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Hingstman, Mariëtte; Neitzel, Amanda J.; Slavin, Robert E. – Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2023
The number of students assigned to special education has increased in the past decades, in spite of efforts for more inclusion. For students with mild learning or behavioral difficulties, special education assignment might be prevented if appropriate support is provided in general education. In this study, research on programs that could reduce…
Descriptors: Prevention, Special Education, Student Placement, Students with Disabilities
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Andria B. Eisman; Christine Koffkey; Suzanne Brown; Christina Holmes; Barry Schmidt; Eric Swihart; Tracy Robinson; Bo Kim – Prevention Science, 2025
Drug use trends change rapidly among youth, leaving educators and researchers struggling to respond promptly. Widely adopted universal evidence-based interventions (EBIs), such as the Michigan Model for Health™ (MMH), and their delivery systems offer an opportunity to reach large youth populations and reduce the onset and escalation of emerging…
Descriptors: Administrators, Teachers, School Counselors, State Officials
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Kanchanachitra, Manasigan; Angeles, Gustavo – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: This study evaluated the impact of a school-based nutrition program on preventing overweight and obesity in children in Thailand from 2014 to 2019. Methods: We used difference-in-differences with matched comparison group to evaluate program impact. Treatment schools were categorized into those that participated in phase 1 only, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Obesity, Body Weight, Nutrition
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Kimberly Rogers Davis; Akeya Simeon; Emily Anne Pride Sutton – New Directions for Student Services, 2024
As institutions implement more comprehensive hazing prevention efforts, assessment is a necessary strategy for ensuring that programs and services for students are achieving their intended outcomes, especially as hazing behaviors change and evolve. Using a multi-stage student learning and development outcomes cycle, this article outlines steps to…
Descriptors: Hazing, Prevention, Intervention, Program Evaluation
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Sara R. Jacobs; LaShawn Glasgow; Peter Amico; Kimberly D. Farris; Gia Rutledge; Bryce D. Smith – Prevention Science, 2024
Diabetes is a significant population health threat. Evidence-based interventions, such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Diabetes Prevention Program and diabetes self-management education and support programs, can help prevent, delay, or manage the disease. However, participation is suboptimal, especially among…
Descriptors: Diabetes, Prevention, Evidence Based Practice, Self Management
Kate Shaw – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This research seeks to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of a behavioral threat assessment and management (BTAM) program within the Mansfield Independent School District, catering to students from kindergarten through 12th grade. The primary focus of the BTAM initiative is to detect early signs of potential violence in students'…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Effectiveness, Elementary Secondary Education, Prevention
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Julie Murray; Charlie Rioux; Sophie Parent; Jean R. Séguin; Michelle Pinsonneault; William D. Fraser; Natalie Castellanos-Ryan – Prevention Science, 2024
Parenting programs have been shown to be effective in preventing and reducing externalising problems in young children. Despite their efficacy, the low rate of initial parental engagement in these programs is a major challenge for clinicians and researchers. Few studies have examined factors associated with rates of initial engagement in parenting…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Parent Education, Prevention, Child Behavior
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Hewawitharana, Sridharshi C.; Kao, Janice; Rider, Carolyn D.; Talmage, Evan; Costello, Sadie; Webb, Karen; Gosliner, Wendi; Woodward-Lopez, Gail – American Journal of Evaluation, 2022
Schools are a critical setting for improving child nutrition and food security and preventing obesity in the United States. The U.S. Department of Agriculture mandates that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program--Education, known as CalFresh Healthy Living (CFHL) in California, implements obesity prevention efforts that utilize…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Obesity, Prevention, Health Promotion
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Gaffney, Hannah; Ttofi, Maria M.; Farrington, David P. – Campbell Systematic Reviews, 2021
The objective of this review is to establish whether or not existing school-based antibullying programs are effective in reducing school-bullying behaviors. This report also updates a previous meta-analysis conducted by Farrington and Ttofi. This earlier review found that antibullying programs are effective in reducing bullying perpetration and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Victims
UNICEF Innocenti - Global Office of Research and Foresight, 2025
The Global Research Agenda for Children with Disabilities (the Research Agenda) is a strategic framework that identifies priority research areas -- defined through a global research prioritization exercise -- to close critical evidence gaps, inform inclusive policies and programmes, and guide effective investments that support children with…
Descriptors: Children, Disabilities, Educational Research, International Organizations
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Emerson, Amanda; Pickett, Michelle; Moore, Shawana; Kelly, Patricia J. – Prevention Science, 2023
Despite a robust field of study in healthy romantic relationship education and risk prevention interventions that employ traditional forms of delivery, the field of digital health interventions (DHIs) in healthy relationship programming for adolescents remains undefined. The purpose of this scoping review was to summarize the scope of published…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Dating (Social), Intimacy, Adolescents
Julie L. Koenigsberg – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Much of the sexual assault prevention literature on the university level focuses on individual institutions' varied efforts to address incidences of sexual assault on their campuses and their outcomes (Donais et al., 2018). While consent education programming has emerged as one such effort, there is a dearth of evaluative literature in this area…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Training, Electronic Learning
Sandra Jane Cantwell – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Chronic absenteeism and truancy have plagued the United States for more than a century. Various interventions have been utilized, yet eight million students are absent from school every day, and seven million meet the threshold for chronic absenteeism in a school year. Some communities implemented voluntary court-based truancy diversion programs…
Descriptors: Truancy, Prevention, Intervention, Program Evaluation
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Pamela R. Buckley; Katie Massey Combs; Karen M. Drewelow; Brittany L. Hubler; Marion Amanda Lain – Evaluation Review, 2025
As evidence-based interventions are scaled, fidelity of implementation, and thus effectiveness, often wanes. Validated fidelity measures can improve researchers' ability to attribute outcomes to the intervention and help practitioners feel more confident in implementing the intervention as intended. We aim to provide a model for the validation of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Evidence Based Practice, Program Development
Johnny William Bostick – ProQuest LLC, 2024
It should be noted that about a year after this researcher began work on this dissertation, he became seriously ill, greatly interfering with his ability to function. In 2019 he was diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, a terminal lung disease. As his physical condition continued to worsen, work on the dissertation came to practically a…
Descriptors: Bullying, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students
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