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Chouinard, Roch; Vezeau, Carole; Bouffard, Therese – Educational Studies, 2008
The aim of the present study was to further examine the impact over time of single-sex and coeducational school environments on girls' motivation in language arts and mathematics. Two cohorts comprising 340 girls (7th to 9th grade; 9th to 11th grade) from eight coeducational and two single-sex schools were followed during a period of three…
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Females, Achievement Need, Student Motivation
Hickman, Heather – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2008
This article looks at one instance of a teacher attempting to discipline students for sexually profane heteronormative language and the resulting events that demonstrate a discipline over all discourses in the school. Using Fairclough's critical discourse analysis (2005) to analyze the narrative, I argue that the discourse in the school reinforces…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Discipline, Urban Schools
Rees, C. Roger; Zarco, Emilia Patricia T.; Lewis, Dawn K. – Journal of Drug Education, 2008
In this article we examine the importance of sensation seeking and pragmatism in the steroids and sports supplements behavior and attitudes of high school and junior high school students on Long Island, New York. Steroid use is much less acceptable than sports supplement use, although the reasons for use are similar. Respondents use supplements…
Descriptors: High Schools, Junior High School Students, Athletics, Drug Use
Pace, Nicholas J. – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2007
This article describes the impact of receiving the Matthew Shepard Scholarship (a 4-year, full scholarship) on 8 students who were openly gay or lesbian in high school. Previous literature, while limited, paints a decidedly bleak picture of the prospects for gay and lesbian youth. However, this previous research is often based on students in…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality, Social Isolation
Williams, Marlie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This qualitative study explored the impact of teacher collaboration in a professional learning communities (PLC) school on teacher self-efficacy. Through the collection and analysis of personal interview data from 20 teachers in a large, suburban Midwestern high school, the impact of structured teacher collaboration was evaluated for its impact on…
Descriptors: Expertise, Teacher Collaboration, Program Effectiveness, Educational Strategies
Pesavento-Conway, Jennifer Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Nationally, the problem of teacher retention compounds the unstable nature of the educational situation, especially in urban, high-needs schools. Much of the instability of urban schools is due to teacher movement, the migration of teachers from school to another school within or between school districts, particularly from high-needs schools.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Urban Schools, High Schools, Socioeconomic Status
Watson, Laurel B.; Varjas, Kris; Meyers, Joel; Graybill, Emily C. – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2010
This qualitative study investigated the barriers and facilitators that advisors of gay-straight alliances encounter when advocating for LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) youth within schools. Twenty-two advisors were interviewed, and data revealed that multiple ecological systems (e.g., sociocultural, school, and individual…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Social Attitudes, Consciousness Raising, Advocacy
Ramsey, Brinton S. – Coalition of Essential Schools, 2008
This case study examines the process of resource allocation in support of one school district's goal of graduating each student ready for college, career, and citizenship. This case study focuses on questions of equity in resource allocation and the leadership moves that a superintendent and other administrators made during one year to better…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Institutional Mission, Goal Orientation, Administrative Change
Usher, Ellen L.; Pajares, Frank – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2008
The psychometric properties and multigroup measurement invariance of scores on the Self-Efficacy for Self-Regulated Learning Scale taken from Bandura's Children's Self-Efficacy Scale were assessed in a sample of 3,760 students from Grades 4 to 11. Latent means differences were also examined by gender and school level. Results reveal a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Self Efficacy
Scanlon, David; Saxon, Karyn; Cowell, Molly; Kenny, Maureen E.; Perez-Gualdron, Leyla; Jernigan, Maryam – Remedial and Special Education, 2008
The young adult years (approximately the age when one leaves high school to age 23) are pivotal to adult life success. They are the years when adolescents typically assume dramatic increases in responsibility for self-direction in areas such as socialization, independent living, citizenship, employment, education, and mental and physical health.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Independent Living, Learning Disabilities, Physical Health
Kalil, Ariel; Ziol-Guest, Kathleen M. – Youth & Society, 2008
This study investigates how perceptions of teacher support and achievement goal structures in the school environment correlate with school engagement, and whether depressive symptoms mediate or moderate this association, among 64 low-income teenage mothers. Controlling for prior grades, perceptions of teacher support correlate with higher levels…
Descriptors: Early Parenthood, Mothers, Adolescents, High School Students
Thurston-Gonzalez, Sara J. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The focus of this qualitative study is on U.S. third culture kids (TCKs), youth who have grown up abroad because of their parent's work, and their college choice experiences and reentry expectations. Through a background questionnaire and personal interviews with eleven students transitioning from two international secondary schools in a…
Descriptors: Child Development, Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Global Approach
Kaplan, Avi; Lichtinger, Einat; Gorodetsky, Malka – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2009
This study tested the hypothesis that self-regulation of writing is a multifaceted modular construct and that students would perceive different goal orientations for writing as involving the application of different writing strategies. Two hundred eleven Jewish Israeli high school students engaged in a writing assignment and then reported on their…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Jews, Writing Strategies, Writing Achievement
Herlihy, Corinne – National High School Center, 2007
This best practices piece is based on key research into high school transition strategies. It draws on two studies of high school reform models conducted by MDRC, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization, which shed light on promising strategies to support ninth-grade students. Increasing the capacity of high schools to provide extra help…
Descriptors: High Schools, School Restructuring, Transitional Programs, Student Adjustment
Gewertz, Catherine – Education Week, 2007
Bitter experience has shown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that if students are going to leave school, they are most likely to do it between the 8th and 9th grades. To combat that problem, the school district has launched a full-on campaign to get its rising freshmen into high school and keep them there. Two weeks before school opened, the district…
Descriptors: Grade 9, School Activities, High School Freshmen, Recreational Activities