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Peterson, L.; Rigby, K. – Journal of Adolescence, 1999
Study assessed the incidence of bullying of students in Years 7, 9, 10, and 11. Significant reductions in victimization were reported only for Year 7 students. A significant increase in support for anti-bullying initiatives was found among students Grade 10 and 11. Anti-bullying activities directed and undertaken by students themselves received…
Descriptors: Bullying, Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Relationship, Middle School Students
Baek, Youngkyun; Whitton, Nicola – IGI Global, 2013
In K-12 classrooms, as well as on the college and university level, the incorporation of digital games has played a vital role in the educational system. While introducing teachers to new fields, these digital games have been designed and implemented for the classroom and have shown positive results at a variety of educational levels. Cases on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Student Attitudes, Second Language Learning
Wallhead, Tristan; O'Sullivan, Mary – Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2007
Background: Research on Sport Education (SE) has shown the curriculum model to be effective in motivating students to undertake specific role responsibilities and engage in the student-led tasks of the curriculum. Despite this level of engagement, emerging evidence suggests that student leadership within the peer teaching tasks of the curriculum…
Descriptors: Research Design, Physical Education, Research Methodology, Data Analysis
Culican, Sarah Jane – Australian Educational Researcher, 2007
The middle years are a crucial stage of schooling where the range in student achievement widens and progress for some students slows significantly (Cairney, Buchanan, Sproats & Lowe 1998, Hill & Russell 1999). Despite moves towards middle school reform and improved literacy standards, there remains a gap in literacy provision for young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, School Restructuring, Disadvantaged
Bryer, Fiona; Main, Katherine – Issues in Educational Research, 2005
Three well-established issues for educational reform to insert middle schooling into the traditional primary-secondary tiers are (a) lack of preservice training of specialist middle school teachers, (b) the absence of clear positive educational outcomes linked to the promotion of middle schooling policy as a philosophy of teaching, and (c) the ad…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Educational Objectives, Outcomes of Education, Educational Change
Dowson, Martin; McInerney, Dennis M. – 1998
Age, gender, cultural, and socioeconomic differences in relations between middle school students' motivational goal orientations, their cognitive and metacognitive strategies, and their academic achievement in a variety of curriculum domains were studied. Studies to date typically have used either cognitive or motivational variables to account for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Cultural Differences
Green, Richard; Oppliger, Amanda – Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, 2007
This paper reports on the processes experienced in the development of a language programme in a high school in the western suburbs of Sydney in 2006 and represents the ideas and views of the two key participants. We consider the different perspectives held by the key participants on the project and how these need to be worked through in order to…
Descriptors: Linguistics, Tutors, Cooperation, Indigenous Knowledge
Berniz, Katerin – International Education Journal, 2007
This article is a critical reflection on a study of the views of Spanish teachers in South Australian schools about their professional development (PD) needs and experiences. Officials responsible for designing Spanish specific PD were interviewed. Sixteen teachers were randomly selected from private, public, country and metropolitan middle…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Spanish Speaking, Spanish, Foreign Countries
Boyes, Edward; Myers, George; Skamp, Keith; Stanisstreet, Martin; Yeung, Stephen – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2007
A closed-form questionnaire was used to explore the ideas of school students about the composition of air, the causes and consequences of air pollution and the extent to which the students would accept various courses of action to reduce air pollution. Items for the questionnaire were derived from the results of interviews and an earlier open-form…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Path Analysis, Pollution

Pardhan, Harcharan; Bano, Yasmeen – International Journal of Science Education, 2001
Reports on a qualitative research study on electricity carried out in 1998 on alternative conceptions (ACs) held by a select group of middle school teachers. The study was designed to identify the nature and origin of the ACs of these teachers and relate them to other similar studies carried out by other researchers. (Contains 27 references.)…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Electricity, Foreign Countries, Middle Schools
Graham, Lorraine; Bellert, Anne; Pegg, John – Australasian Journal of Special Education, 2007
The aim of this article is to promote discussion and professional development around the topic of learning difficulties in mathematics, particularly as these pertain to teaching and learning in the middle school years. The article has three sections. In the first section, a review of literature about learning difficulties (LD) in mathematics is…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Mathematics Education, Intervention, Foreign Countries
Dowson, Martin; McInerney, Dennis M. – 1998
The relationships between middle school students' multiple motivational goal orientations and their use of multiple cognitive and metacognitive strategies were studied with a focus on relations between these motivational and cognitive variables and students' academic achievement in two curriculum areas. Participants were 602 middle school students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Educational Objectives, Foreign Countries
Komesaroff, L.; Morrison, F. – 2001
This paper reports on the shifts in literacy teaching and learning that occurred at a Melbourne primary school, one of twelve schools that took part in a large research project undertaken by staff at Deakin University funded by the Victorian Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs: Middle Years Literacy Research Project. The project…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Literacy, Middle Schools

Reiss, Michael J.; Tunnicliffe, Sue Dale; Andersen, Annemarie Moller; Bartoszeck, Amauri; Carvalho, Graca S.; Chen, Shao-Yen; Jarman, Ruth; Jonsson, Stefan; Manokore, Viola; Marchenko, Natalya; Mulemwa, Jane; Novikova, Tatyana; Otuka, Jim; Teppa, Sonia; Van Rooy, Wilhelmina – Journal of Biological Education, 2002
Investigates young peoples' knowledge and the culture influence using a cross-sectional approach. Involves n=586 pupils from 11 different countries and analyzes resultant drawings using a seven point scale where the criterion was anatomical accuracy. (Contains 24 references.) (Author/YDS)
Descriptors: Anatomy, Biology, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries

Taffe, Denis – Babel, 1974
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, French, Individualized Instruction, Language Instruction