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Pasch, Keryn E.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Stigler, Melissa H.; Komro, Kelli A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
Young adolescent alcohol users drink at higher rates than their peers throughout adolescence and appear to be less amenable to intervention. This study compares those who reported alcohol use in the past year to those who reported no use in a multiethnic, urban sample of sixth graders in 61 schools in Chicago in 2002 (N = 4,150). Demographic,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Drinking, Early Adolescents
Neal, Derek; Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2007
Many test-based accountability systems, including the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), place great weight on the numbers of students who score at or above specified proficiency levels in various subjects. Accountability systems based on these metrics often provide incentives for teachers and principals to target children near current…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Incentives, Standardized Tests, Grade 6
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Stone, Susan; Engel, Mimi – American Journal of Education, 2007
Using interviews of students prior to and during their retained year and of their teachers, this study examined 22 students retained under Chicago's Ending Social Promotion policy. It focused on the "intervention" of retention, including how teachers shaped the retained year for students and the nature and quality of instructional…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Learning Strategies, Grade Repetition, Social Promotion
GRANT, EUGENE B.; HALL, MARCIA – 1967
A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE RELEVANT TO THE PROBLEM OF PURPOSEFUL READING AND COMPREHENSION REVEALS THE NEED TO HELP CHILDREN ESTABLISH A MENTAL SET OR PURPOSEFUL ATTITUDE PRIOR TO READING. TO EVALUATE A THOUGHT-DIRECTING QUESTION AS A PURPOSE PRIOR TO READING AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF DIFFICULTY, 279 SIXTH GRADERS FROM THREE SCHOOLS IN HAMMOND,…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Motivation, Reading Centers, Reading Comprehension
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Abella, Rodolfo – Middle School Journal (J3), 2005
K-8 centers combine grades in one location or school that are usually assigned to a separate elementary (K-5) and middle school (6-8). In 1998 the School Board of Miami-Dade County, Florida, approved a pilot program to introduce to the district the concept of K-8 centers. Miami-Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) initiated two K-8 centers during…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Grade 9, Grade 6, School Personnel
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Hillsberg, Carol; Spak, Helene – Middle School Journal (J1), 2006
This article describes an anti-bullying program with young adult literature as its centerpiece that the authors created. It explores the nature of bullying and its emotional impact on the victims, focusing on its prevalence in schools, and then describes the comprehensive anti-bullying program instituted in grades 6 to 8 at Wood Oaks Junior High…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Middle Schools, Program Effectiveness, Adolescent Literature
Hsu, Yaowen; Ackerman, Terry A. – 1994
This paper summarizes an investigation of the format used for equating the 1993 Illinois Goal Assessment Program (IGAP) sixth grade reading test. In 1992, each student took only one test, either a narrative test or an expository test. In 1993, there was only one test, which included both formats. Several possible approaches for linking the 1993…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Elementary School Students, Equated Scores, Grade 6
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Evans, Dolores A. – 1996
The impact of mobility on academic achievement has been the focus of many studies. The findings are generally consistent and suggest that mobility lowers student achievement, particularly when the students are from low-income, less educated families. For this study, 30 students, classified as either mobile or stable, were randomly selected from a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Intermediate Grades
Brown, Charlotte F. – 1993
This document is a conference presentation on the use of portfolios as an evaluation tool for middle school music students. All of the pages are suitable for use with an overhead projector. Areas covered include reasons for teaching the arts as both an intellectual discipline and vocational education; Illinois state goals for musical learning for…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Grade 6, Grade 7, Intermediate Grades
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Abrahamson, Dor; Janusz, Ruth M.; Wilensky, Uri – Journal of Statistics Education, 2006
ProbLab is a probability-and-statistics unit developed at the Center for Connected Learning and Computer-Based Modeling, Northwestern University. Students analyze the combinatorial space of the 9-block, a 3-by-3 grid of squares, in which each square can be either green or blue. All 512 possible 9-blocks are constructed and assembled in a "bar…
Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Grade 6, Scientific Concepts, Middle School Students
PIELSTICK, N.L.; WOODRUFF, A.B. – 1964
AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DEVELOP METHODS FOR OBSERVING AND MEASURING CURIOSITY IN CHILDREN. SPECIFICALLY, THE STUDY WAS DIRECTED TOWARD STIMULUS VARIABLES RELATED TO CURIOSITY AROUSAL, THE RELATIONSHIP OF AGE AND IQ TO INDEXES OF CURIOSITY, AND THE EFFECTS OF CURIOSITY ON LEARNING. SUBJECTS WERE APPROXIMATELY 30 CHILDREN FROM BOTH THE SECOND AND THE…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Curiosity, Elementary School Students, Grade 2
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Maxeiner, Barbara Ann; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1976
Differences and relationships that exist between students' knowledge, behavior, and attitude scores by sex, socioeconomic status, and type of school are examined. (SK)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Behavioral Science Research, Curriculum Development, Family Life Education
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Sheppo, Karen Groves; And Others – Educational Leadership, 1995
Using an integrated curriculum anchored in science and multimedia technology, Project LINCOL'N (Living in the New Computer Oriented Learning 'Nvironment) facilitates active learning for all students. The project's vision is to enable all students, including those with disabilities, to engage in authentic learning in a problem-solving environment.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Grade 6
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Hogan, Maureen P. – International Journal of Educational Technology, 2000
This is a case study of two sixth-grade teachers from Illinois who participated in a semester-long inservice to learn about Chickscope, a supercomputing application that allows students and teachers remote access to magnetic resonance images of chicken embryos. Shows how they produced an inquiry-based unit on chicken weight and measurement.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Class Activities, Grade 6, Inquiry
Woodman, Gail – 1997
This report describes a plan for utilizing critical thinking in the art education setting to improve students' decision-making and problem-solving abilities. The targeted population consists of sixth-grade students in a growing middle class, rural based community located in northern Illinois. The problem of weak critical thinking skills was…
Descriptors: Action Research, Art Activities, Art Education, Critical Thinking
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