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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"School Influences"”.
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Student Commuting Patterns and their Effects on Readiness to Learn and Academic Achievement
… examines how student modal choice to commute to school influences student readiness to learn and academic achievement during the first learning period of the day. The goal of all educational policies, curriculum expectation, literature, and studies is to develop a deeper understanding of student …
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The loss of neighborhood secondary schools: how the distance a student lives from their school can affect their academic achievement
… whether the distance a student lives from their school influences their academic achievement. In detail, this study has correlated the distance in miles a student lives from his or her school with their grade point average at the end of their freshman and junior years. Data has been collected …
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A study of persistent absence from school in Sheffield : Prevalence and associated educational, psychological and social factors.
… prevalence of persistent absence from Sheffield schools. The results showed: (a) that persistent absentee rates remained stable between theages 5-12, but rose sharply thereafter; (b) that there was no important association between a secondaryschool's size and its absentee rates; (c) that poverty …
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Navigating History and Memory in China: Perspectives on the Recent Past from a Case Study of Chinese Students at an International High School
… at Global Academy, an international high school in the Shanghai/Suzhou region, understand their nation’s recent past as they prepare for university in the United States. Set against China’s intensified efforts to shape public memory through historical education, this research examines how …
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School Climate and Public High School Student Achievement
… of this study was to examine the influence of school ecology, milieu, social system, and culture on public high school student achievement. Utilized data from the ELS:2002 restricted-use dataset, a series of multilevel model analyses were conducted. The results indicate that performance gaps …
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A Structural Equation Model of Contributing Factors to Adolescent Social Interest
… through SEM the relationships between family influences (FI) and school influences (SI) on factors hypothesized to be associated with adolescent social interest: school belonging (SB), extracurricular participation (EP), and peer/romantic involvement (PRI). The final model consisted of FI and …
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Sex Education Programs in Schools: Influence on Knowledge and Behaviors of Teenagers
… for such sharing of information can be in schools. The purpose of this study is to determine if sex education in school influences the knowledge and behaviors of teenagers toward sexual behavior, pregnancy, and sexually transmitted diseases. This research used the framework of the Health …
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How home and school factors influenced college freshmen and sophomores to become first-generation college students
… population. This research investigated home and school factors that led to the decision of the selected first-generation college students in one rural northern-lower Michigan intermediate school district (ISD) to attend a two-year community college or a four-year bachelor’s degree-granting …
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Becoming 'NEET': an exploration of marginalised young people’s trajectories and experiences
… that, for this diverse NEET group, ‘family’ and ‘school’ were major influences and, for some of them, ‘family’ referred to their wider, extended family. The study reveals how much family, school and social class intersect, leading to the conclusion that the common thread running through these …
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Selected Variables Related to Alienation from Religion as Perceived by Students Attending Seventh-day Adventist Academies In the United States
… enrolled in Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools in the United States. Each young person was asked to respond to the Youth Perceptual Inventory, an instrument especially designed for this study. The Inventory consists of 154 statements divided into sixteen Likert-type attitude scales and …
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Readiness and Relationships across the Transition to School: Children’s Experiences and Interactions between Home and School Contexts
Starting primary school is a significant milestone that brings opportunities and challenges for children, their families, and their teachers. Children vary significantly in their ability to adapt into the classroom environment, and intervention efforts require greater understanding of the malleable …