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Fletcher, Anne C.; Blair, Bethany L. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2018
This longitudinal qualitative investigation considered youth disclosure to parents about friends as well as parents' responses to such disclosure across the transition to middle school. African American and European American youth participated in qualitative interviews regarding their disclosure to parents about friendships in three consecutive…
Descriptors: Friendship, Longitudinal Studies, Interviews, African American Students
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Wurster, Tabitha; Xie, Hongling – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2014
This study examined the social functioning of bistrategic youths (i.e., those who employ both aggressive and prosocial behavior) in order to further understand their social competence in peer social networks. Within our sample of 318 fifth-grade participants recruited from an urban school district in the northeastern US, bistrategic preadolescents…
Descriptors: Preadolescents, Grade 5, Urban Schools, Social Behavior
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Çelik, Derya – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2015
Linear algebra is one of the most challenging topics to learn and teach in many countries. To facilitate the teaching and learning of linear algebra, priority should be given to epistemologically analyze the concepts that the undergraduate students have difficulty in conceptualizing and to define their ways of reasoning in linear algebra. After…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Budak, Ibrahim; Kaygin, Bulent – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2015
In this study, through the observation of mathematically promising students in regular classrooms, relevant learning environments and the learning needs of promising students, teacher approaches and teaching methods, and the differences between the promising students and their normal ability peers in the same classroom were investigated.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Correlation, Surveys
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Graff, Jennifer M. – Language Arts, 2010
This article shares the voices of preadolescent girls as they participated in an eight-month book selection study which enabled them to be active agents in their book and reading experiences. The girls, school-identified as struggling readers and self-identified as resistant readers, complicate current notions of reading, as influenced by…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Females, Preadolescents, Classification
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Estrada, Peggy; Wang, Haiwen – Grantee Submission, 2013
For English learners (ELs), reclassifying to fluent English proficient (RFEP) signifies reaching a milestone indicating the ability to function in mainstream classes without support. Little is known about the discrepancy between the number of ELs who meet reclassification criteria and the number who are reclassified as fluent English proficient,…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Second Language Learning, Classification, Language Proficiency
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Gürsoy, Esim – English Language Teaching, 2010
As a still growing area, Language Learning Strategies (LLS) research needs to expand so that it covers different contexts and age groups. Previous research shows that most of LLS research is conducted in ESL contexts and the majority looked into strategies of adolescents and adults. Consequently, strategy taxonomies as well as the inventories…
Descriptors: Investigations, Learning Strategies, Language Acquisition, Taxonomy
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Xu, Yiyuan; Farver, Jo Ann M.; Yang, Yu; Zeng, Qiang – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2008
Three studies were conducted to explore Chinese children's understanding of shyness. In Study 1 (N = 174, M age = 10.18) interviews with Chinese children revealed a group of diverse attributes that characterized their conceptions of shyness. In Study 2 (N = 273, M age = 10.19) a rating procedure was used to identify attributes that were…
Descriptors: Shyness, Grade 4, Grade 5, Statistical Analysis
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Isaksson, Joakim; Lindqvist, Rafael; Bergstrom, Erik – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2010
One important goal of Swedish educational policies is to integrate all pupils within regular education, irrespective of disability or difficulties in school, and to adjust education to individual needs. The aim of this paper was to explore how schools "socially construct", i.e. identify and support, pupils with special educational needs.…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Foreign Countries, School Personnel, Special Needs Students
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Metz, Kathleen E. – Cognition and Instruction, 2004
The study examined children's understanding of scientific inquiry, through the lens of their conceptualization of uncertainty in investigations they had designed and implemented with a partner. These largely student-regulated investigations followed a unit about animal behavior that emphasized the scaffolding of independent inquiry. Participants…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Inquiry, Animal Behavior, Concept Formation
Alatorre, Silvia; Figueras, Olimpia – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
In this article, which is part of an ongoing research, a classification is proposed for ratio comparison problems, according to their context, their quantity type, and their numerical structure. Deriving from this classification, an interview protocol was designed, and guidelines for the interpretation of answers into strategies were decided. A…
Descriptors: Interviews, Research Design, Mathematical Concepts, Comparative Analysis