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Shah, Nirvi – Education Week, 2011
The author reports on a Republican presidential debate which revives the contention over requiring middle school girls to be vaccinated against the virus that causes cervical cancer. At the September 12 debate, U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann, of Minnesota, and Rick Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, attacked Texas Governor…
Descriptors: Daughters, Immunization Programs, Cancer, Presidents
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Boyce, Steven J.; Wilkins, Jesse L. M.; MacDonald, Beth Loveday – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2011
An interview with a sixth-grade student illustrates how her number sense and understanding of variability relate to her ability and proclivity to apply a frequentist (statistical) approach to probability tasks. A general suggestion for teaching about mathematics of uncertainty through the gradual strengthening of estimation, as per the historical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Probability
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Star, Jon R.; Chen, Jason A.; Taylor, Megan W.; Durkin, Kelley; Dede, Chris; Chao, Theodore – International Journal of STEM Education, 2014
Background: During the middle school years, students frequently show significant declines in motivation toward school in general and mathematics in particular. One way in which researchers have sought to spark students' interests and build their sense of competence in mathematics and in STEM more generally is through the use of technology. Yet…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Student Motivation, Student Interests, STEM Education
Duffy, Debra Lynne Foster – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Through a non-experimental descriptive and comparative mixed-methods approach, this study investigated the experiences of sixth grade earth science students with groundwater physical models through an extended SE learning cycle format. The data collection was based on a series of quantitative and qualitative research tools intended to investigate…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Models, Grade 6, Water
Duke, Rose S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This research examined the impact of teacher licensure routes, particularly those identified as either traditional or alternative on student achievement by comparing Virginia Standards of Learning (SOL) end of year scores in math and reading for minority students in grades six through eight during the period from 2005 through 2009. To compare the…
Descriptors: Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Certification, Teacher Qualifications, Alternative Teacher Certification
Principal Leadership, 2010
It is no accident that the staff at Fieldale-Collinsville Middle School adopted a central tenet of "Breaking Ranks in the Middle"--to banish anonymity by creating a personalized learning environment for all of its students. The school was created six years ago when the four middle schools in Henry County, VA, were consolidated into two…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Educational Quality, Educational Environment, School Personnel
Edwards, Jannette M. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study was designed to determine the extent to which middle-level principals reported the use of literacy leadership dimensions and whether or not a predictive relationship exists between the use of these dimensions and student reading proficiency in Grades 6 through 8 in Region 2 in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Also examined was the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Reading Achievement, Economically Disadvantaged, Rating Scales
Hurt, J. Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Students with disabilities have traditionally achieved to a lesser degree than have their nondisabled peers. Since the 1950s the federal government has enacted laws to provide free, appropriate public education to students with disabilities. In the first decade of the 21st; Century the government has produced legislation requiring schools to be…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Inclusion, Mainstreaming, Resource Room Programs
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Eliot, Megan; Cornell, Dewey G. – School Psychology International, 2009
This study tested a model for understanding peer bullying as the product of aggressive attitudes and insecure attachment. A sample of 110 sixth grade students completed self-report measures that assessed attitudes toward the use of aggressive behaviour with peers and distinguished secure from insecure parental attachment. Bullying behaviour was…
Descriptors: Bullying, Attachment Behavior, Grade 6, Aggression
Peck, Rick – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of the study was to determine the effects upon student knowledge and perceptions regarding greenhouse gas emissions as a result of an intervention relying upon the submetering the 6th grade wing of a Middle School, displaying the information regarding electrical consumption and carbon footprint, and reducing the electrical consumption…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grade 6, Middle School Students, Student Attitudes
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Ashbaughm, Lauren P.; Cornell, Dewey G. – Journal of School Violence, 2008
Sexual harassment is widely viewed as a form of bullying, but has received little attention in studies of middle school students. A survey of 109 6th grade students found that 29% of students reported at least one sexual harassment experience in the past 30 days, with 11% reporting harassment once per week or more. Although boys and girls reported…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Bullying, Middle School Students, Grade 6
Pickworth, Margo – International Association of School Librarianship, 2010
In an action research project, young male students from Sydney, Australia and Richmond, USA contributed to a collaborative writing blog. Both groups of students shared the same text with their class teachers, while using the medium of collaborative blogging, a process which was facilitated and managed by the teacher-librarian. Data was gathered…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Action Research, Collaborative Writing
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Schultz, Brandon K.; Evans, Steven W.; Serpell, Zewelanji N. – School Psychology Review, 2009
Middle school students with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often experience academic decline within each school year, characterized by deteriorating grades from the first grading period to the last. This study reexamines whether the Challenging Horizons Program-Consultation Model (CHP-C) effectively reduces or delays academic…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Middle School Students, Grade Point Average, Academic Failure
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Kim, Sangwon; Orpinas, Pamela; Martin, Roy; Horne, Arthur M.; Sullivan, Terri N.; Hall, Daniel B. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2010
This study examined a typology of adaptive and maladaptive behaviors of 2,552 ethnically diverse early adolescents who attended sixth grade in public schools and lived in disadvantaged communities. Behavioral adjustment of adolescents was measured by teacher ratings using the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC). Although typologies of…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Early Adolescents, Classification, Grade 6
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Forneris, Tanya; Fries, Elizabeth; Meyer, Aleta; Buzzard, Marilyn; Uguy, Samy; Ramakrishnan, Ramesh; Lewis, Carol; Danish, Steven – Journal of School Health, 2010
Background: School-based interventions are critical for enhancing the health of youth. The "Goals for Health (GFH)" school-based project was a goal-setting and life-skills intervention conducted in rural areas to increase self-efficacy, knowledge, and positive behaviors related to healthy eating. The intervention was peer-led with high…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Intervention, Self Efficacy, Eating Habits
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