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Eskeland, Gunnar; Filmer, Deon – Education Economics, 2007
Student learning can be raised by school autonomy and parental participation through separate channels, but this paper suggests a mutually supportive effect. Increased school autonomy increases the rent that can be distributed among stakeholders at the school, while institutions for parental participation (such as a school board) empower parents…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Administrative Organization, Economic Status, Institutional Autonomy
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Altun, Eralp – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2008
This study has pedagogical implications in view of rapidly growing technological development and widespread use of the Internet in instruction. The spread of online homework sites with highly commercial aims has opened a new research area regarding the structure, aim and the significant role of homework in education. Particularly, the changes in…
Descriptors: Homework, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Grade 6
Liu, Kimy; Carling, Kristy; Geller, Leanne Ketterlin; Tindal, Gerald – Behavioral Research and Teaching, 2008
In this study, we describe the development of rapid reading measures, sentences presented to students in a nearly subliminal manner, with a literal comprehension question asked following their removal. After administering alternate forms of these measures to students, we present the results from three statistical analyses to ascertain their…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Speed Reading, Reading Rate, Sentences
Williams, Trish; Haertel, Edward; Kirst, Michael W. – EdSource, 2011
This report is a follow-up to "Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades" (Williams, Kirst, Haertel, et al., 2010). That study specified a comprehensive set of actionable practices that differentiated higher academic achievement among 303 middle grades schools in California. In doing so, the study provided a compelling and coherent account of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Educational Practices
Debraggio, Elizabeth; Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Stiefel, Leanna – Institute for Education and Social Policy, 2011
Immigration and migration to New York City (NYC) collectively create a dynamic population of students. In this brief the authors use a decade of detailed, longitudinal data on NYC's 1st-8th graders to explore both the "stock" of students enrolled and the "flow" of new entrants in each academic year. Together, these paint a…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Immigration, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Subramaniam, Prithwi Raj; Silverman, Stephen – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2007
The purpose of this study was to determine middle school students' attitudes toward physical education using an attitude instrument grounded in attitude theory. In addition, this investigation also sought to ascertain if gender and grade level influence student attitudes toward the subject matter. Participants for this study were 995 students from…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Middle Schools, Physical Education
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Card, Noel A.; Hodges, Ernest V. E. – Developmental Psychology, 2006
Similarity in early adolescent friends' general aggressiveness is well known, but questions remain regarding the degree to which friends aggress against the same victims. The authors examined this by administering the newly created Dyadic Aggression and Victimization Inventory to 417 sixth- through eighth-grade boys and girls (53%). Friends …
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Aggression, Adolescents, Friendship
Polette, Nancy – Teacher Ideas Press, 2008
Using an approach based on a Harvard study that found "when the whole body is involved, the number of brain cells brought to the learning activity doubles," the author offers over one hundred kinesthetic activities for classroom use. Activities are organized by content area, include directions for number of players, objective, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Grade 4, Nonfiction, Learning Activities
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Rueger, Sandra Yu; Malecki, Christine Kerres; Demaray, Michelle Kilpatrick – School Psychology Quarterly, 2008
The current study is an investigation of early adolescents' perceptions of social support from parents, teachers, classmates, and close friends, and how that support is related to measures of students' adjustment on a range of behavioral indices. Data were collected on a sample of 246 students in Grades 6 through 8 using the Child and Adolescent…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Females, Early Adolescents, Rating Scales
Schneider, Jean – Understanding Our Gifted, 2008
"Fast Track" is a pseudonym for an accelerated, advanced language arts program for verbally gifted and high potential students in grades 6-8. The critical thinking model used for "Fast Track" was gleaned from Coalition of Essential Schools founder Ted Sizer's Habits of Mind: significance, evidence, connections, perspective, and supposition, as…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Language Arts, Grade 6, Communication Skills
Drosopoulos, J. Dan; Heald, A. Zachariah; McCue, M. John – Online Submission, 2008
This action research project report examined all forms of bullying behaviors and ways to reduce those behaviors. The project included 63 students from both a high school health class and a 6th and 7th grade middle school homeroom. The research was conducted from September 17, 2007 through December 14, 2007. In the specified locations, female to…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Intervention, Bullying, Action Research
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Tressoldi, Patrizio E.; Lorusso, Maria Luisa; Brenbati, Federica; Donini, Roberta – Dyslexia, 2008
This study tested the hypothesis whether older dyslexic children may obtain fewer gains on fluency and accuracy with respect to their younger peers after specific remediation. Changes in accuracy and fluency of a group of children with a diagnosis of dyslexia attending third and fourth grades were compared with those obtained by a group of…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Dyslexia, Grade 6, Grade 7
Stephens, Mary W. – ProQuest LLC, 2007
This research study evaluated the achievement of students who were taught by traditionally certified teachers with students who were taught by alternatively certified teachers or those seeking certification through an alternative certification program. The primary purpose of the study was to examine significant differences, if any, in student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, School Districts, Statistical Analysis, Grade 7
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Re, Anna Maria; Pedron, Martina; Cornoldi, Cesare – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
Three groups of children of different ages who were considered by their teachers as showing symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and matched controls were tested in a series of expressive writing tasks, derived from a standardized writing test. In the first study, 24 sixth- and seventh-grade children with ADHD symptoms wrote…
Descriptors: Writing Difficulties, Writing Tests, Hyperactivity, Expressive Language
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Poulin, Francois; Pedersen, Sara – Developmental Psychology, 2007
This article describes both normative changes and individual differences in the gender composition of girls' and boys' friendship networks across adolescence and predicts variations in these changes. It also examines changes in the characteristics (context, age difference, closeness, and support) of same- and other-sex friendships in the network.…
Descriptors: Females, Friendship, Age Differences, Grade 6
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