GRADES OR AGES: Grades 7-12. SUBJECT MATTER: Physical education, including team sports, stunts, tumbling and gymnastics, track and field, swimming, individual and dual sports, physical education for the handicapped, outdoor education, and rhythmic activities. ORGANIZATION AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE: The guide is divided into 16 chapters, each of…

This study compares the postulational approach to tenth grade geometry by three textbooks: one synthetic, one transformational, and one vectional. The development of incidence, order, distance, separation, congruence, parallelism, and similarity are discussed, and the different approaches illustrated. Special consideration is given to theorems in…

This study attempted to explore the possibility of increasing sensitivity to syntactic structure by exposing subjects representing a range of ability to a programed sentence structure module. Students in three ninth grade classes who had completed four weeks of supplementary work with "English Sentence Structure: Programed Exercises" and scored 70…

Investigated was the hypothesis that tenth grade biology students could learn selected physics concepts interjected into a unit of programmed biology instruction. It was further hypothesized that the students could learn the disassociated physics without a significant effect upon achievement or upon retention of the biological content. Eighty-one…

Reports on a study to examine a method for increasing spelling and sight word reading accuracy, by incorporating spelling and reading remediation techniques. Reports a mean gain of 2.6 years for spelling and 1.6 years for sight word recognition. (RAE)

Examined impact of counseling program which sought to assist the ninth and tenth graders (N=31) in developing positive attitudes about themselves, their abilities, and their educational environments through instruction in goal setting, basic study skills, and self-monitoring. Results indicated the students viewed the program favorably and…

This project sought to establish an affective concept exemplar variable called "exemplar intensity," a characteristic that would challenge the notion of equivalence by its impact on cognitive gain. The hypothesis that the high-intensity exemplars would increase cognitive achievement above learners receiving low-intensity exemplars was…

Topics, materials, and assignments are provided for 49 literature lessons for tenth grade, plus review notes. Subject matter includes Gorky, Mayakovsky, Soviet literature in the 1920s, the 1930s, Tolstoi, the Great Patriotic War, Sholokhov, and modern foreign literature. (ND)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of scaffolding in helping students understand a complex problem. Seventy-nine 10th-grade students (15 to 16 years old) from an urban public school participated in this study. The ethnic breakdown of the students at this school was: 39.4% White, 18% Black, 22.4% Hispanic, and 20.3 %…

Kentucky's goal of reaching academic "proficiency" by 2014 illuminated problematic findings in 2002 reading test scores: 44.30% of middle and 71.25% of high school students scored below "proficient." The research question was, "Do teaching practices in schools with high reading achievement scores differ from teaching practices in schools with low…

This annotated bibliography identifies the English language resources endorsed by Alberta, Canada and all Western Canadian Protocol (WCP) jurisdictions implementing The Common Curriculum Framework for K-12 Mathematics Grade 10 to Grade 12. The WCP resources in this bibliography were selected through a collaborative review process based on their…

This book features a set of problems assembled to reflect the criteria of the mathematics portion of the North Carolina High School Comprehensive Test. The problems are not necessarily suited to timed situations but rather are intended for classroom use by teachers to review high school mathematics and build upon concepts and skills developed in…

The North Carolina High School Comprehensive Test (HSCT)--Reading and Mathematics is currently being utilized to comply with the federal No Child Left Behind legislation of 2001. No Child Left Behind requires that, by the 2005-06 school year, each state must measure every child's progress in reading and math in each of grades 3 through 8 and at…

Graduate Exit Examination for the 21st Century (GEE 21) is an integral part of the Louisiana school and district accountability system passed by the state legislature and signed into law in 1997. The primary purposes of the accountability system are to raise expectations for achievement for all Louisiana public school students and to improve…

This statistical report presents the results of performance on the Idaho Standards Achievement Tests (ISAT) by Ethnicity in each high school in Idaho. The high school are organized by school district. The subjects of Reading, Language Usage, and Mathematics are covered. Ethnicities covered include: White; Hispanic or Latino Ethnicity; American…