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Jennifer Moore Vice-Reshel – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to investigate Spanish-speaking multilingual learner (MLL) students' long-term academic outcomes after participation in an early childhood education (ECE) program with English instruction. The study included 359 Spanish-speaking MLLs who qualified for Free and Reduced Lunch from Grade 1 to Grade 6. Participants…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Grade 2
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Rudasill, Kathleen Moritz; Niehaus, Kate; Crockett, Lisa J.; Rakes, Christopher R. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2014
This longitudinal study examined associations between changes in School Connectedness and changes in Affiliation With Deviant Peers among students from high-poverty backgrounds during the year immediately following the transition to middle school. Sixth-graders (N = 328) attending two middle schools in a large school district completed measures of…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Grade 6, Correlation, Student School Relationship
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Loke, Stephen W.; Lowe, Patricia A. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2013
A pilot study was conducted to examine the psychometric properties of the Environmental School Transition Anxiety Scale (E-STAS) with a sample of 220 fourth- to sixth-grade students who were about to or had completed their school transition. The results of an exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the students' responses on the E-STAS produced a…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Environmental Education, Transitional Programs, Anxiety
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Karakaya, Ismail – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2012
The aim of this study is to determine the items in Science and Technology and Mathematics subtests of 6th, 7th, and 8th grades in the 2009 LDE, which was performed to select the students for the secondary schools, exhibited item bias with regard to student gender. Mantel-Haenszel (MH) method was used in order to determine the differential item…
Descriptors: Test Bias, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Malerba, Cathy – Online Submission, 2008
This report summarizes evaluation findings about the impact of AISD's summer 2007 BEST transition camp program for students entering middle school at 6th grade.
Descriptors: School Districts, Middle School Students, Summer Programs, Transitional Programs
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education