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Storm, Anne-Marie – 1991
This study explored the differences in views of male and female participants in the Natural Helpers program. The program was developed primarily to serve middle and high school students who want to increase their helping and communication skills so they can better help and support others. The central Virginian school in the study had received a…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Grade 7, Grade 8, Helping Relationship
Download full textBielenberg, Joy E. – 1993
This preliminary case study examined the knowledge and beliefs one seventh grade science teacher to determine: (1) how the teacher's knowledge and beliefs about teaching and learning informed her thinking and actions; (2) what her conception of teaching was; and (3) what were the constraints of the instructional setting. Data was collected from…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Case Studies, Developmental Stages, Grade 7
Peer reviewedSarvela, Paul D.; McClendon, E. J. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1988
The relationships among drug use, health beliefs, peer use, sex, and religion were examined using data collected from 265 seventh graders in rural northern Michigan and northeastern Wisconsin in January and February of 1984. Positive relationships were found between drug use and peer use and health beliefs. (TJH)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Drinking, Drug Use, Grade 7
Huang, Shwu-young L.; Waxman, Hersholt C. – 1994
Asian-Americans' exceptional academic achievement has generated a great deal of interest on the part of educators in search of explanations for the phenomenon. In particular, Asian-Americans' mathematics achievement has been remarkable and many studies have found these students outperforming students from other ethnic groups. A study was conducted…
Descriptors: Asian American Students, Beliefs, Classroom Environment, Elementary School Students
Kiley, Margaret A.; King, Kathryn A. – 1992
This study examined the personal value systems of 98 at-risk seventh- and eighth-grade students in a public middle school in southwest Baltimore County, Maryland. The study sought to determine differences in the value orientations, or personal beliefs and attitudes, of: (1) males and females; (2) minority and nonminority students; and (3) Asian…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Beliefs, Black Students, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedNewman, Richard S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1990
Characteristics related to help-seeking (perceived competence, motivational orientation, attitudes and beliefs, and age) were examined for 177 children in grades 3, 5, and 7. By grade seven, positive and negative attitudes were influential. Developmental and individual difference factors are discussed in connection with help-seeking and academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Beliefs, Child Development
