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Scales, Jason; Terry, Robert, Jr.; Torres, Robert M. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2009
For the past two decades, the idea of integrating more science concepts into the secondary agriculture curriculum has gained support. The purpose of this study was to assess the confidence and competence of agriculture instructors to teach concepts related to science. The sample was derived from the population of agriculture instructors teaching…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Biological Sciences, Grade 9, Scientific Concepts
Lennon, Paul, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2012
The volume consists of twelve classroom studies concerned with the implementation of learner autonomy in English classes. The individual studies range from primary school level to university level. They include studies on multi-media dictionary work, reading logs, peer correction, communication strategies, vocabulary learning strategies, oral…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Age Differences, Learning Strategies, English (Second Language)
Villarreal Sosa, Leticia – ProQuest LLC, 2011
There has been continued concern over the continued high dropout rate among Mexican origin youth. The purpose of this study is to understand how everyday experiences in school shape the content and meaning of Mexican origin students' social identities and how those social identities influence their academic trajectories over the transition to…
Descriptors: Mexicans, Foreign Students, Racial Identification, High School Students
Naik, Reetu – Online Submission, 2011
This report examines the student outcomes of Travis County Collaborative Afterschool Program (TCCAP) participants compared to non-participants. Students who attended the afterschool program at most campuses more often had better outcomes.
Descriptors: After School Programs, Program Effectiveness, School Districts, Counties
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Pomplun, Mark R. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2009
This study investigated convergent validity evidence for student growth scores with high school course grades. The Measures of Academic Progress and Educational Planning and Assessment System growth scores for approximately 1,800 ninth-grade students over 2 years were related to language, arts, and mathematics course grades for developmental,…
Descriptors: Honors Curriculum, Grades (Scholastic), Academic Achievement, Validity
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Crosnoe, Robert; Riegle-Crumb, Catherine; Field, Sam; Frank, Kenneth; Muller, Chandra – Child Development, 2008
Girls have caught up with boys in math course taking in high school but reasons for taking math still differ by gender. This study, therefore, investigated gender differences in the linkage between peer relations and math course taking by applying multilevel modeling to a nationally representative data set that includes peer networks and school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Peer Groups, Gender Differences, Peer Influence
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Ozmete, Emine – Education, 2009
This study aimed at determining the interaction between parents and adolescents pertaining to television advertisements as a consumer socialization agent and the effects of advertisements on the purchasing decisions of adolescents. The effects of age and sex were also investigated. The sample included 240 high school students in grades 9, 10 and…
Descriptors: Socialization, Advertising, Purchasing, Adolescents
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Leonard, Jacqueline; Napp, Carolina; Adeleke, Shade – High School Journal, 2009
Culturally relevant pedagogy is not well understood as an instructional strategy in the mathematics classroom. This study reveals the challenges two teachers faced when they implemented a pilot project with ninth and tenth grade ESOL students. The task they envisioned as culturally relevant did not capture their ESOL student's interests; rather,…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Pilot Projects, Culturally Relevant Education, Mathematics Teachers
Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2011
The District conducts a "cross-sectional" analysis of student dropouts annually; it examines dropout rates among students enrolled in various grades at one point in time. A "longitudinal" analysis, also conducted annually, tracks a group of students in the same grade or cohort over a period of several years. Each method…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
Naik, Reetu; Christian, Cinda – Online Submission, 2011
The AISD Student Substance Use and Safety Survey, administered annually to a random, representative sample of AISD students, provides self-report data on student knowledge, attitudes, and behavior related to substance use and school safety issues. This report summarizes results from the 2010-2011 school year.
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, School Safety, School Districts, Student Attitudes
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Murnaghan, D. A.; Leatherdale, S. T.; Sihvonen, M.; Kekki, P. – Health Education Research, 2008
This paper examined how smoking policies and programs are associated with smoking behavior among Grade 10 students (n = 4709) between 1999 and 2001. Data from the Tobacco Module from the School Health Action Planning and Evaluation System were examined using multilevel logistic regression analyses. We identified that (i) attending a school with…
Descriptors: Smoking, Prevention, Correlation, School Policy
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Othman, Jazilah; Treagust, David F.; Chandrasegaran, A. L. – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
A thorough understanding of chemical bonding requires familiarity with the particulate nature of matter. In this study, a two-tier multiple-choice diagnostic instrument consisting of ten items (five items involving each of the two concepts) was developed to assess students' understanding of the particulate nature of matter and chemical bonding so…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Grade 10
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Sachkova, M. E. – Russian Education and Society, 2008
The purpose of this research was to study the characteristics of the intragroup relations between the middle-status adolescents in a student group and the other status categories. It is assumed that the social and psychological portrait of an open adolescent student group, the character of the orientation and the level of its development, and the…
Descriptors: Personality, Adolescents, Social Status, Group Behavior
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Ciarrochi, Joseph; Leeson, Peter; Heaven, Patrick C. L. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2009
Past research has documented a link between negative problem orientation (NPO) and poor emotional well-being, but little of this research has focused on adolescence or has collected multiple waves of data. The authors conducted a 3-wave longitudinal survey of 841 adolescents in Grades 8, 9, and 10 (428 boys, 411 girls, 2 unidentified). The survey…
Descriptors: Identification, Adolescents, Grade 8, Grade 9
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Paulsen, Erik; Bru, Edvin – School Psychology International, 2008
The main objective of this study was to gain knowledge as to how social passivity in school is related to the grades pupils achieve. The relation between social passivity and school grades received in eight different subjects, varying according to familiarity to teachers, demands of cooperation with peers and demands for public display of learning…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grades (Scholastic), Familiarity, Cooperation
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