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Ateh, Comfort M.; Charpentier, Alicia – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2014
Many students perceive science to be a difficult subject and are minimally engaged in learning it. This article describes a lesson that embedded an activity to engage students in learning science. It also identifies features of a science lesson that are likely to enhance students' engagement and learning of science and possibly reverse students'…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Learner Engagement, Science Education, Lesson Plans
Hartley, Diane Plomaritis – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study investigated the impact of one large suburban high school's ninth grade transition program, the freshman academy, on students' cognitive and affective engagement in high school. Participants of the study embodied tenth grade students who had completed their freshmen year in the academy and freshmen academy staff who also…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, High School Freshmen, Grade 9, Suburban Schools
Summersett-Ringgold, Faith C.; Li, Kaigang; Haynie, Denise L.; Iannotti, Ronald J. – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: Socioeconomic status (SES) influences students' school perceptions and affects their performance, engagement, and personal beliefs. This study examined the effects of school population SES and school resources on the association between student SES and student perceptions. Methods: School liking, classmate social relationships, family…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Influences, Student Attitudes, School Attitudes, Academic Achievement
Nie, Youyan; Lau, Shun; Liau, Albert K. – Learning and Individual Differences, 2011
Emphasizing task importance, which is regarded as a way of motivating engaged behavior, may increase an individual's anxiety. The present research investigated whether academic self-efficacy could moderate the maladaptive relation between task importance and test anxiety. 1978 and 1670 Grade 9 Singaporean students participated in a survey related…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Grade 9, Learning Experience, Test Anxiety
Impact of Sustained Professional Development in STEM on Outcome Measures in a Diverse Urban District
Capraro, Robert M.; Capraro, Mary Margaret; Scheurich, James Joseph; Jones, Meredith; Morgan, Jim; Huggins, Kristin Shawn; Corlu, M. Sencer; Younes, Rayya; Han, Sunyoung – Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Sustained professional development can support STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) reform. The authors describe a 3-year study of sustained professional development for 3 diverse urban schools across the salient factors of fidelity of implementation of project-based learning, development of professional learning communities,…
Descriptors: Professional Development, STEM Education, Urban Schools, School Districts
Aldana, Ursula S. – Journal of Catholic Education, 2016
Declining Catholic school enrollment rates coupled with increasing numbers of Latino Catholics (in the US) have prompted Catholic leaders to interrogate how they can best engage and meet the needs of the Latino community (Alliance for Catholic Education, 2009; Ospino, 2014). Much of this work focuses on how Catholic schools can attract Latino…
Descriptors: Social Justice, High School Students, Working Class, Catholics
ACT, Inc., 2013
Middle school students' behavior is an important dimension of high school readiness. Research has shown that academic achievement and academic behavior in middle school affect high school academic outcomes, high school persistence, and high school graduation. The academic behaviors that are important for success in middle school, high school, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Behavior, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes
Stoddard, Susan Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Transition into the ninth grade has long been a critical juncture for students as they make the move to a larger environment with less personal support and a more rigorous academic challenge. In an effort to help make the move from middle-to-high-school transition as smooth as possible, school districts are using Ninth Grade Academies, or…
Descriptors: Transitional Programs, Grade 9, At Risk Students, Academic Achievement
Snyder, Catherine; Paska, Lawrence M.; Besozzi, David – Social Studies, 2014
This action research study followed a social studies educator as he developed and implemented screencasts in three ninth-grade world history classes. He focused on ways to increase student-centered learning and meeting the needs of broad ranges of learners. The study revealed an increase in student engagement, instruction in career and college…
Descriptors: Action Research, World History, History Instruction, Learner Controlled Instruction
Spiegel, Amy N.; McQuillan, Julia; Halpin, Peter; Matuk, Camillia; Diamond, Judy – Research in Science Education, 2013
Despite many years of efforts to communicate new scientific knowledge to the public, surveys continue to suggest that many people remain uninformed about current scientific research (Miller, 2001; Miller, 2004) and fail to recognize how it can be relevant to their lives. There is continued need for investigation on improving methods for engaging…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Grade 10, Secondary School Science
Cole, Partricka L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated data from 5 high schools in West Tennessee. The study examined whether a ninth-grade transition program (i.e., the Ninth-grade Academy) had an effect on student achievement and engagement, which was measured by English I End-of-Course Test Scores, attendance rates, and dropout rates. All of the schools were treatment…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 9, Transitional Programs, Academic Achievement
Maina, Nyambura Susan; McGaughey, Trisha; Wade, Julie – Montgomery County Public Schools, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) Student Service Learning (SSL) Club on academic and non-academic outcomes for students receiving ESOL services during 2012-2013 in six high schools in Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS). The ESOL SSL Club convenes regularly…
Descriptors: High School Students, English Language Learners, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement
Shih, Shu-Shen – School Psychology International, 2013
This study examines the relationships among Taiwanese ninth graders' perceptions of autonomy support versus psychological control in the classroom context, work engagement versus academic burnout, and their avoidance of help seeking as well as self-handicapping behaviors. Four hundred and thirty-five ninth-grade Taiwanese students completed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Burnout, Grade 9, Junior High School Students
Wilfong, Lori – Eye on Education, 2013
Update your vocabulary practices to meet the Common Core and improve students' word knowledge! This new, clearly-structured guide shows you how. It's packed with engaging, research-based, classroom-ready strategies for teaching vocabulary. Topics include: (1) Selecting meaningful words for direct instruction; (2) Strategies for engaging students…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Second Language Learning, Direct Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Lamb, Lindsay M. – Online Submission, 2017
This technical report summarizes student-level analyses conducted with the SEL Skills Survey and the Student Climate Survey to determine if a single measure of students' SEL skill acquisition and perceptions of school climate is possible. A separate research brief of this report also was published. [This report was supported by St. David's…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Skill Development, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education