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- Articles and reports: 11F0019M2005242Geography: CanadaDescription:
Early adolescence is a time of rapid social, cognitive, and physical change. For some youth, these changes can make this period a vulnerable point in development. Adding to the stress, some students transfer from an elementary school to a middle school or to a comprehensive high school. While the impact on youth of moving to a higher level of schooling has been the focus of intense research and debate in the United States, surprisingly little research has been conducted examining how Canadian youth make this transition within the context of Canadian schools. With this in mind, this paper examines the academic, behavioural and emotional adjustment of Canadian adolescents who transfer from an elementary school to a middle or comprehensive high school and compares their outcomes to those of a group of youth who did not change schools. Results of several statistical analyses suggest that changing schools had little systematic association to adolescents' academic outcomes. This held true regardless of whether the school was a middle school or a comprehensive high school. Similarly, transferring to a middle school had little negative association to adolescents' emotional and behavioural outcomes. Indeed, with respect to social aggression, the analyses suggested that students in middle schools may use indirect or socially directed aggression less frequently than students who remained in elementary school. However, transferring directly from an elementary school to a comprehensive high school appeared to have some negative emotional consequences. Youth who moved directly from an elementary school to a high school reported greater symptoms of physical stress. Further, female students who directly transfer to high schools at ages 12 and 13, reported higher levels of depressive affect than female adolescents who remained in an elementary school.
Release date: 2005-03-01 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M2003210Geography: CanadaDescription:
The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two separate data sets suggests that individuals from higher income families are much more likely to attend university, but this has been a long-standing tendency and the participation gap between students from the highest and lowest income families has in fact narrowed. The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation did become stronger during the early to mid 1990s, but weakened thereafter. This pattern reflects the fact that policy changes increasing the maximum amount of a student loan as well as increases in other forms of support occurred only after tuition fees had already started increasing.
Release date: 2003-10-03 - 3. Measuring school engagement ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-003-X20020026525Geography: CanadaDescription:
This report discusses the methodology for the development of two school engagement scales using items from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) teachers' questionnaire.
Release date: 2003-06-11 - 4. Diversity in the classroom: Characteristics of elementary students receiving special education ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-003-X19990024897Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article focusses on children who receive special education because of a physical, emotional, behavioural or other problem. It uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY).
Release date: 2000-03-07 - 5. From home to school: How Canadian children cope ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-003-X19990024900Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article explores the effects of early childhood education and care programs on school performance and experiences.
Release date: 2000-03-07 - 6. From Home to School - How Canadian Children Cope ArchivedJournals and periodicals: 89F0117XGeography: CanadaDescription:
This report outlines some initial results from the School Component of the first and second cycles of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY). It examines the longitudinal influence of Early Childhood Care and Education and literacy activities on young children's future academic and cognitive outcomes. This overview highlights the information newly available from this component of the survey; it is not comprehensive in its coverage or its analysis. Indeed, the information collected by the NLSCY is so rich and detailed that researchers and analysts will be using it to address a variety of important questions concerning the education of children and youth in Canada for many years to come. Here then, we are merely scratching the surface to stimulate awareness of this rich new data source, and to illustrate the kinds of analyses it makes possible.
Release date: 1999-10-14 - 7. A profile of NLSCY schools ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-003-X19980044654Geography: CanadaDescription:
The analysis of NLSCY school data presented in this article begins by exploring principals' evaluations of the adequacy of their schools' resources. Next, the presence, activity and influence of school advisory committees are examined. Following this, the article looks at the levels of regular staff and special resource staff are considered. The paper ends by describing a few features associated with students attending NLSCY schools.
Release date: 1999-07-30 - 8. The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth: Initial results from the school component ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-003-X19970023227Geography: CanadaDescription:
Many studies have examined the influence of children's upbringing, and home and school experiences on their development. These studies, however, often suffer from several limitations. They either examine children in other countries, use local samples that are not representative of Canadian children in general, or examine a limited number of factors in a single area of development.
Release date: 1997-09-29
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- Articles and reports: 11F0019M2005242Geography: CanadaDescription:
Early adolescence is a time of rapid social, cognitive, and physical change. For some youth, these changes can make this period a vulnerable point in development. Adding to the stress, some students transfer from an elementary school to a middle school or to a comprehensive high school. While the impact on youth of moving to a higher level of schooling has been the focus of intense research and debate in the United States, surprisingly little research has been conducted examining how Canadian youth make this transition within the context of Canadian schools. With this in mind, this paper examines the academic, behavioural and emotional adjustment of Canadian adolescents who transfer from an elementary school to a middle or comprehensive high school and compares their outcomes to those of a group of youth who did not change schools. Results of several statistical analyses suggest that changing schools had little systematic association to adolescents' academic outcomes. This held true regardless of whether the school was a middle school or a comprehensive high school. Similarly, transferring to a middle school had little negative association to adolescents' emotional and behavioural outcomes. Indeed, with respect to social aggression, the analyses suggested that students in middle schools may use indirect or socially directed aggression less frequently than students who remained in elementary school. However, transferring directly from an elementary school to a comprehensive high school appeared to have some negative emotional consequences. Youth who moved directly from an elementary school to a high school reported greater symptoms of physical stress. Further, female students who directly transfer to high schools at ages 12 and 13, reported higher levels of depressive affect than female adolescents who remained in an elementary school.
Release date: 2005-03-01 - Articles and reports: 11F0019M2003210Geography: CanadaDescription:
The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two separate data sets suggests that individuals from higher income families are much more likely to attend university, but this has been a long-standing tendency and the participation gap between students from the highest and lowest income families has in fact narrowed. The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation did become stronger during the early to mid 1990s, but weakened thereafter. This pattern reflects the fact that policy changes increasing the maximum amount of a student loan as well as increases in other forms of support occurred only after tuition fees had already started increasing.
Release date: 2003-10-03 - 3. Measuring school engagement ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-003-X20020026525Geography: CanadaDescription:
This report discusses the methodology for the development of two school engagement scales using items from the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) teachers' questionnaire.
Release date: 2003-06-11 - 4. Diversity in the classroom: Characteristics of elementary students receiving special education ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-003-X19990024897Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article focusses on children who receive special education because of a physical, emotional, behavioural or other problem. It uses the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY).
Release date: 2000-03-07 - 5. From home to school: How Canadian children cope ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-003-X19990024900Geography: CanadaDescription:
This article explores the effects of early childhood education and care programs on school performance and experiences.
Release date: 2000-03-07 - 6. A profile of NLSCY schools ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-003-X19980044654Geography: CanadaDescription:
The analysis of NLSCY school data presented in this article begins by exploring principals' evaluations of the adequacy of their schools' resources. Next, the presence, activity and influence of school advisory committees are examined. Following this, the article looks at the levels of regular staff and special resource staff are considered. The paper ends by describing a few features associated with students attending NLSCY schools.
Release date: 1999-07-30 - 7. The National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth: Initial results from the school component ArchivedArticles and reports: 81-003-X19970023227Geography: CanadaDescription:
Many studies have examined the influence of children's upbringing, and home and school experiences on their development. These studies, however, often suffer from several limitations. They either examine children in other countries, use local samples that are not representative of Canadian children in general, or examine a limited number of factors in a single area of development.
Release date: 1997-09-29
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- 1. From Home to School - How Canadian Children Cope ArchivedJournals and periodicals: 89F0117XGeography: CanadaDescription:
This report outlines some initial results from the School Component of the first and second cycles of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY). It examines the longitudinal influence of Early Childhood Care and Education and literacy activities on young children's future academic and cognitive outcomes. This overview highlights the information newly available from this component of the survey; it is not comprehensive in its coverage or its analysis. Indeed, the information collected by the NLSCY is so rich and detailed that researchers and analysts will be using it to address a variety of important questions concerning the education of children and youth in Canada for many years to come. Here then, we are merely scratching the surface to stimulate awareness of this rich new data source, and to illustrate the kinds of analyses it makes possible.
Release date: 1999-10-14
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