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Direct linkJessor, Richard; Turbin, Mark S.; Costa, Frances M. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2010
This article reports a cross-national study of developmental change in health-enhancing behavior--healthy eating and regular exercise--among adolescents in China and the United States. The application of a conceptual framework comprising psychosocial and behavioral protective and risk factors--both proximal and distal and at both the individual…
Descriptors: Physical Activity Level, Risk, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Chun, Heejung; Mobley, Michael – Journal of Adolescence, 2010
Based on Jessor's theory (1987) the comparability of a second-order problem behavior model (SPBM) was investigated across gender and grade-level among adolescents. In addition, gender and grade-level differences in problem behavior engagement were addressed examining latent mean differences. Using a sample of 6504 adolescents drawn from the…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Adolescents, Sexuality, Behavior Change
Phi Delta Kappan, 1990
A 1988 Johns Hopkins University survey of 1,753 principals from public schools serving seventh graders describes middle grade education in the United States. The 5 articles in this special section are intended to encourage discussion about ways to improve middle level educational practices and disclose new research directions. (MLH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Policy, Grade 7, Instructional Program Divisions
Lake, Sara – 1989
Almost from the beginning, the junior high school was based on the same vision driving today's middle level schooling: the creation of a unique middle tier of education that bridges the gap between elementary and secondary education and focuses on meeting early adolescent students' academic and personal needs. In the 1950s and 1960s, middle school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Philosophy, Effective Schools Research, Instructional Program Divisions
McEwin, C. Kenneth; Dickinson, Thomas S.; Jacobson, Michael G. – Middle School Journal, 2005
The history of young adolescent education can be viewed as an ongoing search for the appropriate combination of school organization, curriculum, and instructional practices for young adolescents. While middle schools have now become the most common pattern for schools housing young adolescents, there have always been other broader school…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Instructional Program Divisions, Teaching Methods, School Organization
Download full textFeld, Marcia Marker; And Others – 1979
The policy implications of proposed K-8 grade level reorganization in Providence, Rhode Island are explored in this report. Included are the following: (1) a survey of the current status of elementary and middle school organization, facilities, composition, and curriculum in Providence; (2) an assessment of achievement and social-psychological…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Change, Educational Facilities
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1987
This volume consists of reports on the status and function of lower secondary comprehensive school systems in four countries with contrasting cultures and educational traditions: Denmark, France, the United Kingdom as represented by Scotland, and the United States as represented by Maryland and Minnesota. The volume begins with an analysis by…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Adolescents, Class Size, Comparative Analysis
