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Elsherbiny, Mohamed Mohamed – Children & Schools, 2017
This article describes a study aimed at solving the problem of school refusal by implementing a preventive program and raising the awareness of parents, social workers, and school personnel. The school children involved in this study were reported by their parents and school social workers to refuse to go to school, and according to the children's…
Descriptors: Prevention, Consciousness Raising, Attendance, Intervention
Eryilmaz, Ali – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2017
The present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of a peer-helping programme in increasing the subjective well-being of a group of university students compared with a control group with the same characteristics who did not receive the intervention. The intervention recipients consisted of 13 male and 17 female participants. The peer helpers…
Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Peer Relationship, Program Effectiveness, Well Being
Tijms, Jurgen; Stoop, Mirthe A.; Polleck, Jody N. – Journal of Research in Reading, 2018
Reading skills and social-emotional competencies are two important skills for both academic achievement and long-term quality of life. The present study evaluated the effects of a school-based intervention to promote reading skills and social-emotional competencies in young adolescents from urban, low socioeconomic status (SES) communities in…
Descriptors: Bibliotherapy, Books, Clubs, Intervention
Hefter, Markus H.; Renkl, Alexander; Riess, Werner; Schmid, Sebastian; Fries, Stefan; Berthold, Kirsten – Journal of Experimental Education, 2018
Argumentative thinking requires not only the "skill" to apply argumentative strategies such as supporting theories with evidence but also the "will" to apply these strategies by considering argumentative thinking to be both reasonable and worthwhile. Focusing on direct instruction for the initial acquisition of both skill and…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Intervention, Thinking Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction
Dysterheft, Jennifer; Chaparro, Gioella; Rice, Laura; Rice, Ian – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2018
The purpose of this study was to determine whether university students with physical disabilities (SWD) gained similar benefits from recreational physical activity participation as able-bodied (AB) university students as reported in the literature. Researchers designed an inclusive, university-offered aquatic exercise class for SWD. Six SWD…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Inclusion, Aquatic Sports, Exercise
Sanders, Martha J.; Van Oss, Tracy; McGeary, Signian – Journal of Experiential Education, 2016
The use of structured reflections for promoting personal understanding and community self-efficacy was examined in 65 occupational therapy college students in a service learning course. Students in the experimental group wrote structured reflections throughout the semester while students in the control groups used non-structured reflections.…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Self Efficacy, Scores, Qualitative Research
Amod, Zaytoon; Heafield, Deidré; Seabi, Joseph – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2018
The search for assessment procedures that are more fair and useful have led to the investigation of alternatives to traditional forms of intellectual assessment. This study explored an alternative which combined a dynamic assessment approach with the Planning, Attention, Simultaneous and Successive Processing (PASS) model of cognitive processing.…
Descriptors: Remedial Programs, Intervention, Grade 4, Grade 5
Liu, Sabrina R.; Kia-Keating, Maryam – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2018
Given the rise of incidents of mass violence affecting college campuses, interventions for students are gravely needed, especially ones with broader accessibility and reach. This pilot study examined two online narrative writing interventions for undergraduates experiencing distress a year after exposure to a mass murder at their university.…
Descriptors: Coping, Self Efficacy, Violence, School Safety
Rupprecht, Silke; Paulu, Peter; Walach, Harald – Online Submission, 2017
Teacher wellbeing and performance is affected by their ability to cope with the demands of the profession. This pilot non-randomized, waitlist-controlled study investigated the impact of a mindfulness intervention (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) on teachers' wellbeing, self-regulation ability and classroom performance applying a mixed-method…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Intervention, Foreign Countries, Well Being
Dotson, Felecia – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The current study examines the effects that a coaching intervention has on the occurrences of scaffolding language techniques in a teacher's instructional delivery, in addition to the possible influences that a coaching intervention has on the teacher's ability to reflect on scaffolding language. More importantly, the study considers whether…
Descriptors: Intervention, Coaching (Performance), Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Control Groups
Wei, Xia – International Education Studies, 2016
As Chinese traditional folk culture, folk games have unique educational value which can boost the development of young children's fine motor. Based on previous investigation of fine motor skill of children in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, the researcher chose a middle class in public city kindergarten A with lower survey score as the study object.…
Descriptors: Folk Culture, Psychomotor Skills, Skill Development, Intervention
Kourmousi, Ntina; Markogiannakis, Georgios; Tzavara, Chara; Kounenou, Kalliope; Mandrikas, Achilleas; Christopoulou, Efstathia; Koutras, Vasilios – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2018
Significant research has been conducted on skills' enhancement school programs, since their importance has been well established. The presented study evaluates "Steps for life", a Greek, universal, annual, teacher-taught programme, designed to improve personal and social skills in young elementary students by the use of questions,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Student Empowerment, Elementary School Students
Cattaneo, Alberto A. P.; Boldrini, Elena – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2017
Purpose: Starting from the identification of some theoretically driven instructional principles, this paper presents a set of empirical cases based on strategies to learn from errors. The purpose of this paper is to provide first evidence about the feasibility and the effectiveness for learning of video-enhanced error-based strategies in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Patterns, Workplace Learning, Vocational Education
Ranellucci, John; Hall, Nathan; Muis, Krista; Lajoie, Susanne; Robinson, Kristy – Canadian Journal of Education, 2017
The effects of three interventions designed to boost academic achievement among mastery-oriented students were evaluated on interest-based studying, social desirability, and perceived goal difficulty. Undergraduate students (N = 177) completed relevant self-report measures at the beginning and the end of the semester and were randomly assigned to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Intervention, Social Desirability, Undergraduate Students
Rupprecht, Silke; Paulus, Peter; Walach, Harald – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Teacher wellbeing and performance is affected by their ability to cope with the demands of the profession. This pilot nonrandomized, waitlist-controlled study investigated the impact of a mindfulness intervention (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) on teachers' wellbeing, self-regulation ability and classroom performance applying a mixed-method…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Teacher Effectiveness, Qualitative Research, Interviews