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Blumenfeld, Phyllis C.; And Others – 1982
The development of social cognitions about classroom life and their potential influence on children's classroom behavior were studied. Each of 360 first and fifth grade children from schools in middle class and working class neighborhoods were interviewed using booklets illustrating classroom behavior. The results indicated that children do…
Descriptors: Behavior Standards, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement
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Meade, Edward R. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1981
Cognitive control over impulsive behavior on a Luria-type task was examined for 165 middle- and lower-socioeconomic status (SES) children in nursery school and first grade. Specific impulse control problems were found for both middle- and lower-SES children in nursery school. By first grade, only the lower-SES children continued to exhibit this…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Students, Individual Differences
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Mantzicopoulos, Panayota; And Others – Elementary School Journal, 1992
Compared the effects of TEACH, a perceptual remediation approach, to those of phonetic tutoring on first graders whose performance in the SEARCH Program during kindergarten indicated they were at risk for reading failure. There was no evidence for significant academic effects of participation in the TEACH program for at-risk children. (GLR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Early Intervention, Elementary School Students, High Risk Students
McKinnon, Jennifer; And Others – 1982
To determine whether preschool education benefits middle-class elementary school children, a study was conducted which compared the social, motor, and academic progress of kindergarten and elementary school children who had attended a Montessori preschool, another kind of preschool, or no preschool. The sample was chosen according to age,…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Elementary School Students, Family Influence, Foreign Countries
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Stipek, Deborah – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1980
Achievement and locus of control data were gathered the first week of first grade, and seven months later, for middle- and lower-socioeconomic status (SES) children. While middle-SES children experienced greater achievement gains, lower-SES students increased in internal control. Results suggested that internal control contributed to achievement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Elementary School Students, Grade 1
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Tyson, Karolyn – Social Forces, 2002
Research on African American students' low academic performance has focused on Black adolescents, who, like most American adolescents, exhibit oppositional attitudes. In contrast, an ethnographic study of two all-Black elementary schools suggests that middle-class Black children begin school very much achievement-oriented and engaged, and that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Black Students, Elementary Education
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Johnson, David W.; Johnson, Roger T.; Hodne, Peter; Stevahn, Laurie – Educational Leadership, 1997
Students attending a Minnesota school in a middle-class neighborhood are finding that cooperation, conflict resolution, and civic values are creating a safe haven from the stresses of family and neighborhood life. Students have two innovative programs (Continuous Progress and Discovery) to choose from. Highlands Elementary nurtures its students…
Descriptors: Citizenship Responsibility, Classroom Environment, Community Schools, Conflict Resolution
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Simons-Morton, Bruce G.; And Others – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1994
Researchers assessed the ability of third and fifth graders to recall and report types and amounts of physical activity from the previous day. The study assessed the validity of the Caltrac electronic accelerometer as a field measure of physical activity. Children's reported physical activity minutes were higher than monitored minutes. (SM)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Grade 3
Moely, Barbara E.; And Others – 1995
Motivational beliefs of children in grades 5 through 8 (ages 10 years, 9 months to 13 years, 7 months) were assessed in a cross-sectional and a longitudinal study. Children attended a nonsectarian, private school in which the method of evaluating academic performance changed over grades from an individualized, mastery-oriented approach to a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Beliefs, Cross Sectional Studies
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Paine, Patricia; And Others – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1992
Measured physical and cognitive development of 7- to 10-year-old Brazilian children in 3 social groups. Domestic servants' children were taller and heavier than children in slums, and shorter than middle-class children. Domestic servants' sons scored similar to slum-dwelling boys on cognitive measures. (BC)
Descriptors: Body Height, Body Weight, Cognitive Development, Disadvantaged Youth
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Holobow, Naomi E.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1991
Presents the results of the second year of a four-year longitudinal evaluation of a partial French immersion program in Cincinnati, Ohio, that includes children from lower socioeconomic group and ethnic minority group (Black) backgrounds in addition to majority (White) and middle-class students. (17 references) (GLR)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Bilingual Education, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs
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Absi-Semaan, Nada; And Others – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1993
A study investigated developmental differences in children's self-perceptions of masculinity and femininity among 251 girls and 266 boys from grades 2 through 7. Meaningful developmental changes occur during the middle childhood period. Single summary scores ignore variations in gender-typed subtrait and raise study methodology questions. (JB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Development, Children, Elementary School Students
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Safir, Marilyn P.; And Others – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1992
A study of the effect of teachers' asymmetric perceptions of girls and boys on 147 Jewish Israeli second and sixth graders' (78 males and 69 females) perceptions of student prominence in school relevant categories found that students judged more boys as prominent. Same-sex peers were also judged prominent. (JB)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries