Publication Date
In 2025 | 11 |
Since 2024 | 242 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 873 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1683 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 2792 |
Descriptor
Grade 6 | 2849 |
Grade 7 | 2812 |
Grade 8 | 2078 |
Grade 5 | 1364 |
Middle School Students | 1050 |
Foreign Countries | 854 |
Grade 4 | 797 |
Student Attitudes | 532 |
Grade 3 | 495 |
Academic Achievement | 467 |
Grade 9 | 467 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Tindal, Gerald | 31 |
Alonzo, Julie | 23 |
Anderson, Daniel | 19 |
Kuhfeld, Megan | 13 |
Lewis, Karyn | 9 |
Vaughn, Sharon | 9 |
Kieffer, Michael J. | 8 |
Nese, Joseph F. T. | 8 |
Connell, Emma | 7 |
Ketterlin-Geller, Leanne R. | 7 |
Megan Kuhfeld | 7 |
More ▼ |
Publication Type
Education Level
Grade 7 | 2849 |
Grade 6 | 2837 |
Middle Schools | 2551 |
Elementary Education | 2370 |
Junior High Schools | 2324 |
Secondary Education | 2302 |
Intermediate Grades | 2263 |
Grade 8 | 2096 |
Grade 5 | 1368 |
Grade 4 | 799 |
High Schools | 512 |
More ▼ |
Audience
Teachers | 75 |
Students | 10 |
Practitioners | 9 |
Policymakers | 8 |
Administrators | 7 |
Researchers | 7 |
Parents | 3 |
Media Staff | 2 |
Community | 1 |
Counselors | 1 |
Location
Turkey | 307 |
Texas | 90 |
California | 73 |
Canada | 55 |
New York | 53 |
Australia | 51 |
North Carolina | 47 |
Germany | 45 |
Illinois | 39 |
Florida | 38 |
United States | 36 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 15 |
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 25 |
Does not meet standards | 6 |
Holfve-Sabel, Mary-Anne – Educational Research, 2006
Background: This investigation focuses on student attitudes and looks at school quality from the perspective of affective variables rather than students' knowledge or abilities. The concept of attitude includes ways of feeling, thinking and behaving and maintaining an expression of one's identity within the environment. The analysis focuses on…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, School Attitudes, Goal Orientation
Yilmaz Tuzun, Ozgul – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2006
This study investigated the validation of Turkish version of the Teacher Communication Behavior Questionnaire (TCBQ) in a cross-study of elementary school science classrooms. The effects of gender and grade level on students' perceptions of their teachers' behaviors were also examined. Questionnaire includes five scales namely challenging,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary Schools, Student Attitudes, Questionnaires
Kolic-Vehovec, Svjetlana; Bajsanski, Igor – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2006
The aim of this study was to explore comprehension monitoring and perceived use of reading strategies as factors of reading comprehension. Participants were elementary school students from the fifth to the eighth grade. Error correction and text sensitivity tasks from the Metacomprehension test (Pazzaglia, De Beni, & Cristante, 1994), and the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Strategies, Measures (Individuals)
Wang, Jia; Niemi, David; Wang, Haiwen – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2007
The main goal of this report is to present evidence on the predictive validity of an English language arts (ELA) performance assessment (PA) administered in Grades 2-9 in a large urban school district. To account for the hierarchical structure of the data (students are nested within schools), we employed hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Language Arts, Performance Based Assessment, Standardized Tests
Curry, Janice – Online Submission, 2007
Of the 1,828 grade 6 students who received accelerated instruction outside of the regular classroom, 27% participated in both reading and math interventions. Of the 1,872 grade 7 students who participated in accelerated instruction outside of the classroom, 26% participated in both reading and math interventions. The overall state test results for…
Descriptors: Acceleration (Education), Reading Instruction, Mathematics Instruction, Intervention
Dotterer, Aryn M.; McHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
The connection between out-of-school activities and school engagement was examined in 140, 6th through 9th grade African American adolescents. Youth's out-of-school activities were measured with a series of 7 nightly phone calls and focused on time in structured (homework, academically-oriented, extracurricular/sports) and unstructured (watching…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Television, Homework, Extracurricular Activities
EdSource, 2010
This paper presents the research and methodology and analyses used for the "Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades" research. This appendix contains the following sections: (1) Overview; (2) Constructing the Survey Data File; (3) Constructing Composite Independent Variables (Subdomains); (4) Constructing Longitudinal Outcome Variables; (5)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Measures (Individuals), Longitudinal Studies, Research Methodology
Jarvis, C. D. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
The investigation reported in this bulletin was undertaken for the purpose of making available a volume of evidence on questions concerning the early elimination of children during out-of-school hours. The inquiry was confined to the children of sixth, seventh, and eighth grades. Information concerning the following points has been presented: (1)…
Descriptors: Children, Child Labor, Grade 6, Grade 7
Van Amerom, Barbara A. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2003
In early algebra students often struggle with equation solving. Modeled on Streefland's studies of students' own productions a prototype pre-algebra learning strand was designed which takes students' informal (arithmetical) strategies as a starting point for solving equations. In order to make available the skills and tools needed for manipulating…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Grade 6, Grade 7, Algebra
Argiro, Carol – Art Education, 2004
"Public art" is a broad term that refers to art in public spaces and includes architecture, landscape, and urban design. Public art makes public spaces more beautiful, encourages us to pause and interact with our environment, or reminds us of important people and events. Just as often, public sculptures become such a part of our everyday…
Descriptors: School Community Relationship, Art Education, Aesthetics, Architecture
Todd, Ross J. – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2006
Introduction: This research sought to investigate how school students build on their existing knowledge of a curriculum topic and transform found information into personal knowledge, and how their knowledge of this topic changes. Method: The qualitative study involved 574 students from Grades 6 to 12 in ten New Jersey schools. The context for data…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Barkley, Jordan M. – Reading Improvement, 2006
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether relations existed between sixth, seventh, and eighth grade learners' and their teachers' efficacy beliefs and outcome expectancies and whether student perceived efficacy beliefs were predictors of reading comprehension achievement as measured by a reading comprehension subtest score on a state…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Middle School Students
Sim, Leslie; Zeman, Janice – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
To understand whether difficulties in emotional functioning distinguish between body dissatisfaction and disordered eating, a set of emotion regulation (i.e., negative emotion, emotional awareness, coping), demographic (i.e., age), and physical (i.e., BMI (Body Mass Index)) factors were assessed in 234 early adolescent girls, grades six to eight.…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Eating Disorders, Body Composition, Early Adolescents
Achieve, Inc., 2005
The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) brought new challenges and opportunities for the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). Like many states, Pennsylvania was faced with adding assessments in grades 4, 6 and 7 in reading and mathematics. However, unlike most states, Pennsylvania did not respond to NCLB by simply adding…
Descriptors: State Officials, Federal Legislation, Academic Standards, Grade 4
Hedrick, Wanda B.; Harmon, Janis M.; Linerode, Philip M. – Reading Horizons, 2004
This investigation focused on the vocabulary beliefs and instructional practices of social studies teachers in intermediate and middle school grades as well as their use of teachers' manuals. Using a self-reporting survey to measure these beliefs and practices, we found some discrepancy between what teachers believe about vocabulary learning and…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Vocabulary, Social Studies