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Hilfinger, Suzanne; And Others – VocEd, 1985
Describes the changes that have been made and are planned in the home economics curriculum in New York State. Changes discussed include living skills for males and females; four freestanding modules spread over grades six, seven, and eight; closer cooperation between home economics teachers and guidance personnel; and overlap with health…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Daily Living Skills
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Bain, Alan; And Others – British Journal of Educational Technology, 1995
Discusses a study which examined whether the social skill of responding appropriately to teacher questions could be taught using repeated (daily) exposure to an interactive video-based modeled sequence, and whether the use of role-play would have additional positive effects on rates of appropriate responding. (AEF)
Descriptors: Active Learning, Communication Disorders, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Development
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Dubas, Judith Semon; And Others – American Journal of Education, 1991
Investigation of the roles of pubertal timing and pubertal status on school achievement for 115 boys and 137 girls followed through grades 6, 7, and 8 indicates that late-maturing boys have the lowest school achievement, whereas late-maturing girls have the highest. Followups at grade 12 indicate few long-term effects. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Cohort Analysis, Females
Anderman, Eric M.; And Others – 1997
Why do some adolescents cheat and others do not? To answer this question, the relationship between motivational factors and self-reported cheating beliefs and behaviors was examined in a sample of early adolescents. It was hypothesized that cheating and beliefs in the acceptability of cheating would be more likely to occur when students perceived…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Cheating, Children, Early Adolescents
Pearson, Jim; Watkins, Bryna – 1991
This unit is one of a series that represents specific moments in history from which students focus on the meanings of landmark events. By studying a crucial turning point in history students become aware that choices had to be made by real human beings, that those decisions were the result of specific factors, and that they set in motion a series…
Descriptors: American Indian History, American Indians, Colonial History (United States), Colonialism
Anderman, Eric M.; Young, Allison J. – 1993
Recent studies have documented a decline in academic performance and motivation as students move from elementary to middle level schools. This paper expands these studies in three ways: (1) by examining the classroom-level differences among middle school students' motivation to see if motivational constructs vary by classroom; (2) by exploring the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Elementary School Students, Grade 6
Obach, Mifrando S.; Moely, Barbara E. – 1993
This study of metacognition and motivation explored variations over time in the relationships between children's metacognitions about their study activities and various components of motivation for achievement. The study attempted to: (1) identify possible causal relations between metacognitive and motivational variables by looking at their…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attribution Theory, Cognitive Style, Elementary School Students
Mesa Public Schools, AZ. – 1990
Designed for music educators instructing grades 4 through 8 in string instruments, this Mesa (Arizona) public schools guide presents information on the string curriculum, orchestras, and practicing. The goals and objectives for string instruments delineate grade levels and how student skills will be verified. Following 17 curriculum goal tests,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6
Abcug, Lois – 1991
The Teachers Achieving Success with Kids (TASK) mentorship program was designed to improve the attendance, discipline, academic achievement and attitudes of at-risk students attending an urban middle school. In order to develop positive relationships, 25 teacher-student pairs met each day away from the classroom setting and engaged in one hour…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Attitude Change, Behavior Change
Hough, David – 1989
The junior high school, typically grades 7-8 or 7-9, offers a program that is "not-quite-yet-but-trying-to-be" a high school. The organization of the middle school (commonly the grades 6-8), however, is based on a philosophy of education that was specifically designed to meet the special needs of a preadolescent learner; middle schools incorporate…
Descriptors: Age Grade Placement, Classes (Groups of Students), Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Development
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McBee, Maridyth M.; Kimball, George H. – 1982
This study investigated whether Chapter 1 middle school students showed more achievement gain when delivery of the pull-out supplementary reading or mathematics instruction was "massed" in time blocks or "distributed" weekly across the school year. All students in one Middle School Chapter 1 Learning Center program participated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Grade 6
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1985
Helping students learn about taking responsibility for the planning and shaping of their personal financial futures is this 13-lesson teaching unit's goal. Each lesson includes performance objectives, materials, motivational activities, development, and enrichment activities. Concepts are taught through worksheets, stories, and games. Students are…
Descriptors: Capitalism, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education, Economics Education
Stennett, R. G.; Earl, L. M. – 1984
A study assessing the instructional effects of increasing core French instruction in grade 8 from 20 to 40 minutes daily looks at students' acquisition of language skills, attitudes, and cultural awareness. A random sample of two groups of 150 students was chosen and the groups were administered different tests. Subjects were chosen randomly from…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Foreign Countries, French, Grade 6
Simmons, Roberta G.; And Others – 1977
This longitudinal study measured the impact of pubertal development, sex, race, and school type on the self-esteem of 12- and 13-year-old children. One of the questions being investigated was whether the move from a protected elementary school into a larger, more impersonal junior high affected children's self-image more negatively than did a move…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Dating (Social), Elementary Secondary Education
Montgomery County Public Schools, Rockville, MD. Dept. of Instructional Planning and Development. – 1979
This curricular framework for the subject area section, Home Economics for Grades K-8, is one of eight Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools (MCPS) Programs of Studies. The Goals of Education adopted by the MCPS Board of Education are provided. A Point of View subsection includes reasons for studying the subject, general outcomes sought,…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Clothing Instruction, Course Descriptions, Course Objectives
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