College of Health, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
J Sch Health. 2024 Oct;94(10):985-993. doi: 10.1111/josh.13461. Epub 2024 Apr 22.
School recess quality is vital to children's social and emotional skill development. However, there is a research-to-practice gap where academic findings are ineffectively translated back to schools. The aims of this study were to examine how a co-designed intervention would impact negative behaviors observed during recess and to explore the facilitators and barriers to recess implementation over the course of a school year.
Utilizing a research-practice partnership, the authors collaborated with staff at an elementary school to design, implement, and assess an intervention focused on improving recess quality. The intervention offered training in research-supported recess practices through professional development training and teaching students transitions and games. The school's recess behavioral report log of negative playground behaviors across the academic year and notes from recess staff meetings were analyzed.
Quantitative results pointed to a stable decrease in negative playground behaviors post-intervention compared to pre-intervention. Qualitative analyses suggest school leadership and practitioners should focus on "reculturing" recess prior to making structural changes, and empowering recess staff to sustain change.
Prior to considering interventions at recess, there is a need to assess both school and recess culture. In doing so, reculturing around the importance of recess during the school day and the roles of adults in the process is needed to ensure the sustainability of any changes made.
课间休息质量对儿童的社会和情感技能发展至关重要。然而，研究与实践之间存在差距，学术成果未能有效地转化为学校实践。本研究旨在考察合作设计的干预措施如何影响课间休息时观察到的负面行为，并探讨在一学年内实施课间休息的促进因素和障碍。
利用研究实践伙伴关系，作者与一所小学的工作人员合作设计、实施和评估一项旨在提高课间休息质量的干预措施。该干预措施通过专业发展培训和教授学生过渡和游戏，提供了研究支持的课间休息实践培训。对整个学年的课间休息负面行为报告日志和课间休息工作人员会议记录进行了分析。
定量结果表明，与干预前相比，干预后负面操场行为稳定减少。定性分析表明，学校领导和工作人员应在进行结构变革之前专注于“重新培养”课间休息文化，并赋予课间休息工作人员维持变革的权力。
在考虑课间休息干预措施之前，需要评估学校和课间休息文化。在这样做的过程中，需要重新培养在学校日期间对课间休息的重要性的认识，以及成年人在这一过程中的作用，以确保所做任何变革的可持续性。
