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Beth Hosek; Anastasia Kitsantas; Shannon King; Roy Echeverria; Sahar Wahidi – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
The purpose of the present study was to explore the voices of high- and low-achieving middle school students around the function and utility of a student-engaged design learning how to learn intervention. The intervention was a year-long standard elective course in the curriculum in which all students enrolled during their time in middle school.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Rural Schools, Low Achievement, High Achievement
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Huang, Chung-Kai – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The purpose of this study was to deploy digital technology in ways that would help mathematics teachers in a remote rural Taiwanese middle school construct a differentiated classroom aligned with students' needs. We attempted to develop seventh-grade mathematics course modules that could meet quality educational requirements and equal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers
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Bouck, Emily C.; Park, Jiyoon; Bouck, Mary K; Alspaugh, Jim; Spitzley, Stacey – Preventing School Failure, 2019
Secondary schools are implementing response to intervention (RtI) for mathematics but with limited research or guidelines. This study addresses the shortage of research regarding RtI in mathematics for secondary schools through the exploration of the effect of a Tier 2 math lab on the mathematical performance of seventh-grade students across one…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Grade 7, Middle School Students, Response to Intervention
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Miller-Day, Michelle; Pettigrew, Jonathan; Hecht, Michael L.; Shin, YoungJu; Graham, John; Krieger, Janice – Health Education, 2013
Purpose: As interventions are disseminated widely, issues of fidelity and adaptation become increasingly critical to understand. This study aims to describe the types of adaptations made by teachers delivering a school-based substance use prevention curriculum and their reasons for adapting program content. Design/methodology/approach: To…
Descriptors: Prevention, Teaching Methods, Drug Education, Grade 7
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Griffin, Dana; Galassi, John P. – Professional School Counseling, 2010
In focus groups, parents of both academically successful seventh-grade students and at-risk students (i.e., failing one or more classes, numerous behavioral referrals, and/or suspensions) in a rural middle school identified perceived barriers to student success as well as school and community resources for overcoming those barriers. Qualitative…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Academic Achievement, Parent School Relationship, School Counselors