Download or read book Student Mobility and Its Effects on Seventh Grade Students Feelings and Beliefs Regarding School Adjustment Academics and Teacher Expectations Compared to Stable Students written by Bruce Corrado and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effect of a Low Incidence of Student Mobility as Compared with a High Incidence of Student Mobility on Attitudes of Seventh Grade Students written by Joan Elaine Owen and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Many Children Left Behind written by Deborah Meier and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004-09-29 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signed into law in 2002, the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) promised to revolutionize American public education. Originally supported by a bipartisan coalition, it purports to improve public schools by enforcing a system of standards and accountability through high-stakes testing. Many people supported it originally, despite doubts, because of its promise especially to improve the way schools serve poor children. By making federal funding contingent on accepting a system of tests and sanctions, it is radically affecting the life of schools around the country. But, argue the authors of this citizen's guide to the most important political issue in education, far from improving public schools and increasing the ability of the system to serve poor and minority children, the law is doing exactly the opposite. Here some of our most prominent, respected voices in education-including school innovator Deborah Meier, education activist Alfie Kohn, and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools Theodore R. Sizer-come together to show us how, point by point, NCLB undermines the things it claims to improve: * How NCLB punishes rather than helps poor and minority kids and their schools * How NCLB helps further an agenda of privatization and an attack on public schools * How the focus on testing and test preparation dumbs down classrooms * And they put forward a richly articulated vision of alternatives. Educators and parents around the country are feeling the harshly counterproductive effects of NCLB. This book is an essential guide to understanding what's wrong and where we should go from here.
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Student Engagement written by Sandra L. Christenson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two decades, the concept of student engagement has grown from simple attention in class to a construct comprised of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components that embody and further develop motivation for learning. Similarly, the goals of student engagement have evolved from dropout prevention to improved outcomes for lifelong learning. This robust expansion has led to numerous lines of research across disciplines and are brought together clearly and comprehensively in the Handbook of Research on Student Engagement. The Handbook guides readers through the field’s rich history, sorts out its component constructs, and identifies knowledge gaps to be filled by future research. Grounding data in real-world learning situations, contributors analyze indicators and facilitators of student engagement, link engagement to motivation, and gauge the impact of family, peers, and teachers on engagement in elementary and secondary grades. Findings on the effectiveness of classroom interventions are discussed in detail. And because assessing engagement is still a relatively new endeavor, chapters on measurement methods and issues round out this important resource. Topical areas addressed in the Handbook include: Engagement across developmental stages. Self-efficacy in the engaged learner. Parental and social influences on engagement and achievement motivation. The engaging nature of teaching for competency development. The relationship between engagement and high-risk behavior in adolescents. Comparing methods for measuring student engagement. An essential guide to the expanding knowledge base, the Handbook of Research on Student Engagement serves as a valuable resource for researchers, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students in such varied fields as clinical child and school psychology, educational psychology, public health, teaching and teacher education, social work, and educational policy.
Download or read book Competing Perceptions and Interests of School System Actors Regarding Student Mobility written by Magane Koshimura and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Student Mobility written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-05-09 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many low-income families struggle with stable housing and frequently have to move due to foreclosures, rent increases, or other financial setbacks. Children in these families can experience lasting negative effects, especially those who are young and still developing basic learning and social skills. A joint NRC-IOM committee held a workshop in June 2009 to examine these issues, highlight patterns in current research, and discuss how to develop a support system for at-risk children.
Download or read book Student Mobility Identity and Attitudes written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing schools appears to disrupt the lives of students, but attributing causal effects to mobility is challenging, since students are non-randomly selected into mobility. In this dissertation, I investigate student mobility in multiple ways to address two over-arching questions: 1) Does mobility influence students? 2) If so, how, and can anything be done about it? I first exploit the variable timing of unscheduled school moves to compare recent and past school movers. Under reasonable assumptions this matching approach accounts for unobserved fixed characteristics that cause mobility. I find no evidence that mobility impacts test scores and small deficits attributable to mobility on indicators that capture dimensions of social integration such as grade point average and attitudes. Next, I suggest that the uncertain social standing of new students induces mobility threat, a situational form of social identity threat. Using experimental data from a district-wide evaluation, I estimate for mobile students the impact of values-affirmation through expressive writing, which has been shown to buffer students from social identity threats. On average, values affirmation does little good for mobile students. Non-experimental analyses show that students who write about topics other than their friends or family suffered apparent academic declines, but it is unclear whether the writing prompt produces this decline or simply reveals social difficulties. Finally, I examine multiple ways in which students transition to middle school. By comparing students who transition from elementary school to middle school with large and small numbers of their elementary school peers from attached and separate schools, I distinguish between variations in the physical and social dimensions of the "environmental discontinuity" that students experience as they transition to middle school. I find that the social dimension is associated with student outcomes: students who transition in larger cohorts--and thereby preserved more of their existing peer relationships--have more favorable attitudes toward school and fare better on some achievement tests. Collectively these findings suggest that mobility and school transitions play a small part in the ongoing challenges that some students face, but that being new pales in comparison to the conditions that cause students to move.
Download or read book The Science of Learning and Development written by Pamela Cantor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential text unpacks major transformations in the study of learning and human development and provides evidence for how science can inform innovation in the design of settings, policies, practice, and research to enhance the life path, opportunity and prosperity of every child. The ideas presented provide researchers and educators with a rationale for focusing on the specific pathways and developmental patterns that may lead a specific child, with a specific family, school, and community, to prosper in school and in life. Expanding key published articles and expert commentary, the book explores a profound evolution in thinking that integrates findings from psychology with biology through sociology, education, law, and history with an emphasis on institutionalized inequities and disparate outcomes and how to address them. It points toward possible solutions through an understanding of and addressing the dynamic relations between a child and the contexts within which he or she lives, offering all researchers of human development and education a new way to understand and promote healthy development and learning for diverse, specific youth regardless of race, socioeconomic status, or history of adversity, challenge, or trauma. The book brings together scholars and practitioners from the biological/medical sciences, the social and behavioral sciences, educational science, and fields of law and social and educational policy. It provides an invaluable and unique resource for understanding the bases and status of the new science, and presents a roadmap for progress that will frame progress for at least the next decade and perhaps beyond.
Download or read book Focus on the Wonder Years written by Jaana Juvonen and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young teens undergo multiple changes that seem to set them apart from other students. But do middle schools actually meet their special needs? The authors describe some of the challenges and offer ways to tackle them, such as reassessing the organization of grades K-12; specifically assisting the students most in need; finding ways to prevent disciplinary problems; and helping parents understand how they can help their children learn at home.
Download or read book American Doctoral Dissertations written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of the Effect of Student Mobility on Pupil Achievement and Adjustment in a Selected Group of Tenth Grade Students in the Vernon Public Schools written by Raymond E. Ramsdell and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Student Mobility on Learning written by Cristina Valle and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student mobility can both positively and negatively affect students' academic and social behavior. Grades can drop, behaviors can change, and in some cases students can even drop out of school. My research found that a fluid education is important to students. Talking to the children about the move is also important. Making sure that the move is only done when absolutely necessary is also important. Lastly the teachers make the biggest difference in a student feeling comfortable and a part of the school community. Five appendices are included: (1) Letter of Permission from Parents; (2) Letter of Permission from Students; (3) Interview for Parents; (4) Interview for Students; and (5) Interview Schedule. (Includes a bibliography.).
Download or read book Student Success in College written by George D. Kuh and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student Success in College describes policies, programs, and practices that a diverse set of institutions have used to enhance student achievement. This book clearly shows the benefits of student learning and educational effectiveness that can be realized when these conditions are present. Based on the Documenting Effective Educational Practice (DEEP) project from the Center for Postsecondary Research at Indiana University, this book provides concrete examples from twenty institutions that other colleges and universities can learn from and adapt to help create a success-oriented campus culture and learning environment.
Download or read book Individual Differences and the Development of Perceived Control written by Ellen A. Skinner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the strongest predictors of children's school performance are individual differences in perceived control: those beliefs about how effective the self can be in producing desired outcomes. Drawing perspectives from both developmental and individual differences research, this longitudinal study documents the cycles in which children who develop optimal profiles of control are more actively engaged and have better academic success, (or in contrast, how children may doubt their capacities, experience lower scholastic achievement, and believe in the power of luck or unknown forces.) Further, the results show how these cycles may change with age, and suggest ways to improve children's perceived control.
Download or read book The Impact of Moving from Two person to Four person Teams on Seventh grade Students Attitudes and Beliefs Toward School written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this mixed methods study was to examine the impact moving seventh-grade students from two-person to four-person teams had on students' attitudes and beliefs towards school. The review of literature provided the reader a brief analysis of the history of the middle school philosophy and teaming, recommendations for schools to address the unique needs of early adolescents, a review of key literature regarding middle level programing and structure, and a discussion highlighting the importance and impact of smaller learning communities. Two main theories makeup the framework for this report: Social Cognitive Theory and Human Relations Theory. The research findings are intended to advance the knowledge of leadership and practice for educational practitioners working with adolescents, specifically as it pertains to the concept of teaming within middle schools. The results of the study followed four general themes: students' relationships with their teachers; students' relationships with their classmates; students' feelings towards themselves; and students' feelings towards the team."--Abstract.
