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Direct linkDavid William Hooks – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This qualitative action research dissertation was an endeavor to strengthen the practitioner-researcher's ability to foster collaboration skills among eighth grade students in his elective science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) class. The research question that anchored this study was: To what extent can I foster effective…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Group Activities, Middle School Students, Technology Uses in Education
Peer reviewedWahl-Alexander, Zachary; Malecki, Annie; Smart, Steven – Physical Educator, 2020
This study evaluated the effect of three conditions in which 34 sixth-grade students were prompted to accumulate as much activity as possible during a Sport Education season. Three intervention conditions were assessed via an alternating treatment design: (a) baseline: no prompting of students; (b) teacher prompts: verbal prompts and suggestions…
Descriptors: Prompting, Grade 6, Intervention, Athletics
Vorhölter, Katrin – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2019
Metacognitive strategies are needed to solve complex problems such as mathematical modelling problems in groups in a goal-oriented and successful manner. In this paper, the results of an intervention study aiming at enhancing students metacognitive group strategies for modelling are presented. Students from 18 different classes (grade nine and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Metacognition, Models, Problem Solving
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"University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP)" is a core mathematics curriculum that includes materials and a routinized instructional approach with an option for teacher training. The curriculum uses an inquiry-based approach with a focus on active learning where students frequently engage in hands-on activities and…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Intervention, Experiential Learning
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP)" is a core mathematics curriculum that includes materials and a routinized instructional approach with an option for teacher training. The curriculum uses an inquiry-based approach with a focus on active learning where students frequently engage in hands-on activities and…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Intervention, Experiential Learning
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP)" is a core mathematics curriculum that includes materials and a routinized instructional approach with an option for teacher training. The curriculum uses an inquiry-based approach with a focus on active learning where students frequently engage in hands-on activities and…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Intervention, Experiential Learning
Merriman, Donald; Codding, Robin S.; Tryon, Georgiana Shick; Minami, Takuya – Psychology in the Schools, 2016
Research on the effectiveness of homework provides ample evidence that homework has a positive effect on learning, particularly for secondary students. Unfortunately, the rate of consistent homework completion for students, with and without disabilities, is low. This study used a between-groups design to examine the differential effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Homework, Middle School Students, Disabilities, Coaching (Performance)
Roth, Rachel A.; Suldo, Shannon M.; Ferron, John M. – School Psychology Review, 2017
Most interventions intended to improve subjective well-being, termed "positive psychology interventions" (PPIs), have neglected to include relevant stakeholders in youth's lives and have not included booster sessions intended to maintain gains in subjective well-being. The current study investigated the impact of a multitarget,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Well Being, Intervention, Group Activities
André, Mauro; Hastie, Peter – European Physical Education Review, 2018
A student-designed games (SDG) teaching unit could be described as the process in which students create, organise, practice and refine their own games within certain limits established by the teacher. This study compared how two different teaching approaches had an impact on students and their teacher. The researcher taught two SDG units to junior…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Physical Education, Educational Games, Student Participation
Briesch, Amy M.; Hemphill, Elizabeth M.; Volpe, Robert J.; Daniels, Brian – School Psychology Quarterly, 2015
Although there is much research to support the effectiveness of classwide interventions aimed at improving student engagement, there is also a great deal of variability in terms of how response to group-level intervention has been measured. The unfortunate consequence of this procedural variability is that it is difficult to determine whether…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Intervention, Comparative Analysis, Observation
Finigan-Carr, Nadine M.; Copeland-Linder, Nikeea; Haynie, Denise L.; Cheng, Tina L. – School Community Journal, 2014
Interventions targeting parents of young children have shown effectiveness, but research is lacking about best practices for engaging parents of early adolescents. Low levels of enrollment and attendance in parenting interventions present major problems for researchers and clinicians. Effective and efficient ways to engage and collaborate with…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Parents, Early Adolescents, Intervention
Portman, Tarrell Awe Agahe; Portman, Gerald L. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2002
This article presents a structured psychoeducational group intervention for increasing social justice awareness, knowledge, and advocacy skills with upper elementary, middle school, or junior high aged students. The empowering students for social justice model is presented. A general framework that includes goals and activities for an…
Descriptors: Justice, Intervention, Group Counseling, Psychoeducational Methods
