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Mao, Chin-Ju – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2015
This paper uses school choice policy as an example to demonstrate how local actors adopt, mediate, translate, and reformulate "choice" as neo-liberal rhetoric informing education reform. Complex processes exist between global policy about school choice and the local practice of school choice. Based on the theoretical sensibility of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Choice, Neoliberalism, Educational Change
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Askelson, Natoshia M.; Chi, Donald L.; Momany, Elizabeth T.; Kuthy, Raymond A.; Carter, Knute D.; Field, Kathryn; Damiano, Peter C. – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Early preventive dental visits are vital to the oral health of children. Yet many children, especially preschool-age children enrolled in Medicaid, do not receive early visits. This study attempts to uncover factors that can be used to encourage parents to seek preventive dental care for preschool-age children enrolled in Medicaid. The extended…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Health Insurance, Dentistry, Dental Health
DeVeney, Shari L.; Hagman, Jessica L. – EBP Briefs (Evidence-based Practice Briefs), 2016
Clinical Questions: Would a child who is a late talker (P) show greater improvement with parent-implemented intervention models (I) or with clinician-directed intervention models (C) as shown by improvements in expressive language skills (O)? If so, under what circumstances? Method: Literature Review. Study Sources: Education Source, ERIC,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Early Intervention, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel
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Assouline, Susan G.; Lupkowski-Shoplik, Ann – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2012
The Talent Search model, founded at Johns Hopkins University by Dr. Julian C. Stanley, is fundamentally an above-level testing program. This simplistic description belies the enduring impact that the Talent Search model has had on the lives of hundreds of thousands of gifted students as well as their parents and teachers. In this article, we…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Academically Gifted, Elementary Secondary Education, Talent
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Fosco, Gregory M.; Grych, John H. – Journal of Family Issues, 2013
Several dimensions of family functioning are recognized as formative influences on children's emotion regulation. Historically, they have been studied separately, limiting our ability to understand how they function within the family system. The present investigation tested models including family emotional climate, interparental conflict, and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Systems Approach, Family Relationship, Self Control
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O'Connor, Erin; Rodriguez, Eileen; Cappella, Elise; Morris, Jordan; McClowry, Sandee – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
In this article, we investigate the effectiveness of INSIGHTS into Children's Temperament (INSIGHTS), a temperament-based preventive intervention, in reducing the disruptive behavior problems of young children from low-income, urban families. Results indicate that children enrolled in INSIGHTS evidenced a decrease in disruptive behavior problems…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intervention, Maintenance, Child Rearing
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Lerner, Matthew D.; Mikami, Amori Yee; Levine, Karen – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
This study examined the effectiveness of a novel intervention called "socio-dramatic affective-relational intervention" (SDARI), intended to improve social skills among adolescents with Asperger syndrome and high functioning autism diagnoses. SDARI adapts dramatic training activities to focus on in vivo practice of areas of social skill…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Asperger Syndrome, Adolescents
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Hazzard, Eric L.; Moreno, Elizabeth; Beall, Deborah L.; Zidenberg-Cherr, Sheri – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
To ascertain best practices for schools implementing or sustaining instructional school gardens by interviewing key members in 10 schools with exemplary instructional school gardens programs in California. Practices of schools with exemplary instructional school gardens programs were analyzed by constant comparative analysis using qualitative data…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Data Analysis
Gray, H. Joey; Plucker, Jonathan A. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2010
Similarities between the identification and development of athletic talent and that of gifted children are rarely compared. Interestingly, however, they share analogous processes. The purpose of this review is to investigate the progress of research regarding athletic talent identification and development, including current issues, and provide…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Gifted, Talent Identification, Comparative Analysis
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Burke, Ainsley K.; Galfalvy, Hanga; Everett, Benjamin; Currier, Dianne; Zelazny, Jamie; Oquendo, Maria A.; Melhem, Nadine M.; Kolko, David; Harkavy-Friedman, Jill M.; Birmaher, Boris; Stanley, Barbara; Mann, J. John; Brent, David A. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: Exposure to suicidal behavior in peers and relatives is thought to increase risk for suicidal behavior in vulnerable individuals, possibly as a result of imitation or modeling. This study examines exposure to suicidal behavior and likelihood of suicide attempt in a high-risk cohort of offspring of a depressed parent. Method: A total of…
Descriptors: Imitation, Suicide, Psychopathology, Least Squares Statistics
Marquez, Amalia – ProQuest LLC, 2012
K-12 schools with large immigrant populations face a myriad of challenges, including low academic achievement and high dropout rates of Latino students. Parental involvement is a practical strategy in positively influencing student outcomes along the K-12 continuum. To this end, it is essential that immigrant impacted schools work together with…
Descriptors: Parents, Parent Participation, Immigrants, Comparative Analysis
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Peters, Ray DeV.; Bradshaw, Alison J.; Petrunka, Kelly; Nelson, Geoffrey; Herry, Yves; Craig, Wendy M.; Arnold, Robert; Parker, Kevin C. H.; Khan, Shahriar R.; Hoch, Jeffrey S.; Pancer, S. Mark; Loomis, Colleen; Belanger, Jean-Marc; Evers, Susan; Maltais, Claire; Thompson, Katherine; Rossiter, Melissa D. – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2010
Although comprehensive and ecological approaches to early childhood prevention are commonly advocated, there are few examples of long-term follow-up of such programs. In this monograph, we investigate the medium- and long-term effects of an ecological, community-based prevention project for primary school children and families living in three…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Quasiexperimental Design, Prevention, Economically Disadvantaged
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Liu, Shujie; Meng, Lingqi – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2009
Since the 1920's many researchers have conducted studies exploring the qualities of good teachers. However, a limited number of empirical studies have been conducted in the People's Republic of China (hereafter called China). The current study has two objectives. The first one aims to compare a good teacher's characteristics in China and the USA.…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis
Johnson, Jeffry Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Keeping schools safe and productive is an increasing concern for educators everywhere. This research focused on how one elementary school in West Fargo, North Dakota, implemented a school wide discipline approach to help decrease negative student behaviors. The researcher compared and contrasted three different discipline models. The researcher…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Males
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Geurts, Hilde M.; Hartman, Catharina; Verte, Sylvie; Oosterlaan, Jaap; Roeyers, Herbert; Sergeant, Joseph A. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: A number of disorders are associated with pragmatic difficulties. Instruments that can make subdivisions within the larger construct of pragmatics could be important tools for disentangling profiles of pragmatic difficulty in different disorders. The deficits underlying the observed pragmatic difficulties may be different for different…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Construct Validity, Factor Structure, Clinical Diagnosis
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