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White, George P.; Matz, Celine – Schools in the Middle, 1992
Home-school partnerships provide a strong support system. Besides encouraging parents, teachers, and students to work together for more effective learning and teaching, the system helps parents understand their emerging adolescents. A rural Pennsylvania middle school's "Steps to Success" program offers various activities involved with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Family School Relationship, Intermediate Grades, Middle Schools
Download full textWhitfield, Tammy J. – 1996
In July 1990, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania adopted the Instructional Support Team initiative to identify those students who experience academic, behavioral, social-emotional, and/or communication difficulties, and to provide the needed support to help them succeed. A study evaluated the effectiveness of middle school Instructional Support…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, High Risk Students, Instructional Effectiveness
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In this article, the author describes the intergenerational service-learning program at South Scranton Intermediate School in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Currently in its fifth year of operation, the program was originated by William King, a former principal, as an attempt to develop a working relationship between Oakwood Terrace, an Alzheimer's care…
Descriptors: Student Volunteers, Service Learning, Intergenerational Programs, Intermediate Grades
Bernstein, Lawrence – 1990
Educational research on the factors of student achievement has been limited by its failure to consider the multilevel or hierarchical nature of most data. This study used a nonexperimental regression-based procedure, hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), to empirically develop a predictive model of fifth-grade achievement in reading and mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Analysis, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades
Soto, Lourdes Diaz – 1990
This study identifies home environment factors that may contribute to children's academic achievement. The study involved observing and interviewing 59 families of a group of higher achieving and lower achieving fifth and sixth grade students of Puerto Rican descent residing in southeastern urban Pennsylvania. The following factors that may affect…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Childhood Needs, Family Environment
Masters, James R. – 1992
In 1991 Pennsylvania began implementation of a direct writing assessment at the sixth-grade and ninth-grade levels. A total of 18,758 sixth graders and 16,575 ninth graders wrote a response to 1 of 9 prompts reflecting 3 modes of writing. A six-point holistic scale was used to score the papers, with two readers scoring each paper. A third reader,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arbitration, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Bender, David S.; And Others – 1994
This paper describes the history, characteristics, program model, activities, and evaluation results of the Pottstown Homework Center Partnership project, in Pottstown County, Pennsylvania. The goal of the program is to initiate homework centers and train volunteer tutors from the community to support the at-risk middle students by providing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary School Students, Extracurricular Activities, High Risk Students
