scholarly journals Examining the roles of middle school students' locus of control in overcoming achievement gap as perceived by educators at a school in the public Waldorf movement

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdiane Cadet
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Achievement Gap ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Public

Factual accuracy and the cultural context of science in popular media: Perspectives of media makers, middle school students, and university students on an entertainment television program

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 596-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Szu ◽  
Jonathan Osborne ◽  
Alexis D. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
University Students ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Science Content ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Public ◽  
Entertainment Television ◽  
Scientific Facts

Popular media influences ideas about science constructed by the public. To sway media productions, public policy organizations have increasingly promoted use of science consultants. This study contributes to understanding the connection from science consultants to popular media to public outcomes. A science-based television series was examined for intended messages of the creator and consulting scientist, and received messages among middle school and non-science university students. The results suggest the consulting scientist missed an opportunity to influence the portrayal of the cultural contexts of science and that middle school students may be reading these aspects uncritically—a deficiency educators could potentially address. In contrast, all groups discussed the science content and practices of the show, indicating that scientific facts were salient to both media makers and audiences. This suggests popular media may influence the public knowledge of science, supporting concerns of scientists about the accuracy of fictional television and film.

Presenting Toxicology to the Public: The Middle School

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 314-320
Author(s):  
Michael J. Derelanko
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Dose Response ◽  
Toxicity Testing ◽  
Animal Research ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Public ◽  
Basic Concepts

Toxicologists are being called upon to educate the public about the value of toxicity testing and the important role animals play in this regard. This article discusses the importance of toxicologists educating students in the middle school about the science of toxicology and suggests various ways to convey basic concepts of toxicity, dose response, and animal research to students in these grades. The methods described in this article have been developed and used successfully by the author in making presentations to middle school students.

scholarly journals Teenagers’ Public Library Needs are Difficult to Determine

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 108
Author(s):  
Jason Martin
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Public Library ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Public ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Stratified Sample

Abstract Objective – To discover the attitudes of twelve to fifteen year-olds toward the public library. Design – Mixed methodology consisting of a survey and focus groups. Setting – An Eastern Canadian regional municipality. Subjects – Twelve to fifteen year-old middle school students. Methods – Using a disproportionate stratified sample and multistage clustering, the author mailed 900 surveys to middle school students; 249 surveys were completed and usable. Those students who completed the survey and who also indicated they would be willing to participate in a focus group were randomly selected to participate in nine focus groups with between 7 to 12 students in each group. Main Results – Discrepancies exist between the teens’ level of satisfaction with the library indicated on the survey (high) and expressed in the focus groups (low). Teens seldom use the public library due to: their non-existent relationship with library staff, although teens who were “active readers” used the library more; lack of appealing programs and program promotion; no teen-focused website; poor teen facilities within the library; and an overall failure of the public libraries to include teenagers. Conclusion – Public libraries need to be more responsive to teen needs to attract teens to use the library. To uncover these needs, libraries should use mixed methods of discovery.

The Effects of a Comprehensive Reading Program on Reading Outcomes for Middle School Students With Disabilities

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael F. Hock ◽  
Irma F. Brasseur-Hock ◽  
Alyson J. Hock ◽  
Brenda Duvel
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Achievement Gap ◽  
Reading Achievement ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Reading Disabilities ◽  
Reading Program ◽  
School Students ◽  
Standardized Measures ◽  
Quasi Experimental

Reading achievement scores for adolescents with disabilities are markedly lower than the scores of adolescents without disabilities. For example, 62% of students with disabilities read below the basic level on the NAEP Reading assessment, compared to 19% of their nondisabled peers. This achievement gap has been a continuing challenge for more than 35 years. In this article, we report on the promise of a comprehensive 2-year reading program called Fusion Reading. Fusion Reading is designed to significantly narrow the reading achievement gap of middle school students with reading disabilities. Using a quasi-experimental design with matched groups of middle school students with reading disabilities, statistically significant differences were found between the experimental and comparison conditions on multiple measures of reading achievement with scores favoring the experimental condition. The effect size of the differences were Hedges’s g = 1.66 to g = 1.04 on standardized measures of reading achievement.

Mathematical Lens: The Moving Ladder

2009 ◽  
Vol 102 (7) ◽  
pp. 492-496
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Pythagorean Theorem ◽  
Large Collection ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Public

For many years, Ron Lancaster's middle school students have interacted with the public art shown in photographs 1 and 2 during a math trail. Selections from the Synopsis of Categories (1992), by Micah Lexier, consists of a large collection of aluminum ladders fixed to the walls of Metro Hall, a building in downtown Toronto. Hundreds of words appear on the rungs of the ladders (see photographs 3 and 4). While standing in front of these ladders, students were asked to think about question 1. After discussing this question, students used metersticks and the Pythagorean theorem to try to resolve it.

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