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Download full textGarcez, Carolina Montanha; Vitor, Davi Henrique Curia; Bortoli, Mirela Marchiori; Vieira, Lucas Augusto; Prado, Danielle Goncalves De Oliveira; Ramires, Thiago Gentil – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2020
The university aims to form professionals through transmission and dissemination of knowledge, therefore, the Extension, as a tool of the universities, has a major role contributing to improvements in the learning and teaching process. The Extension projects are extremely important for The Federal Technological University of Paraná (UTFPR), since…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, Universities, Competition
McClanahan, Wendy S.; Gao, Jian; Sanders, Felcia – Research For Action, 2013
Community schools are an approach that has been adopted to respond to this educational crisis. By partnering with local agencies, community schools provide students and families with access to healthcare services, educational enhancement and recreational opportunities, family economic supports such as workforce development and income tax…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Middle School Students, Student Participation, Student Experience
GOODMAN, KENNETH S. – 1968
THIS REPORT REPRESENTS AN ASSESSMENT OF THE FIRST FULL SCHOOL YEAR OF 1,429 FOURTH AND SEVENTH GRADERS RECEIVING TITLE I INSTRUCTION IN 16 SCHOOL DISTRICTS OF NORTHERN APPALACHIA. THE STUDY WAS CONCERNED WITH THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VARIOUS PROJECTS ON THE READING ACHIEVEMENT OF CHILDREN. THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ARE CONSIDERED PERTINENT TO THE…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Grade 4, Grade 7, Instructional Materials
1964
THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY CENTER PROGRAM HAS BEEN TO PROVIDE A PLACE WHERE STUDENTS MAY HAVE A QUIET PLACE TO STUDY AND WHERE THEY MAY RECEIVE HELP WITH THEIR SCHOOL WORK. SEVENTEEN CENTERS ARE IN OPERATION WITH HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE AGE TUTORS. THE COORDINATOR IN CHARGE AT EACH CENTER IS A TEACHER FROM THE SCHOOL WHERE IT IS LOCATED. EACH CENTER…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7
Alonso, Laura – 1996
A project developed a program for improving deficient student-to-student listening skills. The targeted population consisted of 18 seventh-grade middle school students in a culturally diverse, lower middle class community in a near-western suburb of Chicago. The problem of deficient listening skills was evident through teacher observation and…
Descriptors: Action Research, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Grade 7
Shultz, David – 1998
This report describes a project designed to decrease the number of missing, incomplete, and late assignments of seventh-grade students in a middle school science class. The students attended a small parochial school in a suburb of a large midwestern city. The students' problems with organization were documented through anecdotal records; surveys…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Grade 7, Homework
Innes, Ruth S. – 1989
A practicum was designed to improve the quality of peer interactions among seventh and eighth graders in a private elementary-secondary school. The goals of the practicum were to facilitate positive peer interactions among the middle school students, create a more positive atmosphere in the middle school, and develop positive attitudes toward…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Change Strategies, Grade 7, Grade 8
Peer reviewedDiCintio, Matthew J.; Stevens, Robert J. – Research in Middle Level Education Quarterly, 1997
Examined relationship between the cognitive demands of instruction and student motivation in fifth-, sixth-, and seventh-grade mathematics classrooms. Found through observation and survey data that sixth- and seventh-grade math lessons were characterized by significantly fewer elements of higher-order thinking than fifth-grade math lessons, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Comparative Analysis, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
Mendoza, Yolanda – 1996
A practicum program was developed and implemented to increase parental involvement, teach parents how to help their children, reverse parents' and students' negative attitudes toward mathematics, and enhance mathematics performance of at-risk seventh-grade students. The objectives of the program were to increase parental involvement by 40 percent,…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Educational Improvement, Educational Strategies, Grade 7
PDF pending restorationEilers, Janet L.; Fox, Judith L.; Welvaert, Mona S.; Wood, Jacqueline M. – 1998
This action research study examined the problem of the loss of commitment to schoolwork by middle level students as evidenced by missing assignments; late work, incomplete work, or both; and an attitude of indifference on the part of the students. The study also reviewed a variety of strategies to improve student learning and students' view of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Action Research, Assignments, Cooperative Learning
