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Carl, David L. – 1970
Project Mobilization was a program designed to discover relevant materials and procedures for stimulating interest and motivation in educationally disadvantaged suburban youth. In the Union County Regional High School District No. 1, New Jersey, 15 percent of students were found to be "educationally disadvantaged." Preliminary steps in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educationally Disadvantaged, Grade 10, Grade 11
Providence Public Schools, RI. – 1969
GRADES OR AGES: Grades 8-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Social studies; civilizations. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into 12 chapters, most of which are in list form. It is mimeographed and staple-bound with a paper cover. OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: No specific activities are mentioned. The guide is intended as an overview of the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. – 2000
Three guides provide sample problems like the ones students would solve on the Colorado Student Assessment Program tests. For each question, the pertinent Colorado state standard is identified. The ninth grade guide contains questions in reading, writing and mathematics; the guide to the 10th grade examination also contains questions related to…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 9
Anderson, Philip M. – 1990
A study examined the poetic conventions of rhyme, meter, and diction to determine whether central tendencies and differences in evaluative response at various stages of late childhood and adolescence were discernible. Data were gathered from students of four grade levels (5, 7, 9, 11) enrolled in New York City public schools (359 students in all).…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Evaluation Research, Grade 11, Grade 5
Colorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. – 1987
To evaluate the writing skills of Colorado students under the Educational Quality Act of 1985 (commonly known as the 2 + 2 project), a study administered writing tasks to a statewide sample of third, sixth, ninth, and eleventh grade students in the spring of 1987. A narrative or story-telling writing task was administered to 2,000 grade 3 students…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education, Expository Writing, Grade 11
Wiser, Marianne; Kipman, Daphna – 1988
This paper describes the characterization of a student's framework of heat and temperature, and the development of a microcomputer-based laboratories (MBL) intervention program for grade 9 and grade ll students. The report presents the results of classroom study, including interview questions and answers and pretest/posttest, from experimental and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Interfaces, Grade 11, Grade 9
National Science Teachers Association, Washington, DC. – 1978
This instructional unit contains six classroom lessons in which 9th, 10th, or 11th grade social studies students examine the effects of competition among nations and world regions as demand for oil outstrips supply. The overall objective is to help students understand the concept that energy is a commodity to be bought and sold like any other…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Economics, Economics Education, Energy
Yeung, Nancy Tsui Yee; Yeung, Alexander Seeshing – 2001
A total of 199 students from a school in Hong Kong responded to 25 items in a survey. Principal components analysis found four school motivation factors consistent with the Task, Effort, Competition and Praise scales of the McInerney, et al. (1997) Inventory of School Motivation, one education aspiration factor and one career aspiration factor.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Attitude Measures, Competition
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Igoe, Ann R.; Sullivan, Howard – Journal of Educational Research, 1993
This study investigated return-to-task rates on hard and easy tasks that secondary students projected for scenario characters and for themselves. Data revealed significantly greater rates of return to easy tasks. Girls had significantly higher return-to-task rates. Evidence of self-presentation bias was present. (SM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bias, Difficulty Level, Grade 11
Young, Michael; Donnelly, Joseph; Denny, George – American Journal of Health Education, 2004
This study examined area-specific self-esteem scores by sexual behavior relative to adolescents' values concerning participation in sexual intercourse as an unmarried teenager. The sample consisted of 332 students in grades 7-12 from a Southern rural school district. Students were asked if they had ever had sexual intercourse (yes/no) and if they…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Self Esteem, Adolescents, Sexuality
Tipton, Mark – 1990
The Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS) results of 81 West Virginia home-schooled children in grades 3, 6, 9, and 11 were analyzed. Means of each sub-section of these CTBS scores were analyzed for significant differences from the West Virginia public school means for the respective grades and subsections. Families of the children tested…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
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Stapley, Janice C.; Haviland, Jeannette M. – Sex Roles, 1989
This study investigates the status of depression among sex-related emotional differences in adolescents and examines the organizational properties of emotion relative to other life experience. Fifth-, seventh-, ninth-, and eleventh-grade students reported on experience and situational dynamics of 12 emotions. Gender differences in adolescent…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Analysis of Variance, Depression (Psychology)
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Small, Stephen A.; Kerns, Donell – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1993
Assessed incidence and risk factors of unwanted sexual activity initiated by peers for 1,149 adolescent females. Twenty percent of sample reported some type of unwanted sexual contact in past year. Over one-third of this group reported having been forced to have sexual intercourse. Boyfriends were most commonly reported perpetrators followed by…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, At Risk Persons, Females
Speirs, Robert – 1994
This practicum was designed because out of school suspensions as a disciplinary procedure were not effective in changing students' behaviors. The students felt angry and rejected by the teachers, and they did not feel part of the school culture. The practicum offered a peace curriculum designed to be used in content academic areas, small groups,…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Techniques, Conflict Resolution, Curriculum Development
King, Alan J. C.; And Others – 1988
This report contains the findings from a survey of over 38,000 youth in grades 7, 9, 11, and the first year of college or university, designed to obtain a cross-sectional perspective of the development of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Also included…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries
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