ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors review some of the most recent and important findings on the transitioning experience to high school, including a brief review of important research on psychosocial and cognitive modifications for the beginning high school student. They include the development of study skills and assist counselors in helping students make a successful transition to the academic demands of secondary school. Educators focus on the academic leaps that students will have to make in high school. McIntosh, Flannery, Sugai, Braun, and Cochrane studied the relationships between academic performance and problem behavior in the transition from middle school to high school. Students need to be made aware that they need a comparable level of skill whether they want to go to work or to college after high school. Future predictions indicate that children and adolescents will learn more about emotions and shape their own ability to deal emotionally from media rather than from others, including their families.
