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Candace Villanueva – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This is a study that examined the relationship between students participating in college and career experiences in middle school (7th and 8th grade) and meeting on-track indicators (GPA scores and attendance rates) in their first semester of 10th grade in high school that would suggest graduating from high school on time and eventually enrolling…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Grade Point Average
Ike Griffith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this ex post facto study was to compare the end of year GPAs of 8th grade underachieving students who participated in Career and Technical Education programming through the Memphis Ambassadors Apprentice Program to those who did not. Introducing Career and Technical Education programs and activities to students at a young age…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Underachievement, Vocational Education
Randolph, Dacia; Liu, Leping – International Journal of Technology in Teaching and Learning, 2022
Learning engagement varies in different modes of instructions. With such consideration, the authors of this article conducted comparative analyses on student learning outcomes measured by their final mean grade point averages (GPAs) during three timeperiods (before, at the onset of, and during pandemic) when inperson, online, and hybrid…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Learner Engagement, COVID-19, Pandemics
Tucker, Tevis L.; Winsler, Adam – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2023
According to music educators, persistence beyond a student's initial enrollment in middle and high school music is a problem; however, there has been little research to substantiate this claim. Although several recent large-scale, longitudinal studies of initial selection into music classes have been conducted, longitudinal studies on who…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 9, Middle School Students, High School Students
Quinto Romani, A.; Lund, R. L. – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2022
There has been an increasing focus on test scores and rankings in schools. However, the focus on children's standardized test scores has come at the cost of their social relations. As a reaction to this test-centric focus, new approaches claim that nature is important not only for children's social relations but also for their scholastic…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Outdoor Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Foreign Countries
Randolph Christopher Helms – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The present study explored the effect of instructing middle school students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades in positive psychology lessons, as compared to control classes that did not receive this positive psychology instruction. This study used quantitative procedures to determine the implementation of this curriculum on lowering student…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Marilyn Price-Mitchell; Brett Clay – School Community Journal, 2024
Research shows a decline in U.S. adolescent mental health over several decades. It also suggests that higher levels of life satisfaction lead to better mental health outcomes in this population. The purpose of this study was to investigate correlations between adolescent life satisfaction and eight developmental attributes that can be fostered by…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Public Schools, Mental Health, Life Satisfaction
Farley, Alyssa M.; Canenguez, Katia M.; Squicciarini, Ana María; Dutta, Anamika; Green, Jennifer Greif; Benheim, Talia S.; Jellinek, Michael; Murphy, J. Michael – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: The association between early childhood psychosocial problems and poorer educational outcomes is well-documented, but the extent to which this association persists is less understood. The current study assessed the correlations between first-grade psychosocial functioning and educational outcomes through eighth grade in a large…
Descriptors: Correlation, Emotional Disturbances, Outcomes of Education, Grade 1
Dacia Randolph – ProQuest LLC, 2022
In this study, a comparative analysis was conducted to explore how students' learning outcomes were potentially influenced by student engagement during different modes of instruction. The study compared the final mean grade point averages (GPAs) of a sample (N = 600) of middle school students during in-person, online, and hybrid modes of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Outcomes of Education, In Person Learning, Electronic Learning
Sortkaer, Bent; Reimer, David – Oxford Review of Education, 2022
Although a vast amount of literature on feedback practices and the effects of feedback on learning outcomes exists, very few studies include peer feedback in the analysis, and very few studies examine variations in students' perceptions of feedback. By exploiting a unique survey of feedback practices in mathematics lessons (Student Experiences of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, Gender Differences
Alexander, Carol – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The lack of college readiness in the United States is a critical issue that jeopardizes our economy. The demographic inequality of the crisis, particularly for low-income as well as Black and Latinx students, emerges from systemic problems of race and class in American education and society which suppress students' educational and economic…
Descriptors: College Readiness, College Entrance Examinations, Grade Point Average, Standardized Tests
Šabic, Josip; Jokic, Boris – Educational Studies, 2021
This paper discusses the contributions of variables commonly used within the status attainment and blocked opportunities models in addition to school context variables in predicting pupils' aspirations for higher education prior to the transition to differentiated upper secondary education in Croatia (14-15 years). The findings, arising from a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary Education, Grade 8, Adolescents
Epstein, Joyce L.; Mac Iver, Douglas J.; Mac Iver, Martha A.; Sheldon, Steven B. – Middle School Journal, 2021
Middle grades teachers want early adolescents to take responsibility for their own learning and success in school. One way to encourage this is with "interactive homework," which enables students to lead conversations with a parent or family partner about something interesting they are learning in class. An exploratory study tested…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Grade 8, Grade 9
Epstein, Joyce L.; Mac Iver, Douglas J.; Mac Iver, Martha A.; Sheldon, Steven B. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Middle grades teachers want early adolescents to take responsibility for their own learning and success in school. One way to encourage this is with "interactive homework," which enables students to lead conversations with a parent or family partner about something interesting they are learning in class. An exploratory study tested…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Grade 8, Grade 9
Brian Garcia; Chester Holland; Akisha Osei Sarfo; Ray Hart – Council of the Great City Schools, 2023
Over the years, the nation's large urban school districts have consistently learned from the progress of their peer districts across the country. Great City School districts that have embraced the challenge of educating America's urban children have recognized the value of benchmarking their performance and growth against the progress of others.…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Academic Achievement, Enrollment, Kindergarten