{"id":199,"date":"2012-01-20T22:04:04","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T22:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/?page_id=199"},"modified":"2026-03-30T05:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:16:27","slug":"german-study-of-the-paths-curriculum-in-an-afterschool-context","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/research\/independent-replications\/german-study-of-the-paths-curriculum-in-an-afterschool-context\/","title":{"rendered":"German Study of The PATHS\u00ae Curriculum in an Afterschool Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>German Study of The PATHS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0Curriculum in an Afterschool Context\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Hacker and Colleagues (Hacker et al, 2007) examine the effectiveness of the <em>PATHS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em> afterschool program (a 12 lesson version developed for afterschool contexts) in a quasi-experimental study of 93 children that were part of a larger longitudinal study in Southern Germany. Teachers were trained by experienced <em>PATHS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup><\/em> trainers and used the curriculum on a daily basis, beginning with a weekly lesson and then proceeding with follow-up activities during each week. Intervention and comparison children were compared using unbiased teacher ratings and pre-test, post-test and one year follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>At post-test there was a significant reduction in problem behavior (p&lt;.05, effect size =.39) and a trend toward an increase in prosocial behavior (p&lt;.10, effect size = .39). Results at follow-up (Stemmler, Losel and Hacker, 2008) indicated that effects were maintained one year after the intervention ended with significant increases in prosocial behavior (effect size = .31) and reductions in problem behavior (effect size = .34); the greatest effects were shown for children who at pre-test had higher rates of problem behavior.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<em>PATHS\u00ae <\/em>&amp; the<em> PATHS\u00ae Training LLC <\/em>logo are trademarks &amp; service marks of <em>PATHS\u00ae<\/em> Curriculum LLC<\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German Study of The PATHS\u00ae\u00a0Curriculum in an Afterschool Context\u00a0 Hacker and Colleagues (Hacker et al, 2007) examine the effectiveness of the PATHS\u00ae afterschool program (a 12 lesson version developed for afterschool contexts) in a quasi-experimental study of 93 children that were part of a larger longitudinal study in Southern Germany. Teachers were trained by experienced <a href='https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/research\/independent-replications\/german-study-of-the-paths-curriculum-in-an-afterschool-context\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":187,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-199","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/199\/revisions\/452"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pathstraining.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}