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Bernt, Phyllis W.; Turner, Sandra V.; Bernt, Joseph P. – Middle School Journal (J1), 2005
Collaborating with three university researchers, three seventh-grade teachers and their students worked on one component of a three-year NSF-funded research project examining the media messages about information technology and careers that middle school students receive from television, popular magazines, books, videotapes, movies, and Web sites.…
Descriptors: Researchers, Curriculum Development, Science Teachers, Information Technology
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Bigot, Johann; Pichot, Nathalie; Teste, Benoit – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2004
Numerous studies have demonstrated a decrease in the expression of internality in French sixth graders as compared to fifth graders. The present study examines normative clearsightedness in addition to internality across four French school grades (fourth to seventh). The results confirmed the sixth-grade drop in internality and showed that the…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 7, Grade 6, Grade 4
Norton, Stephen – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2006
This paper reports the results of two interventions involving the integrated study of mathematics and technology practice to girls in Years 6 and 7. The focus of the study was to look at factors that contributed to girls' disengagement with mathematics study and seek pedagogical solutions for this. The key mathematics concepts embedded in the two…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Intervention, Females, Mathematics Education
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Bernburg, Jon Gunnar; Krohn, Marvin D.; Rivera, Craig J. – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2006
This article examines the short-term impact of formal criminal labeling on involvement in deviant social networks and increased likelihood of subsequent delinquency. According to labeling theory, formal criminal intervention should affect the individual's immediate social networks. In many cases, the stigma of the criminal status may increase the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Delinquency, Criminals, Juvenile Justice
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Ozsoy, Nesrin; Yildiz, Nazh – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2004
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of learning together technique of cooperative Learning method on student mathematics achievement. The study was an experimental research in which pre-test -- post-test design with control group was applied. The study was conducted in spring 2004 with 70 pupils studying at 7th class in Balikesir,…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement
Jaschik, Scott – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1988
Governor Mario Cuomo has proposed that New York State guarantee enough state aid for all poor seventh graders finishing high school to attend a state college or an equal amount of money to attend a private college in the state, the first such effort at the state level. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Access to Education, College Attendance, Dropout Prevention
Campagna, Helen – Australian Journal of Reading, 1987
Claims that teachers sometimes need to set up and direct purposeful writing situations to make sure that children gain experience in different kinds of writing. Discusses how teachers can help students tackle a challenging writing task, and describes strategies which students use to deal with a difficult writing assignment. (MM)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Elementary Education, Expository Writing, Grade 6
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Shapson, S. M.; Day, E. M. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1982
Compares effects of three grade-six late immersion programs in British Columbia which differed in amount of instructional time in French (90 percent vs 60 percent), previous student French background, and use of selection criteria. Significant differences occurred in attitudes, but not in French comprehension, English achievement, mathematics,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Educational Background, Elementary Education
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Cox, William F. Jr.; Matz, Robert D. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
Students in Grades six, seven, and eight were asked to integrate existing information and initially unknown answers to prose-related questions for answering superordinate questions. Results suggest that grade level development of hypothetico-deductive skills interacts with instructional prompt levels and that these skills are essential to…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Age Differences, Classroom Research, Cognitive Processes
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Lazarowitz, Reuven – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1981
Purposes of this study were to (1) develop an instrument requiring several classification activities; (2) investigate the correlation between classification ability and intelligence scores of junior high school students (N=365); and (3) determine if classification ability differs with age and gender. Findings included a significant correlation…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Biology, Classification, Cognitive Development
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Streitmatter, Janice – Elementary School Journal, 1997
Studied attitudes of girls, toward themselves and their classmates, and their behavior in a girls-only math classroom. Found girls were more likely to ask and answer questions in the math classroom than in coeducational classes and that the girls-only setting enhanced their ability to learn. The girls-only environment was overwhelmingly preferred.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Coeducation, Females, Gender Issues
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Shen, Shiji; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1996
This study examined Chinese students' self-presentation bias and continuing motivation for difficult and easy tasks. Students read scenarios about characters who performed tasks, then answered questions about whether the characters and they themselves would do another similar task. Results revealed self-presentation bias among Chinese students…
Descriptors: Bias, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Cultural Traits
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Herman-Stahl, Mindy; Petersen, Anne C. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1996
Group differences in coping style, mastery, optimism, and social resources and in patterns of change were studied with 458 rural adolescents in sixth and seventh grades grouped on the basis of indices of depression and negative life events. Different levels of coping and social resources characterized the four groups. (SLD)
Descriptors: Coping, Depression (Psychology), Early Adolescents, Grade 7
Hoffman, Alan J.; And Others – Georgia Social Science Journal, 1989
Describes the process of developing a summer school social studies program for academically talented seventh graders. Based on a video encyclopedia, the program covers social, political, economic, and cultural events of the twentieth century. Includes sample activities. (LS)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Class Activities, Course Descriptions, Grade 7
Baer, Vicki E. H. – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1988
Describes a case study that was designed to discover how seventh-grade students felt about writing when composed using a word processing program compared to using pen and paper. Student and teacher interviews are discussed, classroom observations are reported, and factors students found important to enjoyment of writing assignments are described.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Observation Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction
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