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Batanova, Milena; Loukas, Alexandra – Applied Developmental Science, 2016
Guided by the social emotional learning framework, this study examined whether early adolescents' social awareness (empathic concern, perspective taking) and self-management (effortful control) would uniquely contribute to early adolescents' subsequent forms of aggression, and whether perceptions of their school climate (friction, cohesion,…
Descriptors: Aggression, Early Adolescents, Empathy, Student Attitudes
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Padrón, Yolanda N.; Waxman, Hersh C.; Lee, Yuan-Hsuan – Education and Urban Society, 2014
The lack of achievement of students from high-risk and high-poverty environments necessitates changes in today's middle school environments to create a caring, supportive environment where all middle school students can succeed. This study investigated the classroom learning environments of resilient, average, and nonresilient minority students in…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Resilience (Psychology), Middle School Students, At Risk Students
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Waxman, Hersh C.; Garcia, Andres; Read, Lisa L. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2008
One of the essential principles for improving middle grade education is to establish a safe and healthy school environment (Jackson & Davis, 2000; Price & Waxman, 2005). The overall quality of the school climate or school environment has been argued to be one of the central problems of urban schools (Waxman & Huang, 1997). Several…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Middle Schools, School Safety, Educational Environment
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Fraser, B.J.; Fisher, D.L. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1982
The association between the classroom psychosocial environment and students' academic achievement and attitudes was investigated in seventh-grade science classrooms using the My Class Inventory (MCI) to measure the classroom environment. Correlation analyses revealed significant relationships between learning outcomes and perceptions on the MCI.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Foreign Countries, Grade 7
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Lawrenz, Frances – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1987
This study compared the classroom environments as perceived by fourth-grade, seventh-grade and high school boys and girls in classes taught by males and females to determine if any perceptual differences existed. The analyses showed no differences for fourth-grade students, one for seventh-grade students, and three for high school students.…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 4