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Kolbert, Jered B.; Crothers, Laura M.; Field, Julaine E. – Journal of School Violence, 2006
This study assessed adolescent females' self-reported attraction and interest in dating adolescent male bullies and victims of bullying. Thirty-six 9th and 10th grade female adolescents (mean age = 15 years; 69.2% White; 30.8% Non-white) from a city high school in the Mid-Atlantic United States examined three photographs and listened to a verbal…
Descriptors: Bullying, Females, Grade 10, Males
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Dodge, Kenneth A.; Greenberg, Mark T.; Malone, Patrick S. – Child Development, 2008
A dynamic cascade model of development of serious adolescent violence was proposed and tested through prospective inquiry with 754 children (50% male; 43% African American) from 27 schools at 4 geographic sites followed annually from kindergarten through Grade 11 (ages 5-18). Self, parent, teacher, peer, observer, and administrative reports…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Academic Failure, Adolescents, Least Squares Statistics
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Brown, Bryan A. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2006
This investigation explores how underrepresented urban students made sense of their first experience with high school science. The study sought to identify how students' assimilation into the science classroom reflected their interpretation of science itself in relation to their academic identities. The primary objectives were to examine students'…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Science Curriculum, Scientific Literacy, Biological Sciences
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Dupuis, Bonnie; Barclay, Joyce W.; Holmes, Sherwin D.; Platt, Morgan; Shaha, Steven H.; Lewis, Valerie K. – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2006
This research focused on verifying the impacts of Inclusion on both students with disabilities (SWDs) and their Regular Ed classmates. High school students (n = 364) within inclusive classes completed surveys reflecting their perceptions of the effectiveness of the learning environment and the attitudinal impacts of Inclusion. Results documented…
Descriptors: Inclusion, High School Students, Student Surveys, Disabilities
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von Aufschnaiter, Claudia – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2006
Research on conceptual change is still a powerful framework for empirical investigations on students' learning of science. During recent years, an increasing body of research has explored students' concepts prior and subsequent to instruction, leading to an extensive documentation of students' concepts including the difficulties and opportunities…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Investigations, Physics, Concept Formation
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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Schug, Mark C.; Hagedorn, Eric A. – Social Studies, 2006
This article describes the Youth Enterprise Academy (YEA), a program developed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Economic Education through the partnership for a private foundation, the state government, a private not-for-profit organization, and the local public schools. The YEA is designed to improve the financial and economic…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Economics Education, Program Effectiveness, Longitudinal Studies
National High School Center, 2007
This fact sheet highlights statistics related to the transition into high school for U.S. students. The statistics indicate a noticeable trend in the lack of progress of many students throughout freshman year. Many students are held back in ninth grade--creating what is known as the "ninth grade bulge"--and drop out by tenth grade--contributing to…
Descriptors: High Schools, Grade 9, Grade 10, High School Students
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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
Klecker, Beverly M.; Pollock, Mary Anne – Online Submission, 2004
Kentucky's goal of reaching academic "proficiency" by 2014 illuminated problematic findings in 2002 reading test scores: 44.30% of middle and 71.25% of high school students scored below "proficient." The research question was, "Do teaching practices in schools with high reading achievement scores differ from teaching practices in schools with low…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Scores, Reading Tests, Reading Achievement
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Kalyuga, Slava; Sweller, John – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
The expertise reversal effect occurs when a learning procedure that is effective for novices becomes ineffective for more knowledgeable learners. The authors consider how to match instructional presentations to levels of learner knowledge. Experiments 1-2 were designed to develop a schema-based rapid method of measuring learners' knowledge in a…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Knowledge Level, Schemata (Cognition), Measurement Techniques
Cavalluzzo, Linda C. – CNA Corporation, 2004
Many states and districts are moving toward more targeted compensation policies as a way to attract higher quality candidates into the teaching profession and to encourage increases in productivity among current teachers. Rather than align pay increases only to level of education and years of experience, for example, many school systems have…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Certification, Urban Schools, Teacher Effectiveness
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Metcalf, Suesi – Art Education, 2004
In this paper, the author offers lesson plan ideas that are designed to guide teachers of art and science to encourage their students to see connections between art images and physics principles. The four works of art discussed are examples that can be linked visually and conceptually to physics properties in mathematics, space, energy, and light.…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Physics, Team Teaching, Science Teachers
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Otis, Nancy; Grouzet, Frederick M. E.; Pelletier, Luc G. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
This research examined changes in intrinsic and extrinsic motivation during the transition from junior to senior high school as well as the impact of motivational changes on various educational consequences (i.e., dropout intentions, absenteeism, homework frequency, and educational aspirations). A total of 646 participants completed a…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Attendance Patterns
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Storch, Eric A.; Masia-Warner, Carrie – Journal of Adolescence, 2004
This study examined the relationship of overt and relational victimization to social anxiety, loneliness, and prosocial behaviours in a sample of female adolescents. The Social Experience Questionnaire, Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents, and Asher Loneliness Scale were administered to 561 girls in the ninth, tenth, and eleventh grades of an…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Females, Adolescents, Peer Relationship
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