Including middle school students in my sample is critical for my analysis since many of the sibling pairs include a student in middle school.
Figure 1 shows the distribution of standardized reading scores for all NC middle school students in our sample years, divided by LEP status.
Below is a sample middle school level reading passage from the online New Jersey PARCC preparation booklet.
The Global Youth Tobacco Survey was administered to a representative sample of middle school students in Greece.
Our results indicate that there is no evidence of substantively important invariance, suggesting no evidence of problems with bias or differences in measurement properties when employed in a diverse sample of middle school adolescents.
This study evaluated the measurement equivalence of measures of familism and parental respect in a large and diverse sample of middle school students in Southern California (n = 5646) using a multiple group confirmatory factor analysis approach.
Specifically, we examined the relations among personality variables (i.e., extraversion and neuroticism), social support (i.e., parents, teachers, peers), stressful life events, and gratitude in a sample of 647 middle school students from four middle schools in a Southeastern US state.
To provide information on such progress, we will collect data on teacher content knowledge, curriculum use, and instruction from a nationally representative sample of U.S. middle school mathematics teachers.
Working with a sample of 2,000 middle school students in Seattle, Choi and colleagues at the University of Washington studied specific problem behaviors among multiracial youngsters such as substance use and interpersonal violence.
Although white students comprised 55% of the representative sample of 122,000 middle school students who took portions of the test, they make up 76% of those scoring above 176.
