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Mazur, Joanna; Tabak, Izabela; Zawadzka, Dorota – School Mental Health, 2017
Ecological studies, when the school is the unit of analysis, may help to design and evaluate school intervention programs. The paper discusses selected contextual determinants of bullying, using data collected in Poland in 2015 and aggregated to school level (4085 students; 70 junior high schools). The main hypothesis is related to the…
Descriptors: Bullying, Junior High School Students, Social Capital, Foreign Countries
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De Haan, Laura; Boljevac, Tina; Schaefer, Kurt – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2010
The study explores how differences in rural community contexts relate to early adolescent alcohol use. Data were gathered from 1,424 adolescents in the sixth through eighth grades in 22 rural Northern Plains communities, as well as 790 adults, parents, teachers, and community leaders. Multilevel modeling analyses revealed that community…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Community Characteristics, Drinking, Early Adolescents
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Seed, Allen H.; Watts, Cherry – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2011
The Middle School Concept brings together good teaching practices with the unique needs of pre-adolescent students. Since the passing of the NCLB, more and more attention has been generated on the results of high stakes testing. The question of what happens to the middle school concept when it confronts the demands of this new age of testing is…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Needs, Accountability, Standards