Helping Adolescent Mothers to Achieve in School: An Evaluation of the Taking Charge Group Intervention

Autor/inn/en	Harris, Mary Beth; Franklin, Cynthia
Titel	Helping Adolescent Mothers to Achieve in School: An Evaluation of the Taking Charge Group Intervention
Quelle	In: Children & Schools, 31 (2009) 1, S.27-34 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1532-8759
Schlagwörter	Quasiexperimental Design; Intervention; Grade Point Average; Mothers; Academic Achievement; Attendance Patterns; Program Effectiveness; Program Evaluation; High School Students; Enrollment; Social Work; Early Parenthood; Adolescents; Nontraditional Education; Daily Living Skills; Pretests Posttests; Comparative Analysis; Hispanic Americans; Whites + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mother; Mutter; Schulleistung; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Einschulung; Soziale Arbeit; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Alltagsfertigkeit; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; White; Weißer
Abstract	A school social worker and three social work interns in a semirural alternative high school with a predominant Hispanic student enrollment evaluated the Taking Charge group intervention. The group is an evidence-based life skills intervention for adolescent mothers, and it was evaluated on its efficacy for improving participants' school achievement. The evaluation used a quasi-experimental design with pretest and posttest. Nineteen young mothers participated in the Taking Charge group or the comparison group. Seventeen participants self-identified as Hispanic and two self-identified as white. Data from school records measured outcomes of school attendance and grade average. At posttest, the group that participated in the Taking Charge group had significantly better attendance and grade averages than did those in the comparison group. The Taking Charge group shows promise as an effective intervention for helping adolescent mothers achieve academically in this predominantly Hispanic school. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10