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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Middle school transition"”.
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Middle School Transition: faculty and parent perceptions of the academic, procedural, and social changes that occur between elementary and middle school
… perceptions of parents and faculty regarding the transition from a private special education school to the middle school environment. Research was conducted using a mixed methods design to investigate the attitudes and perceptions of those directly involved with the transition process. Seventeen …
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The Effect of Classroom Structure and Practice on Transition to Middle School
The passage from elementary school to middle school, along with physical, social, and emotional changes associated with adolescence, often results in personal and social, organizational, and academic declines. The classroom structure of elementary school varies between a team teaching setting and a …
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Parenting and internalizing symptoms in early adolescence: The moderating role of vagal tone
… of typically developing adolescents across the transition to middle school. At Time 1 (5th grade; spring before middle school transition), participants included 100 young adolescents (53% boys; 57% European American; Mage = 11.05 years, SD = .33) and their mothers (Mage = 41.25 years, SD = 6.22; …
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The Nature and the Consequences of Achievement Goals During Early Adolescence
… assessed both fall and spring before and after middle school transition. The results indicated that all three goals declined during early adolescence with pronounced drops within school years. Students' goal adoption differed as a function of gender, race, and prior achievement. Individual …
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Standards-Based Grading In A Middle School: A Change Leadership Plan
… plan was designed to assist a suburban middle school transition from a traditional grading and assessment system to a standards-based system. Using Wagner’s (2008) change leadership model, the plan includes an AS-IS assessment and a TO-BE vision to analyze the school’s context, culture, …
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Exemplary parent-school partnerships in transition from elementary to middle level: approaches of the middle level principal
… Illinois principals foster exemplary parent-school partnerships during the time of transition from elementary to middle level. Participants’ attitudes, purposes, and practices with regard to parent-school partnerships during this critical period of change were explored over the course of …
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Examining the Transition Experience of Students from Multiage Elementary Programs to Single-Grade Classrooms at the Middle School
<p>Multiage programming is a school reform option used throughout the United States. Much of the current literature focuses on the short-term benefits of multiage programs, particularly at the elementary level, with little consideration for long-term effects or for what might happen to students …
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Self-Theories of Intelligence and Rural Middle School Students: Examining a Model of Achievement Motivation
… on the achievement motivation of rural middle school students in the domain of science. Students from three schools in two counties in rural southwest Virginia participated in the study (n = 367). Independent and paired-samples t-tests, confirmatory factor analysis, mediational analyses, …
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Paradigm Transformation: Preparing Students for the Transition To Middle School
… part of a three-part dissertation on effectively transitioning students from elementary school to middle school. Currently, there is no local program to aid students in transitioning from elementary to middle school. The rationale is that by addressing the need for increased focus on improving …