of Education-Special Education staff, and classroom teachers. It successfully developed and trialed a school entry screening and intervention programme for young children who were identified by teachers as having behaviour difficulties across three school clusters. Collaboration between…
Descriptors: Intervention, Pilot Projects, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries