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Hye Rin Lee; Teomara Rutherford; Paul Hanselman; Fernando Rodriguez; Kevin F. Ramirez; Jacquelynne S. Eccles – Research in Higher Education, 2024
Community colleges provide broad access to a college degree due to their less expensive tuition, greater course time offerings, and more open admission policies compared to four-year universities as reported (Juszkiewicz, 2015). These institutions have great potential to diversify who chooses STEM, such as engineering. Such diverse representation…
Descriptors: Role Models, Video Technology, Web Sites, Social Media
Antionette Marie Stith – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In cyber charter schools, middle-school students face many barriers to developing STEM identity. My theory of improvement was to address sense of belonging in a large virtual classroom to develop STEM identity in my students. By utilizing diverse STEM role models that reflected my students' racial or ethnic identities and an inquiry-based approach…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Role Models, Self Concept, Charter Schools
MENTOR: National Mentoring Partnership, 2021
In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that 8% of youth in grades 9-12 reported being in a physical fight one or more times in the 12 months preceding the survey, with more than 7% reporting being threatened or injured with a weapon on school property. Homicide is the 3rd leading cause of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Prevention, Intervention, Violence
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Doni, Eleni – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
The presence of gender-related professional stereotypes has been detected as early as preschool. The value of counterstereotypical role model interventions in triggering changes in the gender perceptions of children has been extensively researched with varying results. In the present study, drawing on the operational tool of exposing children to…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschools, Childrens Attitudes, Attitude Change
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Van Camp, Amanda R.; Gilbert, Patricia N.; O'Brien, Laurie T. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2019
Female role models show promise for inoculating women against the harmful impact of stereotypes impugning their ability in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM, e.g., Dasgupta in Psychol Inq 22(4):231-246, 2011). We conducted a test of an intervention to leverage the benefits of STEM role models. Female STEM majors (N = 72) in their…
Descriptors: Females, Role Models, Womens Education, STEM Education
Anthony Craig Jackson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The historical context of education in the United States reveals a consistent failure by American schooling to effectively educate Black boys. Multiple indicators of how Black male students are underserved have necessitated interventions to reverse decades of adverse outcomes. The single-gender school design became one such intervention dedicated…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, At Risk Students, Single Sex Schools
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Melendez-Torres, G. J.; Spencer, Tyler; Ingram, LaDrea; Zimmerman, Rick S.; Pettengill, Ryan; Mullman, Matthew; Otterbein, Melissa; Stein, Rodrigo; Kilburn, Casey – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2020
This study evaluated The Grassroot Project, a middle school sexual health promotion program in Washington, DC that uses university-level athlete role models and sports-based games. Seven schools were allocated to immediate (n = 160) or delayed intervention (n = 166). Students were tested before and immediately after the intervention on attitudes…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Sex Education, Middle School Students, Urban Schools
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Devine, Amanda; Wallace, Ruth; Lo, Johnny; Miller, Margaret; Sambell, Ros; Costello, Leesa; Lombardi, Karen; Veurink, Samantha – Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 2019
Building on the success of the SNAC (Supporting Nutrition Australian Childcare) community, a comprehensive online programme SNACPlus provided professional development (PD) and resources to embed nutrition curriculum and supportive food environments in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) services. Process and impact evaluation were conducted…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Nutrition Instruction, Food, Intervention
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Weiler, Lindsey M.; Chesmore, Ashley A.; Pryce, Julia; Haddock, Shelley A.; Rhodes, Tara – Youth & Society, 2019
Mentoring-based interventions for adolescent offenders are promising strategies for reducing the likelihood of academic underachievement, truancy, and school dropout. Program effectiveness, however, varies widely. Investigation into factors that strengthen the impact of mentoring on academic-related outcomes is warranted. One factor might be…
Descriptors: Mentors, Intervention, Delinquency, Adolescents
Shin, Jiyun Elizabeth L. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Increasing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduates has become an important part of the education agenda in the U.S. in recent years. Stereotypes about STEM (i.e., belief that STEM abilities are innate, and that European American men are best suited for STEM) have been identified as one of the critical factors that may…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Interests, Learner Engagement, Comparative Analysis
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Day-Watkins, Jessica; Murray, Rachel; Connell, James E. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2014
This study is a replication and extension of Reeve, Reeve, Townsend, and Poulson (2007) evaluating the effects of a treatment package that included multiple-exemplar training, video modeling, prompting, and reinforcement on helping of 3 adolescents with autism. Results demonstrated that all participants acquired the helping responses. Probes…
Descriptors: Helping Relationship, Video Technology, Role Models, Modeling (Psychology)
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Koshy, Valsa; Smith, Carole Portman; Brown, Joanna – Gifted Education International, 2017
International evidence demonstrates the importance of engaging parents in the education of their "high-potential" children, yet limited research has focused on the involvement of parents from differing economic strata/backgrounds. The current study explored the dilemmas of parenting academically high-ability children from economically…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Child Rearing, Parent Attitudes, Urban Areas
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Wang, Dongxu; Stewart, Donald; Chang, Chun – Health Education, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of a holistic school-based nutrition programme using the health-promoting school (HPS) approach, on teachers' knowledge, attitudes and behaviour in relation to nutrition in rural China. Design/methodology/approach: A cluster-randomised intervention trial design was employed. Two…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Teacher Behavior
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Schmidt, Jonathan D.; Drasgow, Erik; Halle, James W.; Martin, Christian A.; Bliss, Sacha A. – Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 2014
Discrete-trial functional analysis (DTFA) is an experimental method for determining the variables maintaining problem behavior in the context of natural routines. Functional communication training (FCT) is an effective method for replacing problem behavior, once identified, with a functionally equivalent response. We implemented these procedures…
Descriptors: Functional Behavioral Assessment, Autism, Behavior Disorders, Residential Institutions
Bennett, Tom – UK Department for Education, 2017
The national picture of school behaviour is complex, but numerous indicators suggest that it can be better in a great number of schools and contexts. Every leader should consciously aspire to the very best behaviour possible in their schools as a matter of priority. There are a number of strategies that schools with outstanding behaviour use…
Descriptors: School Culture, Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Behavior Modification
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