Special Resource Material Developed by the Center
Title: Addressing Barriers to Successful Middle School Transition (Information Resource)
Description: Researchers have stressed both personal and institutional factors as producing a significant mismatch interfering with the successful middle schools transitions. These include complexities stemming from (a) motivational and developmental differences, (b) enhanced anxiety about the degree of changes in school structure, academic demands, and interpersonal relationships, (c) reduction in the amount of support and guidance experienced by students, and (d) diminished parental involvement. Given widespread awareness of such matters, a greater intervention emphasis is needed to enhance successful
middle school transitions. The following are strategies suggested in the literature and our Center’s view about where they fit.Access at: http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/middlesch.pdf 42kb;7pp
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