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McGee, Tony Wayne – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine the perceptions of ninth-grade students and their teachers and parents/guardians with regard to the transition from middle school to high school. A mixed-method approach with both qualitative and quantitative measures assessed attitudes toward this transition. Student focus groups were also conducted…
Descriptors: High Schools, Focus Groups, Middle School Students, High School Students
Sokol, Alvin P.; Marshall, Jon C. – 1969
An investigation was conducted to determine the characteristics of independent (self-directing) students and those characteristics which differentiate independent from non-independent students. Each of the 35 teachers who had classroom contact with an 11th grade class of 525 was asked to name five students he felt best characterized…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, High School Students
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Wilson, Peggy – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1991
Ethnographically examines factors impacting academic performance of 23 Sioux Indian high school students in Canada during the transition from reservation elementary school to public high school. Factors affecting responses to environments without consideration of Indian culture are discussed in light of the withdrawal of 18 students from school.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indian Culture, American Indians, Canada Natives