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Clark, Ruth Anne; MacGeorge, Erina L.; Robinson, Lakesha – Human Communication Research, 2008
Despite the importance of social support across the lifespan and extensive research on supportive communication between adults, little is known about how children or adolescents respond to the comforting efforts of their peers. The current study was designed to examine how 5th, 7th, and 9th graders evaluate six peer comforting strategies…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Academic Failure, Adolescents, Grade 9
Sharabany, Ruth; Eshel, Yohanan; Hakim, Caesar – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
The development of intimate same- and other-sex friendships in Arab children and adolescents in Israel was investigated in relation to their perceived parenting styles. It was hypothesized that girls would show higher levels of intimacy than boys, and that cross-sex intimacy in both groups would increase with age, whereas same-sex intimate…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Arabs, Intimacy
Conner, Timothy W., II; Aagaard, Lola – Online Submission, 2009
Differences in reading comprehension were examined in students with disabilities after use of three reader modification types. Participants (n=10) conveniently selected from two school districts were students grades three through eight reading on a third grade level that received a reader as a modification in their Individualized Education…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Reading Comprehension, Differences, Individualized Education Programs
Ritter, Gary W.; Barnett, Joshua H.; Denny, George S.; Albin, Ginger R. – Review of Educational Research, 2009
This meta-analysis assesses the effectiveness of volunteer tutoring programs for improving the academic skills of students enrolled in public schools Grades K-8 in the United States and further investigates for whom and under what conditions tutoring can be effective. The authors found 21 studies (with 28 different study cohorts in those studies)…
Descriptors: Tutors, Volunteers, Tutoring, Academic Achievement
Funk, Jeanne; Fox, Christine; Chan, Margaret; Curtiss, Kathleen – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2008
Empathic responding is implicated in antisocial behaviors such as bullying, sexual offending, and violent crime. Identifying children and adolescents at risk for antisocial behavior and evaluating interventions designed to address problem behaviors require valid and reliable measures. Definitional controversies and limited measurement models have…
Descriptors: Crime, Adolescents, Measures (Individuals), Grade 7
Singh, Michael; Zhao, Da Cheng – Australian Teacher Education Association, 2009
This paper explores the possibilities for building research-oriented, school-engaged teacher education through the professional learning of volunteer teacher-researchers. Volunteerism in education covers a broad spectrum of people and activities ranging from working in school canteens to supporting language and literacy programs. This paper…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Researchers, Volunteers, Teacher Education
Wolf, Mikyung Kim; Leon, Seth – Educational Assessment, 2009
The purpose of the present study is to examine the language characteristics of a few states' large-scale assessments of mathematics and science and investigate whether the language demands of the items are associated with the degree of differential item functioning (DIF) for English language learner (ELL) students. A total of 542 items from 11…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Science Tests, Measurement, Test Bias
Jagers, Robert J.; Morgan-Lopez, Antonio A.; Flay, Brian R. – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2009
This study compared the impact of the Aban Aya Youth Project (AAYP; Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 158: 377-384, 2004) social development classroom curriculum (SDC), school/family/community (SC) intervention curriculum, and a health enhancement curriculum (HEC) attention placebo control on changes over time in violent behaviors…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Grade 5, Social Development
Morehouse, Holly – Afterschool Matters, 2009
Early adolescence is a time of transition, change, and growth. At no other time after gestation and early infancy are the human body and mind undergoing such rapid developmental changes. The bodies of young adolescents are physically and sexually maturing. Cognitive changes expand thinking abilities; social and emotional changes move adolescents…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, After School Programs, Early Adolescents, Student Participation
Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne; Jung, Eunju; Geller, Josh; Yovanoff, Paul – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2008
In this technical report, we describe the development of cognitive diagnostic test items that form the basis of the diagnostic system for Project DIVIDE (Dynamic Instruction Via Individually Designed Environments). The construct underlying the diagnostic test is division of fractions. We include a description of the process we used to identify the…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Diagnostic Tests, Cognitive Tests, Test Items
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)
Ma, Lang; Phelps, Erin; Lerner, Jacqueline V.; Lerner, Richard M. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2009
Using data from the first three waves (Grades 5, 6, and 7) of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development, this study assessed if being a bully or being a victim accounts for an adolescent's academic competence, if selected contextual and individual variables impact an adolescent's academic competence, and if such impact differs in relation to an…
Descriptors: Bullying, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement, Academic Ability
Fyson, Stephen J. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2008
The research involved examining the nature of the transition that students experienced in progressing to junior high school from primary school. Students' experiences were chosen as the focus of the research because the issue of substance being investigated was that of alienation. The main methodology that was used was the qualitative procedure of…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Psychology, Junior High Schools, Investigations
Moffatt, Lyndsay; Norton, Bonny – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
Recent research has documented the persistence of unequal gender relations and homophobia in young people's lives. Feminist post-structural theories of gender and socio-cultural theories of learning suggest educators need to understand students' constructions of gender relations, masculine/feminine desires, and sexuality if they hope to challenge…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Gender Issues, Sexuality, Social Bias
Waldrip, Amy M.; Malcolm, Kenya T.; Jensen-Campbell, Lauri A. – Social Development, 2008
The unique contributions of peer acceptance, friendship, and victimization to adjustment were examined. How these relational systems moderate the influence of one another to influence adjustment was also investigated. Friendship quality, a unique aspect of friendship, was expected to be especially important for adjustment when other relational…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Friendship, Adjustment (to Environment), Grade 8