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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"school behavior"”.
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The Role Of Individual Character Strengths In Adolescent Academic Achievement And Risky School Behavior
… task in adolescence and reducing Risky School Behaviors is an important part of the process. Patterns of adolescent achievement and general development are the result of the cumulative process that includes a long history of experience and socialization in school, in the family, in the …
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The effects of character education on fourth grade students' attitudes toward in-school behavior
… by fourth grade students in a rural elementary school after they participated in a character education unit.</p> <p>Eighteen (n = 18) participated in this quasi-experimental study. The results were analyzed to find the significance of the relationship between the students' scores on the pre-test …
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An Examination of the Social Factors Determining Successful Training Performance of Participants in Ex-Offender Manpower Programs: A Model for Predicting School Behavior
… assessed the relative contribution of various behavioral and cognitive factors in predicting the training performance of participants in ex-offender manpower training programs. A model for predicting social behavior developed by Triandis (1971, 1977) provided the theoretical framework for the …
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The Perfect Angel Hypothesis: The Effect of Parents' False Perceptions on Children's Adjustment
… their children's temperament on their subsequent school behavior problems. Participants were parents and teachers of 97 kindergarten children in an urban southern community. Both parents and teachers completed questionnaires on children's temperament, while teachers reported on children's school …
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Academic and Therapeutic Potential of the Sierra II Process: An Evaluation of an Adapted Outward Bound Diversion Program for Adjudicated Juvenile Delinquents
… locus-of-control, problem-solving skills, school behavior, and follow-on academic achievement. All study variables, except school behavior and follow-on academic achievement, received pre and post treatment assessments. Both school behavior and academic achievement received pre, post, …
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Examining At-Risk Students Based on Their Attitudes toward Educational Factors: Is There a Gender Difference in Identification of At-Risk Students?
… educational setting, and factors relating to school behavior.</p> <p>Six research questions guided the study and six null hypotheses were formulated and tested at the .05 level of significance. The degree of relationship between the independent variables and the environmental factors was …
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A Hierarchical Typology of Children in Elementary School Using Teacher Ratings of Behavior
… a two level, hierarchical typology of child school behavior (ages 6 -11) using the norming data for the revised Behavioral Assessment System for Children Teacher Rating - Child form (BASC-2 TRS-C Reynolds & Kamphaus, 2004). To obtain the two tiers of this classification system, two …
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A Case Study of Three Children from Single-Parent Divorced Families
… of this study was to describe the home and school behavior patterns of children from two single-parent divorced families. The procedure. A case study of three children from two single-parent divorced families was conducted for a period of ten months. Formal and informal observations and …
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The impact of decentralized decision making on parental dissatisfaction in primary to secondary schools
This research explores how the structure of a school impacts parental dissatisfaction with their child’s received education. The structure of the school, based on its level of decentralization, is empirically measured using an Index created from variables in the PISA 2015 datasets and captures who …
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Cyberbullying: The Role Of Family And School
… purpose of this study was to examine family and school variables in relation to different types of perpetration, victimization and witnessing experiences (physical, social, verbal and cyber). Students (n=253) in grades 7 to 8 from two middle schools located in a suburb in southeastern Michigan …
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Therapeutic Mentoring: Outcomes for Youth in Foster Care
… mentoring. Outcome domains for emotional and behavioral functioning, peer relationships, academic functioning, and community involvement were analyzed. All youth in the study (n = 262) received counseling and support through the System of Care (SOC) program, designed to prevent placement …
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"Code of the Hallway": Examining the Contextual Effects of School Subculture on Physical Violence, Sexual Offending, and Nonviolent Delinquency
… communities. It applies this perspective to schools in order to explore whether schools serve as an important context of cultural variation. That is, this dissertation examines how the subculture of a school- that is, its "code of the hallway"- may influence students' behavior, including …
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SOCIAL CONTEXT & ITS INFLUENCE ON PERFORMANCE IN SCHOOL
… number of guardians, and/or locale) (2) schools characteristics (e.g., enforced school policies, school location, and/or class size) (3) student behavioral characteristics (e.g., student report cards, at10tiveness, and/or at10dance). Also, this study considers the po10tial of using …
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A Qualitative Exploratory Case Study of Middle School Administrators’, Counselors’, and School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports Team Leaders’ Perceptions of School-Wide Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports
<p>Students' disruptive behavior has become more customary over the last several years. Many school systems have implemented a Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (SWPBIS) approach to deal with these behaviors proactively. This particular study is focused on behaviorism and operant …
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The Public Sector's Experience and Response to Private Competition: The Case of Nepal
Private schools have become a mainstay in developing countries. The private market share in primary education in low-income countries has nearly doubled from 12% in 1990 to 22% in 2010 (World Bank, 2013). There is a long-running debate amongst academics and the policy community about how increased …
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Peer Victimization, Student Engagement, and School Attendance: Structural Equation Models
… viewed as a multi-faceted construct, composed of behavioral, cognitive, and emotional aspects. Four different types of peer victimization variables (verbal, physical, exclusion, and intensity) were combined to form a latent measure for peer victimization that was expected to predict absenteeism …
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Social Interactions and Network Formation -- EmpiricalModeling and Applications
… modeling approaches to study American high school students' friendship networks and school behavior in the Add Health data. To use the approach in the first chapter, I consider two activity outcomes, students' GPAs and smoking frequencies. From estimation results, I find a significant …
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The Relationship Between Family Composition and Social Behavior for Students with Mild Disabilities in Schools
… significant differences in children's problem behavior across various family structures, particularly noting more challenging behaviors in children from single parent families. Utilizing a pre-existing data set of Behavioral Objective Sequence (BOS) scores, this study investigated teacher …
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Cultural enrichment: connecting african american elementary children to academic achievement
… citizens are being produced by America's public schools. Many of these students are being funneled into the penal system shortly after dropping out of high school. This phenomenon is especially prevalent among African American male students, many of whom have withdrawn academically years prior to …
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The Effects of Tootling Combined with Public Posting in High School Classrooms
… engaged, disruptive, and passive off task behaviors in four general education high school classrooms. The study employed an A/B/B+C multiple baseline design across classrooms. The primary focus of the study was to assess potential increases in academically engaged behavior across …