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Hunter, Maxwell W.; Chen, Alexander N. – Journal of Special Education Technology, 1992
A local area network provided 32 seventh-grade remedial or learning-disabled students and their teachers with access to complete student performance records. Analysis indicated that system use by students and teachers was high and was a positive experience. A positive correlation was obtained between student use and completion of academic tasks.…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Classroom Techniques, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Networks

Garcia, Eugene E. – Education and Urban Society, 1993
Describes a study that brought together university faculty and seventh-grade teachers to design and implement an instructional intervention to enhance academic learning opportunities for at-risk Hispanic students. Results show a consistent positive comparative academic outcome in reading comprehension, vocabulary, language mechanics, and language…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Faculty, Cooperative Learning, Curriculum Design

Eshel, Yohanan; Kurman, Jenny – Journal of Social Psychology, 1990
Investigates ethnic acceptance among 613 Israeli middle grade students. Using self-reports determines the degree students wish to be involved with their homeroom classmates. Finds lower ethnic status peers accepted more readily when they score higher on indices of sociability, academic track level, and achievement. Discusses implications for…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Environment, Ethnic Discrimination, Ethnic Status
Blitstein, Jonathan L.; Murray, David M.; Lytle, Leslie A.; Birnbaum, Amanda S.; Perry, Cheryl L. – Health Education & Behavior, 2005
The authors assessed a cohort of 2,335 students from the Minneapolis, Minnesota, area to identify predictors of violent behavior and to determine whether the predictors varied by gender. The sample was 76% White; boys and girls were equally represented. The majority lived with two parents. A measure of violent behavior collected at the end of the…
Descriptors: Violence, Females, Early Adolescents, Gender Differences
Securro, Samuel; Jones, Jerry D.; Cantrell, Danny; Blackwell, James – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2006
The "No Child Left Behind" Act mandated the need for research-based interventions to increase and to improve learning and achievement for all youngsters. Research in computer-based instruction and intervention for learning basic skills and related achievements in content area subjects has documented the need for controlled investigations…
Descriptors: Intervention, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Standardized Tests
Bosworth, Kris; Hammer, Ronen – 1995
The situations in which young adolescents identify anger and the strategies they use in response to anger were studied with students from a midwestern urban middle school health class. The sample included 53 sixth graders, 41 seventh graders, and 41 eighth graders. Responses to a one-page survey indicated that students reported more anger…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anger, Coping, Elementary School Students
Drummond, Robert J.; Drummond, Heather A. – 1995
The College Reach Out Program is an educational program funded by the Florida Legislature designed to motivate and promote students in grades K-12 to complete high school and enroll in some type of postsecondary educational institution. The program is an attempt to help racial/ethnic minorities, low income students, and educationally disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Career Choice, College School Cooperation, Educationally Disadvantaged
Abood, Faye – 1995
This practicum was designed to address the problem of middle school students reacting to and handling conflict situations with violent behavior in an urban environment. These responses affected the well-being and safety of all middle school students at the school. The major goal was for middle school students to increase their awareness of…
Descriptors: Aggression, Behavior Modification, Conflict Resolution, Counseling
Saskatchewan Education, Training and Employment, Regina. Curriculum and Instruction Branch. – 1994
This bibliography, organized in seven sections, provides a comprehensive overview of Canadian arts education resources useful in the instruction of junior high school students. (1) "Titles and Descriptions" provides information, sources, annotations, and suggested subject integration for alphabetically arranged items. (2) "Community…
Descriptors: Art Education, Audiovisual Aids, Canada Natives, Community Resources
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1997
Parental involvement is critical to a child's success in school. This handbook provides parents with information about the Grade 7 curriculum in Alberta, Canada. Based on the Alberta Education "Program of Studies: Junior High Schools," the handbook describes the knowledge, skills, and attitudes students in Alberta are expected to…
Descriptors: Art Education, Career Exploration, Educational Objectives, Fine Arts
Robison, Esther – 1993
This report discusses the development and initial effectiveness of the Community Schools program, a collaborative effort in New York City's Community School District 6 designed to create a new institution that offers a broad range of services for students and their families. The program includes formal and parental education; summer camps; and…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Cultural Differences, Economically Disadvantaged, Family School Relationship
Rowe, Helga A. H.; And Others – 1993
This book is about learning and teaching with personal computers. It is aimed at teachers, student teachers, those responsible for pre-service and in-service teacher training, school administrators, and parents. The book is arranged in four sections. Part I includes two chapters providing a theoretical framework for learning and teaching with…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Literacy, Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation
Cheng, Maisy; Yau, Maria – 1998
This report provides a snapshot of students in grades 7 and 8 of the former Toronto (Ontario, Canada) public schools as they were in 1997. The first survey of students in grades 7 and 8 was conducted in 1970, and surveys have been conducted periodically since then. The survey, which was completed by 7,081 students, 92% of all students in grades 7…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Computer Literacy, Computer Uses in Education, Cultural Differences
New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Bilingual Education. – 1997
This manual incorporates a Multiple Intelligences perspective into its presentation of themes and lesson ideas for Spanish-English bilingual elementary school students in grades 4-8 and is designed for both gifted and special education uses. Each unit includes practice activities, semantic maps to illustrate and help organize ideas as well as…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Students, Cognitive Mapping, Elementary Education
Newell, Sigrin T. – 1992
To help determine how the introduction of alternate assessment can be structured to maximize its acceptance and long-term adoption by teachers, a case study was conducted of the introduction of alternate assessment in a suburban middle school in the spring of 1991. Three seventh-grade life science teachers, three eighth-grade physical science…
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Biological Sciences, Case Studies, Educational Assessment