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Kaplan Toren Nurit; Kumar Revathy – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2024
The present study examined both mothers' reports and adolescents' perceptions of parents' educational involvement and their effects on the adolescents' functioning in school. The sample was drawn from 5 urban schools in Israel. Participants were 449 eighth grade students/adolescents (Female = 47%) and 126 mothers. Adolescents and their mothers…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Mothers, Urban Schools, Foreign Countries
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Assaraf, Orit Ben-Zvi; Orion, Nir – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2009
This article presents a model for the development of an environmentally oriented unit designed to be implemented as an integral part of the science core curriculum. The program's main goal is encouraging students at the junior high-school level to develop systems-thinking and environmental insight as a basis for environmental literacy. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach, Urban Schools, Core Curriculum
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Assaraf, Orit Ben-Zvi; Orion, Nir – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2005
The current study deals with the development of system thinking skills at the junior high school level. The sample population included about 50 eighth-grade students from two different classes of an urban Israeli junior high school who studied an earth systems-based curriculum that focused on the hydro cycle. The study addressed the following…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Skill Development, Junior High School Students, Grade 8