When is the Critical Moment to Provide Smoking Education at Schools?

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 121-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted T. L. Chen ◽  
Alvin E. Winder
Keyword(s):  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Sixth Graders ◽  
Smoking Prevention ◽  
Optimal Time ◽  
School Students ◽  
Twelfth Graders ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Critical Moment ◽  
Attitudes Toward Smoking

When is the critical moment to provide smoking education for public school students? This study is designed to address this problem. Five hundred and twelve students, sixth, ninth, and twelfth graders in the Northampton, Massachusetts school system were studied. Their responses to a sixty-two item questionnaire revealed that sixth grade is the optimal time to provide education for smoking prevention. Sixth graders are characterized by a relative absence of peer pressure, a relative lack of knowledge of the effects of smoking, unfamiliarity with their parents' attitudes toward smoking and evidence that many students in this grade intend to smoke within the next five years.

Effects of a Peer Led Intervention Program on Smoking Prevention: A Case Example in Greece

1997 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 297-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iphigenia MacRi ◽  
John Tsiantis
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Smoking Prevention ◽  
Control Group ◽  
School Students ◽  
High School Grades ◽  
Attitudes Toward Smoking ◽  
Experimental Group

This pilot study evaluates the effects of a peer developed, smoking prevention program on the smoking behavior, intent to smoke, knowledge, and attitudes toward smoking of high school students. An experimental group of 237 first and second grade high school students (mean ages 12.2 and 13.2 respectively) from an Athenian school was compared to a control group of ninety students from the first and second high school grades (mean ages 12.1 and 13.3 respectively) in another school. A randomly drawn subgroup of thirty-seven student volunteers from the experimental group developed antismoking audiovisual material which they subsequently presented and discussed with the whole group. Findings indicated that this intervention significantly limited the increase of smoking behavior of the experimental group a year following the first assessment. However, intent to smoke in the future, attitudes toward smoking, and knowledge were not affected by the intervention. Results suggest that the intervention was partially successful in curbing experimental smoking in these adolescents. Implications of the findings are discussed.

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN MONITORING PARENTAL DAN KEBIASAAN PEER GROUP DENGAN PERILAKU MEROKOK REMAJA SLTP DI KOTA MATARAM

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Mukminah Mukminah
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Smoking Status ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Parental Control ◽  
Smoking Behavior ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Smoking Behaviour ◽  
Smoking Prevention ◽  
School Students

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between peer and parental control factors and smoking behaviour of adolecents among junior high school students in Mataram. Observational study was used to collect data from 108 students aged 12 to 17 on their own smoking status and parental controls. The result showed secondary students who smoke are subjected to peer group pressures and they have fewer parental controls with regard to smoking. More pressures on smoking within the peer groups were associated with a greater likelihood of smoking behaviour (p>0.05; p=0.642). However, parental controls on smoking have also been found to have influence to decreasing the likelihood of smoking behaviour among 7th and 8th students (p>0.05; p=0.440).  In general, peers has stronger effects on initiation of adolecents smoking behavior than parental control influences. This findings suggest that more extensive controls on smoking at home may reduce adolecents smoking behaviour. Thus, smoking prevention for adolecents might be focused on social context such as, resisting to peer pressure and enhacing parental communication. Keywords: adolescent; smoking behavior; parental control; peer 

scholarly journals Quantitative analysis of impact of response to intervention on 2019 sixth-grade rural public middle school Missouri assessment program performance by free and reduced-price lunch eligibility

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Tiffani J. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Response To Intervention ◽  
Missouri Assessment Program ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Program Performance ◽  
School Students ◽  
Free And Reduced Lunch ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Assessment Program ◽  
Intervention Level ◽  
Public Middle School

This study focused on the impact of response to intervention on 2019 sixth-grade rural public middle school Missouri Assessment Program performance by free and reduced-price lunch eligibility. Response to intervention was used to decrease learning gaps for students. Missouri Assessment Program performance was used as an accountability measure for Missouri public school students. The researcher used the Missouri Assessment Program, a standardized assessment given to Missouri public school students in grades three through eight. The annual test includes mathematics and English language arts in grades three through eight and science in grades five and eight. This research focused on mathematics in grade six. This study concluded that there were significant differences in student scores based on: free and reduced lunch eligibility; race and ethnicity; response to intervention received; and response to intervention level. Moreover, the researcher found that students in response to intervention Level 2 are effectively identified to receive academic assistance. This seemed to be a stronger identifier than free and reduced-lunch eligibility and race.

Perception of Home Environment and School Abilities as Predictors of Reading Power and School Achievements

1986 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 819-822 ◽  
Author(s):  
William F. White ◽  
Andrea Karlin ◽  
Charles Burke
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Home Environment ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Sixth Graders ◽  
School Students ◽  
Common Variance ◽  
Perceived Values ◽  
Item Responses

A sample of 565 sixth grade, middle-school students in two urban settings in the Southwestern United States completed the My Education (ME) scale and the Degrees of Reading Power. Responses to the 55 items in the ME Scale were factor analyzed by the principal components solution. Five rotated factors contributed 47% to the cumulative proportion of common variance. The first factor, labeled “Values Learned From Parents,” contained item responses which were the best predictors of reading power with a correlation of .41. Reading power and ability among 565 sixth graders was motivated highest by perceived values learned at home.

Use of Interactive Health Communication to Affect Smoking Intentions in Middle School Students: A Pilot Test of the “Headbutt” Risk Assessment Program

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 334-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Shegog ◽  
Alfred L. McAlister ◽  
Shoahua Hu ◽  
Kentya C. Ford ◽  
Angela F. Meshack ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Study Design ◽  
School Children ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Smoking Prevention ◽  
Tobacco Prevention ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
School Students ◽  
Middle School Children ◽  
Interactive Health Communication

Purpose. Developing and disseminating innovative and effective approaches for smoking prevention among middle school children remains a public health priority. This pilot study evaluates the use of a Web-based tobacco prevention program, Headbutt, to change intentions of middle school children to smoke tobacco. Methods. Headbutt was implemented with the use of a single-group pretest-posttest study design in sixth grade classes of nine middle schools in Texas (student n = 2227). The program assesses cognitive determinants of smoking and provides intervention feedback tailored to the child's responses. Results. Headbutt significantly affected smoking intentions, prosmoking attitudes, self-efficacy expectations, and knowledge of negative consequences (all p ≤ .001) measured with scales adopted from the Texas Tobacco Initiative Survey. Change in prosmoking attitudes had the greatest predictive effect on smoking intentions (p < .001). These results were moderated by ethnicity and age of students. Conclusion. Findings need to be interpreted in the light of study design limitations. However, strong associations between the Headbutt program and intention change suggests that a more rigorous effectiveness trial is indicated.

Parental, Family, and Home Characteristics Associated with Cigarette Smoking among Adolescents

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 291-299 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelli A. Komro ◽  
Maribet C. McCarty ◽  
Jean L. Forster ◽  
Therese M. Blaine ◽  
Vincent Chen
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Smoking Prevention ◽  
Multivariate Logistic Regression Model ◽  
School Students ◽  
Entire Family ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
Cross Sectional Design ◽  
Parental Family

Purpose. This study examines the relationship between smoking-related parental, family, and home factors with adolescents' cigarette use. Design. Cross-sectional surveys of adolescents, via a self-administered questionnaire in classrooms, and their parents, via a telephone interview, were conducted. Setting. Fifteen suburban and rural communities within Minnesota. Subjects. The study sample included 8th, 9th, and 10th grade public school students and their parents. Measures. The dependent variable was monthly tobacco use among students. The independent measures were parental, family, and home smoking-related characteristics. There were 1343 parent-child dyads with completed surveys. Results. The final, multivariate logistic regression model found the following variables to be independently related to higher smoking rates among adolescents: child's grade (odds ratio [OR] = 3.03 for 10th vs. 8th), parents' permissiveness of adult smoking (OR = 1.80), parents' having higher normative estimates of how many people smoke (OR = 1.70), parents' decreased likelihood of punishing their teenager for smoking (OR = 1.65), smoking by an adult living in the home (OR = 1.99), and sibling smoking (OR = 8.95). Lack of communication about consequences for breaking family smoking rules was associated with lower smoking rates among adolescents (OR = .49). Conclusion. The results of this study highlight the importance of parental smoking norms and attitudes and smoking role models in the home. It is important that smoking prevention strategies target and include the entire family. Limitations of the study are its cross-sectional design and that the sample was primarily white.

Continuity in Training Primary School Students and Fifth- and Sixth-Graders on How to Solve Mathematical Problems

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 10-20
Author(s):  
Бурлакова ◽  
T. Burlakova ◽  
Целищева ◽  
Irina Tselishcheva
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Sixth Graders ◽  
Primary School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Sixth Grade Students ◽  
Mathematical Problems ◽  
Intellectual Activities

The paper considers how to sustain continuity in teaching Mathematics at primary school and further to Fifth- and Sixth-grade students. As the authors’ educational experience proves, to achieve the above goal it is necessary and useful to help students to develop skills for problem solving situations, given that such training should be provided form the very beginning, i.e., from the first grade. Specified are the techniques and methods of stage-by-stage operation with problem solving situations, which results in both more successful development of students’ skills in problems solving and boosting their intellectual activities. This also helps to improve the students’ skills to learn.

Cultivating the collective: exploring the American dream with sixth graders

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-45
Author(s):  
Sarah Elizabeth Montgomery ◽  
Zak K. Montgomery ◽  
Sarah Vander Zanden ◽  
Ashley Jorgensen ◽  
Mirsa Rudic
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
American Dream ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Sixth Graders ◽  
School Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Arts And Humanities

Purpose The concept of an American Dream was interrogated during a service-learning partnership between university students and a multilingual, racially diverse class of sixth graders. The one-on-one service-learning partnerships were at the heart of the semester-long project and sought horizontalidad, or non-authoritarian democratic communication and shared knowledge creation. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach This project leveraged the arts and humanities within the context of social studies education to promote youth civic engagement. This project used Photovoice methodology in which all participants took photos and wrote about their American Dream. Participants then shared their photography and writing at three public gallery events in the community in an effort to educate others about their perspectives, experiences, and hopes regarding the American Dream. Findings Findings from the reciprocally minded partnership centered on the sixth-grade students taking a collective approach to the American Dream. Specifically, they noted their commitment to their families and desire to support others, with some sixth graders even sharing a commitment to promoting social justice. Some participants demonstrated a “we consciousness,” or a collective approach to social justice. Originality/value The study provides insights into how educators can engage middle school students in democratic practice as active citizens in a service-learning partnership. Through a service-learning themed project about the American Dream, middle school students were able to share their voices and experiences with the larger community via a project rooted in horizontalidad.

scholarly journals Appropriate Self-Perceived Behaviors in Primary Education Pupils During Sports Games

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis Gómez Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Primary Education ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Sixth Graders ◽  
Education Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
La Mancha ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Study Population ◽  
The Moment

Based on the results obtained from primary education students—fifth and sixth graders—the aim of this work is to check the appropriate self-perceived behaviors during and at the end of the game. The study population was made up of 698 students from fifth and sixth grade in the Autonomous Region of Castilla–La Mancha (Spain). Data were collected through a questionnaire (scale) on the social skills of primary school students linked to the adequate skills when losing, the adequate skills when winning, and the adequate skills during the game. Study results revealed that analyzed behaviors vary, depending on the moment of the game, being it more frequently during the development of the game than when losing or winning.

Novos modelos de educação superior

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Tavares Gomes ◽  
Eduardo Santos ◽  
Sandra Gomes ◽  
Daniel Pansarelli ◽  
Donizete Mariano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public School ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
School Students ◽  
Public School Students ◽  
New Models ◽  
Cognitive Justice ◽  
Access Policies

This book, consisting of nine chapters, is the result of multiple theoretical and empirical research carried out by students in the post-graduate program in education (PPGE) at Universidade Nove de Julho (UNINOVE). The object of the research was to carry out a study on the new models of higher education, implemented in Brazil between 2005 and 2013. The studies carried out focus, above all, on institutional principles, student access policies, the internationalization process, quota policies, and mechanisms for inclusion in higher education for public school students. These were studies that used, as a theoretical basis, epistemological models of a counter-hegemonic character and, from a methodological point of view, an essentially qualitative approach. The studies showed, generically, the possibility of building other models of higher education capable of overcoming the elitism, characteristic of traditional universities. The inclusion of students from public school reveals that it is possible to make higher education a right for everyone, democratizing it, in the sense of establishing social and cognitive justice. Keywords: higher education; new models; empirical research; Brazil; social and cognitive justice.

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