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Matteo Giuriato; Nicola Lovecchio – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2025
Aim: This study investigates the impact of an enhanced physical education (PE) program on attentional functions in middle school students. The aim is to evaluate whether increasing physical education hours, emphasizing cognitive tasks and team-based activities, could positively influence students' executive functions. Methods: The study involved…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Program Effectiveness, Attention, Middle School Students
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Wei-Cheng Lee; Chiu-Lin Lai – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
Collaborative mathematical argumentation plays an important role in mathematics education. However, students often focus on the efficiency of solving problems and neglect the importance of expressing statements and reasoning in the collaborative argumentation process. Due to the weak knowledge changes in group argumentation, students' learning…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Gamification, Student Participation
Ryan Williams; Bo Zhu; Max Pardo; Crystal Aguilera; Tara Zuber – American Institutes for Research, 2024
Prosocial and Active Learning (PAL) Classrooms is a year-long teacher professional development program designed to increase students' prosocial behavior and engagement in 5th grade mathematics and science classrooms that use active, team-based lessons by altering the way that teachers interact with students using research-based strategies. The…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Active Learning, Faculty Development, Learner Engagement
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Banchonhattakit, Pannee; Inmuong, Uraiwan; Duangsong, Rujira; Phimha, Surachai; Prachaiboon, Tiwakorn; Padchasuwan, Natnapa Heebkaew – Health Education Journal, 2022
Background: Human behaviour contributes in a major way to global warming (GW), significantly adding to ill-health and disease. As a result, efforts should be made to enlist the support of school-aged children in preventive behaviour. Objective: The aim of this study was to identify the effects of a school-network intervention using Reduce, Reuse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Recycling, Conservation (Environment), Elementary School Students
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Katharine Childs; Sue Sentance – International Journal of Computer Science Education in Schools, 2024
Gender balance in computing education is a decades-old issue that has been the focus of much previous research. In K-12, the introduction of mandatory computing education goes some way to giving all learners the opportunity to engage with computing throughout school, but a gender imbalance still persists when computer science becomes an elective…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Females, Student Attitudes, Elementary School Students
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Masadis, Grigorios; Filippou, Filippos; Derri, Vasiliki; Mavridis, Georgios; Rokka, Stella – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
The aim of this study was to investigate: a. the effect of an interdisciplinary program of Greek traditional dance by the means of the teamwork method of teaching social skills to students. b. whether this effect was similar for boys and girls. The sample of the study constituted of 206 elementary school pupils (4th, 5th, and 6th class). The…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach, Dance
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Coskuner, Zeki; Büyükçelebi, Hakan; Kurak, Kemal; Açak, Mahmut – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2021
Life skills are applicable psycho-social skills and abilities to develop desired qualities such as self-confidence and socialization. In this context, the research aims to investigate how participation in sports activities during secondary education affects an individual's life skills. In the research, the sample group consists of a total of 698…
Descriptors: Athletics, Secondary School Students, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries
Anderson, Cynthia M.; Smith, Tristram; Iovannone, Rose – Education and Treatment of Children, 2018
There is a large gap between research-based interventions for supporting children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and current practices implemented by educators to meet the needs of these children in typical school settings. Myriad reasons for this gap exist including the external validity of existing research, the complexity of ASD, and…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Capacity Building, Intervention
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Anderson, Cynthia M.; Smith, Tristram; Iovannone, Rose – Grantee Submission, 2018
There is a large gap between research-based interventions for supporting children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and current practices implemented by educators to meet the needs of these children in typical school settings. Myriad reasons for this gap exist including the external validity of existing research, the complexity of ASD, and…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Capacity Building, Intervention
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McLean, Mandy; Nation, Jasmine M.; Spina, Alexis; Susko, Tyler; Harlow, Danielle; Bianchini, Julie – Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research, 2020
Research suggests that, to narrow the gender gap in engineering, we should focus on helping young girls identify with engineering both because gendered attitudes emerge around kindergarten and because identity is more predictive than performance on persistence in the field. This qualitative study sought to understand the impact of collaborative…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Females, Disproportionate Representation, Engineering Education
Caldarella, Paul; Williams, Leslie; Jolstead, Krystine A.; Wills, Howard P. – Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, 2017
Classroom management is a common concern for teachers. Music teachers in particular experience unique behavior challenges because of large class sizes, uncommon pacing requirements, and performance-based outcomes. Positive behavior support is an evidence-based framework for preventing or eliminating challenging behaviors by teaching and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Music Education
Gallagher, H. Alix; Gong, Angela; Hough, Heather J.; Kennedy, Kate; Allbright, Taylor; Daramola, Eupha Jeanne – Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE, 2019
California's shift towards continuous improvement in education makes understanding how districts and schools can learn to improve a more pressing question than ever. The CORE Improvement Community (CIC), a network of California school districts engaged in learning about improvement together, is an important testing ground to learn about what this…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, School Districts, Mathematics Achievement, African American Students
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Turner, Jill; Rafferty, Lisa A.; Sullivan, Ray; Blake, Amy – Preventing School Failure, 2017
In this action research case study, the researchers used a multiple baseline across two student pairs design to investigate the effects of the error self-correction method on the spelling accuracy behaviors for four fifth-grade students who were identified as being at risk for learning disabilities. The dependent variable was the participants'…
Descriptors: Action Research, Spelling, Grade 5, At Risk Students
Caldarella, Paul; Williams, Leslie; Jolstead, Krystine A.; Wills, Howard P. – Grantee Submission, 2017
Classroom management is a common concern for teachers. Music teachers in particular experience unique behavior challenges because of large class sizes, uncommon pacing requirements, and performance-based outcomes. Positive behavior support (PBS) is an evidence-based framework for preventing or eliminating challenging behaviors by teaching and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Behavior, Elementary School Students, Music Education
Spikes, Sara – Houston Independent School District, 2017
During the 2016-2017 school year, the Houston Independent School District (HISD) Family and Community Empowerment (FACE) Department implemented a parent engagement program for 5,281 students enrolled at nine participating campuses. This evaluation examined the relationships between parents' attendance at APTT program group meetings and students'…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Teacher Cooperation, Program Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
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