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Predicting Eight Grade Students' Equation Solving Performances via Concepts of Variable and Equality
Ertekin, Erhan – Online Submission, 2017
This study focused on how two algebraic concepts- equality and variable- predicted 8th grade students' equation solving performance. In this study, predictive design as a correlational research design was used. Randomly selected 407 eight-grade students who were from the central districts of a city in the central region of Turkey participated in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables, Middle School Students, Grade 8
Jiang, Xu; Huebner, E. Scott; Hills, Kimberly J. – Psychology in the Schools, 2013
Research using an attachment theory framework has provided evidence that parent attachment is one of the crucial determinants of psychological adjustment in adolescents, including global life satisfaction (LS). This study investigated the interrelationships among parent attachment, hope, and LS during early adolescence, including the mediation…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Parent Child Relationship, Middle School Students, Statistical Significance
Ben-Eliyahu, Adar; Linnenbrink-Garcia, Lisa; Putallaz, Martha – Journal of Advanced Academics, 2017
The relations of academic and social goal orientations to academic and social behaviors and self-concept were investigated among academically talented adolescents (N = 1,218) attending a mastery-oriented academic residential summer program. Results supported context effects in that academic mastery goal orientations predicted academic (in-class…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Academically Gifted, Residential Programs
Leff, Jonathan M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if there is a relationship between transformational principal leadership style, a safe school climate, and school safety (specifically, the number of reported fights and reported bullying incidents) in Broward County, Florida's middle schools. This study also investigated if a relationship…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Principals, Transformational Leadership, Educational Environment
Jensen, Jennifer – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study sought to determine if there is a relationship between students' scores on the eighth-grade Indiana State Test of Education Progress Plus (ISTEP+) exam and success on Indiana's Algebra End-of-Course Assessment (ECA). Additionally, it sought to determine if algebra success could be significantly predicted by the achievement in one or…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Prior Learning, Mathematics Achievement, Algebra
Brown, Rhonda M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Middle school students who struggle in reading are likely to also experience difficulty in their other subjects in school. A variety of reading intervention programs exist for schools to utilize to increase reading comprehension. The Scholastic READ 180 program is used as part of this study. This small, focused study of 160 students examined the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Predictor Variables, Reading Difficulties, Reading Programs
Robinson, Christie M.; Babo, Gerard – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2014
This study examined the influence of student demographic variables (i.e., SES, race, attendance, and gender) and the school variable of placement in an inclusion setting on the academic achievement of general education students in grades 6, 7, and 8 (n = 1200) in an urban school district as measured by the 2010-2011 NJASK, the state's annual…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Academic Achievement, Correlation, Multiple Regression Analysis
Benfield, Jamie Ledsinger – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Anson County School District wished to determine the relationship between Fast ForWord Scientific Learning data and North Carolina End of Grade reading scores at Anson Middle School in Anson County, North Carolina. The specific research questions that guided this study include: 1. How does the literacy intervention, Fast ForWord, affect EOG growth…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Correlation, Science Instruction
White, Sylvia A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The identification of effective teaching is a continuous and challenging task. This study was an investigation of the relationship among the teacher evaluation, student perception surveys, and student growth scores of students in grades 3 through 8. The entire population of the small district was included in the study. The sources for this study…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teacher Evaluation, Student Surveys, Teacher Characteristics
The Relationship between Proficiency in French and Academic Achievement for Students in Saint Martin
Wilson, Martin Ezikiel – ProQuest LLC, 2013
School administrators and educational policy makers have made a substantial effort to address the learning needs of students in Saint Martin, yet the achievement gap between students in Saint Martin and students in metropolitan France still persists. Risk factors such as family structure, socioeconomic status, immigration, and difficulty of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, Language Proficiency
Sullivan, Michael E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigated the relationships between teacher collaboration practices known as working as a professional learning community (PLC) and student performance. Through a review of the current literature, an operational framework of PLCs was developed that distinguished results-oriented from inquiry-oriented PLCs. The study considered the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Predictor Variables
Rochelle, Lori Patrice – ProQuest LLC, 2012
School districts were faced with numerous lawsuits for violating students' due process rights in the early 1980's. In response, schools began using other disciplinary responses to discipline violators such as in-school suspension (Adams 2000; Hanson 2005). In-school suspension provided a softer and less punitive approach to discipline and allowed…
Descriptors: African American Students, High School Students, Discipline Problems, Suspension
Kerns, Claretta M. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of high school transition strategies for ninth grade students in comparison to the traditional high school experience of first time ninth grade students. This study compared the English End-of-Course (EOC) test scores of first time ninth grade students in a traditional high school setting…
Descriptors: Student Promotion, Transitional Programs, Grade 9, High School Students
Schwartz, Sandra – Contributions to Music Education, 2013
Vocal demands of teaching are considerable and these challenges are greater for choral directors who depend on the voice as a musical and instructive instrument. The purpose of this study was to (1) examine choral directors' vocal condition using a modified Voice Handicap Index (VHI), and (2) determine the extent to which the major variables…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Music Activities, Music Education, Music Teachers
Perez, Miguel S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The nation's generation of "Baby Boomers" is now the grandparents of a new generation of students known as "Gen Y" and "Gen Z," respectively. "Gen X," parents of our current students, have the enormous task of raising their children as "digital natives" in a technological-savvy world. The idea of…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, STEM Education
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