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Päivi Sanerma; Outi Ahonen; Anna Rauha; Hanna Naakka; Sami Perälä; Merja Männistö – Cogent Education, 2024
The increasing digitalization of working methods require new competencies from health and social care professionals. In addition, the development of person-centered digital health and social services call for interprofessional expertise and a social community with a unified language and culture. This study analyzes how the renewed model of…
Descriptors: Interprofessional Relationship, Student Experience, Design, Development
Maya Reid; Ashley Kopack Klein; Elizabeth Doran; Barbara Lepidus Carlson; Judy Cannon; Nikki Aikens; Sara Skidmore; Katie Gonzalez; Xinwei Li; Lizabeth Malone; Sara Bernstein – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2024
The 2021-2022 Study of Family and Staff Well-Being in Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) Programs (2021-2022 Study) arose out of a need to understand how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the lives of Head Start families and staff. The goal was to provide data on the characteristics and needs of families and staff after nearly two…
Descriptors: Children, Experience, Preschool Education, Family (Sociological Unit)
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Jimena Cosso; Giancarlo Visconti; Alexa Ellis; David Purpura – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: Gaps between dual language learners (DLLs) and monolingual English-speaking children have been reported at kindergarten entry, and many DLL children are classified as long-term English learners, having less access to the general curriculum in the upper grades (NASEM, 2017). The supposed underperformance of DLLs might be due to the…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Bilingual Students, Mathematics Skills, Mathematics Achievement
Katherine Jordan – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Research has shown follow-up to be an important component for professional development (PD) to result in teacher behavior change. However, PD rarely includes follow-up support. This pilot study used multiple methods to determine the feasibility of Head Start (HS) directors providing teachers PD follow-up support. Two aspects of feasibility were…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Administrators, Administrator Attitudes, Early Childhood Teachers
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Malin, Joel; Hackmann, Donald G.; Scott, Ian – Teachers College Record, 2020
Background: School reforms requiring collaborations spanning multiple sectors are increasing in prevalence, but extant research has primarily focused only upon cross-sector partnerships involving education and social services. College and career readiness (CCR) reforms, such as the one highlighted in this study, are also often intrinsically…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Career Readiness, Urban Schools, School Districts
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Gavidia-Payne, Susana – Infants and Young Children, 2020
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was introduced in Australia in 2013 to address the inadequacies of a fragmented and underfunded service system for people with disabilities. For young children with developmental disabilities, NDIS services fall under the early childhood early intervention (ECEI) approach, the impact of which is yet…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Intervention, Developmental Disabilities, Preschool Children
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Crudden, Adele; Sui, Zhen; Lund, Emily – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2020
Introduction: Employed applicants for vocational rehabilitation need timely services to improve the likelihood of their successful job retention or career advancement. Little research exists that examines timeliness of services among employed applicants, particularly for applicants with visual disabilities. This study investigated time from…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Visual Impairments, Time, Job Applicants
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Jenny Aspling; Veronica Svärd; Magnus Tideman – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2025
Background: Support from staff plays an important role in quality of life for people with intellectual disability. This study focuses on service users' views of Active Support as good support and whether Active Support increases the quality of everyday support in group homes. Method: Nine service users were interviewed at baseline and at follow-up…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Group Homes, Intellectual Disability
Christina M. Padilla; Audrey Franchett – Child Trends, 2025
Head Start is a two-generation program that supports children and families with low incomes through comprehensive child development and family support services. Family services include providing families with direct services and supports (e.g., free meals, screenings and assessments, parenting programs) and connecting them to needed resources in…
Descriptors: Social Services, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Pandemics
Judith Scott-Clayton; Irwin Garfinkel; Elizabeth Ananat; Sophie Collyer; Robert Paul Hartley; Anastasia Koutavas; Buyi Wang; Christopher Wimer – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2025
In 2015, the City University of New York (CUNY) launched a new program--Accelerate, Complete, and Engage (ACE)--aimed at improving college graduation rates. A randomized-control evaluation of the program found a nearly 12 percentage point increase in graduation five years after college entry. Using this impact estimate and national data on…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, Graduation Rate, Intervention, Outcomes of Education
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Christina Nicolaidis; Mirah Scharer; Dora M. Raymaker; Joseph Vera; Todd Edwards; Ian Moura; Mary Baker-Ericzén; Joelle Maslak; Liu-Qin Yang; Rachel Kripke-Ludwig; Steven K. Kapp; Andrea Joyce; Anna Wallington; Academic Autism Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education (AASPIRE) Outcomes Project Team – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
People are increasingly recognizing the need for service interventions to improve the lives of autistic adults. However, less is known about how to best evaluate such services. We aimed to identify (1) which self-reported outcomes are most important to measure when evaluating the effectiveness of services for autistic adults and (2) what survey…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Program Evaluation, Intervention
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Victoria Wang; Hanna Melnick; Melanie Leung-Gagné; Shaakira Parker; Marjorie Wechsler – Learning Policy Institute, 2025
California made a historic commitment to early childhood education in 2021 by providing universal prekindergarten (UPK) for all 4-year-olds by 2025-26 and expanding access for income-eligible 3-year-olds. California's UPK initiative includes multiple early learning programs, including transitional kindergarten (TK), the California State Preschool…
Descriptors: State Programs, State Legislation, Preschool Education, Equal Education
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Karen L. Bierman; Brenda S. Heinrichs; Janet A. Welsh; Damon E. Jones – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2025
Introduction: Growing up in poverty increases children's exposure to adversities that undermine healthy development, impeding growth in the social-emotional and language skills that support adaptive coping and promote mental health (Yoshikawa et al., 2012). Head Start promotes preschool gains but benefits fade as children proceed into elementary…
Descriptors: Intervention, Preschool Children, Child Development, Social Emotional Learning
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Maguire, Karla; Gleeson, Kate; Holmes, Nan – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2019
Background: Despite positive attitudes amongst support staff towards sexuality, adults with learning disabilities report being dissatisfied with the support they receive. This research aimed to explore support workers' understanding of their role supporting the sexuality of adults with learning disabilities. Method: Six support workers from…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Sexuality, Positive Attitudes, Adults
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Johansson, Kerstin – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2019
It is possible to discern a new trend replacing New Public Management (NPM) in human service organisations. This trend comprises a discussion about evidence and governance with the goal of establishing a knowledge-based practice within Swedish social service. Efforts aimed at promoting an evidence-based practice have been an explicit part of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Services, Evidence Based Practice, Social Work
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