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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"School-level variables."”.
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An Examination of Principal Leadership Practices and School-Level Variables in Connecticut Schools with Achievement Gains Above and Below the State's Average Performance Gain on State Assessments
<p>Problem</p> <p>Effective-schools research has demonstrated that a building level administrator’s leadership practices contribute to the success or failure of change efforts and impact school culture and student achievement. Research in this area has focused primarily on comparing high and low …
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School Resource Officer programs: implementation's effect on student perceptions of safety
School Resource Officer (SRO) Programs are a widely implemented community policing initiative in schools. The limited research on SRO Programs suggests that there are implementation differences between programs. This study explores the effect that implementation style has on program effectiveness …
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The Predictive Power of Community, Family, and School Variables on Student Achievement on the NJ Ask Language Arts Literacy in New Jersey in Grades 6 and 7
… to determine which combination of 20 out-of-school community demographic factors, while controlling for two school level variables, predicted and accounted for the most variance in New Jersey schools’ percentages of students scoring Proficient or above on the 2010 NJ ASK Language Arts …
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Examining Social Capital as a Predictor of Enrollment in Postsecondary Education for Low SES Students: A Multilevel Analysis
… institution for low SES students differ by mean school SES? 2. Does probability of enrollment in a four-year postsecondary institution or a two-year postsecondary institution for low SES students differ by school locale? 3. When controlling for contextual or environmental variables and student …
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Predictors of Higher Education Participation for Students with a Specific Learning Disability: A Secondary Data Analysis of High School Students in Washington State
Three school-level variables, including the proportion of minorities of the school’s student population, the proportion of free and reduced price meal program participation of the school’s student population, and student-teacher ratio, and five student-level variables, including race, gender, …
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Investigation on multiple factors affecting English-language learners' reading achievement: hierarchical linear modeling approach
… hierarchical relation in student, classroom, and school levels. The data used for this study was from National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), the reading portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The three- level hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) analysis was …
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Contextualizing immigrant adolescents' high school outcomes by their school environments and friend groups.
… this dissertation looks at the effects of school environments and friend groups on immigrant adolescents' level of school attachment and GPA in high school. Past research suggests that immigrant adolescents' may be influenced by their surroundings to a greater degree than their peers when …
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Using hierarchical linear modeling to measure school effects on the Colorado Student Assessment Program
… Program (CSAP). This study was grounded in school effectiveness research, as the primary objective was to isolate the impact of school practice by controlling for student characteristics and school context. Furthermore, this investigation was designed to build on contemporary studies that …
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The influence of schooling conditions and teaching practices on curriculum implementation for Grade 4 reading literacy development
… literacy teaching in South African primary schools. In South Africa there is a paucity of research outlining schooling conditions and teachers’ reading literacy teaching practices especially in the Intermediate Phase. The aim of this mixed methods study was to explore schooling conditions …
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Transcending Compromise: Principal Practices Predicting Teacher Effectiveness and Teacher Morale
… to collect data from a snowball sample of middle school teachers. The study compared teacher perspectives on principal practices, teacher effectiveness and teacher morale in low and high poverty middle schools in California. Second, this study analyzed the relationships between twelve leadership …
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Site-Based Management – Principal Perceptions and Behaviors after 19 Years of Implementation
… growth of students. Indeed, the nation's schools, school districts, and states are being held accountable for student achievement. Administrators in numerous school districts across the United States have implemented a popular reform initiative, Site-Based Management SBM), to improve …
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Epidemiology of prescription drug abuse in Illinois high school students
… this study was to identify individual, family, school and community level factors responsible for the initiation and maintenance of prescription drug abuse behaviors in Illinois 12th grade students. A cross-sectional study design was used with the secondary data on the 12th graders’ prescription …