Download or read book A Relationship Between Student Socioeconomic Status Perceptions of School Environment Academic Achievement and School Attendance written by John Stephen Utne and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book School Leader s Perceptions of Their Facility Conditions and the Relationship to Student Achievement and Student Attendance written by Tracey T. Patton and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facility conditions in public schools across the United States continue to be a debated issue at the local and national levels. Building conditions and funding for renovating aging buildings have sparked concerns with students, parents, teachers, and educators. The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between school leader’s perceptions of their facility conditions in the learning environment from the ELEA instrument, a facility checklist, to performance indicators academic achievement and student attendance. The researcher evaluated school leader’s perceptions utilizing the results of the 2011 instrument, the Effective Learning Environment Assessment (ELEA), an instrument created and validated as a measurement tool of school leader’s perceptions of their facility conditions as defined by Dorris’ (2011b) seven dimensions: environmental conditions, versatility and flexibility, collaboration, personalization, technology compatible, school ethos, and community. A quantitative correlational study using the instrument results and corresponding 2011 Math and Reading achievement scores from the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) as well as corresponding 2011 student attendance data as evidenced by the Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) was used in the research analysis. The research study included survey responses from 182 school leaders across the state of Texas which was comprised of ninety-one school campuses. The researcher performed hierarchical multiple regression analysis to determine if there was statistical significance at the 0.05 level. After isolating the control variable-socioeconomic status, the remaining independent variables: economic conditions, versatility and flexibility, collaboration, personalization, technologically compatible, school ethos, and community were analyzed in the regression model for their effect on the performance indicators?student achievement and student attendance. The study showed there was a direct relationship between school leader’s perceptions of facility conditions in the ELEA dimensions personalization and community and student achievement. However, there was no relationship between educator’s perceptions of the ELEA dimensions environmental conditions, versatility and flexibility, technologically compatible, collaboration, and school ethos. The study showed there was no relationship between school leader’s perception of their facility conditions and student attendance. Future research was recommended to further explore the use of facility checklist instruments.
Download or read book School Climate written by H. Jerome Freiberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like a strong foundation in a house, the climate of a school is the foundation that supports the structures of teaching and learning. This book provides a framework for educators to look at school and classroom climates using both informal and formal measures. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of climate and details techniques which may be used by heads or classroom teachers to judge the health of their learning environment. The book sets out to enhance understanding of the components of a healthy learning environment and the tools needed to improve that environment. It also looks at ways to assess the impact of change activities in improving and sustaining educational excellence. The international team of contributors bring perspectives from the school systems in America, UK, Australia and Holland.
Download or read book The Factors Effecting Student Achievement written by Engin Karadağ and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-05-14 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the effect of psychological, social and demographic variables on student achievement and summarizes the current research findings in the field. It addresses the need for inclusive and interpretive studies in the field in order to interpret student achievement literature and suggests new pathways for further studies. Appropriately, a meta-analysis approach is used by the contributors to show the big picture to the researchers by analyzing and combining the findings from different independent studies. In particular, the authors compile various studies examining the relationship between student achievement and 21 psychological, social and demographic variables separately. The philosophy behind this book is to direct future research and practices rather than addressing the limits of current studies.
Download or read book School Effectiveness and School Improvement written by Louise Stoll and published by Institute of Education. This book was released on 1995 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade has seen a burgeoning of interest in the twin fields of school effectiveness and school improvement by politicians, policy makers and practitioners. For some, the drive has been to raise standards and increase accountability through inspection and assessment measures, believing that the incentive of accountability and market competition will lead to improvement. Alternatively, reform and restructuring have led many people in schools to create their own agenda and ask, ‘How do we know that what we are doing makes a positive difference to our pupils?’ and, ‘What can we do to provide pupils with the best possible education?’ This paper explores the two paradigms that underpin notions of school effectiveness and school improvement. We start with their definitions and aims. Key factors of effectiveness and improvement are examined and fundamental issues discussed. We conclude with a description of attempts to link the two areas of work.
Download or read book The Crime of Silence written by Mabel Mary Nash and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family and School Capital Towards a Context Theory of Students School Outcomes written by K. Marjoribanks and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a major advance in examining the problem of how to reduce inequalities in the educational and occupational attainment of students from different socio-economic, ethnic and race group backgrounds. It integrates qualitative and quantitative research orientations and methodologies. A set of family and school measures is included that might be used by researchers and students as they examine the context theory, and by educators involved in school reform programs.
Download or read book The School Uniform Movement and what it Tells Us about American Education written by David L. Brunsma and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the most thorough exposition on our present understanding of the impetuses, debates, legalities, and effectiveness of school uniform policies that have rapidly entered the discourse of school reform in the United States. In it, David Brunsma provides an antidote to the ungrounded, anecdotal components that define the contemporary conversation regarding policies of standardized dress in American K-12 districts and schools.
Download or read book A Study of the Relationship of Socioeconomic Status and Student Perceptions of School Effectiveness to Academic Achievement of Engineering Students written by Geronimo Mendoza Meraz and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Influence of Home Environment on the Academic Performance of Secondary School Students in Imo State written by and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Pedagogy - General, grade: 3.8, , language: English, abstract: The general purposes of this study is to find out the influence of home environment on study academic performance. Specifically, the study sets out to examine the influence of parental occupation on the academic performance of secondary school students in Owerri metropolis of Imo state. It tries to find out whether the size of the family to which they belong affect the students academic performance in Owerri metropolis; and to determine the extent to which type of family would affect the academic performance of students. This study will be delimited to government owned secondary schools in Owerri. Municipal of Imo state Nigeria. Over a period of time, it has been observed the students who are exposed to the same lesson by the same teachers are likely to perform differently when they are evaluated. According to Fagbamiye, the board education or ministry of education world wide suspected teaching methodology and classroom teachers as being the cause at the problem yet it seems to persist. This shows that outside the school environment, students are faced with other factors that influence their academic performances. There is also clear distinction between the gifted children and others, but even at that there are factors that influence the academic of both gifted and non-gifted children which can not be traced to the school environment.
Download or read book The Psychology of Working written by David Blustein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this original and major new work, David Blustein places working at the same level of attention for social and behavioral scientists and psychotherapists as other major life concerns, such as intimate relationships, physical and mental health, and socio-economic inequities. He also provides readers with an expanded conceptual framework within which to think about working in human development and human experience. As a result, this creative new synthesis enriches the discourse on working across the broad spectrum of psychology's concerns and agendas, and especially for those readers in career development, counseling, and policy-related fields. This textbook is ideal for use in graduate courses on counseling and work or vocational counseling.
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relationship Between Proximal Environment and Scholastic Achievement for Students in an Urban School District written by Tanzia McFarland and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was first, to develop a unique model to define the proximal environments of students in the selected public school district. Second, the purpose of this study was to determine whether a relationship exists between proximal environments and academic achievement measures for students in an urban school district, and if so, which elements of the environment are related to diminishing performance. Finally, the purpose of this study was to discuss how research findings impact policy for the selected school district. The model used to develop environmental profiles was based on school attendance zones as the unit of analysis. This model determined which census tracts were located in which school attendance zones, and used census data to define the demographics of that school environment based upon the corresponding census tracts. In addition to the use of census data, the model used crime data to determine the per capita crime rate for each school's surrounding community. What contributes to the significance of this model is its interactive, geographic quality, which allows school districts to visualize the surrounding communities of individual schools. The results of this study suggest that the proximal environments of students attending selected public schools in the study school district are associated with CAT achievement measures for students in this district. Children dwelling in areas of the study district with low levels of income, low levels of adult educational attainment and high-density households are at risk for low achievement. The two variables that accounted for the most variance in achievement for the study district are the percentage of adults with bachelor's degrees in a community, and the percentage of households with 7 or more people. Even though the statistical analysis did not reveal significant relationships between achievement and high crime or achievement and high percentages of female headed households for the entire group of schools, it did demonstrate that these relationships may be significant for individual schools within the district. The results of this study had three policy implications for the study district. Findings suggested that policy efforts should focus on involving community agencies and coordinating community resources; developing positive parental-school partnerships; and developing and maintaining procedures for identifying and researching conditions that influence student attendance and achievement.
Download or read book Environmental Psychology and Human Well Being written by Ann Sloan Devlin and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Psychology and Human Well-Being: Effects of Built and Natural Settings provides a better understanding of the way in which mental and physical well-being is affected by physical environments, along with insights into how the design of these environments might be improved to support better health outcomes. The book reviews the history of the field, discusses theoretical constructs in guiding research and design, and provides an up-to-date survey of research findings. Core psychological constructs, such as personal space, territoriality, privacy, resilience, stress, and more are integrated into each environment covered. - Provides research-based insight into how an environment can impact mental and physical health and well-being - Integrates core psychological constructs, such as coping, place attachment, social support, and perceived control into each environment discussed - Includes discussion of Kaplan's Attention Restoration Theory and Ulrich's Stress Reduction Theory - Covers educational settings, workplace settings, environments for active living, housing for the elderly, natural settings, correctional facilities, and more
Download or read book African American Urban Female Students Perceptions of Social Factors Impacting Their Academic Achievement in One Public School District written by Rhonda Evette Shelby-King and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of social factors affecting the academic achievement of secondary African American urban (AAU) female students in an urban school district. This study determined whether the AAU females in this study perceived the social factors in the literature review to impact their academic achievement, the relationship between those social factors and academic achievement, and the differences in academic achievement by socioeconomic status. One hundred fifty-eight (158) AAU female students from three high schools in one urban district located in southeast Texas participated in this study. A self-generated 51-item questionnaire (Students' Perceptions of Social Factors Affecting Academic Achievement in Urban Schools) was used to collect data for this study. There were three major results in the study. First, there were not any significant factors impacting the academic achievement of AAU females; secondly, AAU females did not perceive any social factors as significantly affecting their academic achievement; and finally, there were not any statistical differences between socioeconomic status and academic achievement. Specifically, the results did not reveal a difference between AAU 12th grade female students on free and reduced lunch and those not on free and reduced lunch in terms of academic performance.
Download or read book The Psychology of School Climate written by Garry Wade McGiboney and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people have become impatient with school reform and school improvement efforts that fail to include school climate. The importance of a positive school climate is emerging in current research, not only as an essential component of school reform and school improvement, but also as a necessary framework for maintaining excellent schools and providing healthy and safe schools for all students. Research strongly suggests that educators and policy makers have a lot to learn about the importance of school climate for school safety and academic success. With the growing body of research regarding school climate, it is important to study the research and understand how the psychology of school climate and how the elements of school climate can be viewed from a population-based perspective, as well as understanding the impact of school climate on individual students. This review of school climate research includes hundreds of articles and research papers of different perspectives from around the world in numerous cultures. School climate is becoming a science of education and psychology that must be studied further in order to understand the dynamic nature of learning environments, to identify elements that support or threaten the learning environment, and to learn how to improve the conditions for learning in all schools.
Download or read book Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind written by Eric Jensen and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this galvanizing follow-up to the best-selling Teaching with Poverty in Mind, renowned educator and learning expert Eric Jensen digs deeper into engagement as the key factor in the academic success of economically disadvantaged students. Drawing from research, experience, and real school success stories, Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind reveals * Smart, purposeful engagement strategies that all teachers can use to expand students' cognitive capacity, increase motivation and effort, and build deep, enduring understanding of content. * The (until-now) unwritten rules for engagement that are essential for increasing student achievement. * How automating engagement in the classroom can help teachers use instructional time more effectively and empower students to take ownership of their learning. * Steps you can take to create an exciting yet realistic implementation plan. Too many of our most vulnerable students are tuning out and dropping out because of our failure to engage them. It's time to set the bar higher. Until we make school the best part of every student's day, we will struggle with attendance, achievement, and graduation rates. This timely resource will help you take immediate action to revitalize and enrich your practice so that all your students may thrive in school and beyond.
