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Cantor, Joanne; Reilly, Sandra – Journal of Communication, 1982
Results demonstrate that adolescents experience enduring fright reactions from scary television shows and films, yet their mothers are often unaware of their responses. Concludes that family communication about how and when a child is frightened is poor. (PD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Anxiety, Fear
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Tannen, Deborah – Discourse Processes, 1990
Examines gender differences in topical coherence of same-sex best friends' conversations using John Gumperz's framework for cross-cultural communication. Finds that girls exhibit minimal or no difficulty in finding something to talk about. Finds that boys exhibit more discomfort, with tenth grade boys talking about their own highly personal…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Friendship, Grade 10
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Torok, Rob; Watson, Jane – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2000
Presents an exploratory study in which four students from each of grades 4, 6, 8, and 10 were interviewed individually on aspects of variation present in three settings. The first setting was an isolated random sampling situation whereas the other two settings were real world sampling situations. Identifies and describes four levels of responding…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10
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Brubaugh, Steven J.; And Others – Reading Improvement, 1996
Uses cloze techniques to examine the development of writers' memory for their own texts. Finds 70% accuracy on writer's cloze to be a consistent cutoff score for detection of plagiarism. Suggests that teachers should be aware that students remember their self-generated texts very well and that these standards can be used to detect and deter…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Grade 10, Grade 6, Grade 8
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Skamp, Keith; Boyes, Eddie; Stanisstreet, Martin – Research in Science Education, 2004
The results of a large scale (N=1001) cross-sectional (Years 6, 8 and 10) study of students' ideas about the composition of unpolluted air, the nature of air pollution, the biological consequences of air pollution, and about acid rain and the Greenhouse Effect are reported. A range of persistent alternative conceptions were identified, in some…
Descriptors: Pollution, Student Attitudes, Environmental Education, Climate
Fairfax County Schools, VA. – 1970
GRADES OR AGES: Grades 4-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Drug education. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide consists of a series of color-coded units, one for each grade, followed by several appendixes. Units are either in column or list form. The guide is xeroxed and looseleaf-bound with a soft cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: The curriculum…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Drug Abuse, Elementary Education, Grade 10
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Fang, Xiaoyi; Li, Xiaoming; Stanton, Bonita; Dong, Qi – American Journal of Health Behavior, 2003
Objective: To explore the relationship between peer social network positions and smoking experimentation among Chinese adolescents. Methods: Self-administered questionnaires were administered to 1040 adolescents in grades 6, 8, and 10. Paired-friendship linkages were used to assign participants into 3 mutually exclusive social network positions.…
Descriptors: Smoking, Peer Relationship, Adolescents, Grade 6
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Solberg, Mona E.; Olweus, Dan; Endresen, Inger M. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: The reported prevalence of bully-victims and aggressive/provocative victims varies quite considerably in previous research, and only a few studies have reported prevalence rates across grades. There is also a lack of detailed analyses of the extent to which victims are also bullies, and bullies are also victims. Aims: To study the…
Descriptors: Victims of Crime, Incidence, Grades (Scholastic), Bullying
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Trottier, Lillian – 1969
GRADES OR AGES: Grades 6-12. SUBJECT MATTER: French language, literature, and civilization. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into seven sections, one for each grade. Each section is in list form. It is mimeographed and spiral bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: Each section lists several general…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, French, French Literature, Grade 10
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Crowhurst, Marion – Research in the Teaching of English, 1980
Examines the relationship between syntactic complexity and quality ratings of narrative and argumentative writing of students in grades 6, 10, and 12. (HOD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis, Grade 10
Ghatala, Elizabeth S.; And Others – 1980
In an incidental memory task, second, sixth, and tenth-grade students performed three orientating tasks on different subsets of items in a list of common nouns. In one condition (EPA), children judged words on the Evaluative, Potency and Activity dimensions of the semantic differential. In another condition (EEE) children made phonetic judgments.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10, Grade 2
Crowhurst, Marion – 1978
In order to determine the effects of writing for different audiences and in different modes of discourse on the syntactic complexity of compositions written by sixth and tenth grade students, 240 students were asked to write in three different modes (argumentive, descriptive, and narrative) to be read by a teacher and a best friend. There was a…
Descriptors: Audiences, Descriptive Writing, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Crowhurst, Marion – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Uses Halliday and Hasan's taxonomy of cohesive devices to examine the kinds of cohesive ties used in arguments and narratives at grades 6, 10, and 12. Investigates whether there are differences between both grade levels and modes. (AEW)
Descriptors: Cohesion (Written Composition), Discourse Analysis, Grade 10, Grade 12
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Templeton, Shane; Scarborough-Franks, Linda – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Reports a study that examined sixth- and 10th-grade students' ability to generate orthographic and phonetic derivatives for three predominant vowel-alternation patterns characteristic of internal derivational morphology. Results support the hypothesis that a productive knowledge of these patterns in orthography precedes a productive knowledge of…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Error Patterns, Grade 10, Grade 6
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Osborne, J. Grayson; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1984
A stratified random sample of 686 elementary and secondary public school students in rural areas of Utah classed as rapidly or not rapidly growing was administered the Mooney Problem Check List. Effects related to rapid or slow community growth were specific to grade level and to problem domains of the check list. (BRR)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 10, Grade 6
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