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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Student Variables"”.
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Student variables and teacher perceptions: Examining the decline of reading proficiency at sixth grade
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The effects of teacher training in Madeline Hunter's instructional effectiveness model on teacher performance and selected student variables on the secondary school level
… for instructional methodologies which maximize student achievement has been of central concern to educators for many years. Intensified by the recent focus on staff development and school reform initiatives, this search has begun to produce models for school improvement. The majority of the …
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The relationship between scores of students with emotional disabilties on the Behavioral Objective Sequence and current service intensity
This study investigated the relationship between student scores on the Behavioral Objective Sequence (BOS) and student placement, the relationship of BOS scores to teacher variables, and the relationship of BOS scores to student variables. Participants in the study were 47 special education …
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The Influence of the Student Mobility Rate on the Graduation Rate in the State of New Jersey
<p>This study examined the influence of the student mobility rate on the high school graduation rate of schools in the state of New Jersey. Variables found to have an influence on the graduation rate in the extant literature were evaluated and reported. The analysis included multiple and …
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A Set Union Based Formulation for Course Scheduling and Timetabling
… are scheduled in concert with the assignment of students to sections in order to maximize the desirability of the resulting schedule for all stakeholders. This problem is commonly solved as a linear program with variables for each student or group of students with identical schedules. In this …
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The Effects of Single-Sex and Coeducational Environments on the Self-Efficacy of Middle School Girls
… the teachers were female. In two of the classes, students were split out according to gender with males being taught by one instructor and the females being taught by the other instructor. For the coeducational classes, the students were randomly assigned to either of the teachers, with boys and …
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Stress appraisal and coping strategies as a function of academic achievement among community college students
… and coping strategies among community college students. The framework for the research in this study follows a process-centered theory of stress and coping developed by Folkman and Lazarus (1985). Specifically, this study was an exploration of how stress and coping strategies change over time …
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Talking To Learn: A Formative Experiment On Constructing Meaning Though Collaborative Classroom Interactions
… three factors impacted teaching and learning: student variables, such as reading and language ability; the teacher’s perceptions and pedagogical stance; and, school and district mandates derived from national standards and testing. The data gleaned from this study provides insight about how …
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Ranking Doctoral Programs of Health Education
… and the scholarly activity of program doctoral students. The methodology in this research is unique to ranking studies by using a multiple set of variables weighted by scholars and leaders in the field of health education. These variables were; articles published, citations received, journal …
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Impact of School Disciplinary Policies on Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities
… administrators regarding the discipline of students identified with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders (EBD). To gain insight into current disciplinary trends and their potential implications, a revised version of the Disciplinary Practices Survey (Green, 2016) was administered to middle …
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University Course Evaluations: A Study of the Influence of Faculty, Student, and Course Variables
… of course evaluations by analyzing faculty, student, and course variables. Analyses were performed to address the following research question: “To what degree do faculty gender, faculty race, faculty year of terminal degree, student gender representation in class, student race representation …
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Student, teacher and home variables associated with students' attitudes to and achievement in science in the third year of intermediate schools of Southwestern Saudi Arabia
… is to explain the relationship between teacher, student and home variables and their relation to, attitude to and achievement in science in the third-year of intermediate boys' schools in southwest Saudi Arabia.The sample chosen comprised of 1129 students drawn from seven local education …
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Linear Structural Equation Models for Intention and Achievement in Mathematics: A Study of Sims Student Data
… study was to identify and explain the effective variables on achievement at the junior high school level. The sample of U.S. eighth grade students from IEA's Second International Mathematics Study (SIMS) was analyzed using covariance structure analysis with the LISREL programs. An attempt was …
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Using Dweck's Theory of Motivation to Determine How a Student's View of Intelligence Affects Their Overall Academic Achievement
<p>This study explored how student intelligence was directly linked to the goals and motivation held by students when engaged in academic settings. Students were administered a questionnaire developed by Dr. Carol Dweck in which they responded to statements in order to determine their individual …
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Performance-Based Pay: Perceptions of Elementary Teachers of the Pandora School District
… of using teacher pay to influence the outcome of student achievement on state tests. Current research about the effectiveness of these performance-based pay plans is varied and little research exists that qualitatively describes the experience that teachers have when engaging in these type of …
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A Study of General Education Assessment.
… a correlational investigation of the effect of student demographic characteristics, prior academic performance, college academic performance, and college status on general education achievement at a rural community college in Tennessee. The criterion variable in this study was student …
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An exploration of extra and classroom variables for three measures of college mathematics achievement
… into the effects of four categories of extra-student variables: high school performance, demographic characteristics, Myers-Briggs personality preferences and mathematics attitudes on three measures of college mathematics achievement (a Problem-Solving Test, an Algebra Skills Final Examination …
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A Study of the Extent to Which the Instructional Practices of Teachers of Adults Differ from the Instructional Preferences of Adult Learners Enrolled in Postsecondary Credit Courses
… An adapted form of the PALS instrument, the Student Preferences of the Principles of Adult Learning Scale (SPPALS) was used to measure if the instructional preferences of adult learners were either collaborative or noncollaborative. Findinqs. The instructional practices of teachers of adults …
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An Examination of Dropout in the Online, Computer-conferenced Classroom
… Is there a relationship between other selected variables (Demographic, Personal, Institutional, and Participative) and student persistence or dropout in the online, computer-conferenced environment? And, c) Can a relationship between goal accomplishment style and the other selected student …
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The Effects of National Board Certification On Student Achievement
… between National Board Certification and student achievement in mathematics and reading as measured by an achievement test used in South Carolina. Using the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP), the study examined the RIT (Rasch Unit) scores of third …
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