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Nicole L. Arshan; C. J. Park; Rebecca Goetz – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
This article provides a replication study of the National Writing Project's College, Career, & Community Writers Program (C3WP), which was found to be effective at improving student writing quality in two prior studies. C3WP is designed to improve students' source-based argument writing through intensive teacher professional development,…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Persuasive Discourse, Writing Teachers, National Programs
Burtis, Eloise; Goulas, Sofoklis – Hamilton Project, 2023
In this paper, we investigate how student enrollment in public schools is different after the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the pandemic--between the 2018-19 and 2021-22 school years--about 12 percent of public elementary schools and 9 percent of middle schools experienced more than a 20 percent decline. This is a significant change from before the…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Enrollment Trends, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools
Cate A. Egan; Christopher B. Mercia; Laura Bond; Chantal A. Vella; David R. Paul – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: Internationally 18% of youth are obese. Fitness testing can be used to establish fitness surveillance, which can inform policy and targeted interventions aimed at addressing obesity. The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of overweight, obesity, and low fitness in Idaho school-aged youth through a pilot study.…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Health Related Fitness, Obesity, Tests
Nuñez Enriquez, Oscar; Oliver, Kimberly L. – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2022
Background: For years, physical activity settings had portrayed a discourse that does not allow to add new and different elements in its practice. This discourse established a status quo that has affected in many ways the structure, the pedagogy and practice of physical activity settings. This is the case of out-school programs. Purpose: The…
Descriptors: Student Centered Learning, Athletics, Clubs, After School Programs
Katherine Lass; Sarah Walsh; Hilary Demby; Rebekah Snider; Kelly Burgess; Eric Jenner – Grantee Submission, 2023
The purpose of this study was to evaluate Peer Group Connection-Middle School, a cross-age peer mentor program designed to enhance student retention and achievement during the transition from elementary to middle school. We present findings from an individual-level randomized controlled trial that included 1,902 sixth-grade students across three…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Mentors, School Holding Power, Academic Achievement
Kuhfeld, Megan; Lewis, Karyn – NWEA, 2022
School systems started the 2021-22 school year with extra resources and plans for recovery, but repeated resurgences of the COVID-19 virus thwarted hopes of a strong comeback. Schools continued to face a myriad of challenges including severe staff shortages, high rates of absenteeism and sickness, and rolling school closures forced by the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, COVID-19, Pandemics, Reading Achievement
Kozakowski, Whitney; Milless, Katlyn Lee; Alves, Sonia; Bennett, Michelle – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2023
These are the appendixes for the full report, "Changes in School Climate during COVID-19 in a Sample of Pennsylvania Schools." The REL study analyzed changes in scores from a pre-pandemic year (2018/19) to the 2020/21 and 2021/22 school years, both of which were affected by COVID-19 and related policy changes. These technical appendixes…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Schools
Li, Wenye; Yao, Jijun; Zhou, Shike – Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 2021
Previous studies have found that good physical exercise can promote academic performance, but the underlying mechanism behind this lacks large-scale empirical data. Based on this, we used the 2020 Jiangsu Province academic quality monitoring data to construct an OLS regression. Then, the non-cognitive abilities variable was built with the NEO-FFI…
Descriptors: Exercise, Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Mohammed, Saif Husam; Kinyó, László – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2022
This study's primary aim is to validate a research instrument in Iraqi Kurdistan middle and secondary schools to explore learners' perspectives concerning social constructivist learning environments and e-learning outcomes. The research instrument was updated and devised based on Aldridge, Fraser, Taylor, and Chen's (Aldridge et al., International…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Outcomes of Education, Secondary School Students
Addressing Health Disparities in LGBTQ Youth through Professional Development of Middle School Staff
Owens, Melissa; Mattheus, Deborah – Journal of School Health, 2022
Background: Significant health disparities exist for sexual minority youth (SMY). While supportive adults in schools have been shown to improve mental wellbeing and academic outcomes for students, most teachers do not receive training specific to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ) students. Methods: The project…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, School Personnel, Professional Development, Social Problems
Visions of Middle School: How Beginning Teacher Candidates Describe Their Early Visions for Teaching
Wall, Amanda – Peabody Journal of Education, 2021
The purpose of this research was to explore how beginning middle school teacher candidates describe their emerging visions for teaching. This collective case study of one cohort of teacher candidates in a middle grades teacher education program was informed by the literature on vision and by standards for middle level education. Twenty-two…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Introductory Courses, Undergraduate Students
Rodriguez, Louie F.; Espinoza, Enrique; Gutierrez, Lorena; Calderon, Yajaira; Chang, Elisa; macias, cindy – High School Journal, 2021
While there are numerous studies that employ additive frameworks to combat deficit views of Latina/o/x students, few focus on the perspectives of Latinx youth. This study examines the ways in which 9th grade high school Latinx students define and conceptualize excellence at home, school, and the community using photovoice methodology as a means of…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Student Attitudes, Photography, Grade 9
Özyildirim Gümüs, Feride; Zeybek, Nilüfer; Aydin, Seyda – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of activity-enriched geometry teaching methods on elementary school students' perceptions, attitudes and self-efficacy towards geometry. In this context, the mixed method was determined to be the research design. Within the scope of the study, a training process was carried out with 22 students who…
Descriptors: Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy
Toker, Turker – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2022
When the pandemic COVID -19 led to school closures, many of us had no idea that this disruption would last months and perhaps more than a year. Curriculum-based assessment (CBA) is an assessment process that uses academic knowledge picked directly from the material taught in the classroom. This form of criterion-referenced assessment connects…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing, Curriculum Based Assessment
Webb, Lindsey; Musci, Rashelle; Mendelson, Tamar – Grantee Submission, 2021
Objective: To identify subgroups of urban youth based on their self- and teacher-reported mental health symptoms, and to explore characteristics of these subgroups. Methods: Cross-sectional data from 426 eighth-grade students (M[subscript age] = 13.22 years; 70.1% Black/ African American; 58.7% female) across 20 Baltimore City public schools were…
Descriptors: Comorbidity, Urban Youth, Mental Disorders, Grade 8