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Direct linkAbigail R. Murdock; Michelle L. Rogers; Tracy L. Jackson; Karine Monteiro; Laura C. Chambers – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected adolescent mental health due to school closures, isolation, family loss/hardships, and reduced health care access. Methods: We compared adolescent mental health in Rhode Island before versus during the pandemic, separately among middle and high schoolers. This serial cross-sectional study used…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Middle School Students, High School Students, COVID-19
HyunGyung Joo; So Rin Kim; Beth H. Gilfillan – Professional School Counseling, 2023
This study examined the associations among experiencing bias-based bullying on multiple social identities, fear, and school avoidance. The sample included 1177 adolescents who experienced bullying in a nationally representative dataset. Results indicated that 42% of students who were bullied reported that this was due to biases. We found a…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Bullying, Social Bias
Download full textRichard A. Miech; Lloyd D. Johnston; Megan E. Patrick; Patrick M. O'Malley; Jerald G. Bachman – Institute for Social Research, 2024
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is designed to give such attention to substance use among the nation's youth and adults. It is an investigator-initiated study that originated with, and is conducted by, a team of research professors at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research. Since its onset in 1975, MTF has been funded continuously…
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, National Surveys, Longitudinal Studies, Secondary School Students
Junsang Park; Heejae Lee; Joonsuk Kim; Anne Q. Zhou – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: The development of learning attitudes during middle school transition and adaptation is critical, as shown by Self-Determination Theory (SDT). However, the development of adolescents' learning attitudes throughout middle school and the impact of parenting styles on this development remains largely unexplored. Objective: This research…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Self Determination
St. George, Monica; Niemela, Danielle R. M.; Zeglin, Robert J. – American Journal of Sexuality Education, 2023
Suicide continues to be a considerable health risk among adolescents and is the second leading cause of death among adolescents between the ages of 10 and 24. Middle school-aged adolescents may be at a heightened risk for suicide, as middle school can be rife with intrapersonal and interpersonal stressors. One such stressor may be sexual activity…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Suicide, Stress Variables, Health Behavior
Emily A. Waterman; Kimberly J. Mitchell; Katie M. Edwards; Victoria L. Banyard – Journal of School Violence, 2024
This study examined how changes in cumulative peer victimization are associated with depressed mood and suicidality among adolescents over time, as well as whether certain protective factors (e.g., school mattering) moderate these associations. Middle and high school students (N = 2,539) from a small city in the Great Plains responded to five…
Descriptors: Victims, Peer Relationship, Suicide, Bullying
Alverson, Ryan; DiCicco, Mike; Faulkner, Shawn A.; Cook, Chris – Middle Grades Review, 2021
The education of the young adolescent has consistently posed a challenge to the educational community. While the general belief is this age group (10 to 15 year-old children) would benefit from a specialized educational approach. Historically, both the junior high school model of the early 1900s and the more current middle school concept have…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Educational History, Educational Practices, Student Development
Barbero, Colleen; Vagi, Kevin J.; Clayton, Heather; Holland, Kristin; Hertz, Marci; Krause, Kathleen H.; Brittingham, Rochelle; Bunge, Stephanie; Saka, Susan M.; Marchessault, Nadine; Hynes, Nikardi; Green, Dan; Spell, Les; Monteiro, Karine; Murray, Kristen; Reilly-Chammat, Rosemary; Tignor, Lisha; Mercado, Melissa C. – Journal of School Health, 2023
BACKGROUND: Research shows associations between bullying victimization and substance use for teens. However, more research about this relationship for younger adolescents and across race/ethnicity is needed. METHODS: Prevalence and pooled logistic regression analyses of 2019 Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey data from 13 states (N = 74,059…
Descriptors: Bullying, Victims, Substance Abuse, National Surveys
Armstrong-Carter, Emma; Johnson, Catherine; Belkowitz, Julia; Siskowski, Connie; Olson, Elizabeth – Society for Research in Child Development, 2021
In the United States, more than 5.4 million children and adolescents under age 18 provide care for family members who are aging or have chronic illness, disability, or other health conditions that require assistance. In this policy report, we describe youth's care for the family, and highlight the increasing prevalence, global challenges, and…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Caregivers, Well Being
Kim Wright; Hersh C. Waxman – Educational Studies, 2024
The growth of a STEM-focused economy has intensified the focus on developing kindergarten through grade 12 (K-12) students' STEM competencies and on the STEM practices of K-12 STEM teachers. The present study utilised secondary analysis of nationally-representative STEM teacher survey data to examine the ways in which middle grades teachers'…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Educational Practices, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
C. J. Appleton; Dara Shifrer; Cesar J. Rebellon – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2024
The literature linking adulthood criminality to cumulative disadvantage and early school misbehavior demonstrates that understanding the mechanisms underlying student behavior and the responses of teachers and administrators is crucial in comprehending racial/ethnic disparities in actual or perceived school misbehavior. We use data on 19,160 ninth…
Descriptors: Data Use, Racial Differences, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior
National Center for Education Statistics, 2020
This document provides tables underlying figures in "Education, Employment, and Earnings: Expectations of 2009 Ninth-Graders in 2016" and describes the survey methodology, sources of error in estimates, response rates and nonresponse bias, and statistical procedures for the Statistics in Brief report "Education, Employment, and…
Descriptors: Expectation, Educational Attainment, Employment, Income
Islam, Khairul – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2021
Suspension and expulsion are adversely related to negative outcomes of students, such as falling behind academically, an increased risk of absenteeism or dropout from schools. Suspension discrepancy due to ethnicity is evident and well known in the United States. The proper understanding of factors affecting suspension may lead to intervention…
Descriptors: Suspension, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, Student Characteristics
Brinkman, Jesse; Garnett, Bernice; Kolodinsky, Jane; Wang, Weiwei; Pope, Lizzy – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Food insecurity (FI) is a significant predictor of feelings of isolation in children, as well as suicide ideation and depression. Using a census of public middle school-aged children, we seek to determine whether FI is associated with suicide ideation and feelings of hopelessness and how individual and school community factors can…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Hunger, Well Being, Mental Health
Pfirman, Stephanie; Hamilton, Lawrence; Turrin, Margie; Narveson, Craig; Lloyd, Carrie A. – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2021
This first analysis of aggregated data from the Kahoot! game-based player response system demonstrates that it can provide assessments of overall US student polar knowledge and identifies differences in polar knowledge across several states. A kahoot online quiz on polar topics recorded over 25,000 United States teacher-hosted classroom players…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Earth Science, Geographic Regions, Foreign Countries
