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Daily, Shay M.; Mann, Michael J.; Lilly, Christa L.; Bias, Thomas K.; Smith, Megan L.; Kristjansson, Alfgeir L. – Health Education & Behavior, 2020
Initiation of substance use often starts during adolescence, with tobacco and alcohol use frequently preceding the use of marijuana and other illicit drugs. Studies suggest that a positive school climate may prevent substance use while promoting healthy student behaviors. The purpose of this study was to determine the longitudinal associations…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Educational Environment, Correlation, Middle School Students
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Temesgen, Zelalem – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine school factors that hinder the co-curricular participation of students with disabilities. The researcher has primarily used the survey method to investigate the co-curricular participation of students with disabilities in Weldeya primary schools. For this, 100 teachers were selected at random and two…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Extracurricular Activities, Student Interests, Barriers
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Yanez, Christina; Lessne, Deborah – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
Student victimization and school violence have been an ongoing cause of national concern, resulting in a concerted effort among educators, administrators, parents, and policymakers to determine the gravity of the issue and consider approaches to crime prevention. This Statistics in Brief presents estimates of student criminal victimization at…
Descriptors: Victims, Violence, Questionnaires, National Surveys
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Taut, Sandy; Jiménez, Daniela; Puente-Duran, Sofia; Palacios, Diego; Godoy, Maria Inés; Manzi, Jorge – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2019
An important challenge in evaluating the quality of teaching is to arrive at valid distinctions between teachers, particularly in the middle of the performance distribution. This study addressed this issue for the Chilean national teacher evaluation system. Mathematics teachers (N = 51) from the 2 middle adjacent performance categories, and their…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Evaluation, Job Performance, Mathematics Teachers
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Feyzioglu, Burak – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2019
Background: In recent years, science curricula (chemistry, physics, biology, earth science, life science, etc.) in many countries have been prepared and applied according to the inquiry-based learning approach. Although the acquisition and application of the inquiry skills are one of the important objectives of the science curriculum, the inquiry…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Inquiry, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement
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Jones, Teresa; Riggs, Amanda; Kuo, Nai-Cheng – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2019
Teachers and school counselors have the responsibility not only to build a positive school climate in which students want to perform and stretch themselves academically and socially, but also to create an environment in which students know that their teachers and school counselors are aware of their needs, anxiety, and other factors preventing…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Anxiety, Coping, Test Anxiety
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Idsoe, Ella Maria Cosmovici – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2016
We investigated whether perceived inclusion and exclusion with peers at school, as well as self-reported bullying exposure, affected positive and negative affect among 1161 students from grades five through seven. Positive affect was significantly, but only weakly, affected by perceived exclusion and inclusion. Negative affect was not related to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Well Being, Student Behavior, Social Environment
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Ayalon, Michal; Even, Ruhama – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
This study examines how students' opportunities to engage in argumentative activity are shaped by the teacher, the class, and the mathematical topic. It compares the argumentative activity between two classes taught by the same teacher using the same textbook and across two beginning algebra topics--investigating algebraic expressions and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Grade 7, Persuasive Discourse, Algebra
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Schubert, Jan Christoph – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2015
Preconceptions are a crucial factor in the educational learning process. Hence, the investigation of preconceptions is important for learning and teaching in the field of geography. This study examines the preconceptions of 12- and 13-year-old students, regarding the major environmental problem of "desertification." The students'…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Content Analysis, Interviews, Student Attitudes
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Cook, Kennie L., Jr.; Babyak, Andrew T. – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2019
The purpose of this quantitative simple linear regression study was to examine the degree to which the level of spirituality predicted the level of occupational stress among 105 middle school teachers. Specifically, this study examined the influence of spirituality, as measured by the Daily Spiritual Experience Scale on occupational stress as…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Religious Factors, Stress Variables, Anxiety
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Kashy-Rosenbaum, Gabriela; Kaplan, Oren; Israel-Cohen, Yael – Psychology in the Schools, 2018
Using a multilevel approach, this study examined the role of classroom emotional climate on students' academic achievement. Positive and negative emotions and homeroom teachers' support were used to assess the classroom emotional climate on the individual and class levels. To our knowledge, no study to date has investigated these specific aspects…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Grade Point Average
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Olivier, Elizabeth; Janosz, Michel; Morin, Alexandre J. S.; Archambault, Isabelle; Geoffrion, Steve; Pascal, Sophie; Goulet, Julie; Marchand, Alain; Pagani, Linda S. – Journal of School Violence, 2021
This study investigates the nexus between teacher exposure to student aggression, their level of emotional exhaustion, and the role of belongingness and perceived school safety as mediators. Random-Intercept Cross-Lag Panel Models were conducted among a sample of 2,072 secondary teachers (57.14% female) from grades 7 to 11 in 77 schools. Chronic…
Descriptors: Violence, Aggression, Student Behavior, Educational Environment
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Gindi, Shahar; Paul-Binyamin, Ilana – Research Papers in Education, 2021
The education system is drawn in opposite directions both in research and in practice: Outcome-based evaluation and achievements on the one hand and values-based education on the other. The research and theory on the topic is also divided. Values based education is supported almost exclusively by theoretical arguments and qualitative research…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Identification (Psychology), Student School Relationship, Middle School Students
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Marques, Rita Ruivo; Malafaia, Carla; Faria, Joaquim L.; Menezes, Isabel – Environmental Education Research, 2020
The WaterCircle (WC) project was implemented in a school, with young adolescents, to address environmental problems. Framed in a participatory research (PR) approach, this school-and-community based intervention includes the use of online tools through which environmental problems in the community are discussed within and by a group of students.…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Citizen Participation, Conservation (Environment), Early Adolescents
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Rickert, Nicolette P.; Skinner, Ellen A.; Roeser, Robert W. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
In response to growing interest in mindfulness as a support for educators, the current study sought to create and test a new multidimensional and multi-informant measure of teacher mindfulness in the classroom. To counter some of the limitations of context-general self-reports, we designed two theoretically based classroom-specific measures that…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Behavior
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