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Sadia Saleem; Siham Amjad; Halima Khurshid; Sayyeda Taskeen Zahra; Sara Subhan; Hina Nawaz – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2024
This paper describes and evaluates the procedure for the development and validation of the bullying victimisation scale for Pakistani young people aged 12-18 years. During phase I, a total of 60 participants aged from 13 to 17 years were selected by using a multistage sampling strategy for item generation for bullying victimisation. In phase II,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Grade 8
Joseph E. Evans – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The math intervention program, Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces (ALEKS), at a Public Middle School (pseudonym) in the Northeast United States, was implemented for eighth grade middle school math students, but researchers have not measured its effectiveness. Grounded in the cultural relevance pedagogy, the purpose of this quantitative…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Mathematics Education, Intervention, Mathematics Tests
Newcomer, Sarah N.; Cowin, Kathleen M. – Journal of School Leadership, 2018
Principals' beliefs and actions have powerful outcomes in the lives of the students and families they serve. In this article, we offer the portrait of a long-standing principal of a diverse urban school where the student body is 90% Latinx, 65% English learners (ELs), and 87% eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. We explore many key practices…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Beliefs, Principals, Social Justice
Aldossari, Ali Tarad; Al Khaldi, Jamal Khalil; Altarawneh, Mohammad Hasan – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study aims to identify the current situation of science books in Jordan and Saudi Arabia from an Islamic perspective. For this end, the content analysis approach has been used through the analysis of the unit concept in the science books for the seventh, eighth and ninth grades in the academic year (2015/2016) in Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Textbooks, Foreign Countries, Islamic Culture
Dee, Thomas S.; Penner, Emily K. – American Educational Research Journal, 2017
An extensive theoretical and qualitative literature stresses the promise of instructional practices and content aligned with minority students' experiences. Ethnic studies courses provide an example of such "culturally relevant pedagogy" (CRP). Despite theoretical support, quantitative evidence on the effectiveness of these courses is…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cultural Relevance, At Risk Students, Teaching Methods
Dee, Thomas S.; Penner, Emily K. – Grantee Submission, 2017
An extensive theoretical and qualitative literature stresses the promise of instructional practices and content aligned with minority students' experiences. Ethnic studies courses provide an example of such "culturally relevant pedagogy" (CRP). Despite theoretical support, empirical evidence on the effectiveness of these courses is…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Cultural Relevance, At Risk Students, Teaching Methods
Bulgakov-Cooke, Dina; Singh, Malkeet – Wake County Public School System, 2018
The Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) framework, which uses a systems approach to promote school improvement and support all students in improving academics and behavior using data-based problem-solving, is a key part of the Wake County Public Schools System (WCPSS) Strategic Plan. As of 2017-18, MTSS schools were at the initial stages of MTSS…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Student Behavior
Malcolm, Shandey; Huang, Shi; Cordova, David; Freitas, Derek; Arzon, Margaret; Jimenez, Giselle Leon; Pantin, Hilda; Prado, Guillermo – Health Education & Behavior, 2013
Hispanic problem behavior youth are at an increased risk of engaging in HIV risk behaviors, including low condom use. However, relatively little research has examined factors that affect condom use in this population. Although research indicates that family processes, such as higher levels of family functioning and open parent-adolescent…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Culture, Hispanic Americans, Health Behavior, Prevention
Barry, Arlene L. – Reading Horizons, 2013
In order to identify materials that would encourage urban eighth graders to read, the authors asked students about the importance they placed on reading, about their own reading abilities, and the role of race and genre in their book choice. On the basis of subscale scores from the "Adolescent Motivation to Read Profile Reading Survey"…
Descriptors: Reading Attitudes, Preferences, Urban Schools, Middle School Students
Okamoto, Scott K.; Helm, Susana; Giroux, Danielle; Kaliades, Alexis – Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2011
This exploratory study examines the use of explanations for refusal as a drug-resistance strategy for rural Native Hawaiian youths. Fourteen gender-specific focus groups were conducted within seven middle or intermediate schools on the Island of Hawai'i (N = 64). Participants were asked to describe drug-resistance strategies in response to 15…
Descriptors: Prevention, Focus Groups, Resistance (Psychology), Drug Abuse
Murray, Nancy; Tietjen, Karen – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
From 2000 to 2011, the number of children out of school worldwide has decreased from 102 million to 57 million--a reduction of almost 50 percent (Millennium Development Goals Report, 2013). However, many children in developing countries do not complete primary or secondary cycles once they enroll; out of the 137 million children who entered first…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Intervention, Dropout Rate, Elementary School Students
Garth-McCullough, Ruanda – Reading Horizons, 2008
By analyzing the prior knowledge of African American students, this study explored the relationship between cultural orientation of literature and reading comprehension to determine its effect on low, mid, and high level readers. Over one hundred 8th grade students from four different public schools read short stories from three different cultural…
Descriptors: African American Students, Grade 8, Prior Learning, Relationship
Tello, Jerry; Cervantes, Richard C.; Cordova, David; Santos, Susana M. – Journal of Community Psychology, 2010
The purpose of this study was to describe and evaluate a promising program model, the Joven Nobel curriculum, for Latino male adolescents that promotes positive youth development and addresses prevention of a number of risk-related sexual behaviors within a cultural context. A quasi-experimental design was used that included a pre- and posttest…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Adolescents, Sexuality, Cultural Context
Benjamins, Maureen R.; Whitman, Steven – Journal of School Health, 2010
Background: Despite the growing number of school-based interventions designed to reduce childhood obesity or otherwise promote health, no models or materials were found for Jewish schools. The current study describes an effort within a Jewish school system in Chicago to create, implement, and evaluate a school-based intervention tailored to the…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Obesity, Jews, Intervention
Schweber, Simone – American Journal of Education, 2006
This study examines the production of religious collective memory at a fundamentalist Christian school. By depicting in rich detail what happened on September 11, 2001, in one eighth-grade classroom and how the events of that day were discussed in the weeks that followed, the article reveals the processes wherein the attacks were subsumed into an…
Descriptors: Memory, Educational Practices, Hermeneutics, Christianity
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