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Nylund, Karen; Bellmore, Amy; Nishina, Adrienne; Graham, Sandra – Child Development, 2007
This study uses latent class analysis (LCA) to empirically identify victimization groups during middle school. Approximately 2,000 urban, public middle school students (mean age in sixth grade = 11.57) reported on their peer victimization during the Fall and Spring semesters of their sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Independent LCA analyses at…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Grade 6, Victims of Crime
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Taylor, April Z.; Graham, Sandra – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Peer nomination procedures were used to explore the development of academic achievement values and their relation to perceptions of barriers to opportunity. A total of 615 boys and girls across 3 grade levels (2nd, 4th, 7th) and 2 ethnic groups (African American, Latino) nominated peers who they admired, respected, and wanted to be like.…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Females, Males, Academic Achievement
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Benner, Aprile D.; Graham, Sandra – Child Development, 2009
The high school transition was examined in an ethnically diverse, urban sample of 1,979 adolescents, followed from 7th to 10th grade (M[subscript age] = 14.6, SD = 0.37 in 7th grade). Twice annually, data were gathered on adolescents' perceptions of school climate, psychological functioning, and academic behaviors. Piecewise growth modeling…
Descriptors: High Schools, Middle Schools, Racial Differences, African American Students