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Lokon, Elizabeth – Journal of At-Risk Issues, 2003
Followed 9th grade teachers and their students as they began a teaming initiative to address urban educational challenges. Results showed that teaming meant the development of an ethos of collaboration manifested in everyday interactions among team members. This enhanced teachers' ability to transform their world of work, though their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Change, Educational Environment, Grade 9

Howard, Becky; Liner, Tom – English Journal, 1990
Describes an experimental, team-taught, low level ninth grade English class which emphasized writing. Discusses students, their writing, the use of journal writing, ability grouping, and what the classroom environment was like. Notes that students improved in all their other classes during the semester they spent in this class. (SR)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, English Instruction, Grade 9, High Risk Students

Glasson, George E. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1989
Compares the relative effects of hands-on and teacher demonstration laboratory methods on declarative knowledge and procedural knowledge achievement. Reports that students in the hands-on class were better on the procedural knowledge test than students in the demonstration class. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: Demonstrations (Educational), Experiential Learning, Formal Operations, Grade 9

Goh, N. K.; And Others – Journal of Chemical Education, 1989
Provided is a model to depict how the development of process skills can be systematically achieved and in turn determine the students' achievement in science practicals. Modified laboratory instruction is compared with conventional laboratory instruction. The results of field testing on 164 ninth grade subjects are described. (MVL)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Grade 9, Instructional Effectiveness, Laboratories

Cope, Karen E. – Social Studies Journal, 1989
Describes a four week simulation of the U.S. Constitutional Convention in which ninth grade students use problem-solving and decision-making skills to debate the issues of the convention. Students are assigned identities and interest areas to stimulate the writing of a class constitution which is then compared with the U.S. Constitution. (LS)
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Debate, Decision Making, Educational Games

Glasser, Susan – Art Education, 1989
Introduces students in grades seven-nine to the sometimes ambiguous differences between abstract and realistic art. Explores ways in which the same idea can be expressed in both formats, using Cy Twombly's "Synopsis of a Battle" as an example. Students research a war and create both abstract and realistic pictures of the battlefield…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Class Activities, Grade 7

Schiefele, Ulrich; Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1995
Investigated relationships among interest, motivation, mathematical ability, quality of experience, and mathematics achievement among (n=108) high school freshmen and sophomores. Found that quality of experience was mainly related to interest in mathematics and not to ability. Achievement was most strongly related to ability. (45 references)…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Affective Measures, Classroom Environment, Grade 10

Skaalvik, Einar M.; Rankin, Richard J. – American Educational Research Journal, 1995
Predictive relations between mathematics and verbal achievement and several different measures of motivation were examined in samples of 348 sixth-grade and 325 ninth-grade Norwegian students. Results support the internal/external frame of reference model suggesting that academic self-concepts are influenced by both external and internal…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 6

Schlange, Lisa – Teaching and Change, 1995
"The Systemic Initiative for Montana Mathematics and Science," based on a successful Dutch nontraditional curriculum, was used by a mathematics teacher to help ninth graders apply previously learned skills. Creative learning modules provided hands-on experience and helped students carry concrete knowledge to more abstract levels,…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Grade 9

Page, Richard C.; Chandler, Joyce – Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 1994
Assessed the effects of 2 different types of group counseling on at-risk characteristics of ninth-grade high school students (n=36). Assessed effects of groups on self-concept, school attendance, grade point average, and number of disciplinary referrals. Self-esteem of all group members increased. Groups had specific effects when compared with one…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Attendance, Discipline, Grade 9

Gustafsson, Jan-Eric; Undheim, Johan Olav – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1992
The stability of some dimensions of ability between the ages of 12 and 15 years was investigated for 225 boys and 242 girls in Sweden. Testing in grades 6, 8, and 9 indicated high stability for the general intelligence factor and for the residual of the General Visual factor. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Adolescents, Age Differences, Comparative Testing

Undheim, Johan Olav; Nordvik, Hilmar – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1992
Data from 2,000 Norwegian 16-year-old ninth graders were used to study the importance of socioeconomic factors and sex differences in an educational system with mainstreaming, no ability grouping, little acceleration, and no retention in grade. Analysis illustrates how sex and socioeconomic differences may be mediated in an egalitarian society.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cohort Analysis, Educational Environment, Family Characteristics
Rebbeck, Barbara – Gifted Child Today (GCT), 1993
Ninth graders explored the theme of power and ambition by reading William Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar," studying daily life in ancient Rome, comparing the play's plot to the attempted overthrow of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, examining other power struggles, and developing scripts for modern-day "Julius Caesar"…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Dramatics, Grade 9, Individual Power

Hoover, Steven M.; Feldhusen, John F. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
No differences are found in scientific hypothesis formulation ability of 36 male and 50 female gifted ninth graders, but investigation of related variables indicates that hypothesis formulation may be independent of intelligence for high-ability students. A positive relationship also exists between quality and quantity of student responses. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Cognitive Ability, Correlation, Factor Analysis
Leshem, Shoshana; Bar-Hama, Rivka – English Teachers' Journal (Israel), 1993
English teachers developed several activities for their ninth- and tenth-grade students using basic word processing capabilities. The materials described include guided writing (a job application form); passages involving cloze and pair work; relating details from a story; and work with a song and its written text. (CNP)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries