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Porter, Gracie Allen Robinson – ProQuest LLC, 2018
A quantitative ex post facto causal comparative research method was used to investigate and analyze the reading comprehension achievement of middle school Black male students in two middle schools. Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) reading scores of students in grades five, six, seven, and eight from school years 2006-2007,…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Middle School Students, Males, African American Students
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Tran, Cong V.; Cole, David A.; Weiss, Bahr – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2012
A 2-wave longitudinal study of young adolescents was used to test whether peer victimization predicts depressive symptoms, depressive symptoms predict peer victimization, or the 2 constructs show reciprocal relations. Participants were 598 youths in Grades 3 through 6, ages 8 to 14 (M = 10.9, SD = 1.2) at Wave 1. The sample was 50.7% female and…
Descriptors: Females, Depression (Psychology), Males, Victims
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Van Eck, Richard – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2006
Studies show that women make up only 35% of the IT workforce, and the schism between boys' and girls' interests in math and science is well documented. Richard Van Eck suggests that providing girls with more positive experiences with technology may impact their overall attitudes toward technology and perhaps even toward math and science. Van Eck…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Females, Exhibits, Males