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Jessica Scott – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Middle school offers an entryway onto the path of college readiness. However, many practitioners and researchers have focused their efforts on high school students. Remaining is a population of potential college-going students, whose opportunities to prepare for college at an earlier stage are overlooked because middle school is not viewed as the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, College Readiness, Student Placement, Mathematics Education
Wernsetta Session – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This case study examined the school-based interventions used to determine a self-contained special education placement for a fourth-grade African American male student with an emotional disturbance disability. The study aimed to answer four research questions, which included the academic and behavioral school-based interventions provided to the…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Grade 4, Elementary School Students, Males
Kimberly Gregorovic – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Research indicates the influence of socioeconomic factors by general education teachers in the use of Multi-tiered System of Support (MTSS) which was derived from Response to Intervention (RTI) in the placement of urban English Language Learners (ELs) in special education is a topic which needs more attention (Cramer 2015). The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Allen, Amanda H.; Jones, Gabrielle D.; Baker, Stanley B.; Martinez, Robert R. – Professional School Counseling, 2019
An elementary school counselor and intern delivered a six-session curriculum unit designed to enhance career and college readiness self-efficacy to 47 fourth-grade students. The intervention effect was compared with 48 other fourth-grade students. Ninety percent of the variance was due to ethnicity differences. White students had higher…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Elementary School Students, School Counselors, Internship Programs
Bartik, Timothy J.; Lachowska, Marta – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2014
We use a regression-discontinuity design to study the effects of double blocking sixth-grade students in reading and mathematics on their achievement across three years of middle school. To identify the effect of the intervention, we use sharp cutoffs in the test scores used to assign students to double blocking. We find large, positive, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Reading Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
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Maye, Kelly M. – Journal of Pedagogy, 2012
Cognitive and biophysical factors have been considered contributors linked to identifiable markers of obsessive compulsive and anxiety disorders. Research demonstrates multiple causes and mixed results for the short-term success of educational programs designed to ameliorate problems that children with obsessive compulsive and anxiety disorders…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Disorders, Physiology, Biology