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Barry, K. M.; Woods, M.; Warnecke, E.; Stirling, C.; Martin, A. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Psychological distress is prevalent in doctoral degree training and affects students' completion time. It is crucial to monitor the amount of distress experienced and understand the causes for it to inform the type of support most needed. This mixed method study explored challenges related to candidature, self-reported progress and measures of…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Mixed Methods Research
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Kennedy, Sarah G.; Peralta, Louisa R.; Lubans, David R.; Foweather, Lawrence; Smith, Jordan J. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2019
Introduction: Secondary schools have the potential to promote health-related fitness (HRF) and physical activity within and outside school hours. As such, schools are often chosen as the setting to implement child and adolescent physical activity programs. School-based programs often utilise teachers as delivery agents, but few studies examine…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Program Implementation, Health Promotion, Secondary School Students
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Siddiqui, Nadia; Gorard, Stephen; See, Beng Huat – Educational Research, 2018
Background: Educational interventions are often complex, and their outcomes could be due to factors not focused on in the impact evaluation. Therefore, educational evaluations using a randomised control trial (RCT) design approach need to go beyond obtaining the impact results alone. Purpose: Process evaluation is embedded in the evaluation design…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Educational Research, Disadvantaged, Reading Tests
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Smith, Bradley H.; Connington, Alison; McQuillin, Samuel; Crowder Bierman, Leigh – Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 2014
There is growing interest in yoga to enhance positive youth development, but many challenges to overcome before introducing yoga to schools. Weisz et al. [Weisz, J. R., Jensen, A. L., McLeod, B. D. (2004). "Development and dissemination of child and adolescent therapies: milestones, methods, and a new deployment-focussed model." In E.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Metacognition, Urban Schools, Barriers