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Urdan, Tim – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
The purposes of this study were to examine the predictors and achievement consequences of academic self-handicapping and to explore cultural variations in the pursuit and effects of performance goals and perceived classroom performance goal structures. Data were collected in 2 consecutive academic years from a diverse sample of high school…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, English (Second Language)
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Murdock, Tamera B.; Miller, Angela; Kohlhardt, Julie – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2004
Hypothetical vignettes were used to examine the effects of teacher pedagogical skill (good vs. poor), interpersonal caring (caring vs. not), and classroom goal structure (performance vs. mastery) on high school students' judgments about the target of blame for cheating (teacher vs. student), the acceptability of cheating, and the likelihood of…
Descriptors: High School Students, Self Efficacy, Cheating, Context Effect
Keca, Janine; Cook-Cottone, Catherine – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2005
Children and adolescents live in a world where thin is "in" and the pressure to conform to society's view of the ideal body, when combined with other life factors, can set the stage for an eating disorder, a psychiatric illness characterized by an extreme desire to be thin and an intense fear of weight gain. Clinical eating disorders and…
Descriptors: Physical Health, Eating Habits, Eating Disorders, Middle Schools
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DuBois, David L.; Silverthorn, Naida – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2004
We investigated bias in self-perceptions of competence (relative to parent ratings) for family, school, and peer domains as predictors of adjustment problems among 139 young adolescents over a 1-year period using a prospective design. Regressions examined measures of bias at Time 1 (T1) as predictors of ratings of internalizing and externalizing…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Adolescents
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Patchen, Terri – Multicultural Education, 2005
Any teacher who has worked in a public high school knows the force oral participation holds in a classroom, for a curriculum, and with the students. Few things can make or break educational access, momentum and opportunity like classroom participation. When oral participation is neither present nor cultivated within a classroom, students and…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Teacher Responsibility, Adolescents, Student Participation
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Gore, Elaine Clift – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 2005
Drawing on six years of historical research, this article presents a theoretical representation of the social mechanisms at work in the 30-year history of an ethnically diverse, public, magnet arts high school in an urban U.S. school district. Students' sense of belonging has been a significant factor in creation and maintenance of social capital…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Magnet Schools, High Schools, Urban Schools
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Morrison Gutman, Leslie; McLoyd, Vonnie C.; Tokoyawa, Teru – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2005
Using latent variable structural equation modeling, we tested a theoretical model linking financial strain, neighborhood stress, parenting behavior, and adolescent adjustment. The sample consisted of 305 African American families living in inner city neighborhoods. Of the families, 40% were living at or below the U.S. poverty threshold. The…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Child Rearing, Neighborhoods, Adolescents
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Dori, Yehudit J.; Tal, Revital T.; Tsaushu, Masha – Science Education, 2003
Teaching nonscience majors topics in biotechnology through case studies is the focus of this research. Our "Biotechnology, Environment, and Related Issues" module, developed within the "Science for All" framework, is aimed at elevating the level of students' scientific and technological literacy and their higher order thinking…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Biotechnology, Technological Literacy, Thinking Skills
Iowa Department of Education, 2011
The Annual Condition of Education Report provides a wide range of state-level data, including shifts in student populations and demographics, teacher salaries and characteristics, student achievement results, and school financial information. A few examples of the categories presented in this 22nd edition report include: (1) Enrollment; (2) Early…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Indicators, Annual Reports, State Surveys
Moon, Tonya R.; Brighton, Catherine M.; Jarvis, Jane M.; Hall, Catherine J. – National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, 2007
A driving force in standards-based educational reform was the 1983 release of "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform" (National Commission of Excellence in Education [NCEE], 1983). The report called for "an end to the minimum competency testing movement and the beginning of a high-stakes testing movement that would raise the…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, High Stakes Tests, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes
Foley, Eileen M.; Klinge, Allan; Reisner, Elizabeth R. – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2007
The evaluation of the New Century High Schools (NCHS) initiative examined operations and student outcomes in 75 schools from 2002-2003 through 2005-2006. This report, the final in a series of annual evaluation reports, presents data collected over those years, with a focus on school year 2005-2006. The NCHS initiative grew out of a program theory…
Descriptors: Small Schools, High Schools, School Effectiveness, Effective Schools Research
Schwartzman, Roy – Online Submission, 2007
This essay addresses how to cope with several potential barriers to implementing effective service-learning projects. The discussion builds on experiences of developing and refining service-learning in upper-division communication courses. Difficulties arise in three areas: the institutional and physical setting, student attitudes, and community…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Ideology, Service Learning, Community Resources
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Hess, Diana – Social Education, 2007
The ubiquity of documentary films in social studies courses, along with their potential to influence what students learn, clearly show that documentary films matter in social studies education. While the high rate of documentary film usage by social studies teachers indicates that they are amenable to bringing new films into their classrooms, they…
Descriptors: Navajo (Nation), Documentaries, Climate, Instructional Films
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Connor, David J.; Lagares, Christopher – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2007
Most high school teachers are concerned about the potential risk of student dropout, a phenomenon that has remained steady at approximately 14% since 1987 (National Center for Education Statistics, 2001). However, as Blackorby and Wagner (1996) note, the likelihood of high school dropout is significantly greater if a student is labeled as learning…
Descriptors: High Schools, Dropouts, Secondary School Teachers, Individualized Instruction
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Goh, Michael; Wahl, Kay Herting; McDonald, Julie Koch; Brissett, Annette A.; Yoon, Eunju – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2007
School counselors are poised to play a significant role within comprehensive school counseling programs in addressing the needs of immigrant children in schools. The authors describe how school counselors can have a positive impact on the adjustment of immigrant students by building cross-cultural bridges through the use of cross-cultural…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Immigrants, School Counseling, Counselor Role
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