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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
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
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
This Was All Us: The Experience of Middle School Youth Engaging in YPAR within Their White Community
Rebecca Carlson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This phenomenological study examines the experience of middle school youth at a small public school in New Hampshire as they engaged in youth participatory action research (YPAR) designed to promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging within their predominantly White suburban community. This study centered the 22 participants' perspectives…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Public Schools, Small Schools, Action Research
Bibby, Emily S.; Choukas-Bradley, Sophia; Widman, Laura; Turpyn, Caitlin; Prinstein, Mitchell J.; Telzer, Eva H. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Sexual health communication in adolescence is important for sexual well-being. With limited empirical work utilizing longitudinal methodologies, this study aimed to investigate how the frequency of sexual communication with parents, peers, and dating partners changes across adolescence and varies based on sex, race/ethnicity, and sexual…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Sexuality, Parents
Mason, Linda H.; Ciullo, Stephen; Collins, Alyson A.; Brady, Stacie; Elcock, LaTisha; Owen, Lindsay Sanborn – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2022
Descriptive and qualitative research was used to explore teacher training, teachers' perceptions, and instructional practice for writing in inclusive middle school science (n = 22) and social studies (n = 27) classrooms. Data sources for the two parallel studies included questionnaires and interviews with 49 participating teachers as well as four…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Inclusion, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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
Relyea, Jackie Eunjung; Rich, Patrick; Kim, James S.; Gilbert, Joshua B. – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2022
The current study aimed to explore the COVID-19 impact on the reading achievement growth of Grade 3-5 students in a large urban school district in the U.S. and whether the impact differed by students' demographic characteristics and instructional modality. Specifically, using administrative data from the school district, we investigated to what…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Reading Achievement, Elementary 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
Butler-Storsved, Lynda; Brown, Pamela Kocher; Gill, Diane; Rhea, Christopher – Physical Educator, 2023
Dysfunctional movement, a suggested contributing factor for musculoskeletal pain and injury, appears to increase as adolescents experience puberty. This study investigated dysfunctional movement among a group of ninth-grade physical education students to determine if a standardized functional movement warm-up (FMWU) would improve movement quality…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Grade 9, Motion, Psychomotor Skills
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
Farias, Cláudio; Teixeira, Joaquim; Ribeiro, Eugénio; Mesquita, Isabel – European Physical Education Review, 2022
This study aimed to examine the effects of a physical education teacher education programme on (a) preservice teachers' (PSTs') specialised content knowledge (SCK), and (b) the game-play development of their students, during a student-centred Sport Education-Step Game Approach (SE-SGA) unit. Three PSTs selected by convenience sampling (22-24 years…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Preservice Teacher Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Games
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
Rosheim, Kay – Language Awareness, 2022
The current study is a two-year case study focusing on an upper-elementary girl who had been diagnosed with selective mutism in 1st grade. While multiple theoretical frameworks have been used to explain selective mutism, the current study borrowed the frameworks of critical sociocultural theory, a social semiotic theory of multimodality, and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Females, Psychosomatic Disorders, Communication Problems