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Showing 1 to 20 of 195 for “"school context"”.
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Number sense in a secondary school context
… research in New Zealand is directed at primary school or senior secondary school, in the areas of numeracy, technology innovations, student achievement and teacher professional development. This study investigated junior secondary mathematics lessons as contexts for distributed mathematical …
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The Association Between School Context and Student Health and Wellbeing
… thesis is to understand the relationship between school environments and student health and wellbeing outcomes. Specifically, this thesis aims to describe and understand how school environments, including student relationships, teacher wellbeing and health and social support services within …
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School Context, Peers and the Educational Achievement of Girls and Boys
Today, boys dominate among high school dropouts, special education students, and literally any failed or special needs category throughout adolescence pinpointing boys as the troublemaker in modern educational systems. The notorious under-performance of boys in school and their tendency to disrupt …
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Moving toward a literature-based classroom in a middle school context
… toward a literature-based classroom in a middle school context. More specifically, this study interpreted and analyzed the perceptions of the classroom teacher and her students of the significant aspects of moving toward a literature-based classroom and described the issues and problems related …
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Choices, choices, choices : the nature of children’s agency within a forest school context
The use of Forest Schools (FS) to promote outdoor learning has become increasingly popular over the last decade or so. The FS approach embraces a woodland environment and espouses a child-centred pedagogy. Six principles outlining the key features of FS underpin the ways that FS leaders (FSLs) have …
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) within a South Indian (Keralian) mainstream school context
… discussed special educational issue in Western contexts and developed countries. By contrast, limited information is available about ADHD in Eastern contexts and developing countries. In India in particular, the only available information is about the medical perspective of ADHD; little or no …
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Towards an integrative view on learning style versatility in a business school context
Business schools operate in a highly dynamic environment and regularly need to reassess the value they add to a given context. The following research presents a critical analysis of the concept of ‘learning style versatility’ (LSV) and further substantiates it, relying on three related studies. The …
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Managing the tension: Balancing district requirements and local school context in school improvement planning
… (OIP) examines how a principal can implement school improvement planning processes that address both the requirements of a district and the needs of the individual school. The problem of practice identified that principals struggle with motivating teachers to engage in meaningful professional …
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The appraisal and enhancement of resilience modalities in middle adolescents within the school context
… Middle adolescents spend a significant time in school and therefore it is an appropriate context to foster, enhance and develop emotional-; social- and cognitive resilience competencies. There are limited psychological assessment instruments for the South African population that can be used to …
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The integration of CL resources in CALL for Irish in the primary school context
… artefacts for Irish for English-medium primary schools in Ireland? Irish is a compulsory subject in Irish primary schools but there are complex socio-cultural issues surrounding the teaching and learning of the language and in general CALL resources are not available for this group of learners. …
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Analysing the school context for factors that promote or impede resilience among middle adolescent learners
This study was concerned with analysing the school context for factors that promote or impede resilience among middle adolescent learners. The study aimed to find out if black high school learners perceive themselves as resilient or non-resilient: It also investigated the aspects perceived by …
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An examination of the practice of teaching for critical comprehension in a whole school context
This thesis studies the practice of teaching for critical comprehension, which extends from literal to critical understanding of classroom, community and world texts. It views comprehension as core to teachers’ practice. A professional learning program explored ways that an expanded view of …
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Learning Theory in Adult Discipleship: A Quasi-Experiment Assessing Adult Learning in a Sunday School Context
… learning that takes place in the adult learning context of adult Sunday school classes in Southern Baptist churches. Using Lev Vygotsky's concept of the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD), a test of learning was created and administered to adults from ages 18 to over 65 in four geographically and …
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Investigating Middle School Students’ Mathematical Reasoning in a Connected In-school and Out-of-School Context
… was to investigate the various aspects of middle school students’ mathematics task solving in a context that connects the students’ experiences in out-of-school and in within-school contexts. Specifically, the study explores the forms of mathematical reasoning that the students used while engaged …
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Using the Meke Meter to understand rangatahi hauora in the Aotearoa New Zealand secondary school context
… and overall satisfaction with life and with school. In the NZ tertiary education setting, the Meke Meter™ was found to be a quick and simple tool that benefited both students and educators through increased awareness and knowledge of the student’s wellbeing and the various aspects that …
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An exploration of the barriers and enablers of children’s lived participation within the primary school context
… informal everyday lived participation within the school context, a key site in relation to most children’s everyday lives, has resulted in a gap in knowledge with regard to what such participation looks like, how it can be assessed or measured, and thus, how its facilitation can be assured in …
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Relationships Among Student Demographics and Community and School Context Factors and Value-Added Gain Scores in Ohio
… linear regressions to test the assertion that school level value-added gain scores are not affected by student demographics and school and community context factors using fourth and eighth grade Ohio value-added gain scores in reading and mathematics. The study also compared the effects of …
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Understanding the Relationship Between the Biopsychological Development of Adolescent Boys and their Behaviour in the School Context
… an endocrinological relationship. In the context of education, the effect of these biopsychological changes on executive function, particularly social cognitive ability and that of behavioural responses to challenges in the school environment, is of particular interest to teachers, who are …
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