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Erickson, Sarah J.; Hahn-Smith, Anne; Smith, Jane Ellen – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2009
Empirical support for the association between childhood overweight and low self-esteem is equivocal. The present study investigated how weight, ethnicity, body esteem, body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating attitudes/behaviors contribute to global and dimensional self-esteem in a non-clinical sample of Hispanic- and Anglo-American grade 3-6…
Descriptors: Females, Self Esteem, Eating Disorders, Grade 3
Tindal, Gerald; Nese, Joseph F.; Alonzo, Julie – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2009
All students from grades 3 through 8 were tested in the fall, winter, and spring of 2009 on passage reading fluency (PRF) measures from easyCBM [R]. Student characteristics were analyzed for influence on reading growth. The results showed the negative effects from being a male or a student of color, coming from an economically disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Reading Fluency, Student Characteristics, Regression (Statistics)
Mellor, Jennifer M.; Rapoport, Ronald B.; Maliniak, Daniel – Evaluation Review, 2008
Previous studies have shown that active consent procedures result in sampling bias in surveys dealing with adolescent risk behaviors such as cigarette smoking and illicit drug use. To examine sampling bias from active consent procedures when the survey topic pertains to childhood obesity and associated health behaviors, the authors pair data…
Descriptors: Obesity, Physical Activities, Smoking, Health Behavior
O'Conner, Rosemarie; Abedi, Jamal; Tung, Stephanie – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2012
This study describes English language learner (ELL) student enrollment and achievement trends in Delaware public schools from 2002/03 to 2008/09. Two research questions guide this study: (1) How did the enrollment of ELL students in Delaware public schools change between 2002/03 and 2008/09?; and (2) How did performance (the percentage scoring at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change
O'Conner, Rosemarie; Abedi, Jamal; Tung, Stephanie – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2012
This study describes English language learner (ELL) student enrollment and achievement trends in Delaware public schools from 2002/03 to 2008/09. Two research questions guide this study: (1) How did the enrollment of ELL students in Delaware public schools change between 2002/03 and 2008/09?; and (2) How did performance (the percentage scoring at…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Comparative Analysis, Educational Indicators
Vancil, Kelly – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined (a) the effects of Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS) on student use of critical thinking skills (CTS) in written responses to district reading assessments, (b) if practiced oral responses affected the ability to respond critically using written language, (c) whether there was a relationship between the development of the CTS of…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Written Language, Art Education, Tests
Li, Xiaobao; Ding, Meixia; Capraro, Mary Margaret; Capraro, Robert M. – Cognition and Instruction, 2008
This study reports findings from comparative samples of sixth-grade Chinese and U.S. students' interpretations of the equal sign. Ninety-eight percent of the Chinese sample correctly answered 4 items indicating conceptions of equality and provided conceptually accurate explanations. In contrast, only 28% of the U.S. sample performed at this level.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Symbols (Mathematics), Grade 6
ACT, Inc., 2009
Accountability in the nation's public schools has become a matter of considerable urgency since the 2001 amendment of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965. Under this most recent version of the ESEA, as of the 2007-08 academic year states and districts must assess the mathematics and reading proficiency of students…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Elementary Secondary Education, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs
Bell, Brian G.; Belsky, Jay – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
Longitudinal analysis of data on 658 children/families from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development addressed two issues regarding children's sleep problems (measured by maternal report in third and sixth grades when the child was 8 and 11 years old, respectively) and family…
Descriptors: Conflict, Child Health, Sleep, Parent Child Relationship
Estell, David B.; Jones, Martin H.; Pearl, Ruth; Van Acker, Richard; Farmer, Thomas W.; Rodkin, Philip C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2008
The extant literature on the social functioning of students with learning disabilities (LD) has indicated that whereas a majority belong to peer groups, a higher proportion are isolated and most have lower social status among peers in general than their typically achieving classmates. Although some work has examined these issues over short-term…
Descriptors: Social Status, Learning Disabilities, Grade 6, Longitudinal Studies
Evmenova, Anna S.; Graff, Heidi J.; Jerome, Marci Kinas; Behrmann, Michael M. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2010
This investigation examined the effects of currently available word prediction software programs that support phonetic/inventive spelling on the quality of journal writing by six students with severe writing and/or spelling difficulties in grades three through six during a month-long summer writing program. A changing conditions single-subject…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Journal Writing, Computer Software Evaluation, Phonetics
A Study to Explore the Strategy of Field-Based Teacher Preparation: Professional Development Schools
Connie Wright – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of my study was to determine if there are any differences in performance measures of student teachers with varying levels of participation in professional development schools. The population in my study was the 2002 through the spring of 2006 kindergarten through 6th-grade student teachers from a small, private postsecondary…
Descriptors: Field Experience Programs, Teacher Education, Student Teacher Evaluation, Student Teachers
Karkkainen, Riitta; Raty, Hannu; Kasanen, Kati – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2008
This study set out to examine children's notions of the malleability of their academic competencies and the relations of these notions to the child's grade-level and gender and the parent's educational level. In interviews of a total of 103 boys and girls of the third and the sixth grade, children of academically and vocationally educated parents…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Grade 3, Grade 6, Academic Ability
Cornetto, Karen M.; Schmitt, Lisa N. T. – Online Submission, 2009
This report describes district-level results from the Austin Independent School District (AISD) 2008-2009 Student Climate Survey. [Abstract modified to meet ERIC guidelines.]
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Environment, Student Behavior, Elementary Secondary Education
Neumann, Veda S.; Ross, Dorothy K.; Slaboch, Anita F. – Online Submission, 2008
The authors of this action research project report implemented oral reading fluency-based interventions for the purpose of improving students' reading comprehension. Six students in grade three, six students in grade five and six students in grade six participated in the study from Monday, August 27 through Friday, December 7, 2007. Researchers…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Student Surveys, Cooperative Learning