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EnTeam Games Improve Behavior In Students, 2019

The overall responses from staff serving in the After-School for All Partnership (ASAP) indicate a positive impact  of EnTeam Games on children’s ability to improve their conflict resolution skills.  In responding to the statement “EnTeam activities helped students learn to resolve conflicts peacefully,” 87.5% of staff members indicated that the activities helped  students. Focusing on specific conflict resolution skills in children, site staff  members reported on the following 5 areas. A  total of 78 site staff members took the pre-test survey and 64 took the post-test survey. 

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Key Takeaways From Report

Satabdi Samtani, Ph.D., Research Scientist at the Center for Character and Citizenship at the University of Missouri -St.Louis summarized the findings from her evaluation of the EnTeam program to build conflict resolution skills:

1. Staff saw that students improved in conflict resolution skills. The median on all 5 skills, moved from 2 (tend to disagree) in the pre-survey to 3 (tend to agree) in the post-survey.

2. Nearly 80 % of staff agreed that children were faring better on all 5  conflict resolution skills after participating in EnTeam Games.

3. All correlations between the 5 conflict resolution skills post-EnTeam Games were found to  be significant, indicating these skills are complementary to each other and not mutually  exclusive. In other words, staff members observed that students who display gains do so on  all aspects of conflict resolution.

3. Site staff who reported increased skill in a student’s “ability to stop other students from  being mean,” also reported growth in the student’s “ability of talking another student out of trying to fight.” This highlights the importance of communication in difficult situations, and the student’s ability to use such skill in multi-faceted ways.

Students learn how to bring out the best in each other by playing games that keep score of improvements in cooperation. EnTeam Games empower youth to resolve conflicts peacefully and to be kind to members of their community. 

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