This study develops an SDG-aligned social impact assessment (SIA) system for five Chulalongkorn University research projects, in Thailand. Employing mixed methods in an exploratory sequential design, the first phase involves qualitative data collection, including focus groups and field studies, to establish the SIA system. The second phase employs…

Advances in the field of Early Childhood Education & Care (ECEC) are catalysing an important paradigm shift in the understanding of childhood trauma throughout the life course. While there is little dispute regarding the unique role of ECEC practitioners in providing critical support to children who experience trauma, international provisions…

In recent years, several states have expanded a new publicly funded learning option: Transitional Kindergarten (TK). TK bridges prekindergarten and kindergarten in its eligibility, requirements, and design. Using Michigan as a case study, we examine TK's fit in the early learning landscape. Broadly, we find TK in Michigan reduces some…

Federal Student Aid (FSA) processes more than 17.6 million Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms each year to help students pay for college and provide students with approximately $120.8 billion in grant, work-study, and loan funds. The FAFSA Simplification Act of 2021 required FSA to overhaul its systems and processes to…

Background: Availability and quality of nutrition-related health-promoting interventions (N-HPIs) vary across primary schools. We examined whether school contextual factors (e.g., socioeconomic deprivation) were associated with N-HPI availability in Quebec, Canada, and whether available N-HPIs incorporated evidence-based implementation…

The paper proposes that public sector organisations should explore further opportunities to use an experiential learning approach to develop "helpers" skills in having effective initial conversations with residents with complex needs. In 2021 an experiential learning training originally entitled "Core Conversations" was…

This research aimed to investigate the components and indicators of innovative leadership of principals of primary school, to explore the current state and desire state of enhance innovative leadership of principals of primary school. And to design a program and its evaluation program to enhance innovative leadership of principals of primary…

This Case Study is based on a doctoral research project that I conducted in Greek primary education where English was taught as a foreign language. An intervention was employed to explore its impact on the inclusion of English as a foreign language learners with dyslexia and their peers. The discussion herein focuses on the way critical realism as…

This report presents the findings of the process evaluation of the Stronger Practice Hubs (SPH) programme. The SPH programme was launched in November 2022 to run as a two year programme, though was subsequently extended to the end of March 2025. The aim of the programme was to support settings to address the impact of the pandemic on young…

Unintentional injuries, such as pedestrian, bicycle, and drowning injuries--which are typically preventable when proper safety precautions are followed--are the leading cause of death among the pediatric population of the United States. The largest incidence of pediatric pedestrian injuries and fatalities occurs within Miami-Dade County (M-DC),…

This study employed a small-scale qualitative approach to examine how the Emotional Literacy Support Assistant (ELSA) programme operates in secondary schools, focusing on facilitating factors and challenges in its implementation. Research on ELSA interventions in secondary schools is limited; this study seeks to address this gap and provide…

Background: Evaluation methodologies often elevate and prioritize causal evidence especially in large scale studies (What Works Clearinghouse, 2022). Such approaches, including randomized controlled trials (RCTs), can induce rigid learning environments that may limit naturally occurring and dynamic educational activity in order to control for…

Social exclusion has a myriad of negative effects on students' psychological and social well-being. One way to combat such negative effects is to raise awareness about social exclusion in schools. Here, we describe and evaluate a training program that was carried out across schools in The Netherlands. The program relies on basic experiential…

Principles focused evaluation (PFE) can complement existing formative and outcome evaluation plans by identifying Effectiveness Principles (EPs), an operationalization of values and standards that guide practitioners during program implementation. To date, however, few examples of PFE are available in the literature. This description of the…

The experience of the COVID-19 lockdown has suddenly accelerated the awareness process of the entire university faculty about the need to hybridise their teaching with digital tools (Trentin, Bocconi 2015; Perla, Scarinci, Amati 2021) transforming traditional scholarship of the Italian University in a gigantic field of experimentation of…