Sentences with phrase «among middle grade students»

The findings from the survey we conducted among middle grade students support the concept that educators can influence the social and emotional climate of schools.

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In fact, compared with elementary schools, middle grade schools often have more students per grade, lower levels of student autonomy, less positive teacher - student relationships, and more competition and less cooperation among students.

Among entering students, about 15 to 20 percent perform above grade level, about 15 to 20 percent below; the rest are in the middle, said Grover.

Researchers have likewise reported a negative correlation between self - reported hours of sleep and school grades among both middle - and high - school students.

A survey of 725 middle and high school teachers, and 600 parents of students in those grades, found high levels of frustration among teachers regarding discipline issues.

The effects of service learning on social responsibility and academic success were investigated among a large, racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of students in grades 6 - 8 in three middle schools.

Another educator, language arts / humanities teacher Nancy Slentz of Meridian Middle School in Lynden, Washington, was searching for a way to boost the homework completion rate among her eighth graders, so she developed a system that allows students to record their own grades.

Among Florida ELL eighth - graders at middle schools that do not have a sufficient number of white eighth - grade students, only about 10 % scored at or above the proficient level in math.

For example, among eighth - grade ELL students in Florida, about 30 % score at or above the proficient level in math if they attend a middle school that has a minimum threshold number of white students.

In 2015, for instance, the Skills for Success grant program supported local educational agencies and their partners in developing programs and practices that promoted positive learning mindsets among middle - grade students.37 The winning entities included Chicago Public Schools, KIPP, Long Beach Unified School District, and Los Angeles Unified School District.38

In a survey of middle - grades students in three diverse schools, the authors found variations among the schools with regard to the extent to which students felt safe in school, the locations where bullying most often took place, the types of bullying that occurred, and the primary reasons students became targets of bullying.

«We have a lot of big problems,» Pinkston understands, citing among them a challenging growth in the percentage of students who are not native English speakers and high student attrition in the middle grades.

This project draws on two data sources — large - scale administrative data from middle and high school students in five large California school districts and a new nationally representative experimental test of a mindset intervention among 9th grade students — to analyze heterogeneity in the effect of a growth mindset on academic outcomes across different structural positions.

LAWRENCE, Kan. — The Achievement and Assessment Institute (AAI) at the University of Kansas has received a $ 212,000 award from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a prototype web interface that would allow students, parents, teachers and researchers to understand the relationships among mathematics topics by exploring the KU - developed Dynamic Learning Maps ™ (DLM ®) tool for mathematics taught in middle - and high - school grades.

Among students who regularly attended OST programs, they had higher promotion rates than their peers, entered 6th and 9th grade with higher school attendance (important transition grades to middle and high school), and were significantly less likely to be chronically absent.

A consortium report from December found that after grades, attendance habits among Chicago middle school students provided the best indicator of later academic performance on a range of measures.

The effects of service learning on social responsibility and academic success were investigated among a large, racially and socioeconomically diverse sample of students in grades 6 - 8 in three middle schools.

Our program will: increase mental health literacy among the Natick Middle School community; offer screening to all 7th and 8th grade students, make referrals as needed; and communicate with Natick Middle School parents / guardians about their teens, youth depression, and possible interventions.