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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"School Transfer"”.
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Primary to secondary school transfer and adjustment: the role of physical education
… of boys before and after secondary school transfer. The purpose of the study was to determine the significance of boys' attitudes to physical education, motor performance and physical education self-esteem (self-perceptions of performance in physical education) at the age of school …
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High School Transfer Student Transitions and Changes: Risk, Success, Failure, and the Vital Role of the Counseling Curriculum
<p>Transfer students move schools for reasons other than promotion. They typically change residence and can change country, cultures and/or languages of instruction. These students have twice the risk of failure or not graduating and total 15-18% of the United States high school population. …
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Educational Decentralisation in a Developing Country: A Case Study of the School Transfer Policy in the Thai Education System
This study explores the school transfer programme in Thailand, which is a form of educational decentralisation delegating decision-making authority from regional branches of the Ministry of Education to local authorities which are called Local Administration Organisations (LAOs). The objective of …
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Lighting Some Candles: An examination of the impact and effectiveness of an intervention programme designed to support vulnerable students as they transfer from primary to secondary school
… at risk of social exclusion during their transfer from primary to secondary school. The study has two main aims; to gain insight into the impact of the project on the experiences of children who are considered vulnerable at the primary to secondary school transfer stage. Second, the study …
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The Effect of Long Commuting on Students’ Academic Performance in Day Community Secondary Schools in Tanzania: A Case of Songea Municipal Council
… involving five day community secondary schools. This study investigated the effect of long commuting on students’ academic performance in day community secondary schools in Tanzania.The study specifically investigated the influence of long commuting on student’s tardiness, truancy,school …
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Teacher Perceptions Regarding Teacher Retention in an Urban Middle School: What School Leaders Need to Know
The new terminology in public school districts is “urban education” which breeds an entirely new scope of needs for public urban school success. Teachers who work in urban schools with large numbers of low socio-economic minority students feel less satisfied and are more likely to turn over; …
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Parental Selection of Public Elementary Schools in an Open Enrollment System
… characteristics of parents requesting transfers for their elementary school students, school selection factors which influenced parent school choice decisions, and how long parents considered a transfer before actually requesting one. Procedure. The population included all elementary …
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Parental choice in secondary education : socio-spatial dynamics and motivation
… of the right of parents to choose a secondary school for their child has led to increased travel to out-of-catchment schools in a case study area. Second, to identify the extent of socio-spatial variation of patterns and trends in choice of school. Secondary school transfer data relating to …
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Constructing Stage-Environment Fit: Early Adolescents' Psychological Development and their Attitudes Towards School in English Middle and Secondary School Environments
… adolescents’ psychology during pubertal and school transitions. It explored potential associations between attitudes to school, perceptions of school life and transfer, home and peer relations, and puberty over the course of a school year. It compared two groups of UK 11 and 12 year olds …
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Three Essays at the Intersection of Child Welfare and Public Policy
… a problem identified by policymakers, children transferring schools when they enter care, and provides insights into which children are most likely to experience educational instability.</p> <p>In Chapter 1, I evaluate the effect of becoming eligible for guardianship assistance, monthly payments …
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More than the sum of its parts: practitioner perspectives on the characteristics, affordances and challenges of all-through schools in the English state system.
… but growing number of English all-through state schools. In the wider school system hundreds of thousands of children transfer schools for their secondary education each year. The social challenges faced at transfer and the curricular and pedagogical disconnects between primary and secondary …