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Direct linkGarret J. Hall; Sabina Low; Keith Smolkowski; Andy Garbacz – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Ecological factors, such as family involvement and school context, are important to consider in understanding middle schoolers' math development. In this study, we examined the relations of middle school student-reported parental monitoring and school climate as well as school-averaged teacher reports of school organizational health (OH) to…
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Mathematics Achievement, Intersectionality, Parent Influence
Xianhua Liu; Lei Lei; Yanli Zheng; Yu Deng; Jiajing Chen – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of school-based mindfulness training on learning burnout of Chinese middle school students and the mediating role of psychological resilience between dispositional mindfulness and learning burnout. A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted with repeated measurement analysis, in which 62…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Burnout, Foreign Countries, Stress Management
Lipien, Lodi; Ismajli, Flandra; Rigg, Khary K. – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
"LifeSkills Training" (LST) is a popular drug prevention program shown to be effective at preventing youth substance use. The Middle School Health Survey (MSHS) is a questionnaire that was created by the developers of the LST curriculum to measure changes in knowledge and attitudes about drugs and life skills among youth. Despite the…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Drug Abuse, Prevention, Drug Education
Won, Sungjun; Lee, Sun-Young; Bong, Mimi – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
The primary purpose of this study was to ascertain whether the degree to which Korean middle school students perceived their teachers to be credible made a difference in the effectiveness of teachers' persuasion as a source of students' academic self-efficacy. In the contexts of both general school learning and a specific subject of Korean…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Credibility, Self Efficacy, Middle School Students
Niileksela, Christopher R.; Templin, Jonathan – Psychology in the Schools, 2019
Confirmatory latent profile analysis (CLPA) was used with the normative sample from the "Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement," 3rd ed. (KTEA-3) to determine whether it was possible to identify a latent class of individuals whose scores were consistent with the academic strengths and weaknesses related to dyslexia. The CLPA identified…
Descriptors: Identification, Dyslexia, Achievement Tests, Profiles
Stevenson, Nathan A.; Reed, Deborah K.; Tighe, Elizabeth L. – Psychology in the Schools, 2016
To provide timely and effective supports for students reading below grade level, schools require methods for quickly and accurately identifying those students in need. One method for identifying those students is through universal screening. Assessments such as oral reading fluency (ORF) and Maze reading comprehension are commonly used as…
Descriptors: Special Education, Middle School Students, Socioeconomic Status, Oral Reading
Cleary, Timothy J.; Dembitzer, Leah; Kettler, Ryan J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2015
Using a sample of 348 middle school students, we gathered evidence regarding the internal consistency of scores, as well as the internal factor structure and convergent validity evidence for inferences from a self-report questionnaire called the Self-Regulation Strategy Inventory-Self Report. Confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the fit…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Scores, Factor Structure, Questionnaires
Pittard, Caroline M.; Pössel, Patrick; Smith, Rosamond J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2015
Teaching behavior impacts student psychopathology. This study explored the associations between teaching behavior types and depressive symptoms in students. The Teaching Behavior Questionnaire (TBQ) and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) were completed by 763 middle and 976 high school students from private Catholic…
Descriptors: Teacher Behavior, Middle School Students, High School Students, Private Schools
Dever, Bridget V.; Dowdy, Erin; Raines, Tara C.; Carnazzo, Katherine – Psychology in the Schools, 2015
Universal screening for behavioral and emotional difficulties is integral to the identification of students needing early intervention and prevention efforts. However, unanswered questions regarding the stability of screening scores impede the ability to determine optimal strategies for subsequent screening. This study examined the 2-year…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Emotional Disturbances, Behavior Disorders, At Risk Persons
Baly, Michael W.; Cornell, Dewey G.; Lovegrove, Peter – Psychology in the Schools, 2014
Cross-sectional studies indicate how many students are victims of bullying at a single time, but do not tell us whether the same students continue to be bullied or whether there is a cumulative impact of bullying over time. This study examined the longitudinal stability and the cumulative impact of victimization in a sample of 382 students…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Bullying, Victims, Grade 6
Axtell, Philip K.; McCallum, R. Steve; Bell, Sherry Mee; Poncy, Brian – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
To investigate the influence of an innovative math fluency intervention, 36 middle-school students were randomly assigned to either an experimental (the Detect, Practice, Repair [DPR]) or control condition (reading intervention). After covarying pretest scores, the DPR treatment produced a significantly higher (p = 0.016) adjusted mean (M) math…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Intervention, Psychologists, School Psychologists
Richardson, Michael J.; Caldarella, Paul; Young, Benjamin J.; Young, Ellie L.; Young, K. Richard – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
The Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders (SSBD), a screening system to identify elementary students at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders, was evaluated for use in middle and junior high schools. Teachers completed SSBD Stages One and Two on students in grades 6 to 8 who had characteristics of internalizing or externalizing…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Middle School Students, Grade Point Average, At Risk Students
Hooper, V. Scott; Bell, Sherry Mee – Psychology in the Schools, 2006
One hundred elementary- and middle-school students were administered the Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT; B.A. Bracken & R.S. McCallum, 1998) and the Leiter International Performance Scale-Revised (Leiter-R; G.H. Roid & L.J. Miller, 1997). Correlations between UNIT and Leiter-R scores were statistically significant ( p less…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Validity, Nonverbal Ability, Intelligence Tests
