Publication Date
In 2025 | 53 |
Since 2024 | 194 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 735 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 1285 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 2436 |
Descriptor
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Elementary Education | 610 |
Middle Schools | 307 |
Intermediate Grades | 231 |
Secondary Education | 230 |
Grade 5 | 219 |
Grade 6 | 206 |
Grade 4 | 126 |
Junior High Schools | 117 |
Grade 7 | 92 |
Elementary Secondary Education | 86 |
Grade 8 | 63 |
More ▼ |
Audience
Practitioners | 147 |
Researchers | 123 |
Teachers | 83 |
Parents | 48 |
Students | 27 |
Media Staff | 20 |
Policymakers | 20 |
Administrators | 14 |
Counselors | 12 |
Community | 5 |
Support Staff | 4 |
More ▼ |
Location
Australia | 143 |
United Kingdom | 116 |
Canada | 109 |
United Kingdom (England) | 102 |
Turkey | 89 |
Sweden | 61 |
Netherlands | 60 |
Spain | 57 |
China | 41 |
Israel | 41 |
Finland | 37 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Meets WWC Standards without Reservations | 5 |
Meets WWC Standards with or without Reservations | 5 |
Does not meet standards | 1 |

Janos, Paul M.; And Others – Journal of Higher Education, 1989
Certain highly able and motivated young adolescents can successfully pursue full-time college-level studies without unreasonable compromises to psychological and social adjustment. Ways in which an adequate program facilitating early college entrance might be structured are suggested. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Adjustment (to Environment)

Pearson, Paul R.; And Others – Educational Studies, 1989
Reports a British study that explores relationship between social class and personality among 11-year-olds, using the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory-Short Form. Social class was determined by the father's occupation, and alternatively, by neighborhood. No correlation was found between father's occupation and any of the four personality…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Fathers, Foreign Countries, Middle Class
Rudnick, Beth G. – Teaching PreK-8, 1995
Describes how a fifth-grade teacher intervened to bridge the language and cultural social divisions in her classroom. By experiencing a key math lesson entirely in Spanish, native English speakers quickly began to understand what it is like to not be able to understand. Teachers reported a profound effect of this experiment on the classroom. (ET)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Elementary Education

Shulman, Shmuel; And Others – Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1994
Thirty-two preadolescents were observed in a longitudinal study of attachment and subsequent social development, and case studies of four friendship pairs were conducted. Findings suggest a process model of friendship formation based on repetition of infant attachment history in establishing children's preadolescent friendships. Proposes a 3-stage…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Developmental Continuity, Developmental Stages

Deary, Ian J. – Developmental Psychology, 1995
Tested three competing structural equation models concerning auditory inspection time (AIT) and cognitive ability. Found that auditory inspection times near age 11 correlate most strongly with later high IQ. (ET)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attribution Theory, Auditory Perception, Causal Models

Carlson Jones, Diane; Costin, Susan E. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Explored the role of relationship orientations, gender-related characteristics, and perceptions of friendship quality during preadolescence and adolescence. Results indicated that grade and sex differences are evident in the early adolescent years and are linked to perceptions of friendship quality. Preliminary evidence showed that relationship…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Age Differences, Children

Nippold, Marilyn A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1995
This article discusses word definitions within the context of language development in school-age children and adolescents. It explains the importance of the ability to define words, reviews the growth of word definition during school years, describes standardized tests, and offers suggestions for expanding the normative database for word…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education

Zaidi, Lisa Y.; Gutierrez-Kovner, Victoria M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1995
Describes a pilot group developed to address the traumagenic stigmatization, powerlessness, betrayal, and sexualization that characterize victims of sexual abuse. Treatment modules developed within this framework focused on: group cohesiveness, discussion of specific abuse experiences, coping strategies, sexuality, victimization prevention, and…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Child Abuse, Coping, Group Counseling

Kloep, Marion – Journal of Adolescence, 1995
Longitudinal study investigated how economic crisis and value change in society affect family life and the development of preadolescent girls. Economic difficulties together with value differences between the parents had a negative influence on marital happiness, which in turn led to lower nurture and higher parental hostility towards the…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Depression (Psychology), Economic Factors, Family Problems

Plancherel, Bernard; Bolognini, Monique – Journal of Adolescence, 1995
Focused on mental health and protective factors in early adolescence. Significant relations between coping strategies and mental health were found, which are different according to gender: girls invest in more social relations, negative feelings, and consumption habits; boys often use sense of humor, or practice a hobby or sport. (JBJ)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Coping, Elementary Education

Social Education, 1991
Provides direction for developing appropriate, meaningful social studies instruction for the middle school. Identifies characteristics of early adolescents that have a direct relationship to curriculum design and the selection of appropriate social studies instruction strategies. Offers National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS)…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Principles, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum

Hetherington, E. Mavis – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 1992
Summarizes and discusses results of the longitudinal study that comprises this monograph issue. Results concern: (1) marital, parent-child, and sibling relationships in families with single and remarried mothers; (2) the relationship between parenting style and adolescent adjustment; and (3) the relationship between marital transitions and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies

Ollendick, Thomas H.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1992
From fourth graders rating their classmates, assigned 296 children sociometric classifications of popular, neglected, average, controversial, or rejected. Five years later, 267 of classified children were evaluated on academic performance, social behavior, and psychological adjustment. In general, children classified as rejected or controversial…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Friendship

East, Patricia L. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1991
Discusses perceptions that sixth graders and their parents have about their relationships. Sociable children were more likely to agree with their parents about the supportiveness of the relationship than were withdrawn or aggressive children. Mothers of withdrawn or aggressive children, and fathers of aggressive children, felt less supportive than…
Descriptors: Aggression, Childhood Attitudes, Family Attitudes, Family Influence

Chen, Mary Jane; Yuen, Joseph Chak-Kau – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1991
Results of a study of children's performance on pseudohomophone naming, similarity judgment, and lexical decision suggest that training in pinyin, a system for spelling Chinese words in Latin letters, helps child readers pronounce unfamiliar words, and makes them more responsive to visual information but less precise in word recognition.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Non Roman Scripts, Phonemic Alphabets