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Billingsley, Glenna; Scheuermann, Brenda; Webber, Jo – Behavioral Disorders, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine the most effective of three instructional methods for teaching mathematics to secondary students with emotional and behavioral disorders. A single-subject alternating-treatments research design was used to compare three instructional methods: direct teach, computer-assisted instruction, and a combination…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, Intelligence Quotient, Mathematics Skills
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Robers, Simone; Zhang, Jijun; Truman, Jennifer – National Center for Education Statistics, 2010
Ensuring safer schools requires establishing good indicators of the current state of school crime and safety across the nation and regularly updating and monitoring these indicators. This is the aim of this report. This report is the thirteenth in a series of annual publications produced jointly by the National Center for Education Statistics…
Descriptors: Crime, School Safety, School Surveys, National Surveys
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Glassner, Amnon; Schwarz, Baruch B. – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2007
Creative and critical thinking have been traditionally considered as involving independent skills and dispositions. However the definition of critical thinking has been gradually reconsidered to include skills and dispositions through which one opens new links instead of scrutinizing existing links in a closed analysis. Experimental studies have…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Grade 8, Grade 10
Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Linden, Leigh L. – Human Development Network Education, 2009
This paper presents the evaluation of the program Computers for Education. The program aims to integrate computers, donated by the private sector, into the teaching of language in public schools. The authors conduct a two-year randomized evaluation of the program using a sample of 97 schools and 5,201 children. Overall, the program seems to have…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Educational Technology, Computer Uses in Education, Access to Computers
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Yang, Shu Ching; Chen, Shih-Fen – Death Studies, 2009
This study administered an open-ended questionnaire about death and the Multidimensional Fear of Death Scale (MODS) to explore the relationships between personal constructs about death and fears of death among Taiwanese adolescents. The sample included 329 adolescents in junior and senior high school grades 7 to 12. A coding manual was used to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Content Analysis, Fear, Death
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – Institute for Social Research, 2011
The full 2010 survey results are reported in "Monitoring the Future National Survey Results on Drug Use, 1975;2010: Volume I, Secondary School Students". That monograph contains a description of MTF's design and purposes, as well as extended reporting on substance use of all kinds, licit and illicit, and a number of related factors such as…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Drug Abuse, Social Environment, Secondary School Students
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Chang, Chun-Yen; Chang, Yueh-Hsia; Yang, Fang-Ying – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
The educational reform movement since the 1990s has led the secondary earth science curriculum in Taiwan into a stage of reshaping. The present study investigated secondary earth science teachers' perceptions on the Goals of Earth Science Education (GESE). The GESE should express the statements of philosophy and purpose toward which educators…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Teacher Attitudes, National Standards, Teacher Surveys
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Erten, Sinan – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2008
This study investigated the middle and high school students' interests towards the subjects of human biology, specifically, "Human Health and Nutrition" and "Human Body and Organs." The study also investigated sources of their interests and factors that impact their interests, namely people that they interact and courses that…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Biology, Human Body, High School Students
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Hankin, Benjamin L. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2008
A ruminative response style has been shown to predict depressive symptoms among youth and adults, but it is unclear whether rumination is associated specifically with depression compared with co-occurring symptoms of anxiety and externalizing behaviors. This prospective, multiwave study investigated whether baseline rumination predicted…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Gender Differences, Depression (Psychology), Age Differences
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Jacob, John; Yoo, Jeong-Ju – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2010
This study examined how boys' and girls' weight preoccupation varied by grade level, parent-child relationships, self-classified weight, entertainment media exposure levels, and gender. Seventh-grade girls (n = 190) and boys (n = 132) and 10th-grade girls (n = 99) and boys (n = 67) participated. Girls were more likely to report weight…
Descriptors: Females, Parent Child Relationship, Males, Adolescents
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Izzo, Margo Vreeburg; Yurick, Amanda; Nagaraja, Haikady N.; Novak, Jeanne A. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2010
A pretest-posttest control group experimental design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of EnvisionIT, a 10-unit web-based curriculum designed to teach secondary students information technology (IT) skills in the context of transition-planning activities. Fifteen high schools were stratified by socioeconomic status and randomly assigned to the…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Information Technology, Instructional Effectiveness, Conventional Instruction
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Neblett, Enrique W., Jr.; Chavous, Tabbye M.; Nguyen, Hoa X.; Sellers, Robert M. – Journal of Negro Education, 2009
This study uses two waves of data to examine the relationships among racial socialization, racial discrimination, and academic achievement outcomes in a sample of 144 African American male adolescents. Using latent class analyses, the authors identified four patterns of adolescent-reported racial socialization experiences: Positive Socialization,…
Descriptors: Socialization, Racial Discrimination, Educational Objectives, Academic Persistence
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Alexander-Passe, Neil – Dyslexia, 2008
All school children experience stress at some point in their school careers. This study investigates whether dyslexic children, by way of their educational and social difficulties, experience higher levels of stress at school. The School Situation Survey was used to investigate both the sources and manifestations of stress amongst dyslexic…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Siblings, Dyslexia, Age Differences
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Mohan, Lindsey; Chen, Jing; Anderson, Charles W. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2009
This study reports on our steps toward achieving a conceptually coherent and empirically validated learning progression for carbon cycling in socio-ecological systems. It describes an iterative process of designing and analyzing assessment and interview data from students in upper elementary through high school. The product of our development…
Descriptors: National Standards, Climate, High School Students, Elementary School Students
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Hankin, Benjamin L. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
This study investigated psychosocial mechanisms that may account for sex differences in internalizing symptoms of depression and anxiety during adolescence using data from a prospective, multiwave study with a sample of early and middle adolescents (N = 350, 6th to 10th graders; 57% female). Girls showed higher initial levels of only depressive…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Females, Adolescents, Interaction
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