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McCormack, Lorraine – School Science Review, 2016
This article describes how the Cognitive Acceleration through Science Education (CASE) programme was implemented in the final year of primary school and the first year of secondary school in a number of schools in Ireland. The original CASE programme, pioneered in the 1980s, proved successful in its aim to develop the science-reasoning abilities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Science, Secondary School Science, Transitional Programs
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Goggin, Thomas; Rankin, Stephen; Geerlings, Peter; Taggart, Andrew – Higher Education Research and Development, 2016
University enabling programs, worldwide, generally target high school students who excel at school, or post-secondary students who have underperformed in their university entry examinations. Murdoch University provides an access program for Year/Grade 12 students who are not on a university pathway during their final year of high school. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Transitional Programs, High School Students, Intervention
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Gemici, Sinan; Rojewski, Jay W. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2010
Work-based learning interventions, particularly cooperative education, are a viable way to support the post-high school transition process, enhance work-related cognitive development, and increase the occupational engagement of at-risk youth. Using propensity score matching to analyze data from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, High Schools, At Risk Students, Cooperative Education
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Scott, Ellen M.; Smith, Tom E. C.; Hendricks, Mary D.; Polloway, Edward A. – Education and Training in Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, 1999
This review of Prader-Willi Syndrome notes characteristics (mental retardation and excessive overeating). Educational interventions including weight management, cognitive and educational development, behavioral interventions, and transition to adulthood are discussed. (DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Congenital Impairments
Tyler, Janet Siantz; Mira, Mary P. – 1999
This book is designed to provide educators with the requisite information to successfully meet the needs of students with traumatic brain injury (TBI). It focuses particularly on students (preschoolers through adolescents) whose injuries are moderate to severe and who are expected to suffer educationally significant residual impairments. It…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Problems, Check Lists, Cognitive Development