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Direct linkXu, Jianzhong – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2011
The purpose of the present study is to test the validity of scores on the Homework Purpose Scale (HPS) for middle school students. The participants were 1,181 eighth graders in the southeastern United States, including (a) 699 students in urban school districts and (b) 482 students in rural school districts. First, confirmatory factor analysis was…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Homework, Urban Schools, Rural Schools
Piccolo, Diana L.; Capraro, Mary Margaret; Capraro, Robert M. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2010
Fourteen elementary and 6 middle level student teachers were observed and interviewed throughout their initial field placement teaching experience. The Classroom Observation and Performance Assessment for Teachers-Revised (COPAT-R) observation instrument and semistructured interviews were used to compare general and content-specific pedagogical…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Student Teachers, Classroom Observation Techniques, Performance Based Assessment
Yetkiner, Zeynep Ebrar – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2009
Commonality analysis is a method of partitioning variance to determine the predictive ability unique to each predictor (or predictor set) and common to two or more of the predictors (or predictor sets). The purposes of the present paper are to (a) explain commonality analysis in a multiple regression context as an alternative for middle grades…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Correlation, Regression (Statistics), Prediction
Clayton, Christine D.; Ardito, Gerald – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2009
The authors of this study document one middle school classroom in an attempt to understand how inquiry learning, supported with technological tools, can provide students with opportunities to develop ownership of science content knowledge. Case study and collaborative teacher researcher methods were utilized to document the implementation of a…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Classroom Environment, Teacher Researchers, Teaching Methods
Warner, Cheryl B.; Phelps, Rosemary E. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2008
African American youth are characterized as experiencing declining academic motivation and engagement while simultaneously maintaining optimism for their future success. Thus, researchers hypothesize academic motivation to be a negative factor for educational aspirations when applied to an urban sample of African American middle school students (N…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Academic Aspiration, Grade 8
Tyler, Kenneth M.; Boelter, Christina M.; Boykin, A. Wade – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2008
The purpose of this study is to examine whether teachers' perceptions of educational value discontinuity are predictive of the psychological antecedents of academic performance (e.g., academic engagement and academic self-efficacy) during middle school. Educational value discontinuity is defined as the difference between teachers' actual…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Low Income Groups
Gao, Zan; Newton, Maria; Carson, Russell L. – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2008
This study examines the predictive utility of students' motivation (self-efficacy and task values) to their physical activity levels and health-related physical fitness (cardiovascular fitness and muscular strength/endurance) in middle school fitness activity classes. Participants (N = 305) responded to questionnaires assessing their self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Muscular Strength, Physical Activities, Self Efficacy
Strahan, David; Faircloth, Constance Victoria; Cope, Mellie; Hundley, Sally – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2007
This study chronicles the responses of middle school students to their teachers' efforts to re-engage them in school. Working with two teachers and their team of 42 eighth graders selected as at-risk of failure, researchers interviewed participants, observed interactions, and gathered data from students' first semester of high school. Teachers…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Grade 8, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students
