middle school
Promoting afterschool quality and positive youth development: Cluster randomized trial of the pax good behavior game
This randomized trial tested a strategy originally developed for school settings, the Pax Good Behavior...
Developmentally inspired drug prevention: middle school outcomes in a school-based randomized prevention trial.
Prior investigations have linked behavioral competencies in primary school to a reduced risk of later...
The effect of the level of aggression in the first grade classroom on the course and malleability of aggressive behavior into middle school
Abstract: This paper is on the influences of the classroom context on the course and...
An empirical comparison of methods of sampling aggression and victimization in school settings
Methods of identifying aggressive/bullying and victimized youngsters in a middle school sample were compared. First,...
Self-efficacy, motivation con- structs, and mathematics performance of entering middle school students
The objectives of this study were to determine the influence of various motivation variables on...
Social predictors of changes in students’ achievement goal orientations
Declines in students' achievement motivation across the transition to middle school may be explained by...
The development and validation of scales assessing students’ achievement goal orientations
Achievement goal theory has emerged as a major new direction in motivational research. A distinction...
Elementary and middle school students’ perceptions of violence-prone school subcontexts.
This study examined the views of 377 students (grades 2, 4, 6, and 8) from...