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Sharp, Laurie A. – Journal of College Academic Support Programs, 2022
DE programming in higher education should be designed to increase student success, and well-designed corequisite models have shown great potential as an accelerated option for completion of the first college-level course in math. With the support of a Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board grant, Tarleton State University, a member institution…
Descriptors: Models, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Program Design
McDougall, Julian; Readman, Mark; Wilkinson, Philip – Learning, Media and Technology, 2018
This article shares research facilitated by a multinational technology provider, converging mobile networked technology (tablets) used across school and home, a technology enhanced community 'third space' providing workshops for students aged 6-9 with their parents/carers. The approach taken avoids the instrumental measurement of functional…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Handheld Devices, Elementary School Students, Competence
Merino-Marban, Rafael; Mayorga-Vega, Daniel; Fernandez-Rodriguez, Emilio; Estrada, Francisco Vera; Viciana, Jesús – European Physical Education Review, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a 1-minute stretching programme and 5 weeks of detraining on sit-and-reach score among schoolchildren aged 5-6 years in a physical education setting. Forty-five schoolchildren 5-6 years old from two classes were clustered randomly assigned to an experimental group (n = 23) or a control group…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Scores, Experimental Groups
Kombe, Charity Lengwe Meki Kombe; Herman, Chaya – Educational Review, 2017
This article explores the sustainability of donor-supported innovations in the education sector. Accordingly, a case study was conducted of a programme (Primary Reading Programme) implemented in Zambian primary schools which was intended to improve literacy levels. The programme was initially supported by the Department for International…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Case Studies
Edwards, Kirsten T. – Curriculum Inquiry, 2020
While university-based study abroad programs have become a core component of multicultural education, I argue that in many ways the dominant model of study abroad is rooted in a white masculinist episteme predicated on anthropological consumption of the "Other" without, and largely opposed to, meaningful examinations of the self. The…
Descriptors: Intervention, Study Abroad, Multicultural Education, Self Concept
Pelletier, Jennifer E.; Lytle, Leslie A.; Laska, Melissa N. – Health Education & Behavior, 2016
The objective of this study was to describe the relationship between stress, weight-related health risk behaviors (e.g., eating behaviors, physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep, cigarette smoking, and binge drinking), and weight status using cross-sectional data on 2-year community college students enrolled in a randomized controlled weight…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Case Studies, Regression (Statistics), Correlation
McGrath, Dianne; Murphy, Daniel – Accounting Education, 2016
This paper reports on a project which is designed to increase the participation of high school students in accounting work experience placements. The focus of the paper is on an Australian-based project which overcomes the identified barriers to offering high school accounting work experience placements with a resultant increase in the number and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Accounting, Career Choice
Lytle, Leslie A.; Moe, Stacey G.; Nanney, M. Susie; Laska, Melissa N.; Linde, Jennifer A.; Petrich, Christine A.; Sevcik, Sarah M. – American Journal of Health Education, 2014
Background: Young adults are at risk for weight gain. Little is known about how to design weight control programs to meet the needs of young adults and few theory-based interventions have been evaluated in a randomized control trial. The Choosing Healthy Options in College Environments and Settings (CHOICES) study was funded to create a…
Descriptors: Program Design, Body Weight, Prevention, Community Colleges
Gaskin-Butler, Vikki T.; McKay, Katherine; Gallardo, Gypsy; Salman-Engin, Selin; Little, Tara; McHale, James P. – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
More than half of poor African American infants are born into "fragile families" and nearly half grow up in single-mother families with little or no father involvement. However, most prenatal interventions fail to help unmarried mothers talk and plan together with their baby's father, especially when fathers are nonresidential. This…
Descriptors: African Americans, Child Rearing, Program Descriptions, Poverty
Byrd, Theresa L.; Wilson, Katherine M.; Smith, Judith Lee; Heckert, Andrea; Orians, Carlyn E.; Vernon, Sally W.; Fernandez-Esquer, Maria E.; Fernandez, Maria E. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
Cervical cancer is preventable with treatment of precancerous lesions and treatable at early stages. Hispanics have higher rates of cervical cancer and lower rates of screening. "Ayndando a las Mujeres con Informaccion, Guia, y Amor para su Salud" (AMIGAS) is an intervention to increase cervical cancer screening in U.S. women of Mexican…
Descriptors: Females, Participatory Research, Intervention, Needs Assessment
Paxton, Carol L. C.; Leis, Micela; Rimm-Kaufman, Sara E. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
This paper describes a mixed-methods pilot study that was conducted in collaboration with the developers of a new adult community-building intervention called "Leading Together" (LT), which focuses on strengthening relational trust among staff. The primary research focus of the collaboration was to gather and share descriptive…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Intervention
Fulkerth, Robert – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
A comprehensive adjunct faculty training program is described, whose aim is to improve student perceptions of courses and programs in a private, not-for-profit MBA and Law degree granting university in San Francisco, The program is somewhat novel in that it uses (a) student input from open-ended responses on course evaluations to determine faculty…
Descriptors: Course Evaluation, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Feedback (Response), Faculty Development
Costa, Leandro Oliveira; Carnoy, Martin – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
Beginning in 2007, the Literacy Program at the Right Age (Pacto pela Alfabetização na Idade Certa [PAIC]) in Brazil's Ceará state required municipal schools to implement a tiered, whole-school early-grade literacy intervention. This intervention was complemented by other policies to help municipalities improve student achievement. The present…
Descriptors: Intervention, Literacy Education, Scores, Comparative Analysis
van Zyl, A.; Blaauw, P. – Africa Education Review, 2012
Student academic success is an important issue in South African (SA) higher education (HE). The transition from school to HE is a critical time that a student must successfully negotiate in order ultimately to succeed at university. Tinto (1993) identified the first phase of the transition process as the separation phase during which the student…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Academic Achievement, Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes
Powers, Joelle D.; Bowen, Natasha K.; Bowen, Gary L. – Children & Schools, 2011
In spite of multidisciplinary recommendations to use evidence-based interventions in schools and a growing knowledge base of such practices, most schools are not using empirically supported interventions. On the basis of a careful analysis of barriers to the implementation of the best researched programs, an online, free, and publicly available…
Descriptors: Evidence, Student Needs, School Psychology, Databases