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Hastle, Peter A.; Chen, Senlin; Guarino, Anthony J. – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the process and outcome of an intervention using the project-based learning (PBL) model to increase students' health-related fitness (HRF) knowledge. Method: The participants were 185 fifth-grade students from three schools in Alabama (PBL group: n = 109; control group: n = 76). HRF knowledge was…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Health Related Fitness, Intervention
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Kopas-Vukašinovic, Emina; Stevanovic, Jelena; Stanojevic, Vladimir – Africa Education Review, 2017
The preparation of children for the teaching of initial writing is a problem which is, in the system of unique institutional education, addressed by the preschool institution and the school. The open preschool education system includes the engagement of parents in these activities. The aim of this paper was to determine the attitudes of parents…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Task Analysis, Parent Attitudes, Likert Scales
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Brock, Matthew E.; Seaman, Rachel L.; Downing, Courtney – Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 2017
Most paraprofessionals are not well trained to implement evidence-based practices that can improve student outcomes. In this study, we trained a paraprofessional to use evidence-based instructional practices with an elementary student with a severe disability who exhibited challenging behavior. Through functional analysis, we determined the…
Descriptors: Paraprofessional School Personnel, Evidence Based Practice, Behavior Problems, Functional Behavioral Assessment
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Lynch, Collin F. – Theory and Research in Education, 2017
Big Data can radically transform education by enabling personalized learning, deep student modeling, and true longitudinal studies that compare changes across classrooms, regions, and years. With these promises, however, come risks to individual privacy and educational validity, along with deep policy and ethical issues. Education is largely a…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Privacy, Evaluation Methods
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Warner, Connor Kirwan; Hallman, Heidi L. – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2017
This article argues that prospective teachers who have the most productive experiences within pre-student teaching field experiences are those whose field sites allow them to become members of communities of practice, the conditions of which, according to Wenger (1998) include joint enterprise, mutual engagement, and shared repertoire. Employing…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Practicums, Content Analysis, Interviews
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Frerichs, Leah; Kim, Mimi; Dave, Gaurav; Cheney, Ann; Hassmiller Lich, Kristen; Jones, Jennifer; Young, Tiffany L.; Cene, Crystal W.; Varma, Deepthi S.; Schaal, Jennifer; Black, Adina; Striley, Catherine W.; Vassar, Stefanie; Sullivan, Greer; Cottler, Linda B.; Brown, Arleen; Burke, Jessica G.; Corbie-Smith, Giselle – Health Education & Behavior, 2017
Community-academic research partnerships aim to build stakeholder trust in order to improve the reach and translation of health research, but there is limited empirical research regarding effective ways to build trust. This multisite study was launched to identify similarities and differences among stakeholders' perspectives of antecedents to…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Research, Stakeholders, Trust (Psychology)
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Little, Megan Dodd – Written Communication, 2017
Delivery has often been treated as an afterthought of the "real work" of writing. This article demonstrates how writers in some contexts must think very carefully about delivery from the very beginning of their process. Tracking collaborative writers' talk, this article demonstrates how a group of writers works to anticipate delivery by…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Homosexuality, Fringe Benefits, Spouses
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Morales, Grace; Sensevy, Gérard; Forest, Dominique – Educational Action Research, 2017
In this article we focus on "cooperative engineering", in which teachers and researchers co-design didactic sequences. In the first part of the article, we present cooperative engineering by describing some of the main principles on which it is grounded. The second part is dedicated to a case study, which enables us to illustrate some…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Cooperative Learning, Cooperation, Engineering
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Hayford, Samuel K.; Ocansey, Frederick – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2017
This study reports part of a national survey on sources of information, education and communication materials on HIV/AIDS available to students with visual impairments in residential, segregated, and integrated schools in Ghana. A multi-staged stratified random sampling procedure and a purposive and simple random sampling approach, where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Visual Impairments, Teaching Methods
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Ashbrook, Peggy – Science and Children, 2017
This column discusses resources and science topics related to students in grades preK to 2. In this month's issue students study landscape surfaces to recognize changes due to human impacts or natural phenomena.
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Science, Primary Education, Science Education
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Papadakis, Stamatios; Kalogiannakis, Michail; Zaranis, Nicholas – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2017
The present study investigates and compares the influence of teaching Realistic Mathematics on the development of mathematical competence in kindergarten. The sample consisted of 231 Greek kindergarten students. For the implementation of the survey, we conducted an intervention, which included one experimental and one control group. Children in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Competence
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Ancatén González, Carlos; Montes, Rodrigo; Gutiérrez-Rojas, Cristian – Journal of Occupational Therapy, Schools & Early Intervention, 2017
The present pilot study aimed to determine motor control alterations in children with ADHD belonging to public schools, using Da Fonseca's Psychomotor Battery (BPM). This was a descriptive cross-sectional comparative study. The sample consisted of two groups, each group composed of 15 children between 7 and 9 years old belonging to public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Psychomotor Skills, Neurological Impairments
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Kim, Min Kyung; Bryant, Diane Pedrotty; Bryant, Brian R.; Park, Yujeong – Preventing School Failure, 2017
A synthesis of the research literature was conducted from 2004 to 2014 on interventions designed to build oral reading fluency for elementary students with learning disabilities (LD). An extensive search yielded a total of 12 intervention studies. Among the 12 studies, the majority (n = 9) implemented repeated reading with or without a model.…
Descriptors: Intervention, Reading Fluency, Oral Reading, Learning Disabilities
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Mungure, Daudi Mika – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
This paper investigated the teaching approach used by tutors to prepare science and mathematics teachers during training at Morogoro teachers' college. For six years consecutive the performance of science and mathematics in secondary school has become very poor even though the training colleges produce science and mathematics teachers every year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Teaching Methods, Teacher Educators
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Iwasa, Nobumichi – Journal of Moral Education, 2017
Two influential tragic incidents in 2011 are discussed in connection with the cultivation of morality in Japan. One is the suicide of a junior high school student due to bullying in his school--a scandal which eventually led to the country's redefinition of the status of moral education in the school curriculum. The other is the huge earthquake…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Moral Development, Suicide, Junior High School Students
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