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Bates, Rebecca C. – Georgia School Counselors Association Journal, 2006
This article describes a three-part classroom guidance lesson that teaches middle school students the definition of sexual harassment, the difference between flirting and sexual harassment, and the harmful effects of sexual harassment. An action research study evaluated the effectiveness of the lessons in decreasing referrals for sexual harassment…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Sexual Harassment, Action Research, Guidance
Lau, Kit-ling – Educational Research, 2006
Background: This was a small-scale study conducted in Hong Kong Chinese language classes, based on the research in cognitive strategy instruction. Purpose: This study aimed to explore whether Chinese language teachers were able to develop their own school-based strategy instruction programme through collaborating with the researcher. Programme…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Reading Strategies, Language Teachers
Hemphill, Sheryl A.; McMorris, Barbara J.; Toumbourou, John W.; Herrenkohl, Todd I.; Catalano, Richard F.; Mathers, Megan – Journal of School Health, 2007
Background: Few methodologically rigorous international comparisons of student-reported antisocial behavior have been conducted. This paper examines whether there are differences in the frequency of both antisocial behavior and societal responses to antisocial behavior in Victoria, Australia and Washington State, United States. These 2 states were…
Descriptors: Suspension, Antisocial Behavior, Foreign Countries, Comparative Education

Shaw, Joan – Teacher Librarian, 2004
In school library research programs, a challenge for students doing research emerges when they take their projects home and turn to their parents for assistance. Often parents lack sufficient knowledge of the research process to be able to effectively help their children. Moreover, teachers expect parents to monitor student homework but rarely…
Descriptors: Student Research, Scoring Rubrics, Student Projects, Grading
Owen, Steven V.; Toepperwein, Mary Anne; Pruski, Linda A.; Blalock, Cheryl L.; Liu, Yan; Marshall, Carolyn E.; Lichtenstein, Michael J. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2007
The Women in Science Scale (WiSS) was first developed in 1984, and is still being used in contemporary studies, yet its psychometric properties have not been evaluated with current statistical methods. In this study, the WiSS was administered in its original 27-item form to 1,439 middle and high school students. Confirmatory factor analysis based…
Descriptors: Evaluation Research, Women Scientists, Factor Structure, Measures (Individuals)
Hameen-Anttila, Katri; Airaksinen, Marja; Timonen, Johanna; Bush, Patricia; Ahonen, Riitta – Health Education, 2006
Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate teachers' attitudes towards medicines and to determine what they are willing to teach children about medicines. This study is part of a larger project where medicine education materials accessible on the internet (www.uku.filaakekasvatus, in Finnish with English introduction) were designed,…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Focus Groups, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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

Gilman, Lisa – School Arts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2005
All of the seventh-grade students in Lisa Gilman's school have laptop computers. She wanted them to use the computers not just as a research tool, but also as a tool for artistic expression. Since Impressionism is part of the seventh-grade curriculum, she had them identify parallels between the Impressionists' use of technology and artists' use of…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Research Tools, Computers, Artists
Burnard, Pamela – Improving Schools, 2004
This article argues that school improvement requires the consultation of pupils to see learning from their perspective. It reports on a video-based research approach to the investigation of pupil-teacher reflections and identifies an apparent disjunction between teacher-pupil views on what constitutes learning. It describes how the use of…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Student Participation, Perspective Taking, Educational Research
Doppelt, Yaron – Learning Environments Research, 2006
During recent decades, educational research has dealt with the contribution of the learning environment to the accomplishment of educational goals, such as improvement of academic achievement and motivation. In this research, an intervention program was implemented into the learning environment of science-technology classes at the junior high…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Attitudes, Educational Research, Workshops
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), 2007
This student employee handbook offers tips on planning, design process, and presentation of a student Lunar Nautics project. Each section includes mission, task, challenge, and guide questions. With the activities presented, students will learn to design a Lunar Lander, Lunar Miner, and Lunar Base; investigate the geography and geology of the moon…
Descriptors: Geology, Geography, Lunar Research, Hands on Science
Henriquez, Andres – Reading Research Quarterly, 2005
The Carnegie Corporation of New York is associated with the very foundations of literacy going back to the philanthropy of Andrew Carnegie himself and of the Corporation in its early years. Andrew Carnegie's legacy includes over 2,500 free public libraries that he saw as a link "bridging ignorance and education." In fact, Carnegie, the…
Descriptors: Corporations, Private Financial Support, Literacy Education, Philanthropic Foundations
Hawkins, Joanna – Educational Leadership, 2006
When the author and her teaching colleague assessed their 7th and 8th grade students' research papers, they realized that although the papers demonstrated proper structure, the students had not gained meaningful understanding of their topics. Although the teachers had carefully prepared students to write, they had not ensured that students had…
Descriptors: Research Papers (Students), Discovery Learning, Comprehension, Learning Strategies
Matthews, Michael S. – Roeper Review, 2006
Dropping out of school has been presented as a serious problem affecting gifted students, with some authors suggesting that 20% or more of dropouts could be gifted (e.g., Rimm, 1995; Robertson, 1991). Longitudinal data from North Carolina were used to investigate high-school dropout rates among gifted students (N = 7916) who had participated in a…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Dropout Rate, Talent, Dropouts
Mitchell, Sarah – Mathematics Teaching Incorporating Micromath, 2006
Many students find the leap from arithmetic to algebra a difficult one to make, and current literature suggests that a number of the common misconceptions held by students arise as a result of the methods which teachers use to present algebra. The abstract nature of algebra makes it difficult for students to grasp; students also struggle with the…
Descriptors: Symbols (Mathematics), Measures (Individuals), Misconceptions, Classroom Research