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Cuervo, Laura – Music Education Research, 2018
This study was carried out within the framework of a pedagogical project. It compares the results obtained from the application of two different didactic models for learning and practicing musical composition in a Secondary Education class: the traditional teacher centred method (designated as the control group, CG), and an interdisciplinary model…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Music Education, Teaching Methods, Pretests Posttests
Hearon, Brittany V. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Youth psychological well-being has become increasingly acknowledged as not merely the absence of psychological distress, but the presence of positive indicators of optimal functioning. Students with complete mental health (i.e., low psychopathology and high well-being) demonstrate the best academic, social, and physical health outcomes. As such,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Health Promotion, Mental Health, Intervention
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Murray, Paul; Douglas-Dunbar, Andrew; Murray, Sheran – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report an attempt to quantitatively evaluate pedagogies designed to help learners clarify their personal values systems in a sustainability context. Design/methodology/approach A pre-test/post-test survey was used to assess shifts in values orientations among 113 undergraduates from the same discipline,…
Descriptors: Values, Sustainable Development, Surveys, Control Groups
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Mullender-Wijnsma, Marijke J.; Hartman, Esther; de Greeff, Johannes W.; Bosker, Roel J.; Doolaard, Simone; Visscher, Chris – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: An intervention was designed that combined physical activity with learning activities. It was based upon evidence for positive effects of moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) on academic achievement. The aim of this study was to describe the program implementation and effects on academic achievement after 1?year. Methods:…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Physical Activities, Academic Achievement
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McCray, Jennifer; Chen, Jie-Qi – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2013
In this presentation, we introduce a conceptual framework for in-service professional development--the Whole Teacher approach, which attends simultaneously to the attitudes, knowledge, and practice of a teacher's growth. Putting the framework in operation, we describe a project designed to improve teachers' competence and increase children's…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Faculty Development, Holistic Approach, Inservice Teacher Education
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Antoniou, Panayiotis; Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M. – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2011
This paper argues that research on teacher professional development could be integrated with validated theoretical models of educational effectiveness research (EER). A dynamic integrated approach (DIA) to teacher professional development is proposed. The methods and results of a study comparing the impact of the DIA and the Holistic-Reflective…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Integrated Activities, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Skills