Domestic violence and its reflections in middle school students' artworks

Injuries, Violence, and Bullying Among Middle School Students in Oman.

OBJECTIVES Injuries account for a substantial proportion of the burden of disease in adolescents globally. This paper describes injury rates and associated exposures, and risk behaviors in Oman's 2010 Global School-based Student Health Survey (GSHS). METHODS This study used complex samples analysis to examine nationally-representative data from 1 606 students in grades eight, nine, and 10 who...

Gang membership of California middle school students: behaviors and attitudes as mediators of school violence.

Empirical evidence examining how risk and protective behaviors may possibly mediate the association between gang membership and school violence is limited. This study utilizes a statewide representative sample of 152 023 Latino, Black and White seventh graders from California to examine a theoretical model of how school risk (e.g. truancy, school substance use and risky peer approval) and prote...

Animalwatch: an arithmetic ITS for elementary and middle school students

Animalwatch is an Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) that was developed with two objectives in mind: 1) to effectively teach pre-algebra arithmetic to elementary and middle school students, 2) to increase young girl's confidence, value, and liking of mathematics in the process (Beal, 2000). Animalwatch integrates mathematics with science, language arts, and technology to achieve its goals. In se...

The Toledo/Lucas County Domestic Violence Task Force: Reflections on Collaborative Responses to Domestic Violence **

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