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Securro, Samuel, Jr.; Mayo, Jenny; Rinehart, Leslie – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2009
Classroom teachers in K-12 are expected to significantly integrate instructional technology into their teaching plans. Notwithstanding a need for technical know-how, what is the effect of one's beliefs and perceptions about the value of technology for improving and enhancing instruction on teacher's motivation and commitment to integrate these…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Middle School Teachers, Interviews, Technology Uses in Education
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Epstein, Jennifer A.; Botvin, Gilbert J.; Doyle, Margaret – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2009
This study examined the relationship of social influences to use drugs and competence variables with lifetime poly-drug use for adolescents residing in inner-city regions. The same model was tested separately for boys and girls. Sixth- and seventh-graders (N = 2400) in inner-city schools self-reported substance use, social influences to use drugs…
Descriptors: Smoking, Females, Self Efficacy, Drug Use
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Henry, Kimberly L.; Oetting, Eugene R.; Slater, Michael D. – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 2009
A great deal of time and money has been spent to understand why adolescents abuse alcohol. Some of the most fruitful work considers the social context navigated by adolescents, including family, school, and peer contexts. However, most of this work focuses on differences between adolescents in these contexts. The present study adds to the…
Descriptors: Drinking, Early Adolescents, Social Environment, Attachment Behavior
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Birkett, Michelle; Espelage, Dorothy L.; Koenig, Brian – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual students (LGB) and those questioning their sexual orientation are often at great risk for negative outcomes like depression, suicidality, drug use, and school difficulties (Elliot and Kilpatrick, How to Stop Bullying, A KIDSCAPE Guide to Training, 1994; Mufoz-Plaza et al., High Sch J 85:52-63, 2002; Treadway and Yoakam,…
Descriptors: Bullying, Drug Use, Sexual Orientation, Homosexuality
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Mac Iver, Martha Abele; Mac Iver, Douglas J. – Journal of Educational Research, 2009
Recognizing the need to implement standards-based instructional materials with school-wide coherence led some Philadelphia schools to adopt whole-school reform (WSR) models during the late 1990s. The authors report on the relation between mathematics achievement growth for middle-grade students on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessments and…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Mathematics Curriculum, School Restructuring, Achievement Gains
Kana'iaupuni, Shawn Malia; Kawai'ae'a, Keiki K. C. – Online Submission, 2008
The desire to improve educational delivery and outcomes has prompted significant advancements in culture-based education as a foundation for community-driven, place-based, relevant educational approaches that more effectively engage children and their families in lifelong learning and leadership. This article shares the early process and tools of…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Strategies, Learner Engagement, Outcomes of Education
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Weisz, Arlene N.; Black, Beverly M. – Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2008
This is a qualitative, descriptive study of 202 urban, African-American seventh graders that examines their views of peer intervention in dating violence. After viewing a video vignette showing friends confronting another male about abusing his girlfriend, the adolescents were asked to respond in writing to questions about whose business the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Adolescents, Dating (Social), Urban Areas
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Castro, Veronica; Johnson, Michael B.; Smith, Robert – Journal of School Counseling, 2008
School counselors are in a unique position to help at-risk students. Research indicates that teaching resiliency skills and emotional intelligence is a promising venture (Bernard, 1997; Chavkin & Gonzalez, 2000; Henderson & Milstein, 2002). Seventy identified at-risk seventh and eighth grade students enrolled in the Teen Leadership Program…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Emotional Intelligence, At Risk Students
Kajander, Ann; Zuke, Carly; Walton, Gerald – Canadian Journal of Education, 2008
To examine the mathematics classroom experiences of students considered to be "at-risk," we conducted case studies of four students in grades 7, 8, and 9 in North-western Ontario. The case studies revealed that their mathematics classes offered few opportunities for active, engaging learning or activities that students experienced as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, At Risk Students, Grade 7
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Li, Qing – Educational Research, 2008
Background and purpose: This study explores the issues of cyberbullying from a cross-cultural perspective. The focus is on the examination of the extent of a sample of Canadian and Chinese adolescents' experiences and possible culture differences related to bullying and cyberbullying. Sample: Two sets of data were collected in Canada and China. In…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies, Bullying
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Garran, Daniella K. – History Teacher, 2008
Chartered in 1994 and opened in 1996, the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School (CCLCS) was among the first charter schools in Massachusetts. CCLCS strives to foster "intellectual development, academic achievement, project based learning, interdisciplinary studies, community partnerships, environmental studies, global awareness, and an ethical…
Descriptors: Multiple Intelligences, Charter Schools, Student Projects, Active Learning
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Ma, Claudia Q.; Huebner, E. Scott – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
This study examined the extent to which the quality of parent and peer attachments related to early adolescents' life satisfaction (LS), whether peer attachment served as a mediator between parent attachment and LS, and potential gender differences. Total of 587 middle school students in grades 6 through 8 participated. Although both parent and…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Parent Child Relationship, Predictor Variables, Life Satisfaction
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Ardac, Dilek; Unal, Serap – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2008
The present study examines how changes in the amount of on-screen text will influence student learning from a multimedia instructional unit on basic concepts of coordinate geometry. The relative effectiveness of two different versions (short-text and whole-text) of the instructional unit was examined for students who differed in terms of their…
Descriptors: Memory, Grade 7, Geometry, Multimedia Instruction
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Qin, Jingjing – Language Teaching Research, 2008
This study was intended to compare processing instruction (VanPatten, 1993, 1996, 2000), an input-based focus on form technique, to dictogloss tasks, an output-oriented focus-on-form type of instruction to assess their effects in helping beginning-EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners acquire the simple English passive voice. Two intact…
Descriptors: Pretests Posttests, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, English (Second Language)
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Hanna, Kim – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2009
Student use of computers and the internet has increased rapidly in recent years. Teachers ask what types of learning experiences can be facilitated by using the internet in their classrooms (NSBF, 2007). Various surveys of U.S. teachers on internet usage report that having students use the internet for research and information gathering purposes…
Descriptors: Research Tools, Internet, Self Motivation, Middle School Students
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