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Download full textWhat Works Clearinghouse, 2013
"Saxon Math", published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is a core curriculum for students in grades K-12. This report includes studies that investigate the potential impact of "Saxon Math" for students in grades 6-8. A distinguishing feature of the curriculum is its use of an incremental approach for instruction and assessment.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Middle School Students, Junior High School Students, Grade 6
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1975
Two studies are briefly reported here, one concerned with a method for locating high ability inner-city students, and the other dealing with a method of motivating low achieving inner-city students. Both studies drew on a population of black junior high school students, eighth and ninth graders, 14, 15, and 16 years of age. In the first study,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Black Students
Mason, Evelyn P.; Locasso, Richard M. – 1971
Participants from American Indian, Mexican, and Anglo backgrounds took part in a six-week, innovative summer residence program of educational remediation and acceleration for junior high students. The participants were selected from junior high teachers', counselors', and school administrators' nominations of those students who best met the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, American Indians, Anglo Americans, Ethnic Groups
Daniel, Larry G.; And Others – 1993
The present study investigated the relationship among middle school students' self-perceived locus of control, their school achievement, and their school attendance. A cohort of 265 seventh-grade students was administered the children's version of the Multidimensional Health Locus of Control (MHLC-C) scales, which measure health locus of control…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Cohort Analysis, Correlation
PDF pending restorationMcBee, Maridyth M.; Kimball, George H. – 1982
This study investigated whether Chapter 1 middle school students showed more achievement gain when delivery of the pull-out supplementary reading or mathematics instruction was "massed" in time blocks or "distributed" weekly across the school year. All students in one Middle School Chapter 1 Learning Center program participated…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Compensatory Education, Grade 6
Roth, Jodie L.; Paris, Scott G. – 1991
How students perceive standardized tests and routine classroom tests on subject matter units was studied by surveying 61 fifth-grade and 65 eighth-grade students in public schools in Michigan. It was hypothesized that older students would more often distinguish between the types of test and would be more cynical and less motivated than would…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Age Differences, Attitude Measures, Classroom Research
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Instruction, Raleigh. Div. of Accountability Services/Research. – 1992
To fulfill the mandates of the State Legislature, a battery of national and statewide standardized norm-referenced tests has been administered in the spring of each year to North Carolina's students in grades 3, 6, and 8 to measure skills in reading, language, mathematics, science, and social studies. This report presents summary results of…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
