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Erik Lundberg; Ali Abdelzadeh – Journal of Adolescence, 2025
Introduction: Current literature recognizes that various socialization agents often shape political behavior. This study employs frameworks of political socialization and political agency to explore how extracurricular activities and political intentions established at age 16 influence aspects of political participation and civic engagement at age…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Political Attitudes, Political Socialization
Zhimeng Jiang; Bing Wei; Sitong Chen; Lihua Tan – Science & Education, 2024
A major concern in science education is how to help students form science identity to increase their aspiration for STEM careers. Given the key role of experiences in individual's science identity formation, STEM experiences related to project-based learning (PBL) have received increasing attention in recent years. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Science Education, Sciences
Capp, Gordon P.; Sullivan, Kathrine S.; Park, Yangjin – Oxford Review of Education, 2023
Few studies holistically examine how students experience the multiple dimensions of school climate and resilience promoting characteristics, or how these two constructs may be interrelated. This study utilised a sample of 78,550 7th, 9th, and 11th grade students in California. Roughly half of the participants were female (52%), and roughly half…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Resilience (Psychology), Student Characteristics, Grade 7
Bustamante, Andres S.; Bermudez, Vanessa N.; Ochoa, Karlena D.; Belgrave, Ashlee B.; Vandell, Deborah Lowe – Developmental Psychology, 2023
High-quality early childcare and education (ECE) has demonstrated long-term associations with positive educational and life outcomes and can be particularly impactful for children from low-income backgrounds. This study extends the literature on the long-term associations between high-quality caregiver sensitivity and responsiveness and cognitive…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Educational Quality, Predictor Variables
King, Ronnel B.; Trinidad, Jose Eos – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2021
There is a heated debate about the efficacy of growth mindsets in predicting achievement and other key learning-related outcomes with some studies supporting and others failing to find evidence of growth mindset's adaptive effects. Moreover, past studies on mindsets have mostly examined it as a psychological variable with little attention to how…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Advantaged, Student Development, Academic Achievement
Jackson, C. Kirabo – Education Next, 2019
When students look back on their most important teachers, the social aspects of their education are often what they recall. Learning to set goals, take risks and responsibility, or simply believe in oneself are often fodder for fond thanks--alongside mastering precalculus, becoming a critical reader, or remembering the capital of Turkmenistan. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Influence, Teacher Student Relationship, Secondary School Teachers
Rosch, David M.; Nelson, Nicole E. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2018
We examined the relationship between high school and collegiate organizational involvement and their differential and collective effects on the development of leader self-efficacy, motivation to lead and leadership skill. Our goal was to better understand how the student leader development process unfolds at different points in time over young…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, High School Students, College Students, Student Participation
Cruce, Ty M.; Moore, John V., III – Journal of College Student Development, 2012
This longitudinal multi-institution study examines the effects of students' involvement in high school service clubs and their level of civic-mindedness when entering college on their propensity and intentions to volunteer during college. The level of civic-mindedness was measured by a self-rating of their ability to work effectively with others…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Institutional Research, Service Learning, College Freshmen
Newton, Xiaoxia A. – Teachers College Record, 2010
Background: Many studies have looked at students' mathematics achievement in the middle and high school years and the kinds of factors that are associated with their achievement. Within this domain, however, most research utilized cross-sectional data. Cross-sectional designs have both statistical and conceptual limitations. Few studies used…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, High School Students, Longitudinal Studies, Middle School Students
Perez-Felkner, Lara – Grantee Submission, 2015
Background/Context: Schools have attempted to address stratification in black and Latino students' access to higher education through extensive reform initiatives, including those focused on social supports. A crucial focus has been missing from these efforts, essential to improving the effectiveness of support mechanisms and understanding why…
Descriptors: High School Students, Charter Schools, Student Attitudes, Resilience (Psychology)
Cole, James S.; Kennedy, Marianne; Ben-Avie, Michael – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2009
Research studies show that high school experiences, engagement, and academic achievement, as well as entering expectations and attitudes, are important predictors of student success. Therefore, to better understand first-year student engagement, it makes sense to consider the backgrounds and precollege characteristics of entering college students.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Student Characteristics, Data Analysis
Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
In recent years, there has been heightened awareness of the importance of early childhood education and high school as intervention points in the educational lives of America's children. Less attention has been paid to the importance of the upper elementary grades and middle school and the role they must play in the preparation of students for…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Elementary School Students, Intervention, Academic Achievement

Jimerson, Shane R.; Anderson, Gabrielle E.; Whipple, Angela D. – Psychology in the Schools, 2002
A review of studies examining dropping out of high school prior to graduation demonstrates that grade retention is one of the most powerful predictors of dropout status. Addresses the discrepancies regarding the effectiveness of grade retention and deleterious long-term correlates. Presents the transactional model of development, which emphasizes…
Descriptors: Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Research, Grade Repetition, High School Students
Austin, J. Sue; Martin, Nancy K. – 1990
The effects of several variables on social, emotional, and academic development of high school students were evaluated. Variables were: (1) educational level of parents; (2) marital status of parents; (3) number of children in the family; and (4) family stability. Subjects were 52 10th-grade college-preparatory students from a southern public high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Attitude Measures, College Bound Students
Trusty, Jerry – Center for School Counseling Outcome Research (NJ1), 2004
Using data from a national study spanning 12 years, I examined the effects of several middle-school and high-school variables on completion versus non-completion of the bachelor's degree. All young people in the study had attended college with the purpose of attaining the bachelor's. Several variables had practically significant effects on degree…
Descriptors: Student Development, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Experience