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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"school commitment"”.
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The effects of principal support on general and special educators' stress, job satisfaction, health, school commitment, and intent to stay in teaching
… stress and personal health, job satisfaction, school commitment and intent to stay in teaching.
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AFTER SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, PEER AFFILIATION, AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: A STUDY OF PEER CLUSTER THEORY
… study was to test whether the influence of after school activities upon school commitment and academic achievement among a sample of 146 African American adolescents was mediated by affiliation with prosocial peers. The study also examined whether risky peer affiliation mediated the effects of …
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Becoming a Learning System that Maximizes the Modes of Professional Learning: A Change Leadership Plan in a Middle School Setting
… a program evaluation conducted at Hamlin Middle School. It begins with the premise that the Modes of Professional Learning function somewhat independently of each other and therefore, Hamlin Middle School fails to function of a learning system. The goal of the research is to establish a set of …
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Inclusion and Collaboration - Perceptions and Experiences of Families of Students with Disabilities
… disability) regarding inclusion, family-school collaboration throughout their children’s schooling years, and the families’ hopes and fears as they prepare for their children’s future. The interviews, demographic and contextual questionnaires, and student portfolios were used to deeply …
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Early years teachers’ interests and motivation when teaching Science
… Independent sectors. The interviews tackled the school’s commitment to science and the teachers’ personal views, attitudes towards and confidence in science. The teachers also shared two science lesson plans which they considered to be inquiry-based. The study found that the factors influencing …
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Factors Influencing Senior Secondary School Retention in Malaysia
… whether Form Five students in six secondary schools in Malaysia would continue with their Form Six studies and maintain their career aspirations was tested and the influence of motivation as a mediating variable was examined. There are two public examinations in Malaysia, which are not only …
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School level predictors of homophobic name-calling & sexual harassment victimization/perpetration among middle school youth
… between teacher and staff perceptions of school environment and student self-reports of homophobic name-calling perpetration and victimization as well as sexual harassment perpetration and victimization. Surveys were conducted with 1,447 teachers and staff and 3,616 6th grade students …
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Efficacy of a School-Wide Teambuilding Program for Increasing School Belonging Amongst Elementary Children
School belonging is a construct that describes student connections to school via a student's social and emotional attachments to others at school, commitment to adhering to school rules, involvement in school activities, and belief systems related to how much school is valued (Hirschi, 1969; …
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Motivational processes underlying gender gaps in school engagement and achievement
Boys lag behind girls in school across many western industrialised countries. On average, boys tend to be less engaged and perform worse than girls in secondary school. Yet efforts to close the gender gap may not be successful until we gain a precise understanding of the mechanisms contributing to …
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Reciprocal Teaching as a School-Wide Inclusive Strategy
… teaching practices were extended to include a school-wide approach. These questions guided a review of the literature on reciprocal teaching (RT), a metacognitive method for teaching reading comprehension, to examine its potential as an inclusive method. They were also used to examine the …
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Value education of youth
Am Anfang und am Ende des Schuljahres 2000/2001 wurden die Werteprioritäten der Schüler/innen und Lehrer/innen an acht verschiedenen Schulen gemessen. Mit dieser Studie wurde das theoretische Modell einer universellen Struktur menschlicher Werteprioritäten (Schwartz, 1992) erneut bestätigt. Zu …