Articles

2008 - Volume 31, Number 9
Early Predictors of School Performance Declines at School Transition Points

2008 - Volume 31, Number 8
Factors Associated with Perceived Parental Academic Monitoring in a Population of Low-Income, African American Young Adolescents

2008 - Volume 31, Number 7
Comparison of Student Learning Outcomes in Middle School Science Classes with an STS Approach and a Typical Textbook Dominated Approach

2008 - Volume 31, Number 6
Orienting to the Public Good: Developing a Moral Self in the Middle Grades

2008 - Volume 31, Number 5
Key Characteristics of Middle School Performance

2007 - Volume 31, Number 4
Methods and the Middle: Elementary and Secondary Preservice Teachers' Views on Their Preparation for Teaching Middle School Social Studies

2007 - Volume 31, Number 3
Virtual Teaming: Placing Preservice Middle Level Teachers on Interdisciplinary Teams

2007 - Volume 31, Number 2
Adolescent Adjustment to the Middle School Transition: The Intersection of Divorce and Gender in Review

2007 - Volume 31, Number 1
Improving Teacher Effectiveness through Structured Collaboration: A Case Study of a Professional Learning Community

2007 - Volume 30, Number 10
Middle Level Teacher Certification in South Carolina: A Case Study in Educational Policy Development

2007 - Volume 30, Number 9
Promoting Positive Achievement in the Middle School: A Look at Teachers' Motivational Knowledge, Beliefs, and Teaching Practices

2007 - Volume 30, Number 8
Project WIN Evaluation Shows Decreased Violence and Improved Conflict Resolution Skills for Middle School Students

2007 - Volume 30, Number 7
Attitudes of Middle Grades Principals Toward Online Teacher Preparation Programs in Middle Grades Education: Are Administrators Pushing "Delete"?

2007 - Volume 30, Number 6
Improving Classroom Instruction: Understanding the Developmental Nature of Analyzing Primary Sources

2007 - Volume 30, Number 5
Effects of Interdisciplinary Teaching Team Configuration upon the Social Bonding of Middle School Students

2006 - Volume 30, Number 4
Research on Same-Gender Grouping in Eighth Grade Science Classrooms

2006 - Volume 30, Number 3
Integrated Reading and Language Arts Instruction

2006 - Volume 30, Number 2
Effects of Programmed Learning Sequences on the Mathematics Test Scores of Bermudian Middle School Students

2006 - Volume 30, Number 1
"It's Hard Answering Your Calling": Teacher Teams in a Restructuring Urban Middle School

2006 - Volume 29, Number 10
Similarities and Differences in Students' and Parents' Perceptions of the Transition from Middle School to High School

2006 - Volume 29, Number 9
Extracurricular Participation and the Transition to Middle School

2006 - Volume 29, Number 8
Dignity and Democracy: An Exploration of Middle School Teachers' Pedagogy

2006 - Volume 29, Number 7
Testing vs. Teaching: The Perceived Impact of Assessment Demands on Middle Grades Instructional Practices

2006 - Volume 29, Number 6
Self-Esteem Changes in the Middle School Years: A Study of Ethnic and Gender Groups

2006 - Volume 29, Number 5
Why Kids Need To Be Bored: A Case Study of Self-Reflection and Academic Performance

2005 - Volume 29, Number 4
Struggling Readers and Content Area Text: Interactions with and Perceptions of Comprehension, Self, and Success

2005 - Volume 29, Number 3
State-wide Middle Level Implementation: Lessons Learned

2005 – Volume 29, Number 2
Middle School Students' Perceptions of Social Dimensions as Influencers of Academic Engagement

2005 – Volume 29, Number 1
Evolution of a Teacher's Problem Solving Instruction: A Case Study of Aligning Teaching Practice with Reform in Middle School Mathematics

2004 - Volume 28, Number 1

• Preface
• The Link Between Instructional Practice and the Racial Gap in Middle Schools
• Professional Learning Communities, Leadership, and Student Learning
• Promoting Critical-Thinking Dispositions by Using Problem Solving in Middle School Mathematics
• Literacy for Middle School Students: Challenges of Cultural Synthesis
• Young Adolescent Voices: Students' Perceptions of Interdisciplinary Teaming

2004 - Volume 27, Number 2

• Preface
• The Relationship Between Middle Level Grade Span Configuration, Professional Development and Student Achievement
• Listening to the Voices of Family Members, Teachers and Community Members: Partnerships at the Middle Level
• Attrition of Beginning Teachers and the Factors of Collaboration and School Setting
• Advice and Student Agency in the Transition to Middle School
• Reconstructing the Vision: Teachers' Responses to the Invitation to Change
• Keeping History from Repeating Itself: Involving Parents about Retention Decisions to Support Student Achievement

2004 - Volume 27, Number 1

• Preface 
• Teaching Mathematical Problem Solving to Middle School Students in Math, Technology Education, and Special Education Classrooms
• Social Inclusion of Students with Disabilities in Middle School Physical Education Classes
• School Aggression and Dispositional Aggression Among Middle School Boys
• Problem-Based Learning In The Middle School: A Research Case Study of the Perceptions of At-risk Females
• An Endurance Test for Project WIN: A Conflict Transformation Program in a Low-Income, Urban, Middle Level Classroom

2003 - Volume 26, Number 2

• Preface
• Meeting Standards without Sacrificing Quality Curriculum in the Middle School
• Teacher Leaders: Middle School Mathematics Classrooms
• Middle School Teachers’ Preassessment Practices and Curricular / Instructional Modifications
• A Case of Authentic Redesign

2002 - Volume 26, Number 1

• Preface
• Exploring Gender Differences of U.S. Chinese Students in Their Solution Processes of Solving Routine and Nonroutine Mathematical Problems
• Advisories Led by Trained Facilitators: Their Impact on Middle School Students
• Middle School First Person Presentations and Connections to the Community
• Environmental Ethics in Middle School Students: Analysis of the Moral Orientation of Student Responses to Environmental Dilemmas
• Investigating Organizational Dimensions of Middle School Curricular Leadership: Linkages to School Effectiveness

2002 - Volume 25, Number 2

• Preface
• Middle School Climate Examined and Altered by Teacher-Directed Intervention Assessed Through Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies
• Harry Who? An Investigation of Students' Reading of the Harry Potter Series
• Instructional Innovation in Summer School: Outcomes for Urban Students
• Cultures of Excellence and Belonging in Urban Middle Schools
• A Field-Based Teacher Education Internship for Middle Level Teacher Candidates

2002 - Volume 25, Number 1

• Preface
• A Case Study of Leadership in the Middle Grades: The Work of the Instructional Lead Teacher
• Middle School Students Increase Their Vocabulary Knowledge Using Learning Style Preferences
• Mathematics Performance Assessment: Discovering Why Some Items or Rubrics Don’t Measure Up
• Relational Ways of Knowing in Middle School: A Case Report of Conversation in the Discovery Team
• School Uniforms: Policies and Procedures

2001 – Volume 24

• Middle Level Teachers' Perceptions of the Impact of Block Scheduling on Instruction and Learning

2000 – Volume 23

• Action Research to Effect Change for Adolescent Girls at an Urban Middle School: A Matter of Life and Death
  

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