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Amerine, Melissa; Pender, Lisa; Schuler, Kristin – Online Submission, 2009
The purpose of this action research project was to increase homework completion through the use of motivating strategies. There were approximately 75 students, 100 parents, and three teacher researchers involved in this study. The three intervention strategies used were 15 minutes of class time, extrinsic rewards, and assignment notebook checks.…
Descriptors: Homework, Intervention, Action Research, Student Motivation
Videen, Cheryl Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study examined relations between students' psychological engagement and academic achievement, as well as between students' psychological engagement and growth in academic achievement. The study also examined if relations between students' psychological engagement and academic growth varied by grade level (elementary school compared to middle…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Academic Achievement, Student Surveys, Grade 7
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Skolits, Gary J.; Richards, Jennifer – Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation, 2009
This article argues that intervention pilot test evaluations have focused insufficient attention on the measurement of project fidelity and the subsequent use of fidelity results for (a) interpreting variations in project outcomes and (b) understanding the rationale for teachers' deviations from implementation protocols. The authors report on the…
Descriptors: Intervention, Pilot Projects, Instructional Improvement, Middle Schools
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Umbhau, Kurt – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2009
Fort Belknap College President Carole Falcon-Chandler does not fluently speak the "A'ani" (White Clay) language, but her granddaughter does. The girl, one of the 12 students in the White Clay Language Immersion School located on the college campus in Harlem, Montana, is part of the next generation of fluent A'ani speakers. The language…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, College Presidents, American Indians, American Indian Languages
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Goossens, Lien; Soenens, Bart; Braet, Caroline – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
The objective of this article was to investigate the prevalence and psychological correlates of binge eating among adolescents. Self-report questionnaires were administered to a community sample of 708 adolescents (M[subscript age] = 14 years). Adolescents reporting loss of control over eating (17% of the sample) reported more eating pathology and…
Descriptors: Incidence, Eating Disorders, Pathology, Adolescents
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Wirsing, Janice – Voices from the Middle, 2009
A classroom teacher reflects on the benefits of professional development leading to improved and energized student writing. Although traditional professional development sparked interest and encouraged modifications, the support of a teacher inquiry group as ongoing professional development provided the impact needed to effect significant change…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Inquiry, Teacher Improvement, Writing Skills
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Richardson, Michael J.; Caldarella, Paul; Young, Benjamin J.; Young, Ellie L.; Young, K. Richard – Psychology in the Schools, 2009
The Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders (SSBD), a screening system to identify elementary students at risk for emotional and behavioral disorders, was evaluated for use in middle and junior high schools. Teachers completed SSBD Stages One and Two on students in grades 6 to 8 who had characteristics of internalizing or externalizing…
Descriptors: Junior High School Students, Middle School Students, Grade Point Average, At Risk Students
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Krettenauer, Tobias – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2005
Following Boyes and Chandler (1992), it is investigated how adolescents' epistemic understanding relates to the process of identity formation. In a cross-sectional as well as longitudinal study, identity status scores of diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium and identity achievement as assessed by the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Identification (Psychology), Adolescents
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Ford, Teeple D.; Skinner, C. H. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2004
In the current experiment, 32 students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) in Grades 7 through 12 worked on 2 grammar assignments for 15 minutes each. Control assignments contained 15 target tasks (i.e., multisentence paragraphs) that students were required to rewrite and for which they had to provide appropriate punctuation.…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Homework, Behavior Disorders
Potenza, Susan Ade – Teaching Pre K-8, 2007
In this article, the author discusses a five-month interdisciplinary bird study that she designed for her seventh-grade students that combines life science, technology, writing, art, mathematics, social studies and literature. The driving force behind this yearly unit is the BirdSleuth eBird program (formerly the Cornell University Classroom…
Descriptors: Ornithology, Science Education, Student Interests, Integrated Curriculum
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Protopapas, Athanassios; Archonti, Anastasia; Skaloumbakas, Christos – Cognitive Psychology, 2007
Stroop interference is often taken as evidence for reading automaticity even though young and poor readers, who presumably lack reading automaticity, present strong interference. Here the relationship between reading skills and Stroop interference was studied in a 7th-grade sample. Greater interference was observed in children diagnosed with…
Descriptors: Psychology, Language Skills, Word Processing, Reading Ability
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Hunsberger, Phil – Reading Research Quarterly, 2007
The definition of literacy has become narrow, bounded, and associated predominantly with measurement of cognitive skills used to decode words. In this article, the author explores the absence in the literacy instruction of a clear, deliberate, and intentional focus upon "connectedness" between the reader and the text. The author maintains that…
Descriptors: Literacy, Reading Instruction, Connected Discourse, Reader Text Relationship
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Kim, Byoung-Sug; McKinney, Mary – Science Scope, 2007
By virtue of its connection with scientific literacy, the nature of science has been considered essential subject matter for the science curriculum. With this in mind, seventh-grade students were introduced to three aspects of the nature of science: (1) the distinction between observation and inference, (2) the subjective, and (3) the tentative…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Scientific Literacy, Science Curriculum, Grade 7
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Kito, Akihito; Moriyama, Jun; Matsuura, Masashi – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2007
The purpose of this study was to examine the structure of students' knowledge formed in information education at junior high-school level. Seventy-two 7th graders (first-year junior high-school students) and 78 10th graders (first-year high-school students) participated in the study. A cluster analysis was performed on 40 items of knowledge that…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Grade 7, Grade 10, Teaching Methods
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Solan, Harold A.; Shelley-Tremblay, John F.; Hansen, Peter C.; Larson, Steven – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2007
The authors examined the relationships between reading comprehension, visual attention, and magnocellular processing in 42 Grade 7 students. The goal was to quantify the sensitivity of visual attention and magnocellular visual processing as concomitants of poor reading comprehension in the absence of either vision therapy or cognitive…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Motion, Reading Comprehension, Integrity
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