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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"vulnerable students"”.
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Lighting Some Candles: An examination of the impact and effectiveness of an intervention programme designed to support vulnerable students as they transfer from primary to secondary school
… the experiences of children who are considered vulnerable at the primary to secondary school transfer stage. Second, the study explores issues of evaluation more generally.<br/>In the English context there remain concerns about anxiety on transfer between schools and a measurable “dip” in …
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The Longitudinal Stability and Dynamics of Group Membership in the Dual-Factor Model of Mental Health: Psychosocial Predictors of Mental Health
… to high stability for all groups except for "vulnerable" students (i.e., low SWB and low psychopathology). Dynamics of group change are presented in Table 3. Results from logistic multiple regression models and multiple logistic bivariate models revealed meaningful predictors of group change …
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From Poverty to Purpose: Equalizing Opportunities for Economically Disadvantaged Students
… gaps for low socioeconomic status and at-risk students throughout the history of education. In 2022, poverty rates were higher than the national average (16.3 percent) for the children who were American Indian/Alaska Native (32 percent), Black/African American (31 percent), and Hispanic (23 …
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The Stalled Race to Close Literacy Achievement Gaps: Federally Legislating Public Education
… an equal system for all and to help the most vulnerable students. Focusing on literacy, a historical lens was used to assess that similar strategies (testing, funding in exchange for compliance) have been used for decades with little success. It is evident that federal education reform …
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Associations between students' perceptions of teacher-student relationship quality, academic achievement, and classroom behavior: Are they moderated by ethnicity, gender, or socio economic status?
… study was to explore the correlations between students' perceptions of their relationships with teachers, students' academic achievement and students' classroom behavior. A secondary purpose of the study was to investigate if students' ethnicity, gender and socio-economic status moderate the …
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Assessment of Guidance and Counseling Services Provision to Students: A Case of Six Selected Universities in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Students in Tanzanian universities they were unable to cope with university life due to financial crisis and social problems. Consequently, suffer from resulting psychological and emotional disabilities, related to issues of disturbances and riots. The ability of students to overcome these …
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Using data analytics to examine undergraduate computer science student course performance
… to give insight into how undergraduate students perform in their required courses in the computer science sequence at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Undergraduate student data from students who majored in computer science were collected for the length of time they …
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Does an oracy intervention affect the way that teachers cope with students who challenge or worry them in some way?
… established that oracy can lead to school age students achieving substantially improved skills in maths, science, and reasoning. This study attempts to develop an understanding of how vulnerable students were thought about and engaged with in a school that had recently completed the EEF …
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Chilean Education Paradigms: The Rise and Fall of Neoliberal Education Reforms and their Impacts on Mapuche Education Systems
… of Chilean neoliberal education reforms on students access to primary and secondary education. Across three body chapters, I will conduct a historical, policy, and comparative analysis, as well as case study on the Mapuche population within Chile, to exemplify neoliberal reforms' impact on …
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Public School Board Governance Practices in Western Pennsylvania and AYP Scores; Is There a Relationship?
… directed a district whose mission was to educate vulnerable students. Conversely, the urban school board had the lowest survey scores yet their students performed above those of other districts in both math and reading. Despite the results of this particular study, further research is encouraged …
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Política de assistência e permanência estudantil para as universidades estaduais baianas (UEBA) – Programa Mais Futuro.
… and trajectory of the policy established for students in public higher education, taking as a time frame the publication of Law n.º 13.458/2015, known as the Mais Futuro Law, a normative instrument that influenced and influences the debate about affirmative actions, more specifically student …
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A Moderated Mediation Approach to Risk Factors for First-Year University Students’ Stress-Related Anxiety and Depression
… significant concerns among first-year university students. However, the factors contributing to why some students successfully navigate their first year while others struggle with anxiety and depression have received limited attention. To address this gap, this thesis adopts a moderated mediation …
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The Impact of Reading Programs as a Map Project Strategy
… was enacted to protect the United States' most vulnerable students and was signed into law in January 2002 (U.S. Department of Education, 2002). For many years, black, Hispanic, special education, and limited English proficient students were not achieving at the same level as their white, …
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Differential Outcomes: causes and pedagogical responses
… and, to find pedagogical solutions, to support students who appeared to be vulnerable to ‘differential outcomes’ in summative assessments. The students were studying on undergraduate degree courses in the Education department at a college of Further Education in south London. The research was …
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School Climate Indicators and Academic Achievement: An Investigation of Vulnerable Subgroups
… to explore the relationships between fifth grade students' perceptions of three school climate indicators as measured on the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKSS) and their academic achievement as measured by the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress Smarter Balanced …
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Evaluating the School Performance of Elementary and Middle School Children of Incarcerated Parents.
… organizations more accurately identify high risk students and formulate effective intervention programs for these students. Finally, this study further informs an understanding of the societal impact of adult incarceration.</p>
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A study of progression and retention in higher education: the search for an eclectic theoretical framework
… and the quality and type of tuition received by students prior to their entry into Higher Education. This has become more apparent with increasing numbers of mature and non-traditional students coming into Higher Education without standard school-leaver entry qualifications. With increasing …