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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Mississippi School"”.
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Induction experiences of minority teachers in a rural Mississippi school district
… experiences of minority educators in a rural Mississippi School District were sought for this qualitative study. In a district of 196 teachers, only 54 were minority educators and of that number only 22 taught core subject courses. Interviews were conducted with 11 minority educators, 20% of …
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The Impact of Pre-K Programs on Student Achievement and Instructional Leadership in Rural Mississippi School Districts
In 2011, Mississippi continues to be the only state in the southern region without a single state-funded pre-k program (NIEER, 2007), and all preschool funds in the state are currently allotted to Head Start. Witte and Trowbridge (2004) warned that the combination of pre-k programs could be the …
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A Single Case Study of a Three Year Coordinated School Health Program at a Rural North Mississippi Elementary School
… the implementation of a three year Coordinated School Health Program (CSHP) at a rural North Mississippi school. The school was recognized by the Mississippi Department of Education, Office of Healthy Schools, as one of ten selected model Mississippi healthy schools. An awarded grant of one …
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A Survey of Teacher's Beliefs Regarding the Importance and Implementation of Formative Assessment
… of formative assessment in one north Mississippi school district. There is a limited amount of research related to teachers' beliefs of formative assessment. Heritage, Kim, Vendlinski, and Herman (2009) defined formative assessment as a planned process during instruction. This process …
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The Effects Of Homogeneous Differentiation On Reading Achievement: Within-Class Grouping Versus Between-Class Grouping
… study population consisted on students from a Mississippi school district who began first grade from the 2006–2007 school year through the 2009–2010 school year. Students who had been assessed over a three-year on the DIBELS, STAR, and the MCT2 assessment were eligible for inclusion in the …
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High School Contextual Variables and ACT Scores
… findings from the 2015 Crepe Myrtle High School (CMHS) graduates and determines if statistically significant relationships exist between student demographic and school participation variables with ACT composite scores. Utilizing both a Pearson product moment statistical correlation and …
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1:1 Laptop Experience And High-Stakes Testing: Effects On Eighth-Grade Student Achievement
… eighth-grade online science assessment in five Mississippi school districts throughout the state. Fifth-grade science assessment results are used as a baseline for student achievement. Three research questions examined mean scale scores on the science assessment, change in scores from fifth to …
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The Impact Of Pre-Kindergarten Programs On Student Achievement In Mississippi Elementary Schools
Each of the states bordering Mississippi invests large amounts of money in providing children with state-funded pre-k programs in their public schools. However, Mississippi falls behind these states and does not similarly invest in this effort to provide many of its children with the opportunity to …
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Mississippi's First Annual Farm to School Week: Evaluation of School Participation
<p>Mississippi has recently established the first week of October as statewide Farm to School (F2S) Week, providing Mississippi the opportunity to improve the health status of children while improving the local economy. The study aimed to measure Mississippi school districts' participation during …
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Technology Access, Integration, And Student Achievement: Examining Diverse Technology Learning Environments And College And Career Readiness In Rural North Mississippi High Schools
… on current CCR measurements in two rural North Mississippi school districts. The approach incorporated a causal-comparative design and an exploration of attitudes and perceptions about technology’s impact on college and career readiness. The study found statistical significance in differences of …
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Hope for Struggling School Districts
… and community development. Although high school graduation rates have shown improvement nationwide in recent years, public education is suffering from increasing inequality between different school districts and within the same school districts. Such inequalities widen academic outcome …
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Leadership Orientation Frame Preferences Of School Boards In Mississippi
The work of schools is becoming more complex and demanding. Administrators, teachers and parents are often at the core of the educational debate about what is needed to improve schools. The demand for better results in America's schools has led to many efforts to improve the quality of teaching and …
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Initial Online Consumer Trust (IOCT): The Influence of Third-Party Service Provider Reputation, Website Utility, Electronic Word-of-Mouth, and Previous Experience with Similar Websites
… undergraduate student pool at the University of Mississippi, School of Business. The vignettes used in the study was hypothetical book selling websites, one with the presence of third-party service providers and the other without any third-party service providers. Hypothetical customer feedbacks …
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The Relationship Of Parental Barriers To Parents Feeding Their Children Health-Promoting, Functional Foods
… nutritiously. This study of parents in two Mississippi school districts in 2015 ( n=193) examined the barriers parents face to consuming health-promoting, functional foods as well as the relation of these barriers to feeding their children functional foods. The age group 45–54 was less …
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The effects of visual representations on teacher training of phonological awareness principles
… Seventeen kindergarten teachers from a Mississippi school were pretested on phonological awareness principles, then divided into three groups: Phonic Faces Training (PFT), with visual strategies; Traditional Training (TT), with no visual strategies; and a No Training (NT) control group. …
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A Relational Study Of International General Certificate Of Secondary Education (IGCSE) Scores To The American College Test (Act) Scores In A Mississippi Innovative High School
… of eleventh graders at a municipal pubic high school in a southern state. The degree of correlation between the two assessment results illustrated the effectiveness of the Cambridge curriculum in preparing students for the college and achievement on the act. The research is particularly …