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Schneider, Barry H.; Dixon, Kristopher; Udvari, Stephen – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2007
The purpose of this study is to compare the inter-ethnic and co-ethnic friendships of 390 junior high school students in multi-ethnic neighborhoods of Montreal and Toronto. Friendship dyads were identified on the basis of reciprocal nomination as close friends. The quality of the friendships was measured by questionnaires completed by both members…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Neighborhoods, Conflict, Friendship
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Herscovics, Nicolas; Linchevski, Liora – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1994
Investigated the upper limits of (n=22) seventh-grade students' informal processes in solving first degree equations in one unknown prior to instruction. Results indicated the existence of a cognitive gap between arithmetic and algebra characterized as the students' inability to operate spontaneously with or on the unknown. (37 references)…
Descriptors: Algebra, Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Structures