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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"School-based Research"”.
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Enhancing Youth Access to Community Recreation Facilities: An Effectiveness Evaluation of the Grade 10 Community Physical Activity Pass
… interventions, which are often community-based, hold particular promise of instilling population-wide change. Yet, to date, little information is available about the effectiveness of environmental interventions to enhance youth physical activity in community settings. The manuscript …
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An in-depth, naturalistic study of the regulation of learning in collaborative groups in upper secondary school classrooms
… of learning has long been a significant area of research in education and beyond. More recently, attention has been focussed on social aspects of regulation. Regulation and the sharing of regulation of learning in social settings is seen as crucial in order to engage in effective collaboration …
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A case study and proposed decision guide for allocating instructional computing resources at the school site level
School based administrators must often determine the use of potentially powerful computing resources for the school's instructional program. While site level administrators have allocated many kinds of resources within the schools, the allocation of this new technology has little precedent. A …
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Teaching subjects as languages: academic English development in the multilingual post-primary classroom
This action research study explores three classroom interventions in the context of Biology and Religion transition year classes (15 year old pupils) to answer these research questions: 1. How can academic language development be integrated into mainstream curriculum lessons to the benefit of all …
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Factors affecting reading comprehension in primary pupils
… it. This problem was studied through Scottish school-based research using classroom materials and subjects from natural class groups. Data were collected from language assignments in daily work programmes, with response material in either written or illustrated form. Nine feasibility studies …
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The Doctoral Journey: A Case Study of One Student's Experience
… an interpretive/critical perspective allowed the researcher to make sense of the case events and move on to analyze their place in the doctoral experience. Data analysis was employed through completing interviews, repeated readings of interviews with memo notations, a four step reflectivity …
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Politicizing Equity: Ghana’s Free Senior High School Policy and its Implications for Teachers Work
… Government of Ghana adopted a Free Senior High School Policy (FSHSP) to universalize secondary education access across the country by removing cost barriers. The policy originated as a campaign promise by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and has since dominated political debates. While FSHSP …
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A study of self-efficacy based interventions on the career development of high achieving male and female high school students
… mathematics and engineering career fields. Based on the application of Bandura's self-efficacy theory as applied to career development, the purpose of this study was to determine whether there was any difference in career choice self-efficacy, career decision-making self-efficacy or career …
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Physical activity, sedentary and playtime behaviours in children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities
Despite the wealth of research examining physical activity (PA) in children and adolescent without disability, there is a lack of research that has focussed on PA related to children and adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID). The evidence that does exist in this area suggests that …
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Distributed forms of school leadership: A critical and sociological analysis
… in the education field. Policy-makers, researchers and practitioners alike tout it as the mode of leadership suitable for twenty-first century schools. The quantity of commentary, related typologies, research and recognition in education policy gives the impression that distributed …
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The experience gay males face in the obtaining and maintaining of their positions in educational leadership
There have been many studies, including school-based research, detailing the rejection, violence, and hatred experienced by gay men (Hershberger, Pilkington, & D’Augelli, 1997; King, 2004; Rasmussen, 2004). Despite these findings, political, legal, and social changes that began in the late 1960s …