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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"School engagement"”.
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School Engagement and the Achievement Gap
<p>Evidence of the influence of engagement on learning and achievement is well established. There is also indication of a test-score gap between poor students and middle class students as well as among racial and ethnic groups.</p> <p>This gap continues to be a top priority in educational reform. …
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Powerful Partnerships: Examining Home-School Engagement in the Virtual Setting
… Then, a global pandemic upended everything, and schools had to completely shift to remote option, prompting a need to reevaluate engagement strategies altogether. This project aimed to investigate the views of experts, examine the communication strategies implemented by skilled teachers, and …
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Motivational processes underlying gender gaps in school engagement and achievement
Boys lag behind girls in school across many western industrialised countries. On average, boys tend to be less engaged and perform worse than girls in secondary school. Yet efforts to close the gender gap may not be successful until we gain a precise understanding of the mechanisms contributing to …
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Middle School Engagement Benefits Of Offering Extracurricular Activities During The School Day
… activities are a significant part of the school experience for many students, but there are concerns about the demands placed on students and the overscheduling of their after-school time. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine longitudinal middle school student outcomes …
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The Mediating Influence Of School Engagement Between An Adolescent's Contextual Environment And Academic Accomplishment
… an adolescent's academic performance in school, including school engagement, parenting behaviors, teacher behaviors, peer relationships, and academic self-efficacy. The outcome of interest was academic performance. </p> <p>Participants in this study were 332 ninth through twelfth grade …
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Empowering High School Students to Develop Leadership Skills and Increase Student and School Engagement
<p>Schools that invest in building leadership capacity among students realize that learning and leading cannot be separated (Lambert, 2003). This action research study explored the developmental leadership experiences of urban minority students at Aesculapian High School in New Jersey. The study …
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The Effects of Out-of-Home Placement on the School Engagement of Maltreated Children
… outcomes suggest that these children struggle in school when compared to children who have not experienced maltreatment. However, literature surrounding the educational outcomes of maltreated children who experience OHP, versus maltreated children who do not experience OHP, tend to collectively …
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The influence of achievement motivation, academic self-concept and the student teacher relationship in predicting school engagement
<p>School engagement has garnered interest in the academic research as a protective factor from many undesirable academic outcomes in high school. Maladaptive engagement patterns may begin to form as early as elementary school, therefore examining early predictors may be helpful in trying to …
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Enhancing business school engagement through a gamified experience in non-pedagogical contexts - a human-centered design approach
… for learning in management and business school settings, there is limited study on its effectiveness outside of pedagogical contexts. Furthermore, past approaches indicate a lack of focus on human-centered studies of gamification. Drawing from insights gained from a case study involving …
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School Engagement: Testing the Factorial Validity, Measurement, Structural and Latent Means Invariance between African American and White Students
… first objective was to test the hypothesis that school engagement is a multidimensional construct with three factors: behavioral, emotional, and cognitive or academic engagement. The second objective was to test for invariance of the measurement and factorial structures of school engagement …
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High School Student Perspectives on the Interaction Between Family Involvement and Peer Relationships on Their Own School Engagement Practices
… concludes that a high proportion of high school students are disengaged from their learning and that the adolescent peer culture demeans academic success. Parents are just as disengaged from school as their children. The overall guiding question for this study was: How do high school …
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Beyond School Engagement: School Adaptation and Its Role in Bolstering Resilience Among Youth Who Have Been Involved with Child Welfare Services
… welfare system are at significant risk of poor school functioning and mental health. Little research has explored how the connection to school impacts known relationships between adversity and youth outcomes. The following project sought to shed light on the role of schools in conferring risk or …
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Expectations, Experiences and Impact of Engagement Between Health Researchers and Schools in Kenya
Community engagement is increasingly recognized as essential for the ethical conduct of health research, particularly in international settings where wealth, educational and cultural differences between host communities and researchers are often stark. Engagement approaches are diverse, addressing …
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Freshman Academy: Making the High School Transition
… throughout the nation to address the middle school to high school transition issue. The current study focuses on a high school transition model, the Freshman Academy, to improve ninth-grade attendance, academic achievement, and school engagement for at-risk students. School engagement …
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School Factors That Promote Academic Resilience in Urban Latino High School Students
… relationship between the academic optimism of schools and academic resilience in urban Latino high school students attending those schools. This study sought to address three research ideas. First, it was hypothesized that, consistent with previous research, student achievement is related to …
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Teacher Perception of K-5 Students' Social Emotional Health
… students have been yielding diminishing school engagement and waning school success. With students’ social-emotional health teetering toward the unhealthy, educators must accept, and therefore learn to thrive in the recursive nature of best practices, all while attempting to salvage their …
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The implications of conceptions of adolescence for adolescents' psychological adjustment: experimental and longitudinal neuroimaging evidence
… predicts their psychological adjustment (e.g., school engagement), as they navigate the early adolescent years. Building on this research, my dissertation addressed two key questions. In Study 1a and 1b, using experimental methods with early adolescents, I demonstrated that conceptions of …
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Parental Involvement, Academic Motivation, and Educational Attainment among Latinx Students
… specifically home-based involvement, school-based involvement, and parental aspirations relates to students’ academic motivation, engagement, college enrollment, and degree attainment. Additionally, it also explores how these relationships vary by students’ gender and immigration …
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The impact of a junior high school leadership program on the academic success and leadership development of at-risk students.
… was to determine the impact of a junior high school leadership program on the academic success and leadership development of its at-risk student participants. A secondary purpose, based on impact, was to evaluate the program as a potential school-based model for adolescent at-risk …
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