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David Graham Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Identity is a foundational element in a person's development and can influence all aspects of a person's life. Although research on adolescent identity development is a growing field, there are opportunities for additional research on this stage of development, with specific focus needed on the role of asynchronous development. This study utilized…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Graduates, High School Students, Age
Verhoeven, Monique; Poorthuis, Astrid M. G.; Volman, Monique – Educational Psychology Review, 2019
Schools can play an important role in adolescents' identity development. To date, research on the role of school in adolescents' identity development is scattered across research fields that employ different theoretical perspectives on identity. The aim of this literature review was to integrate the findings on the role of school in adolescents'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Development, Adolescent Development, School Role
Quinn, Brandy P.; Heckes, Sydney L.; Shea, Lauren – Journal of Character Education, 2019
While there is growing research supporting the benefits of purpose development to adolescents and the communities of which they are a part, research about specific practices to support purpose development, specifically in high schools, remains scarce. Grounded in theories about teacher knowledge, the research team relied on a dimensional…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Motivation, Student Development, Adolescent Development
Kozina, Ana; Wiium, Nora; Gonzalez, Jose-Michael; Dimitrova, Radosveta – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2019
Background: The transition from lower-secondary to upper-secondary education marks a critical period for adolescents that impacts their academic achievement. Objective: Based on Positive Youth Development (PYD) framework, we examined associations between math achievement as measured by PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) and PYD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescent Development, Student Development, Secondary School Students
Olofson, Mark; Knight, David – Education Sciences, 2018
Since the emergence of middle schools as distinct educational settings in the 1960s, proponents of the model have advocated for structures and approaches that best meet the particular developmental needs of young adolescents. Middle school researchers have developed frameworks of best practices for schools that have been widely, if not uniformly,…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, School Effectiveness, Best Practices, Educational Practices
Rosch, David M.; Nelson, Nicole E. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2018
We examined the relationship between high school and collegiate organizational involvement and their differential and collective effects on the development of leader self-efficacy, motivation to lead and leadership skill. Our goal was to better understand how the student leader development process unfolds at different points in time over young…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, High School Students, College Students, Student Participation
Carnes, Nathan – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2019
Shifting demographics among racial and ethnic groups within the United States are reflected in the diversity of the middle grade student population, as they are members of longstanding racial groups or members of biracial or multiracial groups that have emerged. These diversities are causes for celebrations, but at the same time offer challenges…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Middle School Teachers, Cultural Awareness
Hill, Nancy E.; Liang, Belle; Price, Maggi; Polk, Whitney; Perella, John; Savitz-Romer, Mandy – Psychology in the Schools, 2018
In contrast to the focus on short-term, extrinsic goals in our society (e.g., wealth, prestige), positive youth development scholars have highlighted the need for parents and schools to help youths cultivate and plan for long-term, intrinsic, and meaningful goals (i.e., envisioning a meaningful future), arguing that envisioning a meaningful future…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Structural Equation Models, Academic Aspiration, Parent Aspiration
Danzak, Robin L.; Wilkinson, Louise C. – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2017
This article presents a mixed-methods case study of Diego, a bilingual teen who completed public school in Florida. During adolescence, Diego negotiated multiple identities: successful student, Mexican American, bilingual, and typical U.S. teenager. Diego provided interviews and bilingual (English/Spanish) writing (narrative/expository) in 2008…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Identification (Psychology), Mixed Methods Research, Case Studies
Costa, Ana; Faria, Luísa – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2016
This study examines the developmental trajectories of ability and trait emotional intelligence (EI) in the Portuguese secondary school. Within a three-wave longitudinal design, 395 students (M[subscript age] = 15.4; SD = 0.74) completed both the Emotional Skills and Competence Questionnaire (ESCQ) and the Vocabulary of Emotions Test (VET). Results…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Emotional Intelligence, Longitudinal Studies
Halpern, Robert – Harvard Education Press, 2013
"Youth, Education, and the Role of Society" examines the "learning landscape" currently available to American adolescents, arguing that we need to expand, enrich, and diversify the learning opportunities available to young people today. Central to the book is Robert Halpern's view that we depend too exclusively on schools to…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Development, Student Needs, Adolescent Development
Lin, Yii-nii; Chiu, Yi-hsing Claire; Lai, Pi-hui – College Student Journal, 2014
This study describes the learning and development experiences of teacher education students after taking an introductory course on adolescent psychology. The instructor adopted the developmental instruction model (DIM) (Knefelkamp, 1998) in this study and facilitated students learn through experiential learning. Fifteen students (aged between 20…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Preservice Teachers, Psychology, Adolescents
Anderson, Kristy A.; McDonald, T. A.; Edsall, Deirdre; Smith, Leann E.; Taylor, Julie Lounds – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2016
This study examined the perceptions of adulthood among 31 high-school students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). We had two research aims: (a) to report students' postsecondary expectations in terms of school, work, friendships, and living arrangement and (b) to describe how our sample defined adulthood. To better compare our sample's criteria…
Descriptors: High School Students, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Student Attitudes
Conklin, Hilary G. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
Recent efforts to define qualities of effective teaching practice have done little to capture the role of play, imagination, and creativity in classroom teaching. Drawing on theories of play and data from a two-year case study that included classroom observations, interviews, artifact collection, and surveys, the author examines the ways in which…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Teaching Methods
Harrell-Levy, Marinda Kathryn – ProQuest LLC, 2012
These three papers test existing educational and identity development theory regarding the phenomenon of transformative pedagogy and its effectiveness, in order to determine the predictive ability of a class on morals and ethics with transformative goals during eleventh or twelfth grade Social Justice towards transformed individuals later in life.…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Social Justice, High School Students
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