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Darrin DeChane; Takako Nomi; Michael Podgursky – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2024
Like most other states, Missouri uses assessments intended to measure whether students are on a pathway to "college and career readiness." The state longitudinal data system now has the capacity to directly test that claim. We make use of 8th-grade assessment (MAP) scores in Math, Science, and Communication Arts for roughly 260,000…
Descriptors: Grade 8, College Freshmen, Correlation, College Attendance
Kelsey Sick; Eva Pila; Jenna D. Gilchrist; Mahmood R. Gohari; Karen A. Patte; Scott Leatherdale – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: Sustained participation in physical education classes during adolescence can help promote lifelong engagement in physical activity, which is vital for the physical and mental health of adolescents. Self-concept, particularly in the domains of global and physical appearance self-perceptions, has been identified as a key predictor of…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Physical Education, Adolescents, Self Concept
Yongxiang Xie; Jun He – Youth & Society, 2025
Although previous studies have identified the effect of social environment and individual behavior on adolescent obesity in the field of social science, much less is known about the association between adolescent educational expectations and obesity. This article draws on China Education Panel Survey (CEPS) 2013 to 2014 to examine the relationship…
Descriptors: Health Services, Adolescents, Expectation, Body Weight
Thamarasseri, Ismail; Jacob, Soja – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2023
Personality traits are enduring dispositions in behavior that show differences across individuals and tend to characterize the person across varying types of situations. Creative thinking is a thinking process that produces new methods, concepts, understandings, inventions, and works of art. It is the art of exploring student progress. Due to a…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Creative Thinking, Correlation, Secondary School Students
Cho, Daniel; Zatto, Brenna R. L.; Hoglund, Wendy L. G. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Peer victimization is a common concern in adolescence that includes both relational (e.g., exclusion, rumor spreading) and overt (e.g., hitting, threatening) forms (Crick & Bigbee, 1998). Relational and overt peer victimization have shown to be differentially associated with depressive symptoms, with relational peer victimization showing a…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Victims, Aggression, Bullying
Hong, Jun Sung; Zhang, Saijun; Wright, Michelle F.; Wachs, Sebastian – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2023
This study investigates multiple-level antecedents of cyberbullying victimization among early adolescents. Data from the Health Behavior in School-Aged Children, 2009 to 2010 cohort study in the United States were used. The sample included White, Black, Latino, and Asian adolescents, ages 10-14 (N = 8481). Bivariate analysis, logistic regression,…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Victims, Early Adolescents
Jason West; Paul Ratanasiripong; Stephen Glass; Christopher Lund – Middle School Journal, 2024
This study investigated the impact middle school tracking has on outcomes in high school and the factors associated with those outcomes. Utilizing data from a large, diverse school district, this quantitative study investigated the relationships between middle school and high school English course enrollment among 4,503 middle school students. The…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Track System (Education), High School Students, Correlation
Scheier, Lawrence M.; Komarc, Martin – Contemporary School Psychology, 2022
This study examined relations between student engagement and drug use using data obtained from the statewide biennial California Healthy Kids Survey. Latent variable modeling with confirmatory factor analysis indicated four conceptually distinct and psychometrically sound factors capturing academic motivation, school connectedness, caring…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Drug Abuse, Correlation, Student Motivation
Yueyun Zhang; Jiankun Liu – Youth & Society, 2025
The recent increase in mental health problems and private tutoring (also called shadow education) among adolescents has been widely documented. This study relates involvement in private tutoring to depressive symptoms using data from a nationally representative sample of middle school students (grades 7-9, M[subscript age] = 13.90, N = 25,862) in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Adolescents, Middle School Students
Khan, Wajid Ali; Saeed, Muhammad – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2021
Policies shift their focus from increasing enrolment to quality improvement and enhancing the conceptual knowledge and investigating skills of the students. Students' achievement scores are generally considered the true reflectors of quality improvement. This study investigated the relationship between public sector students' physics achievement…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Physics, Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation
Jiang, Su; Simpkins, Sandra D.; Eccles, Jacquelynne S. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Math and science motivational beliefs are essential in understanding students' science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) achievement and choices in high school and college. Drawing on the Eccles' expectancy-value theory and Arnett's emerging adulthood framework, this study examined the relations among high school students' motivational…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, STEM Education, Gender Differences, Generational Differences
Lurdes Veríssimo; Alexandra Marques; Marisa Costa; Isabel Castro; Filipe Martins; Francisca Miranda – SAGE Open, 2025
Bullying in school has become a public health problem. Among the various bullying's risk factors, the vulnerabilities associated with socio-emotional skills stand out. The present study aims to explore the relationship between bullying, victimization, self-concept, and empathy; to test differences in victimization and bullying between boys and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Interpersonal Competence, Emotional Response, Self Concept
Sun, Jinlu; Cao, Liqun – Journal of School Violence, 2022
Most studies of school bullying in China are atheoretical. To fill the gap in the literature, we introduce criminological theories in an attempt to test propositions broadly derived from these perspectives in the study of physical bullying. Relying on data collected from 12 middle schools (Grades 7 to 9) in three cities with information on both…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Middle School Students, Aggression
Avdeeva, Svetlana; Uvarov, Alexander – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2022
Some results of the basic school (14 years old) students' information and communication competence (ICC) in the digital environment study are discussed. About 30,000 students (14 years old) took part in the study. Information and Communication Literacy is considered as the ability to use digital technologies to search, manage, integrate, evaluate…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Information Literacy, Technological Literacy, Early Adolescents
Guo, Siying – School Psychology, 2021
Under the integrated model of General Strain Theory (GST), the present study sought to examine whether delinquent peer association, social control, and negative emotion moderated the relations of distinctive cyberbullying roles with delinquency, as well as whether the moderating effects varied by gender among a nationally representative sample of…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Peer Influence, Emotional Response, Gender Differences