We report the results of a study on students’ interest in physics at the end of their compulsory schooling in Israel carried out in the framework of the ROSE Project. Factors studied were their opinions about science classes, their out-of-school experiences in physics, and their attitudes toward science and technology. Students’ overall interest in physics was “neutral” (neither positive nor ne...

This study examined the effects of a smoking prevention program on the acquisition of refusal skills among junior high school students. Two conditions were compared: one in which the subjects participated in a videotaped training program on resisting pressures to smoke, and the other an untreated control group. As predicted, the results showed significant improvement in the skill training group...

This study investigated professional empowerment of junior middle school teachers in Taiwan, compared the difference on the sense of autonomy in background variables, and explored the extent to which professional power explained professional efficacy, using questionnaire method. The results showed that (1) the sense of professional empowerment of junior middle school teachers was on the middle ...

BACKGROUND Childhood overweight and obesity is a growing health challenge in Japan and might be associated with childhood poverty. We aimed to investigate the association between low economic status and body mass index (BMI) and to reveal the mediators of this association among junior high school students in Japan. METHODS Junior high school students (N = 2968) from two cities in Shizuoka, Ja...

Lifestyle Habits among Japanese Junior High School Students Minoru HONGO ,Hiroya HIDAKA ,Shigeko SAKAGUCHI ,Keisuke NAKANISHI Fumiko TERASAWA ,Motoki IC H IK A W A ,Naoko HIROTA ,Goro TSURUTA Naoki TANAKA ,Atsushi IZA W A ,Yoshikazu YAZAKI ,Uichi IK E D A ,Kenichi KOIKE on behalf of the Investigators of the Study Project on Prevention of Metabolic Syndrome among Children,Adolescents,and Young A...

Recently, the use of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) has received considerable attention in school settings. However, limited empirical evidence supports the utility and effectiveness of SFBT with at-risk students. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to evaluate the impact of SFBT with a group of at-risk students in a junior high school. A total of 26 students participated in eigh...

Schoolchildren and students have opportunities of actively and concretely manipulate concepts from traditional disciplines when designing, writing and verifying programs for controlling the motion of mini-robots. Thus, educational robotics may naturally allow integrating robot programming activities into traditional subjects of standard curricula instead of adding some form of ICT as a (softwar...

Studies by Scheiman et al. on a clinical paediatric population1 and Lara et al. on a clinic population aged 10–35 years2 reported that the most common vision disorder after ametropia was binocular vision disorders. In comparison with certain ocular diseases also, binocular vision disorders are regularly diagnosed.3 Vergence disorders (binocular vision disorders4 functionally classified descript...

The purpose of this study is to develop a school stressor scale from the events experienced frequently by junior high school students in their daily school life, and to examine the relationship between school stressors and stress responses. In study I, factor analysis of data by 552 students revealed four main factors "teacher", "friend", "club activity", and "study", which were extracted from ...