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Angela Elisabeth Stott – Discover Education, 2025
For learners from disadvantaged backgrounds with limited science fair-related skills, knowledge, and community support, investigating the advisability of various ways of arriving at a science fair project topic is needed. This mixed-methods case study with an ex post facto criterion-group design uses questionnaire data and science fair awards…
Descriptors: Science Fairs, Grade 9, Grade 10, Disadvantaged Youth
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Juan Á. Simón-Piqueras; David González-Cutre; Luis M. García López – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine whether, drawing on the perception of their coaches, the application of the pedagogical model of sport education could be associated with satisfying the basic psychological needs of children from socially vulnerable backgrounds. Method: A 36-session sport education season was implemented within a…
Descriptors: Athletics, At Risk Students, Preadolescents, Disadvantaged Youth
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Park, Joo-Ho; Rojewski, Jay W.; Lee, In Heok – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2018
More attention is needed on the career development of adolescents, specifically disadvantaged students deemed at risk of school failure. We investigated the determinants on career development competencies of 9th graders in secondary school in South Korea. The data in this study included 394 principals, 6635 students, and the students' parents. Our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career Development, Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth
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DeLay, Dawn; Hanish, Laura D.; Martin, Carol Lynn; Fabes, Richard A. – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The goals of this study were to investigate whether young children attending Head Start (N = 292; M[subscript age] = 4.3 years) selected peers based on their preschool competency and whether children's levels of preschool competency were influenced by their peers' levels of preschool competency. Children's peer interaction partners were…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Early Intervention, Disadvantaged Youth, Young Children
Malone, Helen Janc, Ed.; Donahue, Tara, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2017
The Information Age Publishing new book series, Current Issues in Out-of-School Time, is designed with a purpose to disseminate original research and promising practices that further the Out-of-School Time (OST) field. This first book sets the foundation on which the series rests upon, by offering an analysis of the progress made since the 2000s,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Child Development, Adolescent Development, Theory Practice Relationship