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Sorensen, Lucy C.; Cook, Philip J.; Dodge, Kenneth A. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2017
Prior research and anecdotal evidence from educators suggest that classroom peers play a meaningful role in how students learn. However, the literature has failed to consider the dynamic and context-dependent nature of classroom peer influence. Developmental psychology theories suggest that peer influence will increase and family influence will…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Family Influence, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Street, Nathan Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Teacher value-added measures (VAM) are designed to provide information regarding teachers' causal impact on the academic growth of students while controlling for exogenous variables. While some researchers contend VAMs successfully and authentically measure teacher causality on learning, others suggest VAMs cannot adequately control for exogenous…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
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Hinton, Harvey; Osler, James E. – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2015
This paper outlines the major dimensions and overall effectiveness of the Student Athlete Leadership Academy (or "SALA"). SALA is a character development and college preparatory program designed for middle grade student athletes. The focus of this paper is to provide information about year 1 of SALA. At the same time the paper will…
Descriptors: African American Students, Males, Values Education, College Preparation
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Christensen, Rhonda; Knezek, Gerald – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2015
The Climate Change Attitude Survey is composed of 15 Likert-type attitudinal items selected to measure students' beliefs and intentions toward the environment with a focus on climate change. This paper describes the development of the instrument and psychometric performance characteristics including reliability and validity. Data were gathered…
Descriptors: Climate, Attitudes, Likert Scales, Middle School Students
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Giersch, Jason; Bottia, Martha Cecilia; Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin; Stearns, Elizabeth – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
In this study we investigate Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) high school graduates' academic performance in the first year of college and test whether their exposure to racial segregation in high school at both the school and classroom levels affected their college freshman grade point averages. Utilizing administrative data from the Roots of…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Academic Achievement, College Freshmen, Racial Segregation
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Wallace, Judi Lawson; Sutton, Nancy P. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2015
Incorporating bike skills into the elementary- and middle-school physical education curriculum encourages students to be physically active in a fun way while also learning bike safety skills. Winston-Salem's (NC) Safe Routes to School program demonstrates how collaboration with the public schools' health and physical education program can…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Safety Education
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Williams, Maegen R.; Warner, Wendy J.; Flowers, James L.; Croom, D. Barry – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2014
This study examined the integration of technology into the instructional process in North Carolina agricultural education classrooms. The study used survey research methodology to collect information on the availability of instructional technology and the frequency of instructional technology use by North Carolina agriculture teachers. The study…
Descriptors: Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Agricultural Education, Access to Computers
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Salinas, Tracie McLemore; Lynch-Davis, Kathleen; Mawhinney, Katherine J.; Crocker, Deborah A. – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2014
About 80 middle and secondary school teachers participated in the professional development sequence as a part of a larger professional development project. Sessions provided participants with half-day experiences in an inquiry-oriented classroom taught by a master teacher, in which they experienced examples of inquiry lessons as both student and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Faculty Development
Ritchotte, Jennifer A.; Matthews, Michael S.; Flowers, Claudia P. – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2014
Gifted underachievement represents a frustrating loss of potential for society. Although attempts have been made to develop interventions to reverse gifted underachievement, the theoretical underpinnings of these interventions have yet to be empirically validated. The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity of the…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Underachievement, Models, Middle School Students
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Akos, Patrick; Rose, Roderick A.; Orthner, Dennis – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2015
The academic impact of the transition from elementary to middle school has significant consequences for many early adolescents. This study examines academic growth across the transition, as well as sociodemographic moderators. Rather than defining the transition effect as a decline in student achievement between fifth and sixth grade, these data…
Descriptors: Developmental Tasks, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Academic Achievement
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Dougherty, Shaun M.; Goodman, Joshua; Hill, Darryl; Litke, Erica; Page, Lindsay – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
The Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) in North Carolina recently addressed the issue of advancement in and equitable access to advanced mathematics. Under a recent policy, WCPSS uses a SAS-generated predicted probabilities of students' success in obtaining a passing score on the NC Algebra I End-of-Course (EOC) exam, to determine…
Descriptors: Algebra, Secondary School Mathematics, Middle School Students, Acceleration (Education)
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Donovan, Erin – Middle School Journal, 2016
The idea of place extends beyond just the location where people live. Place is a narrative, a story that involves interactions, characters, conflicts, and the rise and flow of humanity. By understanding the importance of place and the connection to the places from which people originate, the people, their motivations, and their strengths and…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, Teaching Methods, Story Telling, Writing Assignments
Todd Zoblotsky; Christine Bertz; Brenda Gallagher; Marty Alberg – Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP), 2016
In August 2010, the Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC) received a grant of more than $25 million from the U.S. Department of Education's Investing in Innovation (i3) program for a five-year study to validate its Leadership Assistance for Science Education Reform (LASER) model in three very diverse regions of the United States: rural North…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Science Tests, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
Martin, Todd – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This dissertation was designed to investigate the causes behind teacher turnover and the connection between principal behavior, teacher working conditions, and rates of teacher turnover. In particular, this study examined behaviors that teachers in three North Carolina middle schools felt their principals displayed that helped encourage them to…
Descriptors: Principals, Collegiality, Middle School Teachers, Teacher Persistence
Capen, Mary Katherine – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This qualitative semi-structured open-ended protocol research study provided information on middle school general educators' perceptions of barriers impeding completion of training on the FBA/PBIP, and the methods they perceived that could remove the barriers from the perspective of general educators as self-directed adult learners. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Functional Behavioral Assessment, Qualitative Research
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