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Jennifer Gruno; Sandra Gibbons – LEARNing Landscapes, 2024
Experts in public health and education alike have long advocated for the engagement of youth in nature to foster movement, human-nature connectedness, and mental wellbeing. Physical and health education teachers in school-based programs continue to find a variety of ways to help their students be physically active in the natural environment due to…
Descriptors: Photography, Social Action, Community Education, Participatory Research
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David B. Tataw – School Community Journal, 2023
This study assesses the impact of five years of community level activities in the Pomona Youth and Family Master Plan (PYFMP) on four school-related risk and protective factors including academic failure, low school commitment, school opportunities for prosocial involvement, and school rewards for prosocial involvement. The intervention and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Community Programs, Risk Management, Resilience (Psychology)
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Cohen, Etan; Hod, Yotam – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Knowledge Building Communities (KBCs) are principled-based, interactive learning environments designed to scaffold higher levels of student agency and the formulation of goals and questions stemming from students' knowledge-building needs. The design of KBCs is guided by a set of 12 principles that have been examined across hundreds of studies.…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Educational Principles
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Lovejoy Comfort Gweshe; Karin Brodie – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2024
Many researchers have tried to understand why some learners engage in and others disengage from mathematics by exploring learners' mathematical identities. Significant others (i.e., teachers, peers and family members) offer learners' different opportunities for mathematical identity support, but no study has explored their collective role in…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Self Concept, Interpersonal Relationship, High School Students
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Montgomery, LaTrice; Vaughn, Lisa M.; Jacquez, Farrah – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Background: To identify contextually-relevant strategies for reducing and eventually eliminating addiction, it is imperative to engage stakeholders that are most affected by drug abuse but typically left out of the conversation, such as adolescents. Aim: The aim of this study was to collaborate with 45 adolescent stakeholders participating in a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drug Abuse, Prevention, Addictive Behavior
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Rose Whitau; Latoya Bolton-Black; Helen Ockerby; Lowana Corley – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2022
The barriers to school attendance that affect young Aboriginal people in Australia are diverse, immense and well documented; however, except for a handful of studies, Aboriginal students' voices receive no platform for policy makers to hear them. In this paper, we present results from yarning circles about barriers to school attendance conducted…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Females, Foreign Countries, Community Attitudes
Eryilmaz, Ali; Altinsoy, Fatma – Online Submission, 2021
The aim of this study is to examine the relationships between high school students' school belonging and classroom engagement. Dependent variable of the study is school belonging and independent variable of the study is behavioral, cognitive and emotional engagement. The study was conducted in cross sectional research design. In the study…
Descriptors: High School Students, Sense of Community, Learner Engagement, Grade 9
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Dawit Asrat Getahun; Engida Gebre – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2024
There is increasing recognition of the importance of learning contexts in science education. However, learning contexts are rarely articulated in terms of what they constitute and are often framed by educators and textbooks with limited inputs from students. Unless properly articulated, contexts become anything and everything, thereby losing their…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Science Education, Secondary School Science, Foreign Countries
Kelly Shumaker – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study examined minoritized student perceptions of connectedness through relationships, involvement, and environment in relation to their non-minoritized peers in rural Pennsylvania high schools. The study also examined academic and health risk behaviors of minoritized and non-minoritized students. A nonexperimental quantitative research…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Student Attitudes, Sense of Community, High School Students
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Nicolás Libuy; Carlos Ibáñez; Ana María Araneda; Paula Donoso; Lorena Contreras; Viviana Guajardo; Adrian P. Mundt – Prevention Science, 2024
A primary community prevention approach in Iceland was associated with strong reductions of substance use in adolescents. Two years into the implementation of this prevention model in Chile, the aim of this study was to assess changes in the prevalence of adolescent alcohol and cannabis use and to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Drug Use, Prevention, Adolescents
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Aeri Song; Jung Won Hur – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate the leadership development of Korean American youth who participated in a community-based participatory action research program designed to assist community members affected by COVID-19. Participants were drawn from a small town in the southeastern part of the U.S. Using a case study approach, multiple…
Descriptors: Korean Americans, Adolescents, Leadership, Skill Development
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Richard J. Murnane; John B. Willett; Aubrey McDonough; John P. Papay; Ann Mantil – AERA Open, 2024
The labor-market payoff to workers with associate degrees in healthcare and STEM occupations is very high in Massachusetts. We examine whether this induced a growing proportion of students in MA community colleges (MACCs) to earn an associate degree (AD) in one of these fields. We do this by using multinomial logit analysis to compare trends…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Associate Degrees, Allied Health Occupations, STEM Careers
Rupa Sinha-Dutta – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Purpose: The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore freshmen community college students' lived experiences as 10th-grade students in the 2020-2021 school year during online math learning. Positive experiences in math learning increase math success. Negative experiences in math learning decrease math success, leading to avoidance of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 10, Community College Students, Online Courses
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Cynthia L. Miller; Karen L. Alexander; Kyle L. Roberson; Amanda Holland; Gencie Houy; Melanie D. Schmitt; Minerva D. Tuliao – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2023
This article presents a study that explored the implementation of a "Say Yes to FCS" Teaching Camp, a local community initiative in Texas, to address the critical shortage of family and consumer sciences (FCS) teachers in secondary schools. Aimed at incoming 9th- and 10th-grade students, the 4-day camp offered hands-on learning…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Grade 10, Secondary School Students, Community Organizations
Scott W. Gentzke – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Sense of school belonging refers to the connection that a student has when they feel they are a part of their school community. Literature on deaf adolescents' experiences in school tend to utilize qualitative research methods by interviewing deaf adults about their schooling (Oliva, 2019; Stern, 2008; & Witteborg et al., 2009). Those who…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Sense of Community, Deafness, Grade 6
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