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Wilkins, Cynthia W. – 1997
Early research has shown that using practicing mathematics teachers as mentors results in increased teacher self-respect, improved teaching skills, and renewed enthusiasm for teaching. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of a resident mentor teacher on student achievement in mathematics. Measures of achievement were obtained…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Mathematics Achievement
Andrade, Heidi Goodrich – 1999
Two studies were conducted to determine the impact of instructional rubrics on the development of students' writing skills and their understanding of the qualities of good writing. In the first study, 303 eighth graders were given an instructional rubric before writing 1 of 3 different types of essays. Results suggest that an instructional rubric…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Grade 8, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
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Summey, Heidi K.; Strahan, David B. – Remedial and Special Education, 1997
Eleven seventh-grade students with mild disabilities in a general language arts classroom participated in a study that examined the effects of an instructional approach based on Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. Results found the students were more engaged in classroom activities and that eight of the students demonstrated more…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Inclusive Schools, Junior High Schools, Language Arts
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Ramsey, John M.; Hungerford, Harold – Journal of Environmental Education, 1989
This study reports the instructional effects of issue investigation and action training on the environmental behavior of middle school students. Discussed are the methodology including training and modules, the design of the study, instruments used, scoring protocols, and analysis of results. (Author/CW)
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education, Grade 7, Middle Schools
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Roswal, Glenn M.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1995
Reports a study that examined whether a collaborative peer tutoring program would improve urban seventh graders' self- concept and attitudes toward school. Pretesting and posttesting indicated that students in the collaborative peer tutoring program demonstrated significant improvements in self-concept and attitudes toward school as compared with…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Grade 7, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
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Gillespie, Joanne; Hemming, Liz; Phang, Ruth – Middle School Journal, 1995
Describes how seventh graders were given a writing activity, collaboratively created by teachers and librarians utilizing a computer program, to introduce cumulative tales. Details the process of identifying characteristics of cumulative tales, teaching as a team, writing the tale, recording the tale on the computer, and sharing cumulative tales.…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Creative Activities, Creative Writing, Grade 7
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Swan, Karen; van't Hooft, Mark; Kratcoski, Annette; Unger, Darlene – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2005
This preliminary study employed mixed methodologies to explore students' use of mobile computing devices and its effects on their motivation to learn, engagement in learning activities, and support for learning processes. Data collected from students in four elementary and two seventh grade science classes in Northeast Ohio included usage logs,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 7, Computers, Learning Processes
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Garthwait, Abigail; Weller, Herman G. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2005
Maine was the first state to put laptops in the hands of an entire grade of students. This interpretive case study of two middle school science-math teachers was driven by the general question: Given ubiquitous computing, how do teachers use computers in constructing curriculum and delivering instruction? Specifically, the researchers sought to…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Computer Uses in Education, Access to Computers, Middle School Teachers
Werts, Margaret Gessler; And Others – 1991
Three studies of five seventh-grade students (ages 12-14) with emotional disturbances were conducted to determine whether a stimulus class would emerge as a result of one conditional discrimination training using direct instruction (implemented with a constant time delay) augmented with instructive feedback. The students were taught to identify…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Efficiency, Emotional Disturbances, Feedback
Li, Bey-bey; Adams, Verna M. – 1995
This paper is concerned with understanding how a scaffolding process is utilized in the natural setting of a middle-school mathematics class. Wood, Bruner, & Ross (1976) characterize scaffolding as a learning process of a novice which is assisted and dominated by the adult. Rogoff and Gardner (1984) also point out that "to make messages…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Concept Formation, Grade 7, Grade 8
Farivar, Sydney – 1993
This study analyzed relationships between students' regard for one another and their mathematics achievement in cooperative learning groups in six grade 7 middle school classes. The sample consisted of 184 students (55% Hispanic, 14% Black, 27% White, 3% Asian American) in a city of Los Angeles County. Two teachers each taught three classes, two…
Descriptors: Classroom Design, Cooperative Learning, Grade 7, Interpersonal Relationship
Cassidy, Wanda; Bognar, Carl J. – 1991
A summary of the findings from the 1989 British Columbia (Canada) Assessment of Social Studies is presented. The extensive revision of the curriculum undertaken since the last social studies assessment (Aoki, Langford, Williams and Wilson, 1977), resulted in a relatively progressive and challenging curriculum. A few modifications are proposed in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Chicago Board of Education, IL. – 1981
This supplementary math curriculum guide for use with Spanish-speaking students in Chicago public schools' seventh and eighth grade classes employs a contrastive analysis approach. Lessons are presented for objectives for which the instructional strategies used in the United States differ from those in Spanish-speaking countries. (Objectives for…
Descriptors: Bilingual Instructional Materials, Cultural Differences, Curriculum Guides, Elementary School Mathematics
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Smrokowski, Linda – Learning Languages, 2005
Although she is now teaching Spanish in a new school full time, Linda Smrokowski, spent 9 years teaching in a once-per-week second language program. Because many once- or twice-per-week programs still exist, she shares strategies for writing and implementing detailed lesson plans that worked for her while she was teaching in a once-per-week…
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Spanish, Second Language Programs, Second Language Instruction
Palincsar, Annemarie Sullivan – 1984
A study compared the effectiveness of four instructional procedures designed to teach four strategies: summarizing, question generating, clarifying, and predicting. The four procedures were (1) reciprocal teaching/corrective feedback, which requires that initially the teacher do a considerable amount of instruction about and modeling of the four…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Theories, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback
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