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Right from the Start: Critical Classroom Practices for Building Teacher-Student Trust in the First 10 Weeks of Ninth Grade
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Brake, Andrew – Urban Review: Issues and Ideas in Public Education, 2020
Teacher-student trust is associated with the social and emotional development of students, their school connectedness and engagement, and their academic achievement. However, few studies have examined how trust develops between teachers and students in ninth grade, a critical year in high school for students to start off on-track. Even less…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Trust (Psychology), Neighborhood Schools, Classroom Techniques
Achievement Goal Pursuit during the Transition from Middle School to High School: Its Antecedents and Consequences from a Self-Determination Perspective
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Cho, YoonJung; Kim, Minseong – Educational Psychology, 2019
The purpose of the study was to investigate the longitudinal reciprocal relationship between achievement goals and self-determined motivation of students transitioning from middle school to high school. Participants were 3343 students from 9th to 11th grade. The overall results showed that varying degrees of self-determined motivation from middle…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Self Determination, Longitudinal Studies, Student Motivation
The Reasoning behind the Envisioned Educational Trajectories of Young People from Finnish and Immigrant Origins
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Varjo, Janne; Kalalahti, Mira; Jahnukainen, Markku – Education Inquiry, 2020
Transitions from one level of education system to another and from education to work are structured by socio-economic and institutional structure factors, while at the same time they are appropriated by individuals in their biographical constructions. Patterns to career trajectories are also dependent on social class, immigrant origin and level of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigrants, Socioeconomic Status, Institutional Characteristics
Developmental Trajectories of Achievement Goal Orientations during the Middle School Transition: The Contribution of Emotional and Behavioral Dispositions
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Duchesne, Stéphane; Ratelle, Catherine F.; Feng, Bei – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2014
This longitudinal study builds on research addressing changes in achievement goal orientations (AG) across the transition to middle school. We had two objectives. The first was to identify and describe different development trajectories of AG (mastery, performance-approach, and performance-avoidance) from the last year of elementary school (Grade…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Goal Orientation, Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries
Deriving Daily Purpose through Daily Events and Role Fulfillment among Asian American Youth
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Kiang, Lisa – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
Establishing life purpose is a key developmental task; however, how it is linked to adolescents' everyday family, school, extracurricular, and leisure experiences remains unclear. Using daily diary data from 180 Asian American ninth and tenth graders (50% ninth; 58% female; 25% first generation), daily purpose was positively related to daily…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Adolescents, Developmental Tasks, Grade 9
Adolescence: In Search of a Definition.
Liss, Marsha B. – 1980
A questionnaire attempting to define adolescence from the adolescent's view was administered to 300 students, 50 males and 50 females in each of 3 grades (grades 6, 9, and 12). The questionnaire examined (1) ages perceived as dividing points between adolescence, childhood and adulthood; (2) tasks seen as most important in advancing from one period…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Age Differences, Attitudes
Lessons in Career Education for Use in Geometry. Career Exploration 9-10. Revised: September 1976.
Benton, James; And Others – 1975
Forty-five lesson plans in geometry are presented which incorporate career education into the ordinary ninth-tenth grade geometry curriculum. The lessons focus on one or more of the following developmental areas of career education: self knowledge, individual and environment, world of work, economics, education and training, employability and work…
Descriptors: Career Education, Career Exploration, Course Content, Curriculum Guides