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Garcia, Patricia Lee Stout – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The focus of this study was to determine if there was a significant relationship amongst tenth and eleventh graders' (secondary students) Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) scores due to teacher personality styles. One model that was reviewed in this study was the five factor model. The study used the Big Five Inventory (BFI), to…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Personality Traits, Grade 10, Grade 11
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Corrin, William; Lindsay, James J.; Somers, Marie-Andree; Myers, Nathan E.; Meyers, Coby V.; Condon, Christopher A.; Smith, Janell K. – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2012
This report presents the findings of a rigorous experimental impact evaluation and implementation study of one such intervention, the Content Literacy Continuum (CLC), developed by researchers at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. This evaluation of CLC was conducted by three partnering organizations: REL Midwest, MDRC, and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Scores
Lartson, Cobina Adu – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Recent trends indicate a significant decline in the number of students graduating from Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) programs in the US. The under-representation of students of color, females and low income students in STEM programs has also been documented. Design Based Science (DBS) instruction has been suggested to improve…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, STEM Education, Instructional Design, Design
Maddox, Pamela Rena – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Every educator's quest is to help students learn in the environment that will allow them to obtain and retain the information presented to them. In the new age of technology, more students are able to choose the environment in which they learn. This study is a quantitative comparative study of the academic performance between online and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, High School Students, English Instruction, Language Arts
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Mason-Jones, Amanda J.; Flisher, Alan J.; Mathews, Catherine – Health Education Research, 2011
Characteristics of learners who become peer educators are rarely explored despite the potential relevance to the success of peer education programmes. Fifteen high schools selected to implement peer education HIV prevention programmes in South Africa were recruited. A total of 2339 Grade 10 learners were surveyed and comparisons were made between…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Prevention, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Foreign Countries
Verhage, L. Paul – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study measured the effect of completing a BalloonSat project on student attitude toward science. Seven categories of student attitudes toward science were measured using the Test of Science Relate Attitudes survey (TOSRA). The research anticipated that the BalloonSat project would have similar effects on student attitudes as found in robotics…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Student Surveys, Student Projects
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Giambo, Debra A. – American Secondary Education, 2010
The educational accountability systems of both the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2001 and the state of Florida (as of 1999) were modeled after Texas' system, despite its flaws. NCLB reaches for all students to achieve academic proficiency and designates students with limited English proficiency (LEP) as an important subgroup. As we work with…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Graduation, High School Students, Limited English Speaking
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Basaran, Bulent; Gonen, Selahattin – Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching, 2012
In this study, a web site including instructional materials such as white sheet videos, simulations, and animations and problem solving materials such as true-false questions, fill-in-the-blanks, puzzles, open-ended and multiple-choice questions regarding such important physics units as "Force" and "Movement" was designed. The purpose was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, High School Students, Scores
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Baig, Muntajeeb Ali – Journal of Educational Technology, 2011
An experimental design was carried out to study the effectiveness in learning of the tenth grade students in Physics, when taught through online and face to face. A mash-up of different online tools and learning environment is used for the study. Website "Wiziq.com" provides these online tools and learning environment hence it is used…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Instructional Effectiveness, Academic Achievement
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Crane, Eric W.; Barrat, Vanessa X.; Huang, Min – Regional Educational Laboratory West, 2011
This document summarizes a study that examines the relationship between performance on Utah's English proficiency assessment and English language arts and mathematics content assessments by English language learner students and compares the performance of English language learner and non-English language learner students on the content…
Descriptors: Language Arts, Performance Based Assessment, Grade 11, Grade 10
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Rahman, Fazal ur; Jumani, Nabi Bux; Chaudry, Muhammad Ajmal; Chisti, Saeed ul Hasan; Abbasi, Fahim – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2010
The impact of metacognitive awareness on students' performance has been examined in the present study. 900 students of grade X participated in the study. Metacognitive awareness was measured using inventory, while performance of students was measured with the help of researcher made test in the subject of chemistry. Results indicated that…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Chemistry, Secondary School Science, High School Students
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Sak, Ugur; Oz, Ozge – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2010
A research study using one-group pretest-posttest design was carried out on the effectiveness of the Creative Reversal Act (CREACT) on creative thinking. The CREACT is a new, teaching technique developed based on the theory of the janusian process. The research participants included 34 students who were attending 10th grade at a social studies…
Descriptors: Creativity, Pretests Posttests, Program Effectiveness, Scores
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Randall, Edin T.; Bohnert, Amy M. – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
The current study examined the curvilinear links between involvement in organized activities (OA) and sport activities specifically and various indicators of psychological and social development. Participants included 150 9th and 10th graders (57% females) from an urban, selective-enrollment high school. Eligibility for admission is based on city…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Family Income, Standardized Tests, Adolescents
Jackson, Willie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Parental involvement is viewed as critical to the development of effective schools and student achievement. The relationship between parental involvement and achievement test scores at a rural high school in Florida was not known. This high school has not met the state standards as determined by the Florida Comprehensive Achievement Test (FCAT)…
Descriptors: High School Students, Grade 10, State Standards, Reading Achievement
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Galliher, Renee V.; Jones, Matthew D.; Dahl, Angie – Developmental Psychology, 2011
In this study, we examined concurrent and longitudinal relations among Navajo adolescents' ethnic identity, experiences of discrimination, and psychosocial outcomes (i.e., self-esteem, substance use, and social functioning). At Time 1, 137 Navajo adolescents (67 male, 70 female), primarily in Grades 9 and 10, completed a written survey assessing…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Identification, Parent Child Relationship, Adolescents
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