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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"afterschool program"”.
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An Evaluation Of An Afterschool Program In a Title 1 Elementary School
… and raising children. Before and after school programs have been established in many Title I elementary schools in an effort to address the problems facing our communities and educational system today, especially as related to minority students. These afterschool programs provide a safe and …
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The Effectiveness of the Missoula Active 6 Afterschool Program on Participation and Health Outcomes
The afterschool environment has arisen as one of the main settings for physical activity programs that aim to prevent childhood obesity and increase physical activity (Beets et al., 2009). The YMCA Active 6 program in was created in 2010 in reaction to the obesity and physical activity trends in …
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The Effectiveness of the Missoula Active 6 Afterschool Program on Participation and Health Outcomes
The afterschool environment has arisen as one of the main settings for physical activity programs that aim to prevent childhood obesity and increase physical activity (Beets et al., 2009). The YMCA Active 6 program in was created in 2010 in reaction to the obesity and physical activity trends in …
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White pre-service teachers' reflections on their experiences as tutors in an urban afterschool program : a critical race theory analysis.
… were dispatched to serve as tutors at an urban Afterschool Program in which all of the enrolled students were Black/African American. The sophomore level pre-service teachers served as tutors to fulfill a required experiential learning component for an introductory multicultural course. This …
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Exploring the mentor-mentee relationship through the lens of at-risk teens participating in an afterschool program, ‘The Mentee’s Perspective’
Mentoring is a readily used intervention for at-risk youth and because of its prevalence and consensus of being viewed as a positive solution for curtailing high dropout rates, crime and violence it is important to understand how the mentee views and comes to understand the dyadic relationship of …
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A study of the experience of female African-American seventh graders in a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) afterschool program
… African-American girls who participated in the program as it relates to individual STEM identity, and identify personal and academic experiences of seventh-grade African- American girls that contribute to the discouragement or pursuit of science and math-related academic pathways and careers. …
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The Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills Model: An Examination of Obesity Prevention Behavioral Change in Children Who Participated In The Afterschool Program Virginia Beach Let’s Move
… to design childhood obesity prevention afterschool programs. This study employed a secondary analysis of pre (n=172), post (n=170), and 1-year follow-up (n=32) evaluations of the obesity prevention afterschool program Virginia Beach Let’s Move for children ages 5-11 years. Independent …
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Development and Implementation of a Pedometer Tracking System for Afterschool Programs
… physical activity will assist in determining if afterschool programs are meeting policy related goals. However, there are few low-cost, easy to use devices available for afterschool programs. Pedometers are a reliable and valid means of measuring activity and recently step guidelines have been …
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EXTENDED LEARNING TIME THROUGH AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS:
… relationship between additional learning time (afterschool program attendance) and teacher assigned classroom grades. The student sample consisted of 96 students in first through fourth grade of a Midwestern afterschool program. The factor of extended learning time was analyzed through …
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A Descriptive Study of the Foster Grandparent Program in Support of the Creation of an Afterschool Program to Address Food Insecurity and Chronic Disease Risk in Older Adults and Children
… by older adult volunteers in AmeriCorps Senior programs. However, little is known about how specific chronic diseases and mental health issues affect Foster Grandparents, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic’s influence on volunteer activities for older adults. Using Bourdieu’s concept …
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Changing the Paradigm in Strengthening School-Community Partnerships: Culturally Relevant Afterschool Programs Providing Professional Development to Classroom Teachers
… African American youth attending a quality afterschool program in an underserved community. Three research questions guided this qualitative case study and the results were discussed according to the three themes that emerged through the theoretical frames of culturally responsive pedagogy …
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Ritual increases children's preferences for in-group members
… A novel social group paradigm was used in an afterschool program setting to test the influence of a ritual versus a control task on three key outcomes--affiliation with in-group members, expectations for inclusion by in-group members, and selective group fusion with in-group members. Results …
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Evaluating Technology Delivered Repeated Reading with Diverse Learners
… with diverse learners for Tier 2 support at an afterschool program. To evaluate the impact of the students’ Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) correct words per minute (CWPM) and error words per minute (EWPM) were measured. The research used a multiple baseline design with three third-grade students.</p>
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STORYBOOK TO ENGAGE IN LITERACY PRACTICES IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN KOREA
… As a teacher researcher, I ran a storytelling afterschool program to develop English literacy using English storybooks. 14 of 3rd and 4th graders including 6 focal students participated in the study. The research findings show that storybook was useful to engage students in literacy practices …
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Supporting spatial skill learning with gesture-based embodied interaction
… on an empirical study with students at a local afterschool program. We also compared children's behaviors when playing the game with our gestural interface and traditional mouse-based interface and found that children take more time but fewer steps to complete game levels when using gestures.
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Adolescent substance use and participation in out-of-school time interventions
… substances. For this reason, implementation of afterschool programming (ASP) to provide supervised and developmentally enriching activities for youth is a promising strategy for reducing substance use. Another reason for using ASPs to prevent substance use behavior is the theory of alternate …
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“I’M A KID BUT I STILL DESERVE RESPECT”: CONCEPTUALIZING YOUTH EXPERTISE
… valued, and actualized within a high school afterschool program run through a center for university-community partnership. Youth expertise exists at the intersection of youth voice/participation literature and theories of expertise. Youth voice initiatives often function as tokenistic efforts …
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Pink and Dude Chefs: Impact of a Nutrition and Culinary Education Program with Middle School Students in an Afterschool Setting
… knowledge and culinary skill building into afterschool programs.</p> <p>Pink and Dude Chefs, a 12-lesson nutrition education and culinary skills afterschool program targeted toward middle school students, aims to improve nutrition knowledge and dietary behavior in low income and minority …
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Girls coming of age: possibilites and potentials within young adult literature
… unit lesson for a girl's leadership camp or afterschool program. The program is entitled, "Empowerment and Identity Exploration: Young Adult Literature & Creative Expression." Utilizing the five books (Dangerous Angels, Lost at Sea, Story ofa Girl, A Girl Like Che Guevera, and Keeping You a …
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Healing Through the Struggle: Sociopolitical Empowerment as Context for Youth Thriving
… marginalized groups in sociopolitical processes, programs and initiatives intended to reduce these barriers to civic and social changemaking have become popular (Ginwright, 2018). In order to meaningfully support youth resistance, those who are positioned to collaborate with young people must be …
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