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Van Volkinburg, Pat; Marston, Rip; Napper-Owen, Gloria – Strategies: A Journal for Physical and Sport Educators, 2008
Defining the quantifiable elements of a highly qualified physical education teacher is challenging. For the past two years, a task force of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) has worked on describing characteristics associated with highly qualified physical education teachers. Highly qualified teachers are needed to…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Professional Development
Dadaczynski, Kevin; Paulus, Peter; de Vries, Nanne; de Ruiter, Silvia; Buijs, Goof – Online Submission, 2010
The HEPS Inventory Tool aims to support stakeholders working in school health promotion to promote high quality interventions on healthy eating and physical activity. As a tool it provides a step-by-step approach on how to develop a national or regional inventory of existing school based interventions on healthy eating and physical activity. It…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activities, Health Promotion, Public Health
Pevsner, Diane – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study explored teaching strategies for communication and literacy development in deaf-blind students by determining if there was a significant relationship between the instructional strategies practiced by Annie Sullivan in the early 1900s and the contemporary instructional strategies recommended by The National Consortium on Deaf-Blindness…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Check Lists, Blindness, Deaf Blind
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Ivanova, Masha Y.; Achenbach, Thomas M.; Rescorla, Leslie A.; Harder, Valerie S.; Ang, Rebecca P.; Bilenberg, Niels; Bjarnadottir, Gudrun; Capron, Christiane; De Pauw, Sarah S. W.; Dias, Pedro; Dobrean, Anca; Doepfner, Manfred; Duyme, Michele; Eapen, Valsamma; Erol, Nese; Esmaeili, Elaheh Mohammad; Ezpeleta, Lourdes; Frigerio, Alessandra; Goncalves, Miguel M.; Gudmundsson, Halldor S.; Jeng, Suh-Fang; Jetishi, Pranvera; Jusiene, Roma; Kim, Young-Ah; Kristensen, Solvejg; Lecannelier, Felipe; Leung, Patrick W. L.; Liu, Jianghong; Montirosso, Rosario; Oh, Kyung Ja; Plueck, Julia; Pomalima, Rolando; Shahini, Mimoza; Silva, Jaime R.; Simsek, Zynep; Sourander, Andre; Valverde, Jose; Van Leeuwen, Karla G.; Woo, Bernardine S. C.; Wu, Yen-Tzu; Zubrick, Stephen R.; Verhulst, Frank C. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: To test the fit of a seven-syndrome model to ratings of preschoolers' problems by parents in very diverse societies. Method: Parents of 19,106 children 18 to 71 months of age from 23 societies in Asia, Australasia, Europe, the Middle East, and South America completed the Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 1.5-5 (CBCL/1.5-5). Confirmatory…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Social Problems, Psychopathology, Child Behavior
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Reef, Joni; van Meurs, Inge; Verhulst, Frank C.; van der Ende, Jan – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2010
Objective: The goal of this study was to determine continuities of a broad range of psychopathology from childhood into middle adulthood in a general population sample across a 24-year follow-up. Method: In 1983, parent ratings of children's problems were collected with the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in a general population sample of 2,076…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Check Lists, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Clinical Diagnosis
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Whitehouse, Andrew J. O.; Coon, Hilary; Miller, Judith; Salisbury, Bryanna; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2010
This study investigated whether the Communication Checklist-Adult (CC-A) could identify subtypes of social and communication dysfunction in autism probands and their parents. The CC-A is divided into subscales measuring linguistic ability as well as two aspects of social communication: the Pragmatic Skills subscale assesses the level of pragmatic…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Autism, Measures (Individuals), Genetics
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Eakman, Aaron M.; Carlson, Mike E.; Clark, Florence A. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2010
The Meaningful Activity Participation Assessment (MAPA), a recently developed 28-item tool designed to measure the meaningfulness of activity, was tested in a sample of 154 older adults. The MAPA evidenced a sufficient level of internal consistency and test-retest reliability and correlated as theoretically predicted with the Life Satisfaction…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Quality of Life, Depression (Psychology), Older Adults
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Hirshfeld-Becker, Dina R.; Masek, Bruce; Henin, Aude; Blakely, Lauren Raezer; Pollock-Wurman, Rachel A.; McQuade, Julia; DePetrillo, Lillian; Briesch, Jacquelyn; Ollendick, Thomas H.; Rosenbaum, Jerrold F.; Biederman, Joseph – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2010
Objective: To examine the efficacy of a developmentally appropriate parent-child cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) protocol for anxiety disorders in children ages 4-7 years. Method: Design: Randomized wait-list controlled trial. Conduct: Sixty-four children (53% female, mean age 5.4 years, 80% European American) with anxiety disorders were…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Intervention, Inhibition, Child Behavior
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Rowlands, Kathleen Dudden – English Journal, 2007
Kathleen Dudden Rowlands recommends using checklists to support student learning and performance. Well-designed checklists identify steps students can take to complete complex tasks, which scaffolds students' metacognitive development and fosters the confidence and independence needed for internalizing these steps for future tasks. (Contains 7…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Metacognition, Academic Achievement, Learning Processes
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Jones, Sherry Everett; Wheeler, Lani S.; Smith, Alisa M.; McManus, Tim – Journal of School Nursing, 2009
School health policies and programs provide the framework for a safe and supportive environment for students with asthma. School Health Policies and Programs Study 2006 data were examined to assess whether schools nationwide have policies and programs consistent with the "How Asthma-Friendly Is Your School?" checklist from the National Asthma…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Prevention, School Nurses, Diseases
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Leve, Leslie D.; Harold, Gordon T.; Ge, Xiaojia; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Shaw, Daniel; Scaramella, Laura V.; Reiss, David – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009
Objective: Little is known about how parenting might offset genetic risk to prevent the onset of child problems during toddlerhood. We used a prospective adoption design to separate genetic and environmental influences and test whether associations between structured parenting and toddler behavior problems were conditioned by genetic risk for…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Behavior Problems, Mothers, Drug Use
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Rowan, Brian; Correnti, Richard – Educational Researcher, 2009
This article describes some of the conceptual and methodological issues that arise when researchers use teacher logs to measure classroom instruction. Data and examples come from the Study of Instructional Improvement, which used teacher logs to study patterns of literacy instruction in schools implementing three comprehensive school reforms. Over…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Literacy, Elementary School Teachers, Diaries
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Bohanek, Jennifer G.; Fivush, Robyn; Zaman, Widaad; Lepore, Caitlin E.; Merchant, Shela; Duke, Marshall P. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2009
Reminiscing has been shown to be a critical conversational context for the development of autobiographical memory, self-concept, and emotional regulation (for a review, see Fivush, Haden, & Reese, 2006). Although much past research has examined reminiscing between mothers and their preschool children, very little attention has been given to…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Mothers, Children, Interaction
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Romero, Sandy; Perez, Karla; Pasnak, Robert; Lehman, Elyse – NHSA Dialog, 2009
The friendships of 59 ethnically diverse (African American, European American, Latino, Middle Eastern, and West African) children enrolled in Head Start classes were assessed in the spring of the school year via a peer nomination technique and a roster rating method. Two types of behavior that earlier researchers found to be predictive of how well…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Ethnic Groups, Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Children
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Fivush, Robyn; Marin, Kelly; McWilliams, Kelly; Bohanek, Jennifer G. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2009
Family reminiscing is a critical part of family interaction related to child outcome. In this study, we extended previous research by examining both mothers and fathers, in two-parent racially diverse middle-class families, reminiscing with their 9- to 12-year-old children about both the facts and the emotional aspects of shared positive and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Family Relationship, Memory, Middle Class
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