NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 7 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Echols, Leslie – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
This study examined the influence of academic teaming (i.e., sharing academic classes with the same classmates) on the relationship between social preference and peer victimization among 6th-grade students in middle school. Approximately 1,000 participants were drawn from 5 middle schools that varied in their practice of academic teaming. A novel…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Ability Grouping, Peer Relationship
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Keith, Timothy Z.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1986
A set of High School and Beyond data was used to study the effect of three variables on academic achievement. Homework had a positive effect, TV a negative, and parental involvement no direct effect on seniors' achievement scores, but influenced the amount of time students spent on homework. (Author/JAZ)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ethnicity, Grade 12, High Schools
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Shanahan, Timothy; Lomax, Richard – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1986
This study compared and evaluated three alternative theoretical models of the reading-writing relationship. Reading dimensions included word analysis, vocabulary, and sentence comprehension components; writing dimensions included spelling, vocabulary, sentence structure, and story organization components. Models differed in sequential orderings of…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Grade 2, Grade 5, Models
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Henderson, Ronald W.; Rankin, Richard J. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1986
The structural relations among viewing behaviors, viewing conditions, background characteristics, and intellectual ability to preschoolers' learning from instructional television were investigated. Subjects were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups who viewed tapes designed to teach seriation concepts. A School Aptitude factor made…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Educational Television, Family Characteristics, Models
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Lehrer, Richard; Littlefield, Joan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1993
A model of relationships among the cognitive components of working memory, representation, metacognition, and performance implicated in the acquisition and transfer of the LOGO computer language was developed and tested with 48 second graders. The respective contributions of each component vary with the transfer task. (SLD)
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Context Effect, Correlation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Erdle, Stephen; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1985
This study investigated how classroom teaching behavior mediates the relationship between personality and college teaching effectiveness. Instructional effectiveness was measured by end-of-term student ratings. Path analysis revealed that approximately half of the relationship between personality and teaching effectiveness was mediated by…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, College Faculty, Higher Education, Models
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Morrison, Gale M.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
The results of a path analysis revealed the following causal sequence or pathway of influence on the social status of educable mentally retarded children: from observed behavior and achievement, to teacher perceptions of these competencies, to student perceptions of the competencies, and finally, to social status of the handicapped students.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Elementary Secondary Education, Mental Retardation