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Sharabany, Ruth; Eshel, Yohanan; Hakim, Caesar – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
The development of intimate same- and other-sex friendships in Arab children and adolescents in Israel was investigated in relation to their perceived parenting styles. It was hypothesized that girls would show higher levels of intimacy than boys, and that cross-sex intimacy in both groups would increase with age, whereas same-sex intimate…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Arabs, Intimacy
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Kotzer, Efrat; Margalit, Malka – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of competence among adolescents with learning disabilities (LD) who participated in a virtual supported self-advocacy programme within the risk and protective paradigm. The sample consisted of 374 adolescents with and without learning disabilities, students of the 7th to 9th grades, at 15…
Descriptors: Competence, At Risk Persons, Predictor Variables, Advocacy
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Knishkowy, Barry; Amitai, Yona; Hardoff, Daniel; Levy, Yehoshua; Kiro, Amnon – Journal of School Health, 2007
Background: The "AMA Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services" (GAPS) recommends annual medical evaluations during adolescence, emphasizing screening and counseling regarding psychosocial issues. In Israel, seventh graders undergo medical examinations within the school health services, focusing on the detection of physical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Physical Examinations, Health Behavior
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Attar-Schwartz, Shalhevet; Khoury-Kassabri, Mona – Social Work Research, 2008
The present study examines the correlates of indirect and verbal victimization by peers at school. The research is based on a nationally representative sample of 16,604 students in grades 7 through 11 in 324 schools across Israel. Self-administrated anonymous questionnaires were completed during class. Hierarchical linear modeling was used to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Victims of Crime, Bullying
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Lackaye, Timothy; Margalit, Malka – Learning Disabilities: A Contemporary Journal, 2008
The goals of this study were to (a) examine differences between two age groups of adolescents with and without learning disabilities (LD) in their general and specific self-efficacy beliefs (in history and mathematics), their academic achievement (in history and mathematics), and their loneliness, effort, and hope; and (b) identify predictors of…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Learning Disabilities, Academic Achievement, Psychological Patterns
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Lazovsky, Rivka – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2007
The "Children Teach Children" (CTC) program aimed to educate Jewish and Arab children in Israel for tolerance and coexistence is first described against the general background of coexistence programs in Israel and in other countries. Results of a study that examined the influence of the program implementation in Grade 7 in a pair of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Student Attitudes, Program Implementation
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Slone, Michelle; Shoshani, Anat – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
A paradigm conceptualizing resilience as factors moderating between political violence exposure and psychological distress administered in a 7-year research project yielded a profile of factors promoting Israeli children's coping in conflict conditions. Three factors--social support mobilization, self-efficacy, and meaning attribution--were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Self Efficacy, Prevention
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Levy-Tossman, Inbal; Kaplan, Avi; Assor, Avi – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2007
This study investigated the relations between early adolescents' academic motivational orientations and an aspect of quality of friendship: intimacy. Two-hundred and three Jewish-Israeli seventh grade students responded to surveys asking them about their academic achievement goals and about characteristics of their friendships. Variable-centered…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Adolescents, Multivariate Analysis, Intimacy
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Kramarski, Bracha; Mizrachi, Nava – Educational Media International, 2006
This study compares the effects of forum discussion with metacognitive guidance versus forum discussion without metacognitive guidance (Forum) on solving real life mathematical tasks and self-regulated learning. Participants were 43 Grade 7 students (boys and girls) who practiced online problem-solving in two classes. The metacognitive guidance…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Guidance, Comprehension, Problem Solving
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Ilatov, Zinaida Z.; Shamai, Shmuel; Hertz-Lazarovitz, Rachel; Mayer-Young, Shoshanna – Adolescence, 1998
Reports on a study in which two Israeli seventh-grade classes, one consisting of mostly females and the other gender balanced, were monitored. The two teachers manifested different communication styles and did not have any bias against females. Findings indicate that gender, academic composition, and teacher communication style are important…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classroom Communication, Grade 7, Middle Schools
Nivinsky, Miry – English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 2002
Describes one Israeli English-as-a-Foreign-Language teacher's experience having her seventh grade students write a collection of fairy tales, which she subsequently published. The teacher provided a worksheet that helped students learn to sequence and use descriptive language. The Worksheet is appended. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Fairy Tales, Foreign Countries, Grade 7
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Ziv, Avner; And Others – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1978
Preadolescents in three subcultures--city, kibbutz, and Israeli Arabs--were compared on the realistic-relativistic dimension of moral judgment. City children were more relativistic in their judgment. The results were explained in light of Wright's theory of moral behavior and attributed to the differences in socialization pattern in the three…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Background, Cultural Influences, Elementary Education
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Bar-Eli, Nurith; Bar-Eli, Michael; Tenebaum, Gershon; Forlin, Chris – British Educational Research Journal, 1998
Reports on three case studies of seventh-grade students teaching mathematics to third-grade students, in place of their classroom teacher, applying the Learning Through Teaching method. Discusses performance results for both tutors and tutees and restrictions on the scope of results. Concludes that tutoring benefits tutors more than tutees. (DSK)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Case Studies, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Education
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Kramarski, Bracha; Mizrachi, Nava – Journal of Educational Research, 2006
The authors investigated the effects of online discussion embedded within metacognitive guidance on mathematical literacy and self-regulated learning (SRL). They compared 4 instructional methods: online discussion embedded within metacognitive guidance (Online+Meta), online discussion without metacognitive guidance (Online), face-to-face…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Numeracy, Online Courses, Metacognition
Zohar, Anat; And Others – 1993
This study is an evaluation one phase of the Biology Critical Thinking (BCT) project. Seven skills were selected as goals of the BCT project (for example, isolating variables) and learning activities for these skills were developed. The study compared two groups using the same textbook (n=678 Israeli seventh grade students). The following…
Descriptors: Biology, Classroom Research, Critical Thinking, Foreign Countries
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