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Direct linkSnelling, Anastasia; Newman, Constance; Watts, Erin; Van Dyke, Hugo; Malloy, Elizabeth; Gharmarian, Yasha; Guthrie, Joanne; Mancino, Lisa – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2017
Purpose/Objectives: This study evaluated a behavioral economic strategy which paired a fresh cold fruit and cold vegetable to increase consumption of vegetables among elementary school children. Methods: The 14-day study was conducted in 12 public elementary schools in a suburban school district, which follows the offer model allowing students to…
Descriptors: Nutrition Instruction, Food, Eating Habits, Public Schools
Van Herwegen, Jo; Costa, Hiwet Mariam; Passolunghi, Maria Chiara – School Psychology Quarterly, 2017
Previous studies in both typically and atypically developing children have shown that approximate number system (ANS) abilities predict formal mathematical knowledge later on in life. The current study investigated whether playing specially designed training games that targets the ANS system using nonsymbolic stimuli only would improve preschool…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Educational Games, Control Groups, Experimental Groups
Bell, Brent J.; Chang, Hong – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2017
Outdoor orientation programs have a growing literature demonstrating positive impacts with students transitioning to college (Bell, Gass, Nafizer, & Starbuck, 2014). One of the most valued outcomes for colleges and universities is retention of students until successful graduation. This is an outcome few outdoor orientation researchers have…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Program Effectiveness, Academic Persistence, Graduation Rate
Powers, Kristin; Hagans, Kristi; Linn, Megan – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
The effectiveness of the Check and Connect dropout prevention program was examined, over the course of 2.5 years, with 54 middle school students from diverse backgrounds experiencing one or more conditions of risk for dropout. Participants were randomly assigned to receive the Check and Connect intervention or business as usual (i.e., control) in…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Middle School Students, Grade 6
Download full textIrfan Arif, Muhammad; Mirza, Munawar S. – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2017
The major purpose of the study was to find out the effectiveness of an intervention programme in fostering academic resilience of non-resilient at-risk students at secondary school level. The programme based on a resilience building module for teachers was designed for this purpose. The module comprised of activity based sessions aiming at…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Resilience (Psychology), At Risk Students
Weinkauff Duranso, Christine M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
There is evidence that participating in physical exercise reduces stress and the risk of many physical maladies. Exercise is also correlated with higher levels of approach motivation, or a tendency to approach challenge as an opportunity for growth or improvement instead of an opportunity for failure. To date, most research on this relationship…
Descriptors: College Students, Exercise, Stress Management, Correlation
Ceylan, Levent; Demirkan, Erkan – Online Submission, 2017
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of plyometric training on repeated sprint ability in amateur soccer players. Twenty amateur soccer players participated in this study as the subject. The subjects were randomly assigned to plyometric training group (n=10, age: 19.7[plus or minus]2.26 years) and control group (n=10, age: 18.8[plus…
Descriptors: Training, Physical Activities, Team Sports, Exercise
Omarov, Yessen B.; Toktarbayev, Darkhan Gabdyl-Samatovich; Rybin, Igor Vyacheslavovich; Saliyevaa, Aigul Zhanayevna; Zhumabekova, Fatima Niyazbekovna; Hamzina, Sholpan; Baitlessova, Nursulu; Sakenov, Janat – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The article presents an analysis of the problem of professional competence; a methodological basis of forming professional competence of college students as future teachers is established. The essence of professional competence is defined. The structure has been experimentally proved and developed; the contents, criteria and levels of professional…
Descriptors: College Students, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Competencies
Ibarra Santacruz, Diana; Martínez Ortega, David – HOW, 2018
This study sought to determine how working memory training could contribute to retaining vocabulary studied in English lessons through the implementation of a set of strategies. Two intact groups of beginners: one experimental, with 28 students, and one control group, with 22 students, belonging to undergraduate English as a foreign language…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Short Term Memory
Cheung, Alan; Slavin, Robert E.; Kim, Elizabeth; Lake, Cynthia – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2017
This article reports a systematic review of research on science programs in grades 6-12. Twenty-one studies met inclusion criteria including use of randomized or quasi-experimental assignment to conditions, measures that assess content emphasized equally in experimental and control groups, and a duration of at least 12 weeks. Programs fell into…
Descriptors: Science Programs, Secondary School Science, Program Effectiveness, Quasiexperimental Design
Hartweg, Beau; Biffi, Daniella; de la Fuente, Yohanis; Malkoc, Ummuhan; Patterson, Melissa E.; Pearce, Erin; Stewart, Morgan A.; Weinburgh, Molly – School Science and Mathematics, 2017
A pilot study was conducted on a multimodal educational tool, Peruvian Food Chain Jenga (PFCJ), with 5th-grade students (N = 54) at a public charter school. The goal was to compare the effectiveness of the multimodal tool to a more traditional presentation of the same materials (food chain) using an experimental/control design. Data collection…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Charter Schools, Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness
Asmus, Jennifer M.; Carter, Erik W.; Moss, Colleen K.; Biggs, Elizabeth E.; Bolt, Daniel M.; Born, Tiffany L.; Bottema-Beutel, Kristen; Brock, Matthew E.; Cattey, Gillian N.; Cooney, Molly; Fesperman, Ethan S.; Hochman, Julia M.; Huber, Heartley B.; Lequia, Jenna L.; Lyons, Gregory L.; Vincent, Lori B.; Weir, Katie – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
This randomized controlled trial examined the efficacy of peer network interventions to improve the social connections of 47 high school students with severe disabilities. School staff invited, trained, and supported 192 peers without disabilities to participate in individualized social groups that met throughout one semester. Compared to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Severe Disabilities, Peer Relationship, Social Networks
Al-Murtadha, Mutahar – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
Willingness to communicate (WTC) research has focused mostly on identifying factors that influence second language (L2) WTC in ESL contexts. This study differs by examining the effects of a 6-week treatment aimed at enhancing WTC in a group of 206 Yemeni rural high school EFL learners. Classes were randomly assigned to a control group (n = 102) or…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Goal Orientation
Manaseri, Holly; Roberts, Kelly D.; Barker, Linda Toms; Tom, Tammy – Journal of School Health, 2019
Background: The US Office of Adolescent Health (OAH) funded studies of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention programs in 2010. The results of a 5-year OAH study conducted in the state of Hawai'i with middle school youth has implications for school leaders in the selection and implementation of comprehensive sex…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Middle School Students
LeMay, Jeffrey W. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This quasi-experimental post-test only control group designed quantitative study examined whether or not members of an experimental group of participants who utilized two metacognitive strategy training regimens experienced a significant increase in their ACT mathematics sub-test scores compared to a group of students who did not utilize either of…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Statistical Analysis, Experimental Groups, Control Groups
