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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"High school experience"”.
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High School Students' Perceptions of Their High School Experience
Perception data are invaluable to school improvement plans. Student perception data, in particular, is useful when determining indicators related to student success or failure. The purpose of this study was to understand high school students' perceptions of their high school experience. Data for …
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AN ARTS HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO COLLEGE READINESS
… exists between college readiness and a high school for the arts experience. This research focused on one arts high school in order to determine graduate perspectives on the overall importance of such an education and whether or not this style of learning was valuable preparation for …
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The Effect of Small Learning Communities on the High School Experience for At-risk Students
<p>From elementary schools to universities, small learning communities (SLCs) are cropping up all over the place. While SLCs sound like a good idea, there is little viable research to support their implementation at the high school level. There seems to be an inherent assumption that collaboration …
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Support, Achievement, Excellence, Success: Experiences of Under -Represented Students in a Pre -College Academic Support Program
… a space for students to reflect on their past high school experience and allowed them to step into a realm where change for the better was possible and necessary. It allowed for students to believe that by surviving Bridge, anything was possible including graduating from the University of …
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Factors influencing the mathematics-related attainment of a national sample of hispanic, black, and white women
… examines the effects of various background, high school, and socio-psychological factors on the mathematics-related attainment of Hispanic, black, and white women. To estimate the contribution of the factors in explaining the variance in mathematics-related attainment, the following variables …
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Does agriculture education affect college readiness?
… that affect college readiness during student’s high school experience. This includes, but is not limited to, socioeconomic status, percent of students enrolled in agriculture classes, teacher quality and retention, and school resources. The data will be collected by reviewing previous studies on …
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Focus, Drive, and Motivation in Secondary School Populations
… Populations, addresses the topic of middle and high school student motivation to succeed in school. The aim was to discover what motivates and inspires student success. In this study, I delved into issues of low levels of student motivation, drive, and focus and the relative effect of these …
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Barriers To Student Connectedness and Engagement: How Socioeconomic Status Affects Student Involvement
… prevent them from connecting and engaging in the high school experience. Importantly, socioeconomic status plays a key role in determining how engaged a student may be, as well as serving as a key identifier in what must be addressed to ensure more young people get involved in their academic and …
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Teacher Experiences with Multiple One-to-One Technology Integration Models: A Phenomenography
… the beliefs and perceptions of teachers who have experience with both the BYOT and school-issued 1:1 technology integration models. The eight informants in this study all had middle and/or high school experience teaching with both models. The data came from semi-structured interviews with each …
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Voices of persistence: Stories of success from one urban public charter high school
… who encouraged them to consider a specific high school and then continued to follow them through their high school experience; an advisor who guided them during all four of their high school years; teachers, who not only challenged, supported, and encouraged during classroom hours, but also …
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Student Perceptions of School and Teachers In the Classroom
… behavioral outcomes. Student satisfaction with school is an affective outcome that is shaped by their relationships with their teachers. Though research on affect as an outcome has increased, it has not been well-understood and often ignored in models of understanding student outcomes. This …
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Cultural resilience--a currency of social capital: Counteracting student marginalization in two urban--suburban high schools
… of the central qualities of the lived experience of students in two urban-suburban high schools where, as an outcome of rapid demographic change, White students now represent the nontraditional racial minority and Black students represent the racial majority. Semistructured interviews, …
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Advanced Spanish Language High School Students: Perceptions of Spanish Instruction, Understanding, and Cultural Appreciation
<p>The addition of foreign language study to high school core curriculum benefits learners, society and overlap into the success of other areas of study and critical thinking. The problem in contemporary high school curriculum is that foreign language is disappearing. High school students and …
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Comprehend What? Teaching Reading Strategies That Improve High School Juniors Reading Comprehension Skills
<p>Many students in high school experience difficulty reading and comprehending text and narrative material at grade level. The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of explicitly teaching comprehension strategies on eleventh grade students’ comprehension of written material. Sixty-three …
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The building leader’s role in developing and supporting meaningful student voice at the high school level
<p>School leaders are the mediators of a school’s culture. At the high school level, students can contribute to, and even co-construct, their schooling experience with school leaders. Yet there is not a significant literature regarding how high-school building leaders develop and support student …
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Becoming, learning, and belonging: A Qualitative study on Asian American alumni reflections on high social racial identity formation, Asian American curriculum, and building community
… presents a descriptive qualitative study on the high school experience of Asian American students. Asian American alumni from a magnet high school located in a large Midwest city reflect on and share their experiences navigating high school. Through semi-structured interviews and thematic …
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The Impact of Online Credit Recovery Programs on the On Time Graduation Rate in Virginia School Divisions
The choice to drop out of high school often follows a progression of disengagement from school (Bridgeland, Dilulio, and Morison, 2006). Students often begin this process as a result of attendance challenges, disciplinary consequences, and persistent failure in traditional learning environments …
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Career and Technical Education Curriculum: The Implementation Process in Southeast Georgia High Schools
… programs have been an element of the American high school experience and are still an integral part of an overall high school curriculum (Silverberg, 2004). An academic foundation, combined with work and life skills, is essential for preparing a student for the 21st Century workplace (Wonacott, …
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Cyber bullying among Arab American and other ethnic groups and its relationship to self-esteem and academic functioning of middle and high school students
… students and other ethnic groups in middle and high school experience cyber bullying, and the extent to which cyber bullying relates to self-esteem and academic functioning. The study further explored the extent to which gender, grade level, ethnicity, and emotional intelligence moderate these …
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