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Jennifer Alix-García; Christopher R. Knittel – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2025
Mangroves provide vital ecosystem services like storm surge protection and carbon sequestration, but their coverage is rapidly declining. This study evaluates an environmental education program in the Dominican Republic, targeting children's attitudes, knowledge, behaviors, and willingness to pay for conservation. The program boosted attitudes,…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment), Forestry, Foreign Countries
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Shu Cheng; Kian Vanluyten; Phillip Ward; Jan Seghers; Tonghe Zhang; Peter Iserbyt – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2025
Purpose: We investigated elementary school children's voluntary participation in parkour and team handball recess during generalization and maintenance by skill level and sex. Methods: In six schools, 45 girls and 68 boys from different classes received a 10-lesson sport education parkour (second grade) and team handball (third grade) season in…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Student Participation, Team Sports, Athletics
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Sarah E. Toth; M. Christine Highfill; Isia K. Jenkins; Rakiya D. Battle – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: To investigate exercise stages of change (SOC) and physical barriers among undergraduates at an Historically Black University (HBCU) and quantify their relationship. Participants: A total of 326 undergraduate HBCU students; 198 were females (body mass index (BMI) range 16.5-87.9; M = 26.5 ± 6.8) and 127 were males (BMI range 18.0-49.3;…
Descriptors: Exercise, Undergraduate Students, Barriers, Black Colleges
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Einat Waizbard; Emilio Ferrer; Meghan Miller; Brianna Heath; Derek S. Andrews; Sally J. Rogers; Christine Wu Nordahl; Marjorie Solomon; David G. Amaral – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Girls, more than boys, experience a decrease in the severity of autism symptoms during childhood. It is unclear, however, which specific autistic behaviors change more for girls than for boys. Trajectories of autism symptoms were evaluated using the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-calibrated severity scores (ADOS-CSS). Change in the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Severity (of Disability), Gender Differences
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P. Pragha; Krantiraditya Dhalmahapatra; Murali Sambasivan; Pradeep Rathore; Esha Saha – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: The study intends to evaluate students' intention to shift from cash payment to mobile payment system for academic fee payments through push, pull and mooring framework. Push factors comprise risk and service-related factors, pull factors consist of subjective and aspect-based factors and mooring factors include cost and cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, College Graduates, Student Attitudes