Benefits and Costs of Channel One in a Middle School Setting and the Role of Media-Literacy Training

PEDIATRICS ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 117 (3) ◽  
pp. e423-e433 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. W. Austin
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Channel One ◽  
Literacy Training ◽  
Benefits And Costs

scholarly journals Kids SIPsmartER: A Feasibility Study to Reduce Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption Among Middle School Youth in Central Appalachia

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 1386-1401 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Lane ◽  
Kathleen J. Porter ◽  
Erin Hecht ◽  
Priscilla Harris ◽  
Vivica Kraak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Random Order ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Public Health Literacy

Purpose: To test the feasibility of Kids SIP smartER, a school-based intervention to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs). Design: Matched-contact randomized crossover study with mixed-methods analysis. Setting: One middle school in rural, Appalachian Virginia. Participants: Seventy-four sixth and seventh graders (5 classrooms) received Kids SIP smartER in random order over 2 intervention periods. Feasibility outcomes were assessed among 2 teachers. Intervention: Kids SIP smartER consisted of 6 lessons grounded in the Theory of Planned Behavior, media literacy, and public health literacy and aimed to improve individual SSB behaviors and understanding of media literacy and prevalent regional disparities. The matched-contact intervention promoted physical activity. Measures: Beverage Intake Questionnaire-15 (SSB consumption), validated theory questionnaires, feasibility questionnaires (student and teacher), student focus groups, teacher interviews, and process data (eg, attendance). Analysis: Repeated measures analysis of variances across 3 time points, descriptive statistics, and deductive analysis of qualitative data. Results: During the first intervention period, students receiving Kids SIP smartER (n = 43) significantly reduced SSBs by 11 ounces/day ( P = .01) and improved media ( P < .001) and public health literacy ( P < .01) understanding; however, only media literacy showed between-group differences ( P < .01). Students and teachers found Kids SIP smartER acceptable, in-demand, practical, and implementable within existing resources. Conclusion: Kids SIP smartER is feasible in an underresourced, rural school setting. Results will inform further development and large-scale testing of Kids SIP smartER to reduce SSBs among rural adolescents.

The role of productive failure in 3D printing in a middle school setting

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon Dickson ◽  
Jessica Weber ◽  
Donna Kotsopoulos ◽  
Taylor Boyd ◽  
Sagar Jiwani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
3D Printing ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Productive Failure

Adolescent Students Who Stutter: A Qualitative Exploration of School Experiences

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1327-1336
Author(s):  
Tiffany R. Cobb ◽  
Derek E. Daniels ◽  
James Panico
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Middle School ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Image Data ◽  
School Experiences ◽  
Adolescent Students ◽  
Therapy Decision ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological

Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which adolescent students who stutter perceive their school experiences. Method This study used a qualitative, phenomenological research design. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 7 adolescent students who stutter (3 in middle school and 4 in high school). Participants were interviewed about their school experiences, including the effects of stuttering on academics, learning, teacher relationships, peer relationships, speech therapy experiences, and self-image. Data analysis consisted of transcribing interviews and analyzing them for emerging themes. Results Findings revealed that participants described a variety of experiences around the school setting. Participants reported less favorable middle school experiences. Middle school participants reflected more on teasing, bullying, and feelings of embarrassment, whereas high school participants revealed that teachers, staff, and peers were receptive and accepting of them and their stuttering. All participants reported that their speech therapy helped with classroom participation. Conclusions As a result of the participants' varied experiences, it is important to listen to and incorporate the voices of students who stutter into school, classroom, and therapy decision-making practices.

Motivation and Engagement in Middle School: The Role of Teacher and Student Support

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cen Wang ◽  
Sungok Serena Shim ◽  
Mei Chang ◽  
Audra Cook ◽  
Sooyoung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Motivation And Engagement

Confronting the Problems of Professional Sports: A Public Policy Response to Franchise Relocation and Stadium Subsidization

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taylor F Brinkman
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Professional Sports ◽  
The United States ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Sports Organizations ◽  
Sports Leagues ◽  
Sports Finance ◽  
Sports Venues ◽  
Benefits And Costs

During the past decade, forty-six professional sports venues were constructed in the United States, while only 16 expansion teams were created by the major sports leagues. Nearly two thirds of these newly built stadiums and arenas were funded with public tax revenues, despite substantial evidence showing no positive economic impact of new sports stadium construction on local communities. In reviewing the economic literature, this article investigates the role of professional sports organizations in the construction and public subsidization of new sports venues. Franchise relocation and public stadium subsidization is a direct result of the monopoly power of professional sports leagues, whose franchise owners extract large subsidies from their host communities by threatening to relocate to viable alternative locations. After explaining how the most common methods of stadium subsidization project a disproportionate allocation of the benefits and costs of hosting a professional team to local community interests, this article outlines several considerations for local policymakers who seek to reinvigorate public discussion of equity concerns in professional sports finance.

scholarly journals Going Beyond Mathematics Anxiety in Primary and Middle School Students: The Role of Ego‐Resiliency in Mathematics

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 255-266
Author(s):  
Enrica Donolato ◽  
Enrico Toffalini ◽  
David Giofrè ◽  
Sara Caviola ◽  
Irene C. Mammarella
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Mathematics Anxiety ◽  
School Students ◽  
Ego Resiliency

Experiences of Stereotyping and Tracking in Appalachia: A Case in Consolidation and Social Class

2021 ◽  
pp. 155545892098233
Author(s):  
Connor J. Fewell ◽  
Michael E. Hess ◽  
Charles Lowery ◽  
Madeleine Gervason ◽  
Sarah Ahrendt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Elementary Schools ◽  
Social Class ◽  
School Districts ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
School Level ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
First Time

This case explores the complexities of how consolidation perpetuates stereotypes among different social classes in a rural Appalachian school setting. Examined are the experiences at the intersection of social class in rural U.S. school districts when two communities—one affluent and one underresourced—are consolidated. We present a nuanced critical incident that focuses on how school leaders perceive and address students’ experiences with tracking and stereotyping—particularly at a middle school level where elementary schools from diverse backgrounds attend school together for the first time.

Diabetes Management in the School Setting: The Role of the School Psychologist

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-203
Author(s):  
Alan M. Delamater ◽  
Elizabeth Warren-Boulton ◽  
Jeanne Bubb ◽  
Edwin B. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Management ◽  
School Setting ◽  
School Psychologist

Father Presence and Adolescents’ Resilience: The Mediating Role of Failure Learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 003329412110296
Author(s):  
Yue Yu ◽  
Xueyan Wei ◽  
Robert D Hisrich ◽  
Linfang Xue
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Significant Positive Correlation ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
School Students ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Father Presence

In this study, we aimed to investigate the association between father presence and the resilience of adolescents, and whether failure learning mediates this association. Specifically, we obtained in-depth details on the relation between father presence and adolescents’ resilience by examining the mediating effects of four subfactors of failure learning: failure cognition, reflection and analysis, experience transformation, and prudent attempt. For this purpose, we used the questionnaire to access Chinese middle school students’ father presence, resilience, and failure learning. In total, six hundred and twenty-six valid questionnaires were collected. The results were as follows: (1) there was a significant positive correlation between father presence, failure learning, and resilience; (2) failure learning played a mediating role between father presence and adolescents’ resilience; (3) the mediating effect of experience transformation and prudent attempt (two subfactors of failure learning) between father presence and adolescents’ resilience was significant, while the mediating effect of failure cognition and reflective analysis (the other two subfactors of failure learning) was insignificant.

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