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Jacob, John; Yoo, Jeong-Ju – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2010
This study examined how boys' and girls' weight preoccupation varied by grade level, parent-child relationships, self-classified weight, entertainment media exposure levels, and gender. Seventh-grade girls (n = 190) and boys (n = 132) and 10th-grade girls (n = 99) and boys (n = 67) participated. Girls were more likely to report weight…
Descriptors: Females, Parent Child Relationship, Males, Adolescents
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Koedinger, Kenneth R.; McLaughlin, Elizabeth A.; Heffernan, Neil T. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2010
ASSISTments is a web-based math tutor designed to address the need for timely student assessment while simultaneously providing instruction, thereby avoiding lost instruction time that typically occurs during assessment. This article presents a quasi-experiment that evaluates whether ASSISTments use has an effect on improving middle school…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Middle School Students, Formative Evaluation, Grade 7
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Lei, Jing – Computers in the Schools, 2010
Based on survey data and interview data collected over four academic years, this longitudinal study examined how a ubiquitous computing project evolved along with the changes in teachers, students, the human infrastructure, and technology infrastructure in the school. This study also investigated what conditions were necessary for successful…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Grade 7, Grade 8, Influence of Technology
Vermont Department of Education, 2009
The annual event dropout rate describes the proportion of students who leave school each year without completing a high school program. The event dropout rates for the school year 2006-2007 of 2.18% for grades 7 through 12th and 3.08% for grades 9 through 12th are consistent with the dropout rates for the past four years. The event completion rate…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate, Enrollment Trends
Vermont Department of Education, 2009
The annual event dropout rate describes the proportion of students who leave school each year without completing a high school program. The event dropout rates for the school year 2007-2008 of 2.30% for grades 7 through 12th and 3.25% for grades 9 through 12th are consistent with the dropout rates for the past four years. The event completion rate…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Dropout Rate, Graduation Rate, Enrollment Trends
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Borman, Geoffrey D.; Benson, James G.; Overman, Laura – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2009
This article describes an independent assessment of the Fast ForWord Language computer-based training program developed by Scientific Learning Corporation. Previous laboratory research involving children with language-based learning impairments showed strong effects on their abilities to recognize brief and fast sequences of nonspeech and speech…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Reading Comprehension, Computer Assisted Instruction, Program Evaluation
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Yu, Jeong Jin; Gamble, Wendy C. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
The main purpose of the present study was to investigate self-criticism as a potential mediating factor in the link between mother-adolescent relationships with aggression and perceptions of social competence. The sample consisted of 888 older (M = 14.3 years) and younger (M = 11.6 years) adolescent children from the same family. Maternal…
Descriptors: Siblings, Mothers, Interpersonal Competence, Family Relationship
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German, Miguelina; Gonzales, Nancy A.; Dumka, Larry – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2009
This study examined interactive relations between adolescent, maternal, and paternal familism values and deviant peer affiliations in predicting adolescent externalizing problems within low-income, Mexican-origin families (N = 598). Adolescent, maternal, and paternal familism values interacted protectively with deviant peer affiliations to predict…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Early Adolescents, Social Values, Mexican Americans
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Grimberg, Bruna Irene; Hand, Brian – International Journal of Science Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to reconstruct writers' reasoning process as reflected in their written texts. The codes resulting from the text analysis were related to cognitive operations, ranging from simple to more sophisticated ones. The sequence of the cognitive operations as the text unfolded represents the writer's cognitive pathway at the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Analysis, Grade 7, Middle School Students
Taylor, Donald Joseph – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In California, Algebra I is the 8th grade math content standard. The United States Department of Education found the annual 8th grade General Math California Standards Test to be out of compliance with the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 since it assesses 6th and 7th grade math standards and not Algebra I math content. In response to the…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Grade Point Average, Federal Legislation, Second Language Learning
Vaden-Kiernan, Michael; Caverly, Sarah; Bell, Nance; Sullivan, Kate; Fong, Carlton; Atwood, Erin; Borman, Geoffrey; Park, So Jung; Jones, Debra Hughes – SEDL, 2012
The Louisiana Striving Readers evaluation assessed the implementation and effectiveness of the Voyager "Passport Reading Journeys" (PRJ), a widely used supplemental literacy intervention for struggling adolescent readers that reflects the research-based practices recommended by the National Reading Panel (2000) and other more recent…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Implementation, Fidelity, Grade 6
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Wei, Hsi-Sheng; Jonson-Reid, Melissa; Tsao, Hui-Ling – School Psychology International, 2007
The present study investigated the magnitude of school bullying problems among Taiwanese adolescents and collected detailed information about the locations, perpetrators and offence types of peer victimization. Gender differences were also explored. Unlike many previous surveys, the present study utilized multiple measures and provided a more…
Descriptors: Bullying, Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Victims of Crime
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Card, Noel A.; Hodges, Ernest V. E. – Social Development, 2007
Children's victimization experiences within relationships characterized by mutual animosity were examined among 210 6th- and 7th-grade boys and girls. Participants reported that a greater proportion of mutual antipathies, relative to other peers, victimized them. Moreover, the receipt of victimization within antipathetic relationships was greater…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Adjustment (to Environment), Victims of Crime, Grade 6
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Brown, Raymond – International Journal of Educational Research, 2007
This paper explores the social positions that students construct and the patterns of participation that different individuals and groups achieve within a classroom community of practice. Using a form of collective argumentation to promote student involvement in the practices of a disciplinary community of mathematicians, the study employed a…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Social Influences
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Abela, John R. Z.; Sakellaropoulo, Maya; Taxel, Elizabeth – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2007
According to Blatt and Zuroff's 1992 specific vulnerability hypothesis, individuals high in self-criticism or dependency will likely exhibit increases in depressive symptoms following negative achievement and interpersonal events, respectively. The hopelessness theory hypothesizes a distinct subtype of depression, hopelessness depression, with a…
Descriptors: Grade 7, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Psychological Patterns
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