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Williams, Farah; Cornell, Dewey G. – Journal of School Violence, 2006
This study examined factors that influence a student's willingness to seek help for a threat of violence. The sample consisted of 542 middle school students who completed an anonymous survey that asked students how likely they would be to seek help in response to being bullied or threatened. The survey also included measures of type of bullying,…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Bullying, Middle School Students, Peer Relationship
Burke, Mary A.; Sass, Tim R. – Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2008
In this paper we analyze the impact of classroom peers on individual student performance with a unique longitudinal data set covering all Florida public school students in grades 3-10 over a five-year period. Unlike many previous data sets used to study peer effects in education, our data set allow us to identify each member of a given student's…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Student Evaluation, Academic Achievement, Peer Groups
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Regnerus, Mark D.; Smith, Christian; Smith, Brad – Applied Developmental Science, 2004
Students of religious development in youth tend to focus on characteristics of the child or adolescent and perhaps those of their parents. Although often reflecting standard disciplinary practices, this approach is also often the result of data limitations. This study used longitudinal data from adolescents, parents, friends, schools, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Social Environment, Religion, Religious Factors
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Simonson, Michael, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2014
For the thirty-seventh year, the Research and Theory Division and the Division of Instructional Design of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) sponsored the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the annual AECT Convention in Jacksonville, Florida. This year's Proceedings…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Foreign Countries, Visualization
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Slavit, David – Mathematics Educator, 2006
This paper articulates a perspective on learning to discuss ways in which students develop personal sense and negotiate meaning in a middle school algebra context. Building on a sociocultural perspective that incorporates mental objects, learning is described as a mutually dependent process involving personal sense making and the public…
Descriptors: Student Problems, Sociocultural Patterns, Algebra, Middle Schools
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de la Fuente, Jesus; Peralta, Francisco Javier; Sanchez, Maria Dolores – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2006
Introduction: The importance of values education in current society continues to be one of the greatest challenges to our Educational System. Its pertinence becomes no less than inexcusable when we speak of education in social values during adolescence, or, during "Educacion Secundaria Obligatoria" ["N.T." Mandatory Secondary…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Adjustment (to Environment), Social Values, Psychometrics
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Ingoldsby, Erin M.; Kohl, Gwynne O.; McMahon, Robert J.; Lengua, Liliana – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2006
The present study investigated patterns in the development of conduct problems (CP), depressive symptoms, and their co-occurrence, and relations to adjustment problems, over the transition from late childhood to early adolescence. Rates of depressive symptoms and CP during this developmental period vary by gender; yet, few studies involving…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
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Cortes, Rebecca C.; Fleming, Charles B.; Catalano, Richard F.; Brown, Eric C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2006
This study reports on relationships among gender, maternal depressed mood, and children's trajectories of depressive phenomena across middle childhood and early adolescence. It tested the hypothesis that, compared to boys, girls become increasingly vulnerable to maternal depression as they enter adolescence. The study sample consisted of 834…
Descriptors: Mothers, Depression (Psychology), Hypothesis Testing, Children
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Adams-Byers, Jan; Whitsell, Sara Squiller; Moon, Sidney M. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2004
This study investigated student perceptions of differences in academic and social effects that occur when gifted and talented youth are grouped homogeneously (i.e., in special classes for gifted students) as contrasted with heterogeneously (i.e., in classes with many ability levels represented). Forty-four students in grades 5-11 completed…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Talent, Special Classes, Residential Programs
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Shepardson, Daniel P. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2005
The author investigated students' ideas about what defines an environment and how these ideas change across grade level and educational experience. A total of 81 students were sampled: 18 seventh graders, 20 eighth graders, and 24 ninth graders from general biology, and 19 ninth graders from college preparatory biology. The environments task was a…
Descriptors: Environment, Environmental Education, Student Attitudes, Grade 8
Curriculum Review, 2005
With a market of nearly $5 billion a year, the banana is the world's most popular fruit, and the most important food crop after rice, wheat, and maize. Banana businesses are economic pillars in many tropical countries, providing millions of jobs for rural residents. But, for much of its history, the banana industry was notorious for destructive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Class Activities, Environmental Education, Conservation (Environment)
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Kitsantas, Anastasia; Ware, Herbert W.; Martinez-Arias, Rosario – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2004
An important element of the context in which children are educated is the safety in their schools. The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships among student perceptions of community safety, school environment, substance use, and school safety with a total of 3,092 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. Data were used from the…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Middle School Students, Educational Environment, School Safety
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Lubbers, Miranda J.; Van Der Werf, Margaretha P. C.; Snijders, Tom A. B.; Creemers, Bert P. M.; Kuyper, Hans – Journal of School Psychology, 2006
The purpose of this study is to examine whether peer relations within classrooms were related to students' academic progress, and if so, whether this can be explained by students' relatedness and engagement, in line with Connell and Wellborn's self-system model. We analyzed data of 18,735 students in 796 school classes in Dutch junior high…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Academic Achievement, Models, Junior High School Students
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Cook, Thomas D.; Deng, Yingying; Morgano, Emily – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2007
This study examines how a wide variety of diverse friendship group attributes affect changes in indicators of school performance, social behavior, and mental health between early seventh and late eighth grade. Nine hundred and one middle school students named their friends. Independent data from these friends were used to construct friendship…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Early Adolescents, Drug Use, Social Behavior
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Rudolph, Karen D.; Caldwell, Melissa S.; Conley, Colleen S. – Child Development, 2005
This research examined the hypothesis that a tendency to base one's self-worth on peer approval is associated with positive and negative aspects of children's well-being. A sample of 153 fourth through eighth graders (9.0 to 14.8 years) reported on need for approval, global self-worth, social-evaluative concerns, anxiety and depression, and…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Social Adjustment, Depression (Psychology), Preadolescents
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