Teenchangers, Adolescent Accounts of Their Executive Functioning Skills in Participatory Action Research
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- Title
- Teenchangers, Adolescent Accounts of Their Executive Functioning Skills in Participatory Action Research
- Abstract/Description
- This research study was a phenomenological account of the lived experiences of 12 seventh-grade adolescents in a middle-level public school in the United States. The researcher in this 6-month study also observed the executive function (EF) skills used by participants. The EF subskills were based on the Dawson and Guare (2018) EF skills model. Positive psychology was used to frame the work, as participants were the experts. Youth participatory action research (YPAR) was a tool to create a low-stakes, ungraded environment with adolescents as the leaders. Participants’ EF skills were observed while they conducted the YPAR study. The data analysis overlaid the stories shared and the EF subskills observed. Three themes emerged from the stories: Adult-Student Relationships, Preconceived Notions, and Student Choice. In each theme, different EF subskills were unlocked. A new model was created connecting the three themes and the 11 EF subskills. Positive Adult-Student Relationships unlocked access to the EF subskills of planning, organization, flexibility, and working memory. Assumptions unlocked access to the EF subskills of emotional control, metacognition, response inhibition. The third lock, Student Choice, unlocked access to the EF subskills of task initiation, goal-directed persistence, time management and sustained attention. Negative relationships, assumptions, or no student choice locked EF access.
- Author/creator
- Ramsey, Rachael Morgan Brenlove
- Date
- 2020
- Institution
- New England College
- Committee
- Nitschke-Shaw, Debra
- Fitzgerald, Carlton
- Dawson, Peg
- Resource type
- en Research/Scholarly Media
- Resource status/form
- en Thesis/Dissertation
- Scholarship genre
- en Empirical
- Keywords
- adolescents
- executive function
- phenomenology
- positive psychology
- youth participatory action research
- IRE Approach/Concept
- Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)
- Primary national context
- United States
- Language
- English
- Open access/full-text available
- en Yes
- Peer reviewed
- en No
- ISBN
- 9798672189222
- URL
- Official Dissertation Webpage (via ProQuest Dissertations)
- Open Access Dissertation PDF (via ProQuest Dissertations)
- Citation
- Ramsey, R. M. B. (2020). Teenchangers, Adolescent Accounts of Their Executive Functioning Skills in Participatory Action Research [Ed.D., New England College]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2449504850/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/46
- Place
- United States -- New Hampshire
- Rights
- Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
- Type
- Ed.D.
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