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North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability Services/Research. – 1993
An essay to test writing skill has been administered to North Carolina sixth and eighth graders for 10 years. In 1992-93, fourth graders were also tested. Each year compositions are graded by readers trained to apply a uniform set of criteria to the essays. Composition criteria are main ideas, supporting detail, organization, and coherence. A…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Essay Tests
New Mexico State Dept. of Education, Santa Fe. – 1992
The New Mexico Portfolio Writing Assessment for grades 4 and 6 (optional for grade 8) is to be conducted in the 1991-92 school year, with a call for "best piece" in April of 1992. All students in New Mexico in grades 4 and 6 will participate. This manual provides instruction for procedures to be followed in the school year. Guidelines…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Cues, Descriptive Writing, Educational Assessment
Texas Education Agency, Austin. – 1991
This Education for Self Responsibility (ESR) curriculum guide is designed as part of an extensive effort to curb the problem of drug use among school-age youth. Three major objectives provide the framework and focus for an instructional emphasis on an alcohol and other drug use prevention program. These objectives are: understanding the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavioral Objectives, Discussion Groups, Drug Education
Florida State Dept. of Education, Tallahassee. Div. of Public Schools. – 1990
This guide provides descriptions of the social studies courses that are offered in Florida schools for students in grades six through eight. Specifically, the guide presents broad guidelines for course content and outcomes and is intended to assist educators in developing specific instructional plans for given subject areas. The guide is designed…
Descriptors: Civics, Course Content, Cultural Education, Geography Instruction
Holiday-Crews, Margaret – 1989
The Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) launched the "Maryland and Your World" project in 1983. The purpose of this project is to assist local school systems in implementing guidelines established by MSDE's curricular framework for the social studies. Goal four of this framework focuses on the ideas, institutions, and processes…
Descriptors: Blacks, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Ethnic Groups
Rutgers, The State Univ., New Brunswick, NJ. Dept. of Vocational-Technical Education. – 1981
This handbook uses the 15 occupational clusters for infusing career exploration into an existing school curriculum for sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade students. Each grade's program explores designated occupational clusters through the basic curriculum of language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, art, music, and physical education. A…
Descriptors: Art, Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Career Exploration
Morrow, Marilyn A.; Randhawa, Bikkar S. – 1981
Similarities in cognitive, attitudinal, and environmental factor structures of 60 Canadian Indian and 91 White students in grades 4, 6, and 8 were analyzed and compared to determine if learning difficulties of Indian students stemmed from those factors. White and Indian cognitive factor structures were most similar, and attitudinal factor…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Canada Natives, Classroom Environment
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Div. of Curriculum and Instruction. – 1979
This guide presents the "minimum teaching essentials" published by the New York City Board of Education for grades 5-9. The bulletin begins with an overview of each subject area. Subject areas are grouped together under grade levels and information on instructional content is provided. Skills and knowledge objectives for each area are…
Descriptors: Art Education, Basic Skills, Career Education, Child Development
Coffman, William E. – 1978
The Iowa Tests of Basic Skills were administered to over 600 black and white students in grades six through nine, to determine if the test showed bias against minorities. Outliers were identified from test results. Outliers are items which differ from the central core of test items because they fall outside the range expected from a random…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Black Students, Comparative Testing
Chandler, William J., Comp.; And Others – 1969
GRADES OR AGES: K-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Literature. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into four main sections (K-3; 4-6; 7-9; 10-12) each with a suggested reading list and teaching guides for selected literature. The guide is offset printed and bound with a soft cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: The guide materials are…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Drama, Elementary Education, English Curriculum
Gallatin, Judith – 1972
The development of political thinking during adolescence was studied by interviewing 463 suburban and urban schoolchildren of average intelligence in grades 6, 8, 10, and 12. Each subject was interviewed individually by means of a Piaget-type questionnaire. Analysis of the questionnaire responses revealed a very distinctive developmental pattern.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Attitude Change
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Sham, Diana Po Lan – Online Submission, 2002
The research was conducted in Sydney and Hong Kong using students, from grades 5 to 9, whose first language or teaching medium was English, learning to read Chinese as second language. According to cognitive load theory, the processing of single Chinese characters accompanied by pictures should impose extraneous cognitive load and thus hinders…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Native Language, Chinese
Steinle, Vicki; Stacey, Kaye – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
Over a period of about 3 years, 3204 students in Grades 4 to 10 completed 9862 tests to identify and track their interpretation of decimal notation. Analysis of the longitudinal data demonstrates that different misconceptions persist among students to different degrees and in different patterns across the grades. Estimating the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Eshel, Yohanan; Kurman, Jenny – Journal of Social Psychology, 1990
Investigates ethnic acceptance among 613 Israeli middle grade students. Using self-reports determines the degree students wish to be involved with their homeroom classmates. Finds lower ethnic status peers accepted more readily when they score higher on indices of sociability, academic track level, and achievement. Discusses implications for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Environment, Ethnic Discrimination, Ethnic Status
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bates, John E.; Pettit, Gregory S. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2004
Background: Parents' use of physical discipline has generated controversy related to concerns that its use is associated with adjustment problems such as aggression and delinquency in children. However, recent evidence suggests that there are ethnic differences in associations between physical discipline and children's adjustment. This study…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Behavior Problems, Discipline, Marital Status
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