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Wang, Hsuan-Hui; Swanson, Elizabeth; Vaughn, Sharon – Journal of Special Education, 2023
Vocabulary is a prominent contributor to reading comprehension. However, little is known about how students with disabilities with lower vocabulary performance respond to Tier 1 instruction, or how their vocabulary knowledge relates to their content acquisition. To examine the differential impact of Tier 1 instruction for U.S. middle school…
Descriptors: Academic Language, Vocabulary, Middle School Students, Students with Disabilities
Swanson, Elizabeth; Wanzek, Jeanne; Vaughn, Sharon; Roberts, Greg; Fall, Ana-Mari – Exceptional Children, 2015
This study aimed to determine the efficacy of a content knowledge and reading comprehension treatment implemented by eighth-grade general education social studies teachers among students with disabilities included in the classes. Data on students with disabilities across 2 years of study were combined for the analysis presented here. Students in…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Middle School Students, Social Studies, Knowledge Level
Moffat, Anna K.; Redmond, Gerry; Raghavendra, Parimala – Journal of School Violence, 2019
Addressing bullying victimization of students with disability is a significant challenge for schools. While social support can protect against bullying victimization in the general population, its role in mediating the relationship between disability and bullying is under-researched. This paper examined "covert bullying prevalence"…
Descriptors: Bullying, Social Networks, Gender Differences, Children
Espelage, Dorothy L.; Rose, Chad A.; Polanin, Joshua R. – Remedial and Special Education, 2015
Results of a 3-year randomized clinical trial of Second Step: Student Success Through Prevention (SS-SSTP) Middle School Program on reducing bullying, physical aggression, and peer victimization among students with disabilities are presented. Teachers implemented 41 lessons of a sixth- to eighth-grade curriculum that focused on social-emotional…
Descriptors: Bullying, Middle School Students, Disabilities, Victims
Temesgen, Zelalem – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine school factors that hinder the co-curricular participation of students with disabilities. The researcher has primarily used the survey method to investigate the co-curricular participation of students with disabilities in Weldeya primary schools. For this, 100 teachers were selected at random and two…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Extracurricular Activities, Student Interests, Barriers
Heiman, Tali; Olenik-Shemesh, Dorit – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
Cyberbullying refers to a negative activity aimed at deliberate and repeated harm through the use of a variety of electronic media. This study examined the Internet behavior patterns and gender differences among students with learning disabilities who attended general education and special education classes, their involvement in cyberbullying, and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Internet, Gender Differences
Raman, Sudha R.; Boyce, William F.; Pickett, William – Journal of School Health, 2009
Background: Adolescents with disabilities are at risk for poor health outcomes including injury. The objective of this study was to examine if disability status modifies the association between risk behavior and injury among adolescents. Methods: The cross-sectional Health Behavior in School-Aged Children Survey was administered to a…
Descriptors: Prevention, Injuries, Correlation, At Risk Persons
Mancilla-Martinez, Jeannette; Oh, Min Hyun; Luk, Gigi; Rollins, Adam – Grantee Submission, 2023
Using state-level data, we report unadjusted and adjusted odds ratio of special education (SPED) trends in Tennessee from 2009-2019 for students in grades 3-8 by 3 language groups: native English speakers (NES), English-proficient bilinguals (EPB) and Current English learners (Current EL). We report trends across all SPED disability categories and…
Descriptors: Special Education, Educational Trends, Elementary School Students, Grade 3
Livingston, Zuleika S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the academic achievement of students with disabilities compared to students without disabilities on standardized assessments. This study collected archival data from urban middle schools in six school districts in the State of Georgia. Data was collected from students in grades six through eight on the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Middle School Students, Academic Achievement, Disabilities
Witmer, Sara E.; Lovett, Benjamin J.; Buzick, Heather M. – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2023
Extended testing time is a common accommodation given to students with disabilities. However, little is known about whether students who are eligible for the accommodation actually use it, and with what effect. The present study used process data available from the digitally delivered 2017 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)…
Descriptors: Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Testing Accommodations, National Competency Tests, Grade 8
Brydges, Colton; Mkandawire, Paul – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2017
This article examines the perceptions of inclusive education in Lagos, Nigeria, based upon in-depth interviews conducted with students with visual impairments during the month of July 2013. The results and discussions are situated within critical disability theory. Despite decades of inclusive education policies, the findings of the study show…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Visual Impairments, Inclusion, Foreign Countries
Dempsey, Kristina N. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this nonexperimental, quantitative study was to determine if there is a significant correlation among teacher-assigned grades (TAG), district checkpoint scores (CP), and student scale-scores on TNReady tests. The focus was on 1,445 seventh and eighth grade students who were enrolled at a middle school in northeast Tennessee during…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Correlation, Grades (Scholastic), Grade 7
Karaca, M. Abdulbaki; Toprak, Hasan H. – International Journal of Modern Education Studies, 2022
The aim of this study is to investigate the level of social acceptance of students with typical development in inclusive classes towards individuals with special needs in terms of certain variables. In this study, the screening model was used, which is one of the quantitative research methods. The reason for choosing the screening model in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7
Firat, Tahsin – Education 3-13, 2021
This study aims to determine the effects of training through interaction activities on the social acceptance levels of typically developing eighth-grade students towards students with special needs. The study was carried out with a sample of 100 eighth-grade students attending middle school in a province in Turkey. The study used an experimental…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interaction, Grade 8, Students with Disabilities
Survey of Secondary Youth on Relational Aggression: Impact of Bullying, Social Status, and Attitudes
Kim, Ann Y.; Rose, Chad A.; Hopkins, Stephanie; Mc Cree, Nikita; Romero, Monica – Preventing School Failure, 2022
Aggression toward peers is a pervasive problem among school-aged youth. Specifically, relational aggression refers to actions intended to harm another through manipulating social relationships. A diverse group of students (N = 14,083) were surveyed regarding their pro-bullying attitudes, perceived social status, and whether they had perpetrated…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7