This qualitative study examined the complexities of mutually engaging across differing positionalities (students and students, students and teacher) while intentionally working in spaces of distress (e.g. push and pull between oppression and liberation). The findings demonstrated the ways in which building a beloved community while situated within…

Two experiments show that performance impairment after failure can occur in different ways, depending on the goals, values, self-perception, sex, presence of an observer, and other attributional tendencies of the individual responding to that failure. (JAZ)

The Barksdale Self-Esteem Test, the Piers-Harris Childrens Self Concept Scale and the Tennessee Self Concept Scale were administered to three samples of lower middle-class junior high school students and factor analyzed. Six factors were found to be essentially invariant across samples. (Author/JKS)

Two purposes of this study were to determine the relationship between scores on five scales of the Dimensions of Self-Concept (DOSC) and academic success, and to ascertain the differential validity of the DOSC scales in comparing Mexican-American junior high school males and females. (Author/GK)

Examined relationship between adolescent pubertal status, the affective quality of family relations, and the early adolescent's exploration of a sense of ego identity in families (N=51) with seventh-grade adolescents. Results revealed that affective quality of parent-child relationships and pubertal status of adolescent appeared to influence…

Examined effects of parental separation on academic achievement and academic self-concept of 1,682 seventh and ninth graders. Academic self-concepts were lower among adolescents in mother-only families whose fathers departed since child entered third grade than among those living with both biological parents; adolescents whose fathers left earlier…

Investigated what kind of affective education experience would lead to maximum gain in self-concept. Contrasted facilitated and directed experiences. Found that seventh graders (N=30) in the facilitated group demonstrated the most positive self-concept change. (ABB)

The relationship between invitational education and student self-concept-as-learner was studied with 175 students in the seventh grade and again in the ninth grade. Self-concept-as-learner scores did not decline over this two-year period as predicted on the basis of other studies for students who participated in invitational education, a set of…

The extent to which a teaching method that emphasizes Mastery Learning Strategies facilitates the learning of low and high socioeconomic status children in desegregated classrooms was studied. Participants were 117 seventh graders in desegregated mathematics classes in an Israeli junior high school. (BS)

A sample of 110 seventh-and eighth-grade students were pre- and post- tested with six self-concept measures. Covariance structure analysis of the results supported a multifaceted, hierarchical interpretation of self-concept and an inference that self-concept is causally predominant over achievement. (Author)

Examined was whether within-class social comparison processes mediate the effects of ability grouping in mathematics on self-concept. The sample was 149 students in seventh-grade classrooms in two schools, one practicing within-classroom grouping and the other using between-classroom grouping. It was predicted that, among students who frequently…

The generalizability of the internal/external (I/E) frame of reference model was tested with 152 American seventh and eighth graders across different measures of mathematics and verbal self-concepts and across gender. All but one of the findings were consistent with the I/E model. (SLD)

The purpose of this study was to determine if the psychological concepts of Transactional Analysis, Structural Analysis, the Basic Life Position for most people, and Recognition Hunger described by Eric Berne, would effectively serve as content for psychological curriculum for seventh grade students. Teachers of six experimental groups received…

Examines the effects of nonpromotion on achievement and effort of junior high school students. Finds that students who were retained improved significantly with respect to academic achievement and effort when compared to students who had been considered for retention but had been promoted. (KEH)

Examined differences in self-concept, attributions, and teacher-related persistence in students with learning disabilities (N=49) and in nonhandicapped students (N=57). Results indicated students with learning disabilities reported lower self-concepts on items related to academic achievement, and were rated by their teachers as less persistent…