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Fabienne Egger; Marion Gasser; Mario Kamer; Mirko Schmidt – European Journal of Psychology and Educational Research, 2024
In recent years, children and adolescents have spent more time sitting and engaging in less physical activity than recommended by health authorities. Despite widespread efforts to promote physical activity through school-based programs, the impact of specific intervention programs often remains untested. Therefore, in this pilot study, the effects…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Physical Activities, National Programs, Program Effectiveness
Thomas de Hoop; Hannah Ring; Garima Siwach; Paula Dias; Gelson Tembo; Victoria Rothbard; Anaïs Toungui – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
We present experimental evidence on the impact of a multi-faceted program that integrates technology-aided instruction, teacher training and coaching, community ownership, and free primary education. Our setting is three districts in rural Zambia, where we randomly assigned the program across 30 treatment and 33 control schools. The results show…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Outcomes of Education, Community Schools, Rural Areas
Yazici, Elçin – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The current study was carried out to determine the effect of art education program on the social skills of preschool children at the age of 61-72 months attending to a kindergarten. The working group of the research was made up of 51 children in total, as experiment group (n: 26) and control group (n: 25). An experiment design with a pre/post-test…
Descriptors: Art Education, Interpersonal Competence, Preschool Children, Experimental Groups
Alenizi, Mogbel Aid K. – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
The current study aims to assess the effectiveness of a program based on a multi-sensory strategy in developing of visual perception for primary school learners with learning disabilities. The study employed the quasi-experimental method on the experimental group of learners. A training program based on multi-sensory strategy was employed on a…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Semitic Languages, Elementary School Students, Teaching Methods
Fuchs, Douglas; Hendricks, Emma; Walsh, Meagan E.; Fuchs, Lynn S.; Gilbert, Jennifer K.; Zhang Tracy, Wen; Patton, Samuel, III.; Davis, Nicole; Kim, Wooliya; Elleman, Amy M.; Peng, Peng – Grantee Submission, 2018
We conducted a 14-week experimental study of 2 versions of a relatively comprehensive RC intervention that involved 50 classroom teachers, 15 tutors, and 120 children drawn in equal proportions from grades 3 and 5 in 13 schools in a large urban school district. Students were randomly assigned in equal numbers to the 2 tutoring conditions and a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Multidimensional Scaling, Reputation, Reading Programs
Shamir, Haya; Feehan, Kathryn; Yoder, Erik – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2017
This study explores the efficacy of the Waterford Early Reading program (ERP) for teaching kindergarten and first grade students' early reading concepts. Students attended 3 elementary schools in Alabama. The treatment group used the software program whereas the control group did not use the software. Analyses revealed a significant treatment…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Reading Programs, Reading Instruction
Gahwaji, Nahla M. – Journal of International Education Research, 2016
Lately, research exploring the effects of tutorial instructional programmes and educational games on literacy skills of kindergarten children has attracted large number of educational technology researchers and practitioners. Even though overwhelming research literature on the subject is available, the majority of this existing work is designed…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Program Effectiveness, Educational Games, Teaching Methods
Jones, Curtis – School Community Journal, 2018
This report presents the SPARK literacy model, an innovative approach developed by Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, for addressing the literacy needs of low-income and minority schools in Milwaukee. It also presents the results of a two-year randomized control trial evaluation of the SPARK literacy program's impact on reading…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Family School Relationship, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education
Silverman, Rebecca D.; Martin-Beltran, Melinda; Peercy, Megan M.; Hartranft, Anna M.; McNeish, Daniel M.; Artzi, Lauren; Nunn, Stephanie – Elementary School Journal, 2017
This study evaluated the effects of a cross-age peer learning program targeting vocabulary and comprehension in kindergarten and fourth-grade classrooms with substantial proportions of English Learners (ELs). The study followed a quasi-experimental design with 12 classrooms (6 kindergarten and 6 fourth grade) in the intervention group and 12…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Vocabulary Development, Kindergarten, Grade 4
Menninga, Astrid; van Dijk, Marijn; Wetzels, Annemie; Steenbeek, Henderien; van Geert, Paul – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2017
This paper aims to gain insight into language production and academic language of 4- and 5-year-old students and their teachers in the course of a teacher intervention during kindergarten science education. The study is based on videotaped classroom observations, and specifically focuses on the academic language use of students (N[subscript…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Kindergarten, Academic Discourse, Video Technology
Camacho, Ana; Alves, Rui A. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2017
Learning to read and write efficiently is of the utmost importance in elementary school. However, writing is frequently difficult and can be demotivating for beginning writers. Fortunately these barriers can be partially alleviated with parental help. Many studies showed that parental involvement influences children's competence and motivation in…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Writing Instruction, Barriers, Parent Role
Cheng, Yi-Ju; Ray, Dee C. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2016
The current study explored the effects of child-centered group play therapy (CCGPT) on social-emotional assets of kindergarten children and the therapeutic aspect of group sizes in CCGPT outcome. A total of 43 participants were randomly assigned to either the intervention or waitlist control groups. We used Parent and Teacher forms of Social…
Descriptors: Play Therapy, Group Therapy, Kindergarten, Control Groups
Lifshitz, Nirit; Har-Zvi, Shirley – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2015
Proper acquisition of handwriting is required for success in school. This study compared the effects of two writing readiness interventions, "Traffic Light" and "Word and Sound" on kindergartners' handwriting quality, speed and positive reactions to writing. Handwriting readiness training for kindergarten children is…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Intervention, Comparative Analysis, Instructional Effectiveness
Ben Clarke; Christian T. Doabler; Keith Smolkowski; Evangeline Kurtz-Nelson; Hank Fien; Scott K. Baker; Derek Kosty – Grantee Submission, 2016
This study examined the efficacy of a kindergarten mathematics intervention program, ROOTS, focused on developing whole-number understanding in the areas of counting and cardinality and operations and algebraic thinking for students at risk in mathematics. The study utilized a randomized block design with students within classrooms randomly…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Kindergarten, Intervention, Sustainability
Turkestani, Maryam Hafez – International Education Studies, 2015
With modern technological developments and with the fast expansion of mobile technical equipment, conducting a field study to find out how technology influences various developmental aspects of normal and special needs children at the preschool stage was deemed appropriate and timely hearing impairment. In this study aimed at finding out the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Hearing Impairments, School Readiness, Preschool Children