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Download full textMingyu Feng; Gary Weiser; Kelly Collins – WestEd, 2024
This report delves into the cost and effectiveness of the ASSISTments program as an online math support tool. Aiming to replicate previous findings, the study focused on the impact of ASSISTments on student learning in seventh-grade classrooms. The report outlines the study's objectives, setting, and participants alongside the study design,…
Descriptors: Costs, Cost Effectiveness, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Technology
Direct linkDougherty, Shaun M.; Goodman, Joshua S.; Hill, Darryl V.; Litke, Erica G.; Page, Lindsay C. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2015
Taking algebra by eighth grade is considered an important milestone on the pathway to college readiness. We highlight a collaboration to investigate one district's effort to increase middle school algebra course-taking. In 2010, the Wake County Public Schools began assigning middle school students to accelerated math and eighth-grade algebra based…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Public Schools, Mathematics, Algebra
Clotfelter, Charles T.; Ladd, Helen F.; Vigdor, Jacob L. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
In 2008, the California State Board of Education voted to require all students to enroll in algebra by 8th grade. This policy initiative, yet to be actually implemented, represents the culmination of a decades-long movement toward offering algebra instruction before the traditional high school years. Nationally, the proportion of 8th grade…
Descriptors: Algebra, Board of Education Policy, Required Courses, Middle Schools
Maples, Jeffrey B. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effects of class size and student achievement in mathematics and reading. The study focused on grades 6 through 8 and used the results of the North Carolina EOG tests in mathematics and reading for the academic year 2006-2007. This study examined the effects of class size and student achievement in…
Descriptors: Class Size, Middle Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Small Classes
Paeplow, Colleen – Wake County Public School System, 2010
In 2006-07, seven Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) middle schools piloted Algebraic Thinking as an alternate approach to teaching middle school mathematics. Algebraic Thinking was developed to help students in grade 6 reach higher mathematics courses by combining the regular and advanced middle school mathematics courses into one…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Middle Schools, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedCashwell, Craig S. – Journal of Humanistic Education and Development, 1995
Examines the relationship between family cohesion, family adaptability, student satisfaction with family, and self-esteem in 619 middle school students. Analysis indicates that within the specified model, family satisfaction was the strongest predictor of student self-esteem, and that eighth- grade students reported a significantly lower level of…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Family Environment, Family Influence, Grade 6
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Computer Services. – 1989
Weatherlinker is a unit of curriculum materials designed to enhance the study of meteorological science at the seventh-grade level and to enrich that study through the use of various types of technology. This document consists of a teacher's guide, student handouts, information on telecommunications, and a list of materials that were used by the…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education, Grade 7, Instructional Materials
Report of Student Performance in Writing, 2001-2002: Grades 4 and 7. North Carolina Testing Program.
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Instructional Services. – 2002
The purpose of this report is to provide information about the level of student performance in the area of writing based on results from the annual on-demand writing sample required during the North Carolina Writing Assessment at grades 4 and 7 for 2001-02. The report was generated using aggregate student data from North Carolina public schools,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Grade 4, Grade 7
Peer reviewedSmith, Dennis W.; And Others – Journal of Health Education, 1995
Reports findings from the 1987 National Cancer Institute North Carolina School Health and Tobacco Education Project, which assessed schools' curriculum awareness, adoption, implementation, and institutionalization, focusing on 10 lessons learned after 5 years of following participating school districts. The lessons are categorized into the areas…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Curriculum Research, Educational Environment
