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Showing 1 to 20 of 189 for “"school performance"”.
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Organization Features and School Performance
… of this study was to determine the odds of school organization features predicting schools meeting district or state performance goals. The school organization features were organizational complexity, shared decision making, and leadership behavior. The dependent variable was school …
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The Impact of meditation on school performance. Evidence from Colombia.
… influences different educational outcomes in a school located in the department of Antioquia, Colombia. For this purpose, a meditation project implemented during three years in secondary students is considered as a case of study. The results suggest that for this particular school the different …
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Does Private School Competition Improve Public School Performance? The Case of Nepal
… countries, the evidence on the impact of school type on student performance is mixed. Researchers are also interested in finding out the effect of private school competition on educational outcomes. The evidence on this for developed countries is mixed as well. What is the effect in …
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The Influence of College Environmental Variables on Premedical and Medical School Performance
… when planning for preparation for medical school. Similarly, recommendations are made regarding future directions for institutional outcomes assessment.
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Responsiveness in American schools overseas: discrepancies between parental expectations and school performance
… children enrolled in American Sponsored Overseas Schools in South America, and to compare those priorities with their perceptions of school performance. Responsiveness was defined as the relationship between priorities and perceived performance. Parents of secondary students enrolled in member …
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Middle School Principals' Time-on-Tasks and the Relationship to School Performance
The daily, weekly, and unscheduled tasks for school administrators have increased in number and scope over the years, however surprisingly little is known about what principals do on a day-to-day basis and how this varies across schools. Since the effect of principal leadership behaviors, …
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The effect of managerial creativity and innovative leadership towards school performance in UAE
… to help accomplish goals while pushing the school managers to be more creative and critical with their decisions. Creativity is the talent to come out with new ideas by changing, reapplying or combining existing ideas. This study aims to identify the effect of managerial creativity and …
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Evaluating the School Performance of Elementary and Middle School Children of Incarcerated Parents.
… parents are at an increased risk for poor school performance as a specific result of parental incarceration above that associated with their social and economic status. Because parental incarceration may result in a variety of outcomes that can negatively impact school performance including …
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Predicting College Graduation: Are Admissions Test Scores and High School Performance Measures Adequate
… is based primarily on test scores and high school performance. These measures should properly be used to predict first-year grades; however, their de facto use is in choosing who will most likely graduate. I found the best predictors of college graduation are the number of terms enrolled and …
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Educational Administrators' Perceptions of the use of School Performance Profiles to Improve Student Performances
… administrators' perceptions of the use of school performance profiles to improve student performances. Using a survey instrument developed and validated at the University of Texas at El Paso, the perceptions of Chatham County administrators were examined and analyzed. Through the analysis …
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Leave No Crime Behind: Exposure to Violence and School Performance in New York City
… has increasingly focused on holding teachers and schools accountable for student performance. Yet popular and academic writers have long connected exposure to neighborhood violence to poor student performance. Newly available datasets, statistical methods and computer technology allow for greater …
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High School Performance of Cape Verdean Immigrant Students in New Bedford: A Linguistic Perspective
… of the countries that have included EL in their school programs; the quality of the learning process in English is a permanent issue for Cape Verdean schools. In this project, Cape Verdean immigrant students in New Bedford, Massachusetts, who started their high school education in Cape Verde and …
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Obstructive sleep apnea and snoring in Icelandic children : the five-to-fifteen questionnaire and school performance
… were not as evident as for reported snoring. School performance did not differ in any of the comparisons. Correlations between objectively measured SDB indices and scores on the FTF resulted in poorer outcomes being related to a higher AHI and in some cases, a higher snoring percentage. These …
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Gender matters : an investigation of the factors influencing mothers' and fathers' grading of public school performance.
… examine the relative influence of personal and school-based characteristics and parental involvement on mothers’ and fathers’ perceptions of public school performance. A national and representative sample of parents of school-aged children (N= 2008) were asked to award a grade (A, B, C, D or F) …
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Evaluation of the Design, Development, and Implementation of the School Performance Network Portal and Communication Institute
The School Performance Network (SPN) Portal was envisioned during the formation stage of SPN as the primary mechanism for K-12 educators and SPN partners, to communicate and to collaborate. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the design, development, and implementation of the SPN Portal and …
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Exploring the Relationship Between Critical Resource Variables and School Performance in Secondary Schools of Mukono Uganda
… assumed to affect the quality of teaching and school performance, findings of the growing body of research about resources and school performance remain obscure and highly contested. A central question in effective schooling research is to what extent do resources translate into school …
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