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Joseph Murray; Rafaela Costa Martins; Melanie Greenland; Suélen Cruz; Elisa Altafim; Adriane Xavier Arteche; Peter J. Cooper; Marlos Rodrigues Domingues; Andrea Gonzalez; Adriana Kramer Fiala Machado; Lynne Murray; Isabel Oliveira; Iná Santos; Tâmara Biolo Soares; Luciana Tovo-Rodrigues; Merryn Voysey – Prevention Science, 2024
Violence is a major public health problem globally, with the highest rates in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the Americas and southern Africa. Parenting programmes in high-income countries can diminish risk for violence, by reducing risk factors such as child aggression and harsh parenting, and increasing protective factors such as…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Parent Education, Child Behavior
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Solís-Cordero, Katherine; Lerner, Rogério; Marinho, Patricia; Camargo, Patricia; Takey, Silvia; Fujimori, Elizabeth – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2022
The current situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic has had huge consequences in all aspects of our lives, including the development of research activities. Studies involving face-to-face interaction with people, such as randomized controlled trials, were the first affected. The objective of this article is to present the insights on challenges…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Randomized Controlled Trials, Barriers
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Dianne Newbury; Carol Mesa; Marina L. Puglisi; Marysia Nash; Sonali Nag; Charles Hulme; Margaret J. Snowling – Research Papers in Education, 2023
Research in the UK suggests that multi-componential interventions focusing on language and pre-literacy skills can improve children's reading and language skills. However, simple translations of such programmes may not produce equivalent effects in diverse communities. The reasons for this are multi-faceted and include factors beyond the rationale…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Program Implementation, Intervention, Reading Programs
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Costa, Rochelle Rocha; Pilla, Carmen; Buttelli, Adriana Cristine Koch; Barreto, Michelle Flores; Vieiro, Priscila Azevedo; Alberton, Cristine Lima; Bracht, Cláudia Gomes; Kruel, Luiz Fernando Martins – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2018
Purpose: This study aimed to investigate the effects of water-based aerobic training on the lipid profile and lipoprotein lipase (LPL) levels in premenopausal women with dyslipidemia. Method: Forty women were randomly assigned to: aquatic training (WA; n = 20) or a control group (CG; n = 20). The WA group underwent 12 weeks of water-based interval…
Descriptors: Exercise, Randomized Controlled Trials, Control Groups, Females
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Lan, Yu-Ju; Lin, Yen-Ting – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
The current study aimed at investigating how mobile seamless technology can be used to enhance the pragmatic competence of learners of Chinese as a second language (CSL). 34 overseas CSL learners participated in this study. They were randomly assigned into two groups: the classroom group, executing language tasks in fake contexts in a traditional…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Chaves, Rafael Oliveira; von Wangenheim, Christiane Gresse; Furtado, Julio Cezar Costa; Oliveira, Sandro Ronaldo Bezerra; Santos, Alex; Favero, Eloi Luiz – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2015
Software process modeling (SPM) is an important area of software engineering because it provides a basis for managing, automating, and supporting software process improvement (SPI). Teaching SPM is a challenging task, mainly because it lays great emphasis on theory and offers few practical exercises. Furthermore, as yet few teaching approaches…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Science Education, Student Projects, Teaching Methods