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Petersburg Public Schools, VA. – 1974
This third of a 3-volume curriculum guide for Grades 1-9, contains master units for Grades 8-9 which incorporate career education concepts into the existing curriculum. The career education program for Grades 8 and 9 focuses on factors related to career choice, educational planning, decisionmaking, and personal information and individual…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Bibliographies, Career Education, Career Exploration
Wircenski, Jerry L. – Vocational Education Journal, 1985
Discusses the problems of disadvantaged youth and presents suggestions for solving them, including offering prevocational and career exploration experiences in grades 7-9, identification of student skills and abilities in these grades, expanded social and family counseling, vocational and academic educator cooperation in improving students' basic…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Career Exploration, Counseling Services, Disadvantaged Youth
Johnson, Phaedra Lynn – 1997
The purpose of this study was to implement a curriculum that emphasized a cultural approach rather than a physical approach to World Geography. Through the implementation of this curriculum at Kearns Junior High School (Kearns, Utah), the students developed a broader understanding of diverse cultures. The project involved 62 ninth graders, and was…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Course Content, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences
Parish, Joycelyn Gay; Parish, Thomas S.; Batt, Steve – 2000
A total of 572 randomly selected sixth-grade students and 908 randomly selected ninth-grade students from a large metropolitan school district in the Midwest were asked to complete a series of survey questions designed to measure the extent to which they were happy while at school, as well as questions concerning the extent to which they treated…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cooperation, Early Adolescents, Elementary School Students
Najike, Samuel; McRobbie, Campbell; Lucas, Keith – 2002
This paper reports on the classroom learning environment and teaching practices in a Papua New Guinea ninth-grade science class and the conflict between the informal, traditional learning paradigm and new school approaches to science teaching. Observations and interviews with teachers and four students were supplemented with questionnaires and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Cultural Influences, Culture Conflict
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. Language Services Branch. – 2000
Aligned with its 1998 standards for first- and second-language learning, Alberta Learning has published lesson plans that aim for a closer relationship between learning and evaluation. Each volume in this series presents a specific task for students that involves planning, carrying out, and evaluating their work. Three separate lesson plans in the…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries, French
Peterson, Kari; Abbott, Martin – Washington School Research Center, 2005
In April 2002, Jeffrey Fouts (2002) presented a longitudinal study of student performance in Washington using Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) results from 1998 to 2001. Although constrained by the lack of individual student identification numbers at that time, he concluded that success on the WASL in the 4th grade was a strong…
Descriptors: Followup Studies, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 4
Levin, Tamar – Evaluation in Education: International Progress, 1979
When instruction is weak and inappropriate to a goal, only students with high intelligence and aptitude learn rules for problem solving. All students learn, when given time, help, and opportunity to practice problems. (RL)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Development, Educational Objectives

Adams, David; And Others – Urban Review, 1994
Examines the predictive value of several variables on the grade point averages (GPA) for 337 Mexican American and 153 Puerto Rican urban ninth-grade students. Gender and immigration status significantly predicted GPA. English proficiency was significantly different for the two groups, and a greater number of English-proficient Mexican Americans…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Dropout Rate, English, Grade 9

Fortner, Rosanne; Mayer, Victor J. – Journal of Environmental Education, 1991
Describes a longitudinal statewide study of Ohio fifth and ninth graders' knowledge about and attitude toward the oceans and Great Lakes. Results indicate a knowledge score increase except for humanities items. Among science items, earth science topics showed the greatest deficiencies, and oceanic attitudes declined over the period. (15…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Grade 5

Smith, Thomas Ewin – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1992
In a follow-up study, academic achievement results from 2 years later are added to data from 1990 for 1,208 seventh and ninth graders for whom relationships between achievement and time use were studied. Results focus on competition of time uses for the time and attention of the adolescent. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Adolescent Development, Change

Thorlindsson, Thorolfur; Vilhjalmsson, Runar – Adolescence, 1991
Examined predictors of cigarette smoking and alcohol use in nationwide sample of 1,200 Icelandic adolescents. Found that use of tobacco and alcohol was related to sex, residence, hours of paid work, physical activities, social network, educational performance and beliefs, and psychological distress. Concludes that existing theoretical perspectives…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Drinking, Employment

Murdock, Tamera B.; Anderman, Lynley H.; Hodge, Sheryl A. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2000
Investigated seventh- and ninth-graders' school context, motivation, and behavior during transition to high school. Found more positive motivational contexts in ninth than seventh grade. Found that seventh-grade discipline referrals, doubts about the economic value of education, and negative expectations of peers and teachers discriminated between…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Context Effect, Grade 7, Grade 9

James, Delores C. S.; Rienzo, Barbara A.; Frazee, Carol – Journal of School Health, 1997
Study used focus group interviews with ninth graders to help develop a nutrition education video and teacher's guide for Florida high schools. Students believed a video would be successful, expressed interest in 10 nutrition topics, recommended using teen actors with varying body types, and suggested no more than three or four topics per video.…
Descriptors: Comprehensive School Health Education, Eating Disorders, Eating Habits, Focus Groups

Dukes, Richard L.; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1996
The long-term effectiveness of the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) Program was assessed by contrasting 497 ninth graders who received the program in sixth grade with 352 who did not. Employing latent variables to represent the concepts, no significant differences were found between D.A.R.E. participants and comparisons. (SLD)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Elementary Education