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Ellis, Nancy T.; Torabi, Mohammad R. – Health Educator, 1994
Ninth and twelfth graders were surveyed to identify their health concerns and primary sources of learning about health. Results were consistent with current epidemiological data. There were statistically significant differences by grade and gender. The most prevalent concerns were weight, staying healthy, and HIV/AIDS and other sexually…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Age Differences, Body Weight
Iakimanskaia, I. S.; Iudashina, N. I. – Soviet Education, 1990
Examines relationships between student interests and aptitude in selected academic fields and their success in intensive courses on these subjects. Discusses a two-year study of 33 mathematics students and 32 literature students in the eighth and ninth grades in the Soviet Union. Shows that differentiated, intensive study did not strengthen…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Classroom Research, Cognitive Development, Comparative Analysis
Plank, Kristie J.; Snyder, Maureen M.; Santeford, Deborah; Bautz, Kim; Repka-Peters, Margie; Thornburgh, Roberta; Bistricky, Stacey; Buse, Anne – School Library Media Activities Monthly, 1999
Provides a library media activity designed for social studies and focused on retrieving and comparing bibliographic information from print and nonprint sources. Describes library media skills objectives; curriculum (subject area) objectives; grade levels (7 through 9); print, CDROM and other resources; instructional roles; procedures; evaluation;…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Course Integrated Library Instruction, Curriculum Development, Educational Resources
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Wong, Ngai-Ying – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 1993
Open-ended questions and semistructured interviews were used to investigate the psychosocial learning environment among (n=35) grade-nine mathematics students in Hong Kong. The Mathematics Classroom Environment Scale has eight dimensions: enjoyability; order; involvement; achievement orientation; teacher led; teacher support; teacher involvement;…
Descriptors: Classification, Classroom Environment, Content Analysis, Cooperation
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Ghosh-Dastidar, Bonnie; Longshore, Douglas L.; Ellickson, Phyllis L.; McCaffrey, Daniel F. – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of a revised state-of-the-art drug prevention program, Project ALERT, on risk factors for drug use in mostly rural midwestern schools and communities. Fifty-five middle schools from South Dakota were randomly assigned to treatment or control conditions. Treatment-group students received 11…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Middle School Students, Prevention, Drug Use
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Shapka, Jennifer D.; Keating, Daniel P. – American Educational Research Journal, 2003
This article investigates the benefits of girls-only classroom instruction in math and science during Grades 9 and 10, in the context of a public coeducational high school. It is based on a longitudinal investigation with 786 participants: 85 girls in all-girl classes, and 319 girls and 382 boys in a regular coeducational program. Preexisting…
Descriptors: Psychological Characteristics, Intervention, Females, Science Achievement
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Cooper, Robert – Urban Education, 2000
Examines one community's efforts to fundamentally alter a high school's structure, curriculum, and instructional practices to provide greater educational opportunities for all students. The program used heterogeneous grouping in tandem with curricular and pedagogical changes. Student surveys indicated that the program was moderately successful in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Asian Americans, Black Students, Classroom Environment
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Perkins, Daniel F.; Hartless, Glen – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2002
Identified risk factors related to suicidal behavior in European American and African American adolescents. For males in both groups, risk factors for suicidal ideation and behavior were found at individual, family, and extrafamilial levels of social ecology. For females, the same factors occurred for suicidal attempts but not suicidal thoughts.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Blacks, Child Abuse
Dedmond, Rebecca M. – Principal Leadership, 2005
Personalized learning: Everyone knows it needs to happen, but how? It is one thing to believe in the importance of high school reform. It is quite another to embrace a system that helps every student leave high school with a diploma and plans for postsecondary education or training that lead to productive and self-sufficient adulthoods. This…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Lifelong Learning, Transitional Programs, High Schools
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Sperling, Melanie; Freedman, Sarah Warshauer – Written Communication, 1987
Discusses one student's persistence in misunderstanding her teacher's written comments on her papers. Notes that student and teacher bring different sets of information, skills, and values to each written response episode, and that mismatched expectations can occur even with high-achieving students. (SKC)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Communication Problems, Communication Research, Grade 9
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Sclater, Jennifer; Sicoly, Fiore; Abrami, Philip C.; Wade, C. Anne – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2006
The current investigation was an exploration of the first year of a multi-year project designed to provide every Grade 3 to Grade 11 student throughout an English school board in Quebec with a laptop computer. Data were collected from 403 elementary and 270 secondary students from the experimental school board and also from 330 students in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Laptop Computers, Access to Computers, Computer Uses in Education
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