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Download full textCoskun, Burçin; Karadag, Engin – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2023
In this study, the effects of some student (e.g., gender, bullying, etc.) and school variables (e.g., emphasis on academic achievement, clarity of teaching, etc.) on the TIMSS 2015 science and mathematics achievement of eighth grade students in Türkiye were examined by controlling for the socioeconomic status of the students at the student and…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics, Science Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Direct linkShapira-Lishchinsky, Orly – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2020
The aim of this study was to explore principals' perceptions of school practices that have ethical meaning through a transnational perspective based on the 8th grade TIMSS 2015 international assessment. The sample comprised 8353 principals from 8353 different schools and 280,130 students that participated in the TIMSS 2015 survey. We used…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Attitudes, Correlation, School Administration
Powers, Kristin; Hagans, Kristi; Linn, Megan – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
The effectiveness of the Check and Connect dropout prevention program was examined, over the course of 2.5 years, with 54 middle school students from diverse backgrounds experiencing one or more conditions of risk for dropout. Participants were randomly assigned to receive the Check and Connect intervention or business as usual (i.e., control) in…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Program Effectiveness, Middle School Students, Grade 6
Predy, Larissa; McIntosh, Kent; Frank, Jennifer L. – School Psychology Review, 2014
This study examined the technical adequacy of office discipline referrals (ODRs) received early in the school year for predicting total ODRs received by the end of the year. The sample included 401,852 students from 593 public middle schools (serving Grades 6 to 8) in the United States in the 2009-2010 school year. The results showed that ODRs…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Discipline Problems, Referral, Middle School Students
Konold, Timothy; Cornell, Dewey; Huang, Francis; Meyer, Patrick; Lacey, Anna; Nekvasil, Erin; Heilbrun, Anna; Shukla, Kathan – School Psychology Quarterly, 2014
The Authoritative School Climate Survey was designed to provide schools with a brief assessment of 2 key characteristics of school climate--disciplinary structure and student support--that are hypothesized to influence 2 important school climate outcomes--student engagement and prevalence of teasing and bullying in school. The factor structure of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Assessment, Student Surveys, Psychometrics
Dee, Thomas S. – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2015
One provocative explanation for the continued persistence of minority achievement gaps involves the performance-dampening anxiety thought to be experienced by minority students in highly evaluative settings (i.e., "stereotype threat"). Recent field-experimental studies suggest that modest, low-cost "buffering" interventions…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Achievement Gap, Intervention, Self Efficacy
Vaaland, Grete Sorensen; Idsoe, Thormod; Roland, Erling – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2011
This study aims to conceptualize disobedient pupil behavior within the more general framework of antisocial behavior and to reveal how two forms of aggressiveness are related to disobedience. Disobedience, in the context of this article, covers disruptive pupil behavior or discipline problems when the pupil is aware of breaking a standard set by…
Descriptors: Discipline Problems, Antisocial Behavior, Females, Structural Equation Models
Stenson, Victor J. – Journal of the International Association of Pupil Personnel Workers, 1980
Survey recommends a treatment model that fosters latitude and allows for individual initiative within a framework. Group counseling in conjunction with an educational performance contract is advocated for serious behavior problems. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Classroom Techniques, Discipline Problems, Grade 8
Shapley, Kelly; Sheehan, Daniel; Maloney, Catherine; Caranikas-Walker, Fanny – Texas Center for Educational Research, 2009
The Technology Immersion Pilot (TIP), created by the Texas Legislature in 2003, was based on the assumption that the use of technology in Texas public schools could be achieved more effectively by "immersing" schools in technology rather than by introducing technology resources, such as hardware, software, digital content, and educator…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Public Schools, Technology Integration, Academic Achievement
Berndt, Thomas J.; Keefe, Keunho – 1991
A short-term longitudinal study investigated theoretical perspectives on friends' influences and compared the influence of a student's closest friend with that of several close friends. Participants were 297 seventh and eighth graders in junior high schools in small towns or rural areas adjacent to a medium-sized city. Measures obtained in the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Discipline Problems
Lapointe, Judith M.; Legault, Frederic – Journal of Classroom Interaction, 2004
The objective of the study was to examine the effectiveness of an intervention based on attribution retraining with regards to student misconduct and coercive teacher behavior. An intervention would lead to a sustained decrease in misbehavior and coercive discipline without using any external control systems. In this case study, a male, veteran…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Intervention, Retraining, Discipline Problems
Hamm, William H.; Clawson, Kenneth – 1992
To investigate the effect of heterogeneous and homogeneous instructional groupings used in a middle school eighth grade on selected student behaviors, 120 students were assigned to a heterogeneous group and 120 students to a homogeneous group based on several factors. The heterogeneous group was comprised of all students enrolled in the school…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Attendance, Comparative Analysis
Iadicola, Peter – 1980
The impact of school racial context (percentage of Anglo students in school and degree of Anglo peer group integration) and student background characteristics (sex, race, educational attainment of father of school racial context differed for Blacks intentions was addressed. A random subsample of Anglo (1,367), Black (1,172), and Hispanic (430)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Anglo Americans, Blacks
