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Gallagher, Brenda McSparrin; Ross, Steven M. – Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP), 2005
The present study examined outcomes on the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program/Achievement Test (TCAP/AT) for the KIPP:DIAMOND Academy (KIPP:DA), which is in its second year of operation. Importantly, as in Year 1, a rigorous quasi-experimental research design was employed, in which each KIPP:DA student was individually matched to a highly…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Pretests Posttests, School Size
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Ey, Sydney; Hadley, Wendy; Allen, Deanna Nuttbrock; Palmer, Shawna; Klosky, James; Deptula, Daneen; Thomas, Jay; Cohen, Robert – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2005
Background: Optimism and pessimism are positive and negative expectations linked with well-being in adults. Research on the importance of optimism and pessimism in children is limited by the lack of a developmentally appropriate measure of children's expectations. Method: Based upon the Life Orientation Test-Revised (Scheier, Carver, & Bridges,…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Measurement Techniques, Grade 6, Depression (Psychology)
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Huss, John A. – Current Issues in Education, 2004
A descriptive study examined the degree to which middle level teachers in grades 6-8 in three states accept the tenets of the middle school philosophy. The guiding questions were: (1) Does a cross difference in variables exist among teachers from different organizational settings or grade configurations in respect to the teacher's acceptance of…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Educational Philosophy, Statistical Analysis, Certification
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Epstein, Michael H.; Mooney, Paul; Ryser, Gail; Pierce, Corey D. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2004
Objective: This article reports findings of three studies addressing convergent validity and test-retest reliability of the Youth Rating Scale of the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale-Second Edition (BERS-2). Method: Pearson product-moment correlations were used in all three studies, the first two addressing convergent validity and the third…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Behavior Rating Scales, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
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Hamston, Julie; Love, Kristina – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2005
This article describes a theoretically informed methodology for eliciting the voices of adolescent boys identified by their teachers and parents as reluctant leisure time readers. Similar methods have also been used to draw out the voices of the boys' parents to understand their efforts to guide and maintain their sons' literacy practices, within…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Males, Teaching Methods, Grade 6
Delaware Department of Education, 2006
This report, submitted to the U.S. Department of Education, contains summary details of Delaware students' growth in the areas of reading, mathematics, writing, science and social studies. The results reported herein are part of a long-term effort to gather data on Delaware students' educational progress and use the data to inform decisions about…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Grade 3, Educational Testing, Accountability
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Stalvey, Sheryl; Brasell, Heather – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2006
This pilot study investigated the effects of allowing sixth-grade students in a rural south Georgia school to use stress balls during direct instruction and independent practice. Data from learning style inventories, surveys, journals, teacher observations, and formal assessments were collected for 29 sixth-grade students in a language arts class.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Student Attitudes, Writing Ability, Teaching Methods
White, Richard N.; Williams, Imeh J.; Haslem, M. Bruce – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2005
Community School District 23 (CSD 23) in Region 5 of the New York City public schools serves students who reside in central Brooklyn. The district enrolls approximately 12,800 students in grades K-8 in 18 schools. Scholastic READ 180 is one of several reading interventions that the district is using to improve student performance. The staff of…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Urban Schools, Reading Programs, Intervention
Richardson, Rita Combs; Evans, Elizabeth T. – Research Press Publishers, 1997
The "Connecting With Others" curriculum for grades 6 through 8 will help students learn to be sensitive to differences, resolve conflicts without resorting to violence, and learn tolerance and acceptance of others. Includes 40 lessons divided into eight skill areas: Awareness of Self and Others, Responsibility, Communication, Cooperation…
Descriptors: Student Diversity, Conflict Resolution, Consciousness Raising, Interpersonal Relationship
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Burley, Rebecca; Waller, Raymond J. – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2005
Freddy, a student diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder served for part of the school day in special education, was having difficulty staying on task. Teachers reported that Freddy was continuously getting up out of his seat, bothering classmates, and making verbal comments or requests without raising his hand. Observations were…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Disabilities, Special Education, Behavior Problems
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Wichmann, Cherami; Coplan, Robert J.; Daniels, Tina – Social Development, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine the social cognitions of peer-identified socially withdrawn children. Participants included 457 children from grades four, five and six (54% females, 46% males). Children completed a selection of self- and peer-report measures including: (1) peer-rated behavioral nominations; (2) hostile intent biases and…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Self Efficacy, Conflict Resolution, Social Cognition
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Abu-Rabia, Salim; Maroun, Lateefeh – Dyslexia, 2005
The present study examined the effect of consanguineous marriage in the Arab community on reading disabilities of offspring. It examined whether the rate of reading disabilities was higher among offspring of first-cousin parents than offspring of unrelated parents; and whether reading-disabled children of first-cousin parents were more disabled in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Reading Comprehension, Reading Difficulties
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Frost, Jorgen; Madsbjerg, Sigrid; Niedersoe, Jan; Olofsson, Ake; Sorensen, Peer Moller – Dyslexia, 2005
The present longitudinal study investigated the relationship between pre-school semantic skills (vocabulary, comprehension and sentence construction), phonological awareness and later word decoding and reading comprehension skills. More than 200 Danish children were followed from a speech therapist screening at the age of three, through a…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Semantics, Reading Tests
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Ahmed, Eliza; Braithwaite, Valerie – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2004
This study focuses on the prediction of self-initiated bullying from family, school, personality, and shame management variables. Reintegrative shaming theory provided a theoretical framework for data gathered from students (n = 1,401) and their parents (n = 978). To test the importance of shame management in relation to bullying, the MOSS-SASD…
Descriptors: Bullying, Path Analysis, Educational Environment, Psychological Patterns
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Hall, Leigh A. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2005
This year-long case study examines how a struggling reader in a sixth-grade social studies class, a seventh grade mathematics class, and an eighth grade science class "transacted" with the reading task demands of her specific classroom. Through regular classroom observations and interviews, the researcher documents how each student responded to…
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Social Studies, Science Education, Mathematics Education
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