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Graf, Christine; Jouck, Stefanie; Koch, Benjamin; Platschek, Anna-Maria; Arnold, Christiane; Bohm, Michael; Dordel, Sigrid; Tokarski, Walter – Physical Education and Sport, 2008
Study aim: To examine the prevalence of obesity and its correlation with blood pressure, waist circumference and other health related risk factors (smoking, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity and TV/PC-screen time) in German youths. Material and methods: A cohort of 831 boys and 808 girls, fifth- to tenth-graders from 3 German high schools…
Descriptors: Obesity, Socioeconomic Status, Physical Activities, Smoking
Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2009
The District conducts a "cross-sectional" analysis of student dropouts annually; it examines dropout rates among students enrolled in various grades at one point in time. A "longitudinal" analysis, also conducted annually, tracks a group of students in the same grade or cohort over a period of several years. Each method…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
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Fleming, Michele J.; Greentree, Shane; Cocotti-Muller, Dayana; Elias, Kristy A.; Morrison, Sarah – Youth & Society, 2006
A survey was conducted among 692 Australian 13-to 16-year-olds to examine aspects of their Internet use and, in particular, their exposure to inappropriate material and behaviors online and their online safety practices. Significant differences were found in the amount of exposure to inappropriate material or behaviors online according to sex and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Safety, Adolescents
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – Institute for Social Research, 2011
The Monitoring the Future (MTF) study involves an ongoing series of national surveys of American adolescents and adults that has provided the nation with a vital window into the important, but largely hidden, problem behaviors of illegal drug use, alcohol use, tobacco use, anabolic steroid use, and psychotherapeutic drug use. For more than a third…
Descriptors: College Students, Topography, Marijuana, Drug Use
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – Institute for Social Research, 2011
Monitoring the Future (MTF), which is now in its 36th year, is a research program conducted at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research under a series of investigator-initiated research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The study is comprised of several ongoing series of annual surveys of nationally representative…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Young Adults, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), College Students
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Lupart, Judy L.; Cannon, Elizabeth; Telfer, Jo Ann – High Ability Studies, 2004
The objective of this research was to investigate adolescent gender and age differences in perceptions of academic achievement, interests, values and future life role choices. A survey based on the Eccles Model of Achievement Related Choices was administered to 1419 students. Results indicated that younger students were generally more positive…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Age Differences, Futures (of Society), Career Choice
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Kreager, Derek A. – Social Forces, 2008
Assimilation theorists have long viewed inter-group romantic partnerships as indicators of racial equality. Although the past half-century has witnessed the erosion of anti-miscegenation laws and subsequent increases in the frequency of interracial marriages, these unions remain relatively infrequent. Low intermarriage rates may be partially…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Racial Relations, Dating (Social), Racial Differences
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McCrystal, Patrick; Percy, Andrew; Higgins, Kathryn – Journal of Youth Studies, 2007
Young people excluded from school are a group at an increased risk of drug use and antisocial behaviour during adolescence and later marginalisation and exclusion from society in adulthood. As part of the Belfast Youth Development Study, a longitudinal study of the onset and development of adolescent drug use, young people who entered post-primary…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Young Adults, Rejection (Psychology), Social Isolation
Bush-Richards, Angela; Schmitt, Lisa – Online Submission, 2008
This report describes district-level results from the 2007-2008 AISD Student Climate Survey.
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Environment, Environmental Influences, Elementary Secondary Education
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2006
Since 1975, the Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey has annually studied the extent of drug use among high school 12th-graders. The survey was expanded in 1991 to include 8th- and 10th graders. It is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and is conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. The goal of…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Narcotics, Gender Differences, Drug Use
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Glassner, Amnon; Schwarz, Baruch B. – Learning and Instruction, 2005
The ability to critically evaluate whether information presented actually supports a given claim is essential for cognitive and social development. This paper presents a study focusing on developmental and contextual aspects of this ability (called antilogos). We tested antilogos for different variables: age group (Grades 8 and 10), direction of…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Criticism, Social Development, Grade 10
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Cavanagh, Shannon E.; Riegle-Crumb, Catherine; Crosnoe, Robert – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2007
This study extends previous research on the social psychological implications of pubertal timing to education by applying a life course framework to data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and from the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement Study. Early pubertal timing, which has previously been associated with major…
Descriptors: High Schools, Grade Point Average, Females, Probability
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Watson, Jane M.; Moritz, Jonathan B. – School Science and Mathematics, 2003
Comprehension of chance language, such as is found in newspapers, is a fundamental aspect of statistical literacy. In this study, students' understandings of chance language were explored through responses to two items in surveys administered to 2,726 students from grades 5 to 11. One item involved evaluating the chance expressed in phrases from…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, High Schools, Mathematics Instruction, Literacy
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Tracey, Terence J. G.; Robbins, Steven B. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2005
RIASEC interests were assessed in grades 8, 10, and 12 on a large national sample of 69,987 college bound students. Random samples of 1000 were drawn to represent each of the major US ethnic groups (African, Asian, Native, Mexican, Latino (non Mexican), Anglo, and Multiracial Americans) and interests were examined as they varied across time,…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, Secondary School Students, Student Interests, Vocational Interests
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Horn, Stacey S.; Nucci, Larry – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2003
This study investigated tenth- and twelfth-grade adolescents' ( N = 264) beliefs about homosexuality, their attitudes about gay and lesbian peers in school, and their evaluations of the treatment of gay, lesbian, and gender non-conforming peers. The results revealed differences in adolescents' beliefs about homosexuality and their attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 12, Grade 10, Student Attitudes
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