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Direct linkNeprily, Kristen; Climie, Emma – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2023
Many adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience challenges in social competence. Evidence suggests that specialized summer camps with social skills training may have positive outcomes on social competence development in adolescents with ADHD. This article reports on a pilot study of a therapeutic summer camp…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Interpersonal Competence, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Summer Programs
Download full textDemakova, Irina D.; Valeeva, Roza A.; Shipova, Alina V. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The article describes the relevant aspects of the adolescents' cultural practices in children's summer camp, taking into account their specific characteristics. The summer camp is considered as an educational formation and holistic socio-pedagogical body, designed to create conditions for the development of the person. The criteria for inclusion…
Descriptors: Socialization, Summer Programs, Adolescents, Children
Young, Adena E.; Worrell, Frank C. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2018
Two studies were conducted to examine and compare the construct validity of scores on the Junior Metacognition Awareness Inventory (JMAI) and problem-solving interview protocols. Participants consisted of 183 middle and high school students attending a university summer program for academically talented youth. Study 1 results indicated that JMAI…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Metacognition, Mathematics Instruction, Academically Gifted
Anderson-Butcher, Dawn; Amorose, Anthony J.; Lower, Leeann M.; Riley, Allison; Gibson, Allison; Ruch, Donna – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objective: This study examines the psychometric properties of the revised Perceived Social Competence Scale (PSCS), a brief, user-friendly tool used to assess social competence among youth. Method: Confirmatory factor analyses (CFAs) examined the factor structure and invariance of an enhanced scale (PSCS-II), among a sample of 420 youth.…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Competence, Children, Youth, Summer Programs
Owens, Julian D.; Weigel, Dottie – Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2018
Research on recreational media use among youth indicates young people of color who spend more time with media may also be at higher risk for school disengagement and low personal contentment compared to their white peers. This puts these students in a position to be even more influenced by the themes and messages that abound in pop culture,…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Academic Achievement, Service Learning, Culturally Relevant Education
Demack, Sean; McCaig, Colin; Wolstenholme, Claire; Stevens, Anna; Fumagalli, Laura – Education Endowment Foundation, 2016
ThinkForward is a coaching programme, developed by Impetus Private Equity Foundation, which is designed to support secondary school pupils. ThinkForward is targeted at pupils who have been identified as being at high risk of not being in education, employment or training (NEET) following the completion of compulsory education. Coaches are assigned…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Secondary School Students, At Risk Students, Transitional Programs
Serrano, Raquel; Tragant, Elsa; Llanes, Àngels – ELT Journal, 2014
The purpose of this study is to examine two L2 learning contexts (study abroad versus EFL intensive instruction at home) in terms of language development and learners' characteristics (including students' initial predisposition to learn English and their experience in the programme they enrolled in). Two groups of teenagers were considered: one…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Lerner, Matthew D.; Mikami, Amori Yee; Levine, Karen – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2011
This study examined the effectiveness of a novel intervention called "socio-dramatic affective-relational intervention" (SDARI), intended to improve social skills among adolescents with Asperger syndrome and high functioning autism diagnoses. SDARI adapts dramatic training activities to focus on in vivo practice of areas of social skill…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Asperger Syndrome, Adolescents
Mikami, Amori Yee; Lee, Steve S.; Hinshaw, Stephen P.; Mullin, Benjamin C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2008
This study investigated the relationship between social information processing (SIP) and both relational and overt, physical aggression in a longitudinally-followed sample of 228 adolescent girls (ages 11-18; 140 with ADHD and 88 comparison girls). During childhood, girls participated in naturalistic summer camps where peer rejection, overt…
Descriptors: Aggression, Females, Rejection (Psychology), Cognitive Processes
Myers, John P.; Zaman, Husam A. – Teachers College Record, 2009
Background/Context: The current national debate over the purposes of civic education is largely tied to outdated notions of citizenship that overlook its changing nature under globalization. Civic education is based on a legalistic understanding of citizenship that emphasizes patriotism and the structures and functions of government. This study…
Descriptors: Summer Programs, Citizenship, Citizenship Education, International Studies
Hany, Ernst A.; Grosch, Christiane – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2007
Short-term effects on the development of gifted school students have been demonstrated for intensive enrichment programs and means of acceleration. Long-term effects of short enrichment programs, however, have never been investigated and have rarely been postulated. Data from a large enrichment program in Germany can help to clarify this question.…
Descriptors: Gifted, Enrichment Activities, Academic Achievement, Acceleration (Education)
Brown, Nina W.
Four hundred and forty-six poor black urban and rural adolescents ages 15-18 enrolled in a summer poverty-work program are administered Gough's Adjective Checklist (ACL) and Holland's Vocatonal Preference Inventory (VPI) to determine their personality profile, to ascertain differences between this gorup and blacks attending colleges, and to study…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Black Youth, College Students, Comparative Analysis
McClanahan, Wendy S.; Sipe, Cynthia L.; Smith, Thomas J. – Public/Private Ventures, 2004
To determine the impact of the Summer Career Exploration Program (SCEP), a privately funded summer jobs program for low-income teens, P/PV examined the lives of over 1700 applicants. These youth were randomly assigned to participate or to not participate in SCEP in the summer of 1999, and their outcomes were compared at four and twelve months…
Descriptors: Crime Prevention, Summer Programs, Low Income Groups, Comparative Analysis
