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EJ454359 EA527346
Title: The Transition to Middle Level Schools: Making It a Good Experience for All Students.Author(s): Midgley, Carol; Urdan, Tim
Source: Middle School Journal, v24 n2 p5-14 Nov 1992
Publication Date: 1992
ISSN: 0094-0771
Language: English
Document Type: Information Analysis (070); Journal articles (080); Opinion papers (120)
Journal Announcement: CIJAPR1993
Target Audience: Practitioners
Describes
approaches for solving the problem of students' declining motivation
and performance when they move to middle-level schools. Urges educators
to examine school policies, practices, and procedures, and to make
changes that will make it very clear to students that effort, challenge,
improvement, and mastery are the goals of schooling. (16 references)
(MLF)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement; Change Strategies; *Educational
Environment; Intermediate Grades; Junior High Schools; *Learning
Motivation; *Middle Schools; Peer Influence; *School Restructuring;
*Student Attitudes; *Transitional Programs
Identifiers: *Middle School Students
