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Download full textJohnston, Lloyd D.; Miech, Richard A.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E.; Patrick, Megan E. – Institute for Social Research, 2019
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of substance use and related factors among U.S. adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates through age 60. It is conducted annually and supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. MTF findings identify emerging substance use problems, track substance use trends, and inform…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Adolescents, College Students, High School Graduates
Hammer, Patricia Cahape; Whisman, Andy – West Virginia Department of Education Office of Research, Accountability, and Data Governance, 2017
This evaluation study provides information about the implementation and outcomes of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers (21st CCLC) program in West Virginia, from September 2015 through May 2016, in which 12,388 students participated overall. The report draws on information from online surveys of directors of thirty six 21st CCLC programs…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Program Effectiveness, Standardized Tests
Montana Office of Public Instruction, 2017
The Montana Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is administered by the Montana Office of Public Instruction every two years to students in grades 7 through 12. The purpose of the survey is to help monitor the prevalence of behaviors that not only influence youth health, but also put youth at risk for the most significant health and social problems…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, At Risk Students, Adolescents, Suicide
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Miech, Richard A.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – Institute for Social Research, 2015
This occasional paper presents national demographic subgroup data for the 1975-2014 Monitoring the Future (MTF) national survey results on 8th, 10th, and 12th graders' use of drugs, alcohol, and tobacco. MTF is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health under a series of investigator-initiated, competitive…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Grade 8, Grade 10, Grade 12
Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2012
The District conducts a "cross-sectional" analysis of student dropouts annually; it examines dropout rates among students enrolled in various grades at one point in time. A "longitudinal" analysis, also conducted annually, tracks a group of students in the same grade or cohort over a period of several years. Each method…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2011
The District conducts a "cross-sectional" analysis of student dropouts annually; it examines dropout rates among students enrolled in various grades at one point in time. A "longitudinal" analysis, also conducted annually, tracks a group of students in the same grade or cohort over a period of several years. Each method…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
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This study examines development along Perry's intellectual and ethical scale among three successive graduating classes of students identified as gifted and talented in mathematics and science. Perry posits that intellectual development proceeds from a basic dualism through nine stages ("positions") and culminates with a sense of personal identify…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Developmental Stages, Questionnaires, Student Characteristics
Darcy, Maria U. A.; Tracey, Terence J. G. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2007
The authors examined circumplex models of interest structure across time (Grades 8, 10, and 12), gender, and analytic method in a secondary analysis of vocational interest type (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional) data generated from the American College Testing database (national sample of 69,987 students).…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Structural Equation Models, Multidimensional Scaling, Vocational Interests
Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2009
The District conducts a "cross-sectional" analysis of student dropouts annually; it examines dropout rates among students enrolled in various grades at one point in time. A "longitudinal" analysis, also conducted annually, tracks a group of students in the same grade or cohort over a period of several years. Each method…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Graduation, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate
Ding, Cody; Hall, Alice – Studies in Educational Evaluation, 2007
Data from the "Health Behavior in School-Aged Children Study" (Currie, Samdal, Boyce, & Smith, 2001) were used to analyze the differences in perceptions of educational experiences among over 10,000 sixth to tenth graders of different grades, genders, races and ethnicities. The relationships between students' evaluations of their school experiences…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Negative Attitudes, Educational Environment, Health Behavior
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – Institute for Social Research, 2011
Monitoring the Future (MTF), which is now in its 36th year, is a research program conducted at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research under a series of investigator-initiated research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The study is comprised of several ongoing series of annual surveys of nationally representative…
Descriptors: High School Graduates, Young Adults, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), College Students
Glassner, Amnon; Schwarz, Baruch B. – Learning and Instruction, 2005
The ability to critically evaluate whether information presented actually supports a given claim is essential for cognitive and social development. This paper presents a study focusing on developmental and contextual aspects of this ability (called antilogos). We tested antilogos for different variables: age group (Grades 8 and 10), direction of…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Criticism, Social Development, Grade 10
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2006
Since 1975, the Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey has annually studied the extent of drug use among high school 12th-graders. The survey was expanded in 1991 to include 8th- and 10th graders. It is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and is conducted by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. The goal of…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Narcotics, Gender Differences, Drug Use
Claus, Richard N.; Quimper, Barry E. – 1991
This study examined dropout rates for the School District of the City of Saginaw, Michigan. Although a longitudinal study of dropouts has been conducted by the school district for over 25 years, this study begins a new format to coincide with State requirements. The dropout rate is defined as the percentage of students in grades 9-12 who leave…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Rate, Dropout Research
Uyeno, Russell; Zhang, Shuqiang; Chin-Chance, Selvin – Online Submission, 2006
Background: The Hawaii Department of Education (HDOE) launched its Hawaii State Assessment (HSA) in spring, 2002, within the context of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) Act of 2001 and its mandates to close the "achievement gaps" between subgroups of students. Thus, it is important to investigate the extent to which student…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Poverty, Age Differences, Minority Group Children
