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Advice and Student Agency in the Transition to Middle School
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Akos, Patrick – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2004
In response to the 2000 Virginia state writing prompt, eighth grade students wrote a letter of advice to a sixth grader coming to middle school for the first time. A purposeful sample of more than 10,000 writing responses was collected. Content analysis of a random sample of 350 responses revealed themes of advice for students negotiating the…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Student Attitudes, Content Analysis, Grade 8