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Direct linkYong, Minglee; Fleming, Charles B.; McCarty, Carolyn A.; Catalano, Richard F. – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2014
This study tests the predictive associations between externalizing behaviors and internalizing symptoms and examines the mediating roles of social competence, parent-child conflicts, and academic achievement. Using youth-, parent-, and teacher-reported longitudinal data on a sample of 523 boys and 460 girls from late childhood to early…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Longitudinal Studies, Correlation
Abram, Marie J.; Maurelli, John A. – 1980
The Daviess County, Kentucky, PREPS research project focused on evaluating the county's 1979 summer school program. This program invited children to attend if they were functioning at least one year below their grade placement level. Learning activities were structured around specific behavioral objectives; the emphasis was on reading and…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education, Mathematics Achievement
Peer reviewedSaracho, Olivia N.; Dayton, C. Mitchell – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
The relationship of teachers' cognitive styles and their pupils' achievement was examined for second and fifth graders. Results indicated significant effects due to teachers' cognitive styles, but there was no significant outcome (main or interaction effect) associated with the matching of teachers' and pupils' cognitive styles, or with grade…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedBurger, Susan E.; Burger, Donald L. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1994
One means of establishing the validity of performance-based assessments is to determine whether the criteria for basic competencies on performance tests are reasonable in relation to expected (nationally normed) age-level performance. Links between performances on three assessments in Michigan and the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills illustrate…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Competence, Criteria
Thomas, John W. – 1985
Self-directed, or independent study activities were studied in adolescents, as well as their antecedents and consequences. The interrelationships, across age and grade, of several variables were described; i.e.: course requirements and conditions, student characteristics, study activities, and school achievement. First, autonomous learning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Classification
Davis, B. Glen; Trimble, C. Scott – 1978
This paper reports on research conducted to determine whether there is a statistically significant difference between the achievement test scores of students who enter first grade as 5-year-olds, and those who enter first grade as 6-year-olds. Ex post facto research was conducted on 3 samples of students (17,000 from 1st grades, 17,500 from 4th…
Descriptors: Achievement Gains, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Age Differences
Busbee, Cyril B. – 1978
The results and methodology of the South Carolina 1977-78 statewide spring testing program for grades 3, 6, and 11 are presented and discussed. The discussion of the results focuses on a comparison of the 1978 results to national norms, a comparison of 1978 to 1977 results, a performance comparison across grade levels, and a comparison of skill…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Basic Skills
Wisconsin State Dept. of Public Instruction, Madison. – 1978
The 1978 Wisconsin assessment program, involving students in grades 4, 8, and 12, focused upon: (1) state-developed tests referenced to state objectives for computation and everyday money and measurement skills; (2) the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills: mathematics, reading, and language; (3) comparison of results of the 1976, 1977, and 1978…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Basic Skills, Computation
Download full textMandeville, Garrett K.; Anderson, Lorin W. – 1986
School effectiveness indices (SEIs), based on regressing test performance onto earlier test performance and a socioeconomic status measure, were obtained for eight subject-grade combinations from 485 South Carolina elementary schools. The analysis involved school means based on longitudinally matched student data. Reading and mathematics…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Achievement Tests, Age Differences
