Adolescents at risk for mistreating their children. Part II: A home- and clinic-based prevention program     

Stevens-Simon C  Nelligan D  Kelly L 《Child abuse & neglect》2001,25(6):753-769

OBJECTIVE: To determine if adding an intensive home visitation component to a comprehensive adolescent-oriented maternity program prevents child abuse and neglect. METHODS: We studied 171 participants in a comprehensive, adolescent-oriented maternity program who were deemed to be at high risk for child abuse and neglect. Half were randomly assigned to receive in-home parenting instruction. Major disruptions of primary care-giving by the adolescent mother were classified hierarchically as abuse, neglect, and abandonment. RESULTS: Compliance with home visits varied in relation to the support the teenage mothers received from their families and the fathers of their babies (p < .0001). There were no significant treatment group differences in the pattern of health care utilization, the rate of postpartum school return, repeat pregnancies, or child abuse and neglect. The incidence of maltreatment rose in tandem with the predicted risk status of the mother. Ultimately, 19% of the children were removed from their mother's custody. CONCLUSIONS: Prediction efforts were effective in identifying at-risk infants, but this intensive home- and clinic-based intervention did not alter the incidence of child maltreatment or maternal life course development. A parenting program that was more inclusive of the support network might be more popular with teenagers and therefore more effective. Our findings also emphasize the importance of including counseling specifically designed to prevent teenagers from abandoning their children.  相似文献   

Teacher Change Following a Professional Development Experience in Integrating Computational Thinking into Elementary Science     

Ketelhut  Diane Jass  Mills  Kelly  Hestness  Emily  Cabrera  Lautaro  Plane  Jandelyn  McGinnis  J. Randy 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2020,29(1):174-188

Journal of Science Education and Technology - Computer science and computer science education are marked by gender and racial disparities. To increase the number and diversity of students engaging...  相似文献   

Seeking and Finding Positive Youth Development Among Zulu Youth in South African Townships          下载免费PDF全文

Kelly D. Schwartz  Linda C. Theron  Peter C. Scales 《Child development》2017,88(4):1079-1086

A cross‐sectional study explored the presence and power of developmental assets in a sample of youth from rural South African townships. Learners (female = 58%; M_age = 17.1; N = 505) attending three township high schools completed self‐report measures of developmental assets and thriving outcomes. Participants reported contextual assets (e.g., family, school, community) in the vulnerable ranges, with gender, family structure, and school type accounting for some differences. Correlation and regression analyses revealed that five asset contexts (family, school, community, personal, social) were uniquely predictive of thriving outcomes. Discussion focuses on contextual expressions of positive youth development among Zulu township youth in challenging environments.  相似文献   

Revisiting the Narrative about Least Restrictive Environment in Physical Education     

Wesley J. Wilson  Justin Anthony Haegele  Luke E. Kelly 《Quest (Human Kinetics)》2020,72(1):19-32

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Since 1975, the implementation of the Least Restrictive Environment, a federal mandate of Public Law 94–142, has been historically challenging for physical educators and adapted physical educators. Confusion and misinterpretation of the law’s intent, as well as competing ideologies, have perpetuated failed Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) practice in the United States. The purpose of this essay is to revisit the conversation about LRE in PE and to provide direction for higher education’s role in addressing the issues. In doing so, a detailed historical context of the LRE is provided, followed by a discussion of the issues associated with the law that have emerged in the literature. Finally, future research directions to address these contemporary issues are presented to the readers.  相似文献   

Statistical Learning and Spelling: Older Prephonological Spellers Produce More Wordlike Spellings Than Younger Prephonological Spellers          下载免费PDF全文

Rebecca Treiman  Brett Kessler  Kelly Boland  Hayley Clocksin  Zhengdao Chen 《Child development》2018,89(4):e431-e443

The authors analyzed the spellings of 179 U.S. children (age = 3 years, 2 months–5 years, 6 months) who were prephonological spellers, in that they wrote using letters that did not reflect the phonemes in the target items. Supporting the idea that children use their statistical learning skills to learn about the outer form of writing before they begin to spell phonologically, older prephonological spellers showed more knowledge about English letter patterns than did younger prephonological spellers. The written productions of older prephonological spellers were rated by adults as more similar to English words than were the productions of younger prephonological spellers. The older children s spellings were also more wordlike on several objective measures, including length, variability of letters within words, and digram frequency.  相似文献   

The effects of prior informal science and math experiences on undergraduate STEM identity     

Eric E. Goff  Kelly Lynn Mulvey  Matthew J. Irvin  Adam Hartstone-Rose 《Research in Science & Technological Education》2020,38(3):272-288

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