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Pashmina N. Pathan; Nor A. Ishak; Nabeel Nisar; Shaiwana N. Pathan – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative exploratory study is to get insights into the understanding of science teachers' entrepreneurial skills and the strategies they implement to develop these skills of students, who teach science subject to students of Grade 6-8 at government Schools of Sindh province, Pakistan. In this study, the researcher employed a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7
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Amy E. Fisher; Liat R. Johnson; Sonia Minnes; Emily K. Miller; Jessica S. Riccardi; Anastasia Dimitropoulos – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
After-school youth development programs support social-emotional functioning which leads to better academic and behavioral outcomes. This article examines three common predictors of social-emotional functioning individually and concurrently to better understand the role of these predictors in the after-school setting. The common predictors are…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Social Emotional Learning, Youth Programs, Predictor Variables
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Ren, Bingqian; Liang, Xiaotong; Li, Jingyi; Cao, Luyi; Zhou, Xinlin – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Mathematical performance plays a vital role in students' academic development. Studies have shown that some basic cognitive processes, including inductive reasoning, are critical for the development of mathematical performance. However, little empirical evidence has been accumulated regarding the association between inductive reasoning and…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Logical Thinking, Predictor Variables, Middle School Students
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Joana Pipa; João R. Daniel; Francisco Peixoto – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Grade retention is one of the most discussed and controversial educational measures, and yet, it is still widely applied in many countries. Research investigating the effects of grade retention on students' psychosocial variables presents mixed findings, partly due to the variables assessed, methodological issues, and the length of the studies.…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Grade Repetition, Self Esteem, Self Concept
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Pan, Yangu; Liang, Shuang; Shek, Daniel T. L.; Zhou, Di; Lin, Xueqin – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Although school climate plays an important role in the development of adolescent prosocial behaviors and problem behaviors, little is known about the mechanisms underlying school climate's impact on such behaviors, particularly in Chinese adolescents. This study used a multi-informant approach to investigate the mediating role of social-emotional…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Comparative Analysis, Prosocial Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Cui, Tianxue; Kam, Chester Chun Seng; Cheng, Emily Hongzhen; Liu, Qimeng – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This study aimed to explore factors related to academic success (resilience) for students with socioeconomic disadvantages (SED) from the individual, school, and family domains. We also compared such factors with the results for students with socioeconomic advantages (SEA). A sample of 1767 eighth-graders (851 students with SEA and 916 students…
Descriptors: Success, Resilience (Psychology), At Risk Students, Disadvantaged Youth
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Therriault, Danyka; Lane, Julie; Houle, Andrée-Anne; Dupuis, Audrey; Gosselin, Patrick; Thibault, Isabelle; Dionne, Patricia; Morin, Pascale; Dufour, Magali – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent psychopathologies in Western adolescents and have been on the rise in recent years. Not only does anxiety disrupt the daily lives of the young people who suffer from it, it can also have harmful behavioral, psychological, social, and academic effects. Given this, there is a pressing need to implement…
Descriptors: Anxiety Disorders, Prevention, Adolescents, Program Effectiveness
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Damra, Jalal K.; Omari, Omar Al – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Abstract This study aimed to evaluate the short-term effects of the social networking safety promotion and cyberbullying prevention presentation of the Arizona attorney general's guided by the extended parallel process model (EPPM). A quasi-experimental (a pre-posttest) was used with two groups with random assignment to intervention. A total of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Prevention, Intervention
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Aspiranti, Kathleen B.; Michaliszyn, Sara Fleet; Dula, Mark E.; Tischner, Clair; Fedewa, Alicia L. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Many children with disabilities engage in less physical activity compared to their peers. This pilot-feasibility study examines the effects of movement-based desk and alternative seating on classroom physical activity, time on task, reading fluency, and reading comprehension scores in fourth/fifth and seventh/eighth-grade children with…
Descriptors: Students with Disabilities, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 7
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Kristensen, Sara M.; Jørgensen, Magnus; Meland, Eivind; Urke, Helga B. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
The present study investigates how perceived support from peers, parents, and teachers influences later academic performance and if academic self-efficacy and entity intelligence beliefs mediate this association in a sample of early secondary school students. Data were collected from 750 Norwegian students in lower secondary school at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 8, Grade 10
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Williams, Otis; Davis, Julius; Cox, Mark – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This article shares how three African-centered Black men partnered with a school system to develop and implement an Africentric rites of passage program for seventh- and eighth-grade Black male students. The proposed school-based intervention aimed to socialize, educate, and cultivate Black boys in preparation for manhood. Theoretically, the…
Descriptors: African Americans, Males, Afrocentrism, Cultural Influences
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Oger, Marie; Martin-Krumm, Charles; Fenouillet, Fabien; Müller, Anita; Le Roux, Fleur; Tarquinio, Cyril; Broc, Guillaume – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
The quality of life of students at school is an increasingly topical issue in relation both to public health issues, made more acute by the pandemic and successive confinements, and to the technical nature of future jobs which means training has become an economic issue. There are therefore two issues, one linked to health and the other to school…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Educational Environment, Grade 7, Grade 8
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Smith, Jonathan; Paquin, Stéphane; St-Amand, Jérôme; Singh, Cara; Moreau, Daniel; Bergeron, Julie; Leroux, Mylène – Psychology in the Schools, 2022
This study investigates the effects of an alternative approach to grade retention, known as a "remediation measure." This measure was tested in 2010-2011 in two high schools in Quebec (Canada) and its effects on students' achievement motivation were analyzed. Specifically, the evolution of general and domain-specific expectancy and value…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade Repetition, High School Students, Achievement Need
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Boorse, Jaclin; Van Norman, Ethan R. – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
Prior research on the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), a computer-adaptive test distributed by the Northwest Evaluation Association, has primarily focused on the Reading MAP for screening/benchmarking in elementary grades. The purpose of this study was to explore the functional form of growth and the extent to which student variability in…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Mathematics Tests, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing
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Ersöz Çakir, Olcay; Ismen Gazioglu, Ayse Esra – Psychology in the Schools, 2021
The purpose of this study was to understand the role of academic (achievement goal orientation, academic self-efficacy) and psychological (resilience, test anxiety) variables in predicting transition from primary to secondary education (TEOG) test achievement. Participants were eighth grade students (N = 334) in Istanbul. The data was gathered via…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Academic Achievement, Self Efficacy, Resilience (Psychology)
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