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Starkman, Neal – T.H.E. Journal, 2007
Poor classroom acoustics are impairing students' hearing and their ability to learn. However, technology has come up with a solution: tools that focus voices in a way that minimizes intrusive ambient noise and gets to the intended receiver--not merely amplifying the sound, but also clarifying and directing it. One provider of classroom audio…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Acoustics, Classroom Environment, Audio Equipment
Garcia, David R. – Education and Urban Society, 2008
This article focuses on how parental school choices affect the degree of racial and academic segregation in charter schools. The research design allows for a direct comparison of the racial and academic conditions of the district schools students exited to the charter schools they entered. Parents choose to leave more racially integrated district…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Racial Composition, School Choice, School Segregation
Gagliardi, Luanne – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this study was to examine three seventh grade R180 teachers' perceptions regarding the local setting factors and role of the teacher impacting the program's implementation across the three middle schools. The conceptual framework guiding this study was derived from the Scholastic R180 Logic-of-Change Model, which depicts an…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Middle Schools, Student Attitudes, Teacher Surveys
Frenzel, Anne C.; Goetz, Thomas; Ludtke, Oliver; Pekrun, Reinhard; Sutton, Rosemary E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
In this study, the authors examined the relationship between teacher and student enjoyment. Based on social-cognitive approaches to emotions, they hypothesized (a) that teacher enjoyment and student enjoyment within classrooms are positively linked and (b) that teacher enthusiasm mediates the relationship between teacher and student enjoyment.…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Structural Equation Models, Grade 7
Shim, S. Serena; Ryan, Allison M.; Anderson, Carolyn J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2008
The present study advances understanding of (a) the development of achievement goals, (b) the changing association of achievement goals and achievement over time, and (c) the implications of changes in achievement goals for changes in achievement over time. African American and European American adolescents' (N = 588) achievement goals and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Adolescents, Predictor Variables, Motivation
Rourke, James; Boone, Elizabeth – Principal Leadership, 2008
Nestled in the mountains and surrounded by Christmas tree farms, Ashe County Middle School is a small, rural school in the far northwest corner of North Carolina. Recognized nationally for its fine academic and co-curricular programs, the school prepares students for high school and real-life situations by teaching important concepts, essential…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Rural Schools, Academic Standards, Counties
Stemn, Blidi S. – Education 3-13, 2008
This article describes and shares an innovative pedagogical practice that holds promise in contributing to the teaching and learning of proportions in middle school. The teaching and learning of mathematics with understanding framework was used as a vehicle to help 21 seventh grade students reason proportionally. The findings of this unit suggest…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Middle School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematical Logic
Marquis, Justin W. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study chronicles the home and school technology practices of a group of 7th grade middle school students representing varying social and economic backgrounds for the purpose of exploring possible ways in which exposure to computer technology in the home helps to inform the ways in which children demonstrate technology literacy when using…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Computers, Educational Technology, Grade 7
McDuffie, Kimberly A.; Mastropieri, Margo A.; Scruggs, Thomas E. – Exceptional Children, 2009
Differential effects of a peer-tutoring intervention on the academic achievement of 203 7th-grade science students with and without disabilities in co-teaching and non-co-teaching settings were examined over an 8-week period. Impact of peer tutoring was assessed using a 2 condition by 2 settings by 2 types of students analysis of covariance with…
Descriptors: Intervention, Peer Teaching, Tutoring, Teaching Methods
Meuth, Amber M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
With the global crises facing the planet that bring major implications, (Hart & Nolan, 1999; Hungerford & Simmons, 2003) it is imperative that there be an environmentally literate citizenry who can identify, solve, and prevent environmental issues. Since middle school students are evolving into participating citizens and are developing the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Charter Schools, Water Quality, Environmental Education
de la Piedra, Maria Teresa – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2010
This article presents partial results of an ethnographic study about literacy practices among adolescents living near the United States-Mexico border. The students became involved in literacy practices with their friends and family at home. These practices were related to the adolescents' interests in popular culture such as reading magazines or…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy, Adolescents, Family Environment
Yilmaz-Tuzun, Ozgul; Tuncer, Gaye Teksoz; Aydemir, Murat – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2008
The aim of this study was to determine the elementary teachers' knowledge about air pollution. Ozone depletion, global warming, acid rain, and renewable energy were also addressed in this study to get holistic picture about air pollution. A total of 183 teachers from the 91 schools in Ankara participated to the study. The data obtained were…
Descriptors: Energy, Foreign Countries, Climate, Pollution
Ciarrochi, Joseph; Heaven, Patrick C. L. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2008
Background: Almost no research has examined the impact of explanatory style on social adjustment. We hypothesised that adolescents with a pessimistic style would be less likely to develop and maintain social support networks. Methods: Seven hundred and nineteen students (351 males and 366 females; 2 unknown; M[subscript AGE] = 12.28, SD = 0.49)…
Descriptors: Social Support Groups, Grades (Scholastic), Adolescents, Social Adjustment
Conger, Katherine Jewsbury; Williams, Shannon Tierney; Little, Wendy M.; Masyn, Katherine E.; Shebloski, Barbara – Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2009
A sense of mastery is an important component of psychological health and wellbeing across the life-span; however, relatively little is known about the development of mastery during childhood and adolescence. Utilizing prospective, longitudinal data from 444 adolescent sibling pairs and their parents, our conceptual model proposes that family…
Descriptors: Siblings, Problem Solving, Adolescents, Well Being
Dani, Danielle – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2009
In the United States and around the world, calls for educational reform stress the need for a scientifically literate population, prepared for the twenty-first century workforce. These calls have translated into new curricula, which in isolation, are not enough? Teachers play an essential role in the development of scientifically literate…
Descriptors: Private Schools, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Scientific Literacy