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Direct linkBoyle, Joseph R. – American Secondary Education, 2011
Although teachers today use a variety of teaching methods in content-area classrooms, lecture learning and note-taking still comprise a considerable portion of time in these classes. Unfortunately, most students are poor note-takers, typically recording only about one quarter of lecture notes. Strategic note-taking was developed to assist students…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Writing Strategies, Lecture Method, Middle School Students
Stein, Gabriela Livas; Hussong, Andrea – American Secondary Education, 2007
This study examines high school expectancies in a sample of at-risk, rural youth, and how these expectancies relate to 8th grade functioning, 9th grade functioning, and 9th grade experiences of high school. A total of 76 eighth-graders and their parents, drawn from a larger study of the transition to high school, participated in interviews the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Rural Youth, Grade 9, Educational Environment
Spielhagen, Frances R. – American Secondary Education, 2006
Should all students study algebra in eighth grade? Would offering early access to algebra to all students help close the achievement gap among minority populations? Traditional educational policies that provide eighth grade algebra to selected students raise questions about equitable access to advanced opportunities for all students. Even when…
Descriptors: Mathematics Curriculum, Grade 8, Algebra, Minority Groups
Szabo, Susan – American Secondary Education, 2006
Struggling readers at the middle level need help using reading strategies effectively in order to become strategic readers. Middle level teachers need both to model and to teach how to use a variety of reading strategies that will help struggling readers become independent. This article deals with the development of the KWHHL strategy. The KWHHL…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Difficulties, Middle School Teachers, Teaching Methods
Butts, Michael J.; Cruzeiro, Patricia A. – American Secondary Education, 2005
The purpose of this article is to share school research that studied the factors perceived by students as having the greatest influence regarding their transition from eighth grade to ninth grade. Students at a large comprehensive Midwestern high school completed a survey in which they rated the items they believed assisted them in finding success…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Grade 9, Student Attitudes, Influences
