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Kim, Ha Yeon; Schwartz, Kate; Cappella, Elise; Seidman, Edward – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
Informed by the current literature, this study examines social contexts across middle grade schools with different grade span configurations. In doing so, the authors aim to build understanding of where and how to target interventions in the middle grades to enhance maintenance of social-emotional adjustment and experiences from middle childhood…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Longitudinal Studies, Surveys, Children
Karrie A. Shogren; Mauricio Garnier Villarreal – Journal of Special Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to use data from the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 (NLTS2) to (a) conceptually identify and empirically establish student, family, and school constructs; (b) explore the degree to which the constructs can be measured equivalently across disability groups; and (c) examine latent differences (means,…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Construct Validity, Disabilities, Statistical Data
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Diemer, Matthew A.; Li, Cheng-Hsien – Developmental Psychology, 2012
Low-income youths enroll at postsecondary institutions less frequently, drop out more often, are less likely to return after dropping out, and are less likely to attain a postsecondary degree than their more affluent peers. It is therefore important to understand how low-income youths develop the capacity to persist in the postsecondary setting.…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Minority Groups, Low Income, Structural Equation Models
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Vidmar, Maša – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2015
In the present study the longitudinal relations between quantity of centre-based child care (in months) and teacher reports of internalising and externalising behaviour in the first and second grades were examined for 325 Slovenian children. The socio-political context of affordable, accessible and homogenously high-quality child care is quite…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Context Effect, Longitudinal Studies, Child Care
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Murray, Lynne; Arteche, Adriane; Fearon, Pasco; Halligan, Sarah; Croudace, Tim; Cooper, Peter – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2010
Background: Postnatal depression (PND) is associated with poor cognitive functioning in infancy and the early school years; long-term effects on academic outcome are not known. Method: Children of postnatally depressed (N = 50) and non-depressed mothers (N = 39), studied from infancy, were followed up at 16 years. We examined the effects on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Birth, Depression (Psychology)
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Ready, Douglas D.; Lee, Valerie E. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2007
Young children's learning--and how their learning is distributed by social background--may be influenced by the structural and organizational properties of their school. This study focuses on one important structural dimension of these educational contexts: "size." This study differs from extant studies linking size to student outcomes in four…
Descriptors: Class Size, Instructional Program Divisions, Academic Achievement, School Size