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Showing 1 to 20 of 266 for “"Educational Sociology"”.
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A Mixed Methods Study of Student Horizontal and Vertical Networking and Associated Impacts on Student Performance
<p>This study examines the possible impacts of networking behavior on academic performance and attrition among two undergraduate student cohorts within a single department at one state university using a model based on prior research by Alvin Hwang, Eric H. Kessler, and Anne Marie Francesco (2004). …
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Students' perceptions of classroom justice and their use of politeness strategies
The purpose of this study was to investigate how students' use of politeness strategies differed based on their perceptions of distributive, procedural, and interactional justice when they engaged in a face threatening act (FTA) with their instructors. Participants included 76 undergraduate …
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Selected Characteristics of Home Schools and Parents Who Operate Them
… a rapidly-emerging alternative to conventional educational systems. The purpose of this study was to identify selected characteristics of home schools and the parents who operate them.</p> <p>Method: The population used in this descriptive research was drawn from the files of the Hewitt Research …
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Transformation and connection: the stories of four young women attending an alternative high school
… and sociological implications of their educational experiences. The stories told by the four women who participated in this study revealed the complexity of their experiences. When heard fully without the label "at-risk," these young women's stories revealed far more complex stories and …
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Does cultural self-awareness alter instructional design decisions?
This project looks at the influence background culture has on instructional designers. Current research supports the hypothesis that background culture affects learning preferences. This study approaches cultural background from the instructional designers' point of view. Using Hofstede's Model of …
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It's not all about classrooms: examining the importance of club sports
<p>Student retention is a multi-faceted problem and a piece of that problem is how involved students are on campus (Tinto, 1993). Involvement in recreational campus sports for students has been related to higher social integration and better college adjustment compared to students who are not …
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Youth Ministry and Beliefs and Values Among 10- to 19-year-old Students in the Seventh-day Adventist School System in North America
<p><em>Problem</em>. A survey of the literature revealed that there was little by way of empirical study on the relationship between youth ministry and attitudes, beliefs, and values held by young people. We empirically tested the anecdotal evidence that youth ministry is effective in the …
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Status and status differential as predictors of student learning, teacher evaluation, teacher socio-communicative style and teacher credibility
This study examined the relationships of perceived teacher-student status as well as their status differential with student learning, teacher evaluation, teacher socio-communicative style, and teacher credibility. It was found that perceived teacher status is a weak predictor of student cognitive …
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The Impact of Mentoring Relationships on the Faith Development of Adult Youth Ministers
How does a community carry on the development of faith when traditional tools have become obsolete or are no longer available? The American Catholic community experienced a breakdown of the traditional tools by which the elements of belief were passed from generation to generation. Can mentoring …
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Colorblind, Deaf and Dumb: Examining Race in a Contemporary American High School
<p>Despite rhetoric of a meritocratic education system, there is little doubt that race still plays a significant role in advantaging white students while disadvantaging black students in school. These advantages and disadvantages are subtly carried out. The root causes of racial disparities in …
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Where Their Children Belong: Parents' Perceptions of the Boundaries Separating 'Gifted' and 'Non-Gifted' Educational Programs
… children in diverse schools that have strong educational programs. But, for most of these advantaged parents, having their children enrolled in a program with other students "like them" in terms of their social status and privilege and thus being associated with other parents "like them" was …
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Essays on Environmental Economics and Policy
A central feature of modern government is its role in designing welfare improving policies to address and correct market failures stemming from externalities and public goods. The rationale for most modern environmental regulations stems from the failure of markets to efficiently allocate goods and …
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Making Transnational Adults From Youth: Mexican Immigrant Youth in Pursuit of the Mexican Dream
… schooling altogether or entering into non-formal educational institutions. Based on a qualitative case study of fifty-three Mexican youth, both pre and post immigration, this dissertation employs transnational theory, cultural and social reproduction theory, and life course theory to explain how …
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