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Sreehari Ravindranath; Annie Jacob; Vishal Talreja; Suchetha Bhat – Journal of Education, 2024
The present study examines the effectiveness of an After-School Life Skills (ASLS) intervention to improve the life skills of 110 students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds at public schools of urban Bangalore in south India. These students completed ASLS intervention from 2014 to 2018 during which the life skills were assessed on a yearly…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Disadvantaged Youth, Public Schools, Foreign Countries
Rachel L. Schechter; Rachel Gross; Isabella Ilievski – Online Submission, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted educational outcomes, including reading achievement in grades 3-5, particularly in schools primarily serving high-poverty communities of color. This study evaluates the 95 Phonics Lesson Library (95 PLL), a targeted phonics intervention program, in a low socio-economic status, ethnically diverse,…
Descriptors: Phonics, Intervention, Reading Instruction, Grade 4
Rachel L. Schechter; Rachel Gross; Isabella Ilievski – Online Submission, 2024
This study, conducted by LXD Research, evaluates the 95 Phonics Lesson Library (95 PLL), a targeted phonics intervention program in a majority low SES, ethnically diverse midwestern school district from 2023-2024. Using a quasi-experimental mixed-method design, this study compares reading outcomes of fourth and fifth graders using 95 PLL with a…
Descriptors: Phonics, Intervention, Reading Instruction, Grade 4
Henrik Daae Zachrisson; Eric Dearing; Nicolai Topstad Borgen; Astrid Marie Jorde Sandsør; Lynn A. Karoly – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
We estimated the effects of Norway's universal ECEC program - expanding access to 1- and 2-year-olds starting in the early 2000s - on standardized math and achievement tests in 5th grade (age 10) using a population-based survey sample (Norwegian Mother, Father, and Child Cohort Study, MoBa, n = 102,352), linked with national administrative records…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Toddlers, Grade 5
Seokmin Kang; MingTsan Lu; John B. Black; Sungyeun Kim – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2024
Background: The theory of embodied cognition claims that body interaction with the environment change how we think and constitute cognition. Accordingly, active learning enriches learning experiences which in turn lead to better learning. Purpose: Although learning by moving one's body is often regarded as active learning, not all body movements…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Disadvantaged Youth, Public Schools
Maria Anastasou; Leonidas Kyriakides – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2024
This paper examines the extent to which teacher factors of the dynamic model of educational effectiveness can explain variation in student achievement in mathematics. It also searches for the extent to which any of these factors matters more for academically resilient students than for all the other low-socioeconomic-status students. Participants…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Teacher Characteristics, Instructional Effectiveness, Socioeconomic Status
Ganime Aydin; Mehpare Saka; Jale Çakiroglu – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2024
The aims of this research were to examine the changes in the students' perceptions of engineers, engineering as a profession, learning of engineering design processes (EDP), awareness of engineering branches, and their future career choices through Engineering Design Process activities with the 5E learning model. Sixty disadvantaged students…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5
Andrea Martina Elizondo; Corrinne Valadez; Kathleen Lynch-Davis; Faye Bruun – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
A problem influencing mathematics performance and student's perceptions of their ability to learn mathematics is mathematics anxiety. This mixed method study examined the perceptions, correlations, and mathematical conversations of Hispanic fourth and fifth grade low-performing students and their parents. A psychological approach provided the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Anxiety, Hispanic American Students, Grade 4
Wood, Carla; Schatschneider, Christopher – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2022
Purpose: The primary aims of this study were to: (1) to describe average change in the writing quality of fifth grade students from the fall and spring of the school year; (2) examine relations between linguistic features and writing quality rating; and (3) test for differential growth between groups of students who differ in linguistic and…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Writing Skills, Student Diversity
Jia, Xiyuan; Zhang, Xinwu; Jing, Jiangchao; Zhou, Ming; Li, Haoyang; Friesen, Dimitris; Ma, Yue – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2022
Rural China has seen an increase in its migrant workers returning home. As a result, many of these workers' children, who had previously boarded at school, needed to return home as well. While the existing research indicates that boarding affects the development of disadvantaged children, the effect of the switch to nonboarding on the growth of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Migrant Workers, Boarding Schools
Xu, Wen – Language and Education, 2022
Affective engagement, as one facet of the engagement model, takes on the role of activating other aspects to facilitate continued action in partaking in learning activities. Recognising the silences of Bernstein's theoretical oeuvre on the affective aspect in the process of cultural transmission, this paper applies his concepts of classification…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Affective Behavior, Elementary School Teachers, Chinese
Robles-Goodwin, Patsy J.; Salazar, Jessica C.; Garza, Tiberio; Torres, Bertha Y.; Martinez, Carlos – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2023
The purpose of this study was to assess the increase of Latino parents' confidence in advocating and supporting their child's schooling. The intervention was implemented in six public independent school districts in the Southwest United States. The data was examined through matched pre- and post-surveys (n = 45). Findings are consistent in…
Descriptors: Hispanic Americans, Parents, Parent Participation, Family Involvement
Brian Holzman; Camila Cigarroa Kennedy; Tori Thomas; Aimee Chin; Stephanie Potochnick; Kalena Cortes – Houston Education Research Consortium, 2024
Newcomer programs aim to serve newly arrived immigrant students by providing specialized instruction and nonacademic support beyond what is offered in traditional English learner classrooms. In Houston ISD, Las Americas is a standalone program that serves newcomer students in grades 4-8. Given the growth of newly arrived immigrant students in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Skills, Immigrants, English Language Learners
Petru?-Vancea, Adriana; ?tirb, Lucia – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2021
The purpose of this preliminary study was to identify oral problems and promote a healthy lifestyle at gimnazial school pupils, from a Romanian disadvantaged area. We wanted to identify the progress made by pupils following theoretical or practical interventions. Thus, along with the theoretical notions transmitted, either in the optional course…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Knowledge Level, Rural Areas
Zhong, Baizhang; Zhu, Fenghui; Xia, Liying – SAGE Open, 2021
The digital divide is an important issue that has been addressed in the world for several decades. However, little attention has been paid to the special population that emerged in cities of developing countries: rural migrant workers. Previous studies have shown that family background is a potential determinant of digital inequality among…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disadvantaged Youth, Migrant Children, Migrant Workers