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Biggs, Marie C.; Watkins, Nancy A. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2008
Singing exaggerates the language of reading. The students find their voices in the rhythm and bounce of language by using music as an alternative technological approach to reading. A concurrent mixed methods study was conducted to investigate the use of an interactive sing-to-read program Tune Into Reading (Electronic Learning Products, 2006)…
Descriptors: Reading Fluency, Middle School Students, Music, Music Education
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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
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Popkin, Joan; Skinner, Christopher H. – School Psychology Review, 2003
A modified multiple baseline across behaviors design was used to evaluate the effects of an interdependent group contingency program with randomly selected contingency components on the academic performance of an intact middle-school class serving five male students with serious emotional disturbance (SED). During the initial intervention phase,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Spelling, Emotional Disturbances, Academic Achievement
Alderete, Karen L. – Online Submission, 2006
This report summarizes evaluation results of the 2005-2006 Dell Math Academy Program at 5 high schools and 1 middle school in AISD.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, High School Students, Middle School Students, Algebra
EdSource, 2010
This appendix accompanies "Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades: Why Some Schools Do Better. A Large-Scale Study of Middle Grades Practices and Student Outcomes. Initial Research Report." This appendix focuses on the findings and domain comparisons of the study. This appendix contains the following: (1) Decision Rules; (2) Full Set of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Surveys, Middle Schools, Grade 6
Cepni, Salih; Ozsevgec, Tuncay; Cerrah, Lale – Online Submission, 2004
Students' abstract reasoning abilities can differ from one society to another. Students' profiles play significant roles in these differences. The aim of the study is to determine the relationship between middle school students' cognitive development levels and their profiles (age, gender, and science achievement) using the Science Cognitive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Middle Schools
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Lewthwaite, Brian; Fisher, Darrell – Research in Science Education, 2004
The purpose of this investigation was to apply a validated curriculum evaluation instrument, the "Science Curriculum Implementation Questionnaire" (SCIQ), in an educational context in which a science curriculum review had recently been completed and, by so doing, ascertain the accuracy and potential value of the instrument as a…
Descriptors: Science Programs, Science Curriculum, Curriculum Evaluation, Investigations
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Scales, Peter C.; Benson, Peter L.; Mannes, Marc – Journal of Community Psychology, 2006
The contribution of nonfamily adults to young people's well-being was explored using both a cross-sectional national sample of 614 12- to 17-year-olds and a longitudinal sample of 370 students followed from 6th-8th grades through 10th-12th grades. Both variable- and person-centered analyses were employed. Young people's involvement in…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Community Involvement, Young Adults, Religious Organizations
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Graber, Julia A.; Nichols, Tracy; Lynne, Sarah D.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Botvin, Gilbert J. – Applied Developmental Science, 2006
This article examines family, friend, and media influences on competent and problem behaviors in a sample of 1,174 urban minority youth followed over 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Students completed annual surveys at their schools. Each of the contextual factors investigated was significantly associated with concurrent aggression and delinquency as…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Early Adolescents, Family Influence, Peer Influence
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Adams, Sue K.; Kuhn, Jennifer; Rhodes, Jean – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2006
The current study investigated how ethnicity and gender affect changes in the self-esteem of early adolescents during the middle school years. Self-report data were collected from more than 4,000 early adolescents from three ethnic groups: European American, African American, and Hispanic and analyzed using a consecutive three-year cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Grade 8, Grade 6, Gender Differences
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Rielly, Nicole E.; Craig, Wendy M.; Parker, Kevin C. H. – Journal of Attention Disorders, 2006
Objective: This study examines peer and parenting characteristics of 149 boys and girls with and without subclinical attention problems. Method: Multivariate analyses showed that children with attention problems had higher levels of negative peer nominations and conflict and betrayal in friendships, and their parents tended to use higher levels of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Parent Participation, Conflict, Child Rearing
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Smrokowski, Linda – Learning Languages, 2005
Although she is now teaching Spanish in a new school full time, Linda Smrokowski, spent 9 years teaching in a once-per-week second language program. Because many once- or twice-per-week programs still exist, she shares strategies for writing and implementing detailed lesson plans that worked for her while she was teaching in a once-per-week…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Spanish, Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction
Gritter, Aaron – Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation, 2005
The initial phase of the Maine Learning Technology Initiative (MLTI) provided all 7th and 8th grade students and their teachers with laptop computers. In the fall of 2003, a survey of all teachers involved with the program was administered by Maine Education Policy Research Institute to determine how and to what extent the technology was being…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Computer Uses in Education, Laptop Computers, Teacher Surveys
Hannula, Markku S.; Maijala, Hanna; Pehkonen, Erkki – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004
This paper presents some preliminary results of the longitudinal aspect of a research project on self-confidence and understanding in mathematics. We have collected a survey data of 3057 fifth-graders and seventh-graders and a follow-up data of ten classes (191 pupils) one and a half years later. The longitudinal data indicates that the learning…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Comprehension, Mathematics Education, Mathematical Concepts
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Palladino, Paola; Cornoldi, Cesare – Learning & Individual Differences, 2004
It has been suggested that the ability to learn a foreign language is related to working memory. However, there is no clear evidence about which component of working memory may be involved. Two experiments investigated working memory problems in groups of seventh and eighth grade Italian children with difficulties in learning English as a second…
Descriptors: Memory, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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