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Fink, Louise L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study analyzed the effect of school/grade configuration for regular and special education students in K-8 schools and middle schools. The analysis looked at the effect of grade configuration on two outcomes: student achievement and student attendance. The study followed a cohort of fifth graders (regular and special education) through sixth,…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Academic Achievement, Attendance, Program Effectiveness
Jones, M. Chad; Slate, John R.; Moore, George W.; Martinez-Garcia, Cynthia – School Leadership Review, 2017
Over the past two decades, an increase has occurred in the number of schools containing a Grade K-8 configuration rather than the Grade 6-8 traditional middle school (Blair, 2008). The reason behind this trend may reflect educator awareness that achievement loss takes place during each transition (Alspaugh, 1999; Cullen & Robles-Pina, 2012;…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Academic Achievement, Poverty, Grade 6
Weiss, Silvana; Grabner, Roland H.; Kargl, Reinhard; Purgstaller, Christian; Fink, Andreas – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2010
Behavioral and neurophysiological effects of a computer-aided morphological training protocol were examined in German-speaking children from Grades 3 to 9. Study 1 compared morphological awareness, reading, and spelling skills of 34 trained children with an untrained control group of 34 children matched for age, sex, and intelligence. All…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Spelling, Reading Skills, Morphology (Languages)
Yopp, Ruth Helen – Voices from the Middle, 2007
Word Links, an effective strategy for developing students' vocabulary, is based on four principles. It provides contextual and definitional information; offers repeated exposure to words and opportunities to practice them; encourages students to think about relationships among word meanings; and involves active engagement in learning tasks. Yopp…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Semantics, Vocabulary
Newsome, W. Sean; Anderson-Butcher, Dawn; Fink, Janet; Hall, Lisa; Huffer, Jim – School Social Work Journal, 2008
With the current emphasis on accountability in kindergarten through twelfth-grade education, greater demands have been placed on school social workers. In fact, many federal, state, and school officials are demanding the use of evaluative outcome research that demonstrates the potential impact of supportive services. The present study examined the…
Descriptors: Truancy, At Risk Students, School Social Workers, Social Work