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Carns, Ann W. – Elementary School Guidance & Counseling, 1996
Presents a program that one school developed to address extortion and fighting on school buses. Fourth- and fifth-grade students were encouraged to become "flight attendants" on the buses. This enhanced students' sense of pride, responsibility, and interest in others, creating a safer atmosphere more conducive to learning and career…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Bus Transportation, Career Awareness
Allen, Alma A.; Mountain, Lee – Computing Teacher, 1992
Describes a study that provided innercity fourth grade African-American students in Texas with hardware to participate in a telecommunications network to determine whether participation would increase their scores on statewide fifth grade math tests. Time online, content of programs, connections between math and language arts, and student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks

Allgood-Merten, Betty; Stockard, Jean – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1991
Associations of self-reported self-efficacy (masculinity) and relationality (femininity) are studied for 799 high school students (412 females and 387 males) and 607 fourth graders (300 females and 307 males), 52 of whom are studied again in grade 12. As children move into adolescence, relationality is no longer associated with self-esteem. (SLD)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Secondary Education
James E. Connell Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2005
Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is a well established tool for formative assessment. CBM has also been used for prediction of state test scores. However, validity coefficients between math-CBM and state tests have been moderate at best (Skiba, Magnusson, Martson, and Erickson, 1986; Martson, 1989; Putnam, 1989). The purpose of the present…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Formative Evaluation, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Achievement
Kochenderfer-Ladd, Becky – Social Development, 2004
Mediator models were examined in which children's emotional reactions to peer aggression were hypothesized to mediate their selection of coping strategies and subsequent peer victimization and internalizing problems. Self-report data were collected from 145 ethnically diverse kindergarten through fifth grade children (66 females and 79 males) who…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Coping, Conflict Resolution, Grade 5
Carney, Jamie S.; Shannon, David M.; Murphy, Cindy – Journal of School Violence, 2005
This study examined conditions of safety and violence in South Florida elementary schools. Although conditions were generally considered safe in these schools, approximately one-half of the elementary school students in the study did express some concerns about their safety, especially in school bathrooms and the area outside of their school…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary Schools, School Safety, Academic Achievement
Wenglinsky, Harold – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2004
No Child Left Behind calls for schools to close the achievement gap between races in math and reading. One possible way for schools to do so is to encourage their teachers to engage in practices that disproportionately benefit their minority students. The current study applies the technique of Hierarchical Linear Modeling to a nationally…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, National Competency Tests, Racial Differences
Kim, Jinhee; Taggart, Andrew – Issues in Educational Research, 2004
The purpose of this study was to explore teachers' perceptions of physical education classes in an urban Korean primary school. Furthermore, this study tried to interpret how teachers' beliefs were reflected in their teaching. One primary school with seventeen teachers was selected as the site for a case study. Data were collected by participant…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Participant Observation, Teacher Attitudes, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Urquhart, Vicki – Principal Leadership, 2005
Only one out of five high school teachers believes that students are learning to write well according to research from Public Agenda. Test results confirm their opinion. In 1998, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered a writing assessment to gauge fourth- and eighth-grade students' proficiency in writing narrative,…
Descriptors: Test Results, Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Principals
High-Stakes Testing and Student Achievement: Does Accountability Pressure Increase Student Learning?
Nichols, Sharon L.; Glass, Gene V.; Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2006
This study examined the relationship between high-stakes testing pressure and student achievement across 25 states. Standardized portfolios were created for each study state. Each portfolio contained a range of documents that told the "story" of accountability implementation and impact in that state. Using the "law of comparative…
Descriptors: Portfolios (Background Materials), Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, High Stakes Tests
Cassell, Joan R. – 1995
This practicum was designed to improve students' ability to determine appropriate behavior for various places within the school and to learn self-control to comply with expectations. Specifically, the practicum intended to decrease the number of referrals to administrators and the counselor for out-of-control student behavior and decrease the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Behavior Development
Basham, Laura B. – 1994
Fourth-grade students (83% of whom were identified as "at risk") in an inner-city school in the southeastern United States participated in a hands-on, interdisciplinary unit about the environment for 2 weeks. Lessons covered a wide range of environmental issues such as pollution, rainforest devastation, recycling, and Earth appreciation.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Attitude Change, Classroom Research, Elementary School Science
Guth, Gloria J. A.; Block, Clifford – 1993
The GALAXY Language Arts Demonstration Program is a package of integrated curricular and instructional approaches that features the organization of instruction around themes presented through television broadcasts, children's literature, classroom activities, and the use of interactive technology. During the GALAXY Project demonstration phase for…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Childrens Literature, Curriculum Design, Educational Assessment
Garzino, Mary S.; And Others – 1994
This set of health education materials for grade 4 includes a teacher's manual, student workbook, activity posters, suggestions for a special event, and a booklet of letters for parents. The materials cover recommended health education content, including personal health, hygiene, family life, substance abuse prevention, injury prevention and…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Charts, Class Activities, Curriculum Guides
Chamot, Anna Uhl; And Others – 1996
A 3-year, three-part study investigated the learning strategies (LS) of children in grades 1-4 learning a foreign language (French, Spanish, Japanese) in an immersion setting and assisted immersion teachers in using LS for instruction. A sample of 72 high-rated and low-rated students were followed for 2 to 3 years. Professional development…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers, FLES