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Chen, Huey-Shys; Sheu, Jiunn-Jye; Chen, W. William – Health Education & Behavior, 2006
The purpose of this study was to conduct psychometric testing on the Chinese version of the decisional balance scale (CDBS) with Taiwanese seventh, eighth, and ninth graders who were recruited from the Taipei metropolitan area. A random cluster sampling method was used with 554 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 years. Factor analysis…
Descriptors: Smoking, Testing, Construct Validity, Adolescents
Bush-Richards, Angela; Schmitt, Lisa – Online Submission, 2008
This report describes district-level results from the 2007-2008 AISD Student Climate Survey.
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Environment, Environmental Influences, Elementary Secondary Education
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What Works Clearinghouse, 2007
"University of Chicago School Mathematics Project (UCSMP) Algebra," designed to increase students' skills in algebra, is appropriate for students in grades 7-10, depending on the students' incoming knowledge. This one-year course highlights applications, uses statistics and geometry to develop the algebra of linear equations and…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills
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Russian Education and Society, 2004
In this article, the authors examine a number of questions that make it possible to characterize the different aspects of students' involvement with the Internet. They will analyse the regularity of students in using the Internet, the age at which they begin to use means of electronic communication, the place where they use it, the intensiveness…
Descriptors: Social Stratification, Gender Differences, Internet, Student Surveys
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Klein, Andreas G.; Muthen, Bengt O. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2006
In this article, a heterogeneous latent growth curve model for modeling heterogeneity of growth rates is proposed. The suggested model is an extension of a conventional growth curve model and a complementary tool to mixed growth modeling. It allows the modeling of heterogeneity of growth rates as a continuous function of latent initial status and…
Descriptors: Intervals, Computation, Structural Equation Models, Mathematics Achievement
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Kruger, Dirk; Fleige, Jennifer; Riemeier, Tanja – Journal of Biological Education, 2006
The study presents the frequencies of students' conceptions of growth and cell division before and after one hour of instruction. The investigation supplements qualitative results by directing attention to those conceptions which might occur most frequently to students: teachers can then concentrate their preparation on practical requirements. A…
Descriptors: Investigations, Scientific Concepts, Grade 9, Questionnaires
Arizona Department of Education, 2010
As part of compliance with with the federal No Child Left Behind Act, this document presents the State Report Card of Arizona for 2009-2010. The report card provides tables relating to percentage of students who passed AIMS in Arizona by subject and grade. The tables shown in this document include: (1) Mathematics Grade 3; (2) Reading Grade 3; (3)…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Definitions, Educational Improvement, Federal Programs
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Charron, Camilo – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
165 students, from the fifth, seventh and ninth grades were asked to solve written problems involving fractions. In the problems a reference quantity (RQ) was multiplied by a fraction (FR), yielding the value of a compared quantity (CQ). The fraction expressed either an part-whole ratio (PW), or a part-part ratio (PP). Six type of problems were…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Early Adolescents, Grade 5, Grade 7
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Murray-Harvey, Rosalind; Slee, Phillip T. – Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 2007
Judgments about the quality of students' experience of school generally focus on their academic performance and indeed this is an important indicator but closer attention needs to be paid to equally important, more broadly based outcomes that include social/emotional adjustment as they also are shown to impact on students' lives at, and beyond…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Social Development, Emotional Development, Student Adjustment
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Mardis, Marcia – School Library Media Research, 2007
If strong school library media centers (SLMCs) positively impact middle school student reading achievement, as measured on standardized tests, are they also beneficial for middle school science achievement? To answer this question, the researcher built upon the statistical analyses used in previous school library impact studies with qualitative…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Educational Assessment, Science Achievement, Standardized Tests
Vermont Department of Education, 2006
The annual event dropout rate describes the proportion of students who leave school each year without completing a high school program. The event dropout rates for the school year 2004-2005 of 1.68% for grades 7 through 12th and 2.40% for grades 9 through 12th are at the lowest levels in the past ten years. The event completion/graduation rate…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate, Enrollment Trends
Wang, Jia; Niemi, David; Wang, Haiwen – National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST), 2007
The main goal of this report is to present evidence on the predictive validity of an English language arts (ELA) performance assessment (PA) administered in Grades 2-9 in a large urban school district. To account for the hierarchical structure of the data (students are nested within schools), we employed hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Language Arts, Performance Based Assessment, Standardized Tests
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Dotterer, Aryn M.; McHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2007
The connection between out-of-school activities and school engagement was examined in 140, 6th through 9th grade African American adolescents. Youth's out-of-school activities were measured with a series of 7 nightly phone calls and focused on time in structured (homework, academically-oriented, extracurricular/sports) and unstructured (watching…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Television, Homework, Extracurricular Activities
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Coirier, Pierre; Favart, Monik; Chanquoy, Lucile – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2002
The goal of this study was to analyze the development of the relationship between conceptual and linguistic processes as regards idea ordering and structuring (linearizing), when composing a text. Participants (from 7th graders to University students) were required to compose a text using a list of eleven scrambled ideas. Conceptual rules allow to…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Linguistics, Models, Cluster Grouping
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Butt, Graham; Weeden, Paul; Wood, Phil – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2004
Considerable evidence now exists of the problem of boys' underachievement in a wide range of academic subjects, including geography. This paper offers examples of, and suggests tentative solutions to, problems of underachievement based on the findings generated by a research project conducted in an English secondary school. In so doing it raises…
Descriptors: Underachievement, Geography, Academic Achievement, Gender Differences
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