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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"School failure"”.
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Development and Evaluation of Diagnostically Supported Teaching Strategies to Reduce School Failure in Ghana
This work covers the critical problem of high school dropouts and failure in the Ghanaian educational setting. In the first instance, a large proportion of studies have tended to concentrate on the higher classes and end-of –cycle testing. They can be seen as post-mortem analyses, which only …
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Are Alternative Schools Effectively Educating Students Placed at Risk for School Failure? The Role of Families
… reduce the number of students placed at risk for school failure from falling further behind: first, the alternative and regular schools must have flexibility within the curriculum and overall programming; secondly, more emphasis should be placed on students being mainstreamed back into their home …
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Video modeling to enhance the conversation skills of preschool children who are at-risk for school failure
… method on language comprehension skills of preschoolers who are at-risk for school failure. The setting for this research was a preschool classroom in a low socioeconomic school district in southern New Jersey. Baseline data on the amount of comprehension questions the participants answer …
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Students Placed At-Risk of School Failure In An Era of Educational Reform: Implications for Staff Development
The face of America's schools is changing. An increasingly diverse and challenging population of students blends assorted ethnic backgrounds, varied approaches to learning, and different socio-economic backgrounds into one student body. Faced with the realities of environmental and educational …
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Prediction and prevention of learning difficulty among kindergarten students
The Early Prevention of School Failure program purports to identify children ages 4 to 6 who are at risk for school failure and to remediate problem areas before the failure becomes apparent. Though the program enjoys widespread use and popular acclaim, its effectiveness has not been adequately …
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Academic resilience in Mathematics amongst at-risk Grade 10 learners in Namibia: A phenomenology study
… effective teaching of mathematics and science in schools to enable learners to excel in these subjects. Despite that, school failure at Grade 10 level remains a challenge in Namibia. Learners continue to perform poorly, especially in mathematics over the past years. One intriguing manifestation of …
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Cultura popular em movimento : diálogos possíveis
… persons in their everyday practices in a certain school universe: the CIEP Compositor Donga. Research with the everyday life, research-praxis, which transforms the persons and the lived, and, at the same time, the persons and the lived transform it. In my way in search of the indications of the …
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The Impact of the 101s: A Guide to Positive Discipline Training on Teacher Interaction Practices, Attitudes, and Prosocial Skill Outcomes in Preschool Classrooms
… to Positive Discipline</em> on teachers of preschool Title 1 children. Current research supports the impact of responsive social emotional support and positive teacher-child interactions on both short and long term social and academic outcomes, with specific remediating benefits for children …
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At-Risk Indicators: The Impact on School Success.
… absences and discipline referrals in relation to school success. A chi-square analysis was used to identify the relationship between socioeconomic status, disability status, family composition, early grade retention, and school success.</p><p>Results of the study suggested that there was a …
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Kindergartners' Oral Responses to Stories Either Told or Read to Them
… were 42 kindergarten students attending an urban school district in Western New York. The students listened to a story read aloud from a book. They then retold the story to an adult. The retellings were recorded. The same students listened to another story told orally, by an experienced …
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Kindergartner’s Oral Responses to Stories Either Told or Read to Them
… were 42 kindergarten students attending an urban school district in Western New York. The students listened to a story read aloud from a book. They then retold the story to an adult. The retellings were recorded. The same students listened to another story told orally, by an experienced …
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Factors influencing perceptions of teachers : the role of locus of control and academic perceptions of self
… can lead to many negative outcomes, such as school failure and risky behaviors. While this relationship has been analyzed often, it is typically from the point of view of the teacher rather than the student. Individual cognitive appraisals of both efficacy and attribution impact how feedback …
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Promoting Resilience in High Risk Students Attending Alternative High School Programs
… catching up and being able to graduate from high school.</p> <p>Rural schools have their share of these at-risk students and because of limited funds, are unable to provide specialized programs such as counseling and remediation. Teachers are stretched to meet the needs of multiple subjects for a …
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Investigating the Virginia Preschool Initiative's Role in Preparing Students for Kindergarten
… enter kindergarten having some form of preschool experience, the quality of these experiences differs greatly among the programs that are available to families. This variability can create school readiness gaps, especially for children from disadvantaged backgrounds (Isaacs, 2012). Children …
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Leadership and Autonomy: An Examination of the Leadership and Management Practices of Four Charter Schools In Charleston, South Carolina
<p>Charter schools are deregulated institutions that are provided considerable autonomy in order to spur innovation, yet little is known about their governance practices. The studies of charter school governance that do exist, however, typically concern cases of charter school failure. The causes …
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Residual Symptoms in Pediatric Depression after Acute Pharmacological Treatment
… disorder (MDD) are at an increased risk for school failure, school drop out, and suicidality. Childhood onset of MDD has been linked to an increased likelihood of relapse of MDD in child and adolescent research. Adult studies have found that residual symptoms increase the risk of relapse, and …
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Permanência na escola: um desafio na trajetória escolar da pessoa com deficiência
… and permanence of people with disabilities in school is not yet a reality. Various cultural, political and social factors contribute to the maintenance of this difficulty, including the denial of the right of access to education, which may be one of factors contributing to the low rate of …
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The initial psychometric assessment of the BEACONS positive behavior support individual and team self-assessment and program review
An increasing number of schools in this country are initiating systemic positive behavior support (PBS) efforts to support students with or at-risk of school failure. In doing so, it is helpful for schools to have access to a self-assessment process, which utilizes benchmarks related to …
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