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Title: AN INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF SINGLE-SEX CLASSROOMS ON SELF-ESTEEM IN MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS
Author: Hart, Laura
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Sex role, Instructional systems--Design
Description: Overall, research on the effectiveness of single-gender education is inconclusive. However, research does indicate that some benefits beyond academic achievement may be possible. This is particularly true for middle-school girls, who often struggl...

Title: Factors Related to the College-Going Self-Efficacy of Middle School Students
Author: Harden, Dia
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational counseling, Middle school education, Multicultural education
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between middle school students' college-going self-efficacy and their race, college generational status, academic self-concept, and perceived college-going culture. The respondents were 162...

Title: HOLDING OUT FOR A HÉROE: A BOOK CLUB STUDY OF RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL LATINAS
Author: Dymes, Laurie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Reading, Instructional systems--Design
Description: Literacy provides people with intellectual tools to question, challenge, understand, disagree, and arrive at informed perspectives and is a reflection of cultural values and meaning-making for adolescents within their community. By understanding t...

Title: Integration of engineering in a middle grade mathematics classroom: A conceptual framework for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) integration
Author: Pugalenthi, Premkumar
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Mathematics--Study and teaching
Description: In recent years, student centered approaches to learning has gained interest especially STEM based learning. It has led to educational policy and standards reforms including the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), which helps teachers, incor...

Title: Teacher Self-Efficacy and Student Learning: A Case Study of the Implementation of Common Core State Standards in Mathematics in a Parochial Middle School
Author: Mazze, Candace
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Education, Mathematics
Description: ABSTRACTCANDACE ELIZABETH MAZZE. Teacher self-efficacy and student learning: a case study of the implementation of Common Core State Standards in Mathematics in a parochial middle school (Under the direction of DR. COREY R. LOCK)In response to US ...

Title: The University English Lecturer: Colleague or Commodity
Author: Carney, Karen
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education
Description: Consumer demands and annual budgetary inconsistencies have caused today's postsecondary academic landscape to continuously shift and change. Challenges to remain competitive or simply survive impact postsecondary institutions at their most fundame...

Title: Through Students' Eyes: Using Photography to Explore At-Risk Middle Schoolers' Perceptions of Self and School
Author: Britt, Heather
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Middle school education, Education, Teachers--Training of
Description: ABSTRACTHEATHER M. BRITT. Visual ethnographic case study of school through the eyes of students using Photovoice, cameras, writing and agency artwork. (Under the direction of DR. JEANNEINE JONES)Everyone goes to school but everyone does not have t...