Publication Date
| In 2026 | 7 |
| Since 2025 | 2033 |
| Since 2022 (last 5 years) | 10492 |
| Since 2017 (last 10 years) | 24511 |
| Since 2007 (last 20 years) | 48505 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Audience
| Practitioners | 2130 |
| Policymakers | 1213 |
| Teachers | 1069 |
| Administrators | 958 |
| Researchers | 704 |
| Parents | 113 |
| Community | 111 |
| Counselors | 106 |
| Students | 87 |
| Media Staff | 47 |
| Support Staff | 43 |
| More ▼ | |
Location
| California | 2006 |
| Australia | 1994 |
| Canada | 1530 |
| Texas | 1395 |
| United States | 1197 |
| Turkey | 1193 |
| United Kingdom | 1185 |
| Florida | 1105 |
| New York | 1028 |
| United Kingdom (England) | 968 |
| North Carolina | 858 |
| More ▼ | |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
| Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 283 |
| Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 433 |
| Does not meet standards | 373 |
Peer reviewed
Direct linkRicard, Richard J.; Lerma, Eunice; Heard, Courtney C. C. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2013
This study explored the impact of a 4-week skills group intervention based on the principles of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with a sample of adolescents attending a Disciplinary Alternative Education Program. This article provides a session-by-session overview of activities adapted from DBT-specified training modules of mindfulness,…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Intervention, Nontraditional Education, Behavior Modification
Ruble, Lisa A.; McGrew, John H.; Toland, Michael D. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2013
More than a decade has passed since the National Research Council described the common elements of effective educational programs for young children with autism. Since that time, few studies have attempted to understand the mechanisms of change and factors affecting the effectiveness of research supported interventions implemented in community…
Descriptors: Autism, Consultation Programs, Educational Change, Parent Teacher Conferences
Black, Glenda L.; Cantalini-Williams, Maria; Elliott-Johns, Susan E.; Wideman, Ron – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The Learning Partnership (TLP) initiated a Family and Community Engagement Strategy (FACES) initiative in three Ontario communities to foster active and responsive relationships among community partners and enhanced family engagement in transitions to school. A case study research design, grounded in participatory action research, was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Participatory Research, Action Research, Community Involvement
Scherff, Lisa – Teacher Education and Practice, 2013
In this article, we explore findings from a semester-long online mentoring project between graduate students enrolled in a doctoral program and university students observing in local high schools early in their teacher education program. The project's goals were to provide supervised mentoring experiences for doctoral students to better prepare…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mentors, Online Systems, Graduate Students
Zusevics, Kaija L.; Lemke, Melissa A.; Harley, Amy E.; Florsheim, Paul – Health Education, 2013
Purpose: Milwaukee has very high rates of risky sexual behavior and low rates of academic achievement among adolescents. Milwaukee school representatives partnered with researchers to create and implement an innovative project-based learning (PBL) high school health curriculum to engage students in school. This health education program, Project…
Descriptors: Attendance, Sexuality, Learner Engagement, Program Effectiveness
Britton, Willoughby B.; Brown, Anne-Catharine; Kaplan, Christopher T.; Goldman, Roberta E.; DeLuca, Marie; Rojiani, Rahil; Reis, Harry; Xi, Mandy; Chou, Jonathan C.; McKenna, Faye; Hitchcock, Peter; Rocha, Tomas A.; Himmelfarb, Josh; Margolis, David M.; Niles, Halsey F.; Eckert, Allison M.; Frank, Tana – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2013
Contemplative practices, which engage the subjective or "first-person" perspective, are being incorporated into systems of higher education that have traditionally relied on didactic or "third-person" approaches (Dederer 2007; Kroll 2010; Repetti 2010; Roth 2006; Shapiro, Brown, and Astin 2011; Smith 2006; Zajonc 2006). The…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Metacognition
Pfiffner, Linda J.; Villodas, Miguel; Kaiser, Nina; Rooney, Mary; McBurnett, Keith – School Psychology Quarterly, 2013
This study evaluated educationally relevant outcomes from a newly developed collaborative school-home intervention (Collaborative Life Skills Program [CLS]) for youth with attention and/or behavior problems. Participants included 17 girls and 40 boys in second through fifth grades (mean age = 8.1 years) from diverse ethnic backgrounds. CLS was…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Grades (Scholastic), Report Cards, Learner Engagement
Snell, Emily K.; Castells, Nina; Duncan, Greg; Gennetian, Lisa; Magnuson, Katherine; Morris, Pamela – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2013
This study uses geocoded address data and information about parents' economic behavior and children's development from four random-assignment welfare and anti-poverty experiments conducted during the 1990s. We find that the impacts of these welfare and anti-poverty programs on boys' and girls' developmental outcomes during the transition to early…
Descriptors: Poverty, Neighborhoods, Males, Child Development
Prain, Vaughan; Cox, Peter; Deed, Craig; Dorman, Jeffrey; Edwards, Debra; Farrelly, Cathleen; Keeffe, Mary; Lovejoy, Valerie; Mow, Lucy; Sellings, Peter; Waldrip, Bruce; Yager, Zali – British Educational Research Journal, 2013
Personalised learning is now broadly endorsed as a key strategy to improve student curricular engagement and academic attainment, but there is also strong critique of this construct. We review claims made for this approach, as well as concerns about its conceptual coherence and effects on different learner cohorts. Drawing on literature around…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learner Engagement, Educational Attainment, Academic Achievement
Naidoo, Loshini – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
This paper discusses the role of community, non-government organisations and universities in assisting secondary schools meet the needs of refugee students. On arrival in Australia, many African refugee communities experience high levels of stress particularly in adjusting to their new environment. The parents and students unfamiliarity with the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Intervention, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
Belansky, Elaine S.; Cutforth, Nick; Chavez, Robert; Crane, Lori A.; Waters, Emily; Marshall, Julie A. – Journal of School Health, 2013
Background: School environment and policy changes have increased healthy eating and physical activity; however, there has been modest success in translating research ?ndings to practice. The School Environment Project tested whether an adapted version of Intervention Mapping (AIM) resulted in school change. Methods: Using a pair randomized design,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Educational Environment, Policy Formation, Health Behavior
Scales, Peter C.; Benson, Peter L.; Dershem, Larry; Fraher, Kathleen; Makonnen, Raphael; Nazneen, Shahana; Syvertsen, Amy K.; Titus, Sarah – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2013
"Kishoree Kontha" ("Adolescent Girls' Voices") was implemented in Bangladeshi villages to build the developmental assets (e.g., support from others, social competencies) of rural girls through peer education in social skills, literacy, and school learning. The Developmental Assets Profile (DAP) measured the project's impact on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Womens Education, Access to Education
Ellerbrock, Cheryl R.; Kiefer, Sarah M. – Journal of Educational Research, 2013
This qualitative within-site case study ("N" = 10) is a follow-up study to a 2006-2007 investigation that analyzed how 1 high school created a community of care for its ninth-grade students through the implementation of a ninth-grade transition program--Freshman Focus. All participants were interviewed again 3 years later during…
Descriptors: Grade 9, High Schools, Transitional Programs, Followup Studies
Miller, Gill – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2013
This paper discusses a fieldwork exercise in development geography undertaken by students in the UK. Based on community engagement in partnership with refugee and black minority communities in Liverpool, it explores how such fieldwork can deepen understanding of development geography, contribute to global citizenship and nurture personal skills.…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Community Involvement, Partnerships in Education, Foreign Countries
Davidson, Maaike T. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This sequential, mixed method, QUAN-QUAL study redefines the craft of teaching into the science ("what"), art ("how"), and the business of teaching to assess and prepare preservice teachers. It also measures the effectiveness of using theatrical elements as teaching strategies to effectively develop preservice teachers in the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Teaching Methods, Educational Strategies
