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Bruckerhoff, Charles E. – 1991
The efforts of Cleveland's intermediate level mathematics teachers to change their curriculum from computation to a dual emphasis on application and computation are described. This paper reports on the second year of a project to enhance mathematics instruction. A natural history ethnography was conducted, which focused on the work of seven…
Descriptors: Children, Curriculum Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Improvement
Young, Allison J.; And Others – 1992
Students' motivation was studied within specific academic content areas using a goal theory framework. The relationships between motivational orientation and cognitive processes within and across content areas are also considered. Six-hundred sixth and seventh graders, approximately 90% white, from two suburban middle schools participated.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Educational Objectives, English
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1992
This report provides an overview of the Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTP) and summarizes students' average writing assessment scores from 1987 through 1992. Oklahoma has completed its 6th year of administering a state legislature mandated test to 10th graders and its 5th year of testing 7th graders. The Stanford Writing Assessment Program was…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Educational Trends, Grade 10
Oklahoma State Dept. of Education, Oklahoma City. – 1993
This report provides an overview of the Oklahoma School Testing Program (OSTP) and summarizes students' average writing assessment scores from 1987 through 1993. In 1992, the Stanford Writing Assessment replaced the MAT-6 Writing Test as the instrument for measuring writing achievement for 7th and 10th graders in Oklahoma. Student papers were hand…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Comparative Testing, Educational Trends, Grade 10
Summerbridge National Project, San Francisco, CA. – 1993
This report presents an overview and the philosophy of a particular Summerbridge National Project program conducted at the San Francisco University High School. The program offers talented and diverse middle school students an intense 6-week academic enrichment program taught by bright, motivated high school and college students. The program…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Admission Criteria, Budgets, Enrichment
Farivar, Sydney – 1991
This study investigated the impact of a sequence of social relationship activities on regard for classmates and teammates in middle school (grade 7) mathematics classes using cooperative learning. The sample consisted of 184 students (55% Hispanic American, 27% White, 14% Black, and 3% Asian American) in a city in Los Angeles County (California).…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Black Students, Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis
Renaud, Albert J. – 1976
This guidebook reports the results of a three-year study involving the use of paraprofessionals with mathematics students in the La Mesa-Spring Valley School District (California), and outlines a program for initiating a mathematics paraprofessional program. Over 1200 students in grades 4-7 participated in this project to determine the effects of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Evaluation Methods, Grade 7
Reezigt, Gerry J.; Weide, Marga G. – 1990
As part of an educational reform in the Netherlands, teachers were required to implement models of adaptive instruction, including group-based mastery learning. It was expected that mastery learning would raise achievement and reduce differences in achievement among children of different social classes and between girls and boys. In 1987, students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Dutch, Elementary School Students
Thompson, Denise R. – 1989
This document comprises an evaluation of the 1988 METRO Achievement Program, a summer educational program to help develop the academic potential of primarily Black and Hispanic girls entering the seventh and eighth grades in Chicago. The 5-week program included the following components: (1) mathematics, science, and communication skills classes;…
Descriptors: Black Students, Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Females
Hawver, Deborah A. – 1990
This practicum addresses the need to organize a structured problem solving program for fifth and seventh grade students. The improvement of the students' problem solving skills and the enhancement of students' attitudes toward problem solving in mathematics were the main goals. The program implemented consisted of a structured problem solving…
Descriptors: Calculators, Cognitive Development, Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Mathematics
Alabama State Dept. of Education, Montgomery. – 1987
This guide is designed to help classroom teachers implement the Alabama Course of Study: Mathematics K-12. It is inclusive also of the objectives tested by the Stanford Achievement Tests and the Alabama Basic Competency Tests. One characteristic of the curriculum guide is that it clearly states what students should learn in each grade level. These…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Course Content, Geometry, Grade 7
Pennsylvania State Dept. of Education, Harrisburg. Div. of Educational Testing and Evaluation. – 1986
This manual contains the statistics generated from the Pennsylvania Quality Education Assessment (QEA) administered in 1986. The assessment was to evaluate the achievement of certain educational objectives in grades 4, 6, 7, 9, and 11 in the public schools. The tests were in the following areas: reading comprehension, writing skills, mathematics,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Assessment, Educational Objectives, Educational Quality
Rader, Martha S. – 1986
A project was designed to provide career development activities for selected educationally at-risk seventh graders in two target junior high schools in the Roanoke City Public School System, Virginia. The assumption was that career development activities that provide students with increased self-understanding, coupled with strategies involving the…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Exploration
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. Office of Research. – 1985
The primary purpose of the Statewide Testing Program is to assess the achievement of 4th, 5th, and 10th grade students in South Carolina public schools. The results provide educators with information which facilitates the decision-making process at the State, district, and school levels. For the third consecutive year, Form U of the Comprehensive…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Basic Skills, Disabilities
Tyrell, Jean – 1983
Ways in which social studies teachers can help students in grades 6, 7, and 8 improve their reading comprehension and understanding of social studies ideas and concepts are discussed, and sample reading comprehension activities are provided. First, teachers must choose a textbook with readability and concept levels appropriate for their students.…
Descriptors: Concept Teaching, Content Area Reading, Critical Reading, Grade 6
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