Download or read book Impact of Two Freshman Academy Models on Student Engagement and Achievement in Rural East Tennessee Schools written by Nancy P. Rothery and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition from a public middle school to a public high school represents a pivotal point in the educational trajectory of a student. To combat freshman transition challenges, school district administrators created Freshman Academy models. This study examines the impact of two Freshman Academy models, isolated and school-within-a-school, on student achievement and engagement in a rural East Tennessee school district. The researcher examined 2013-2018 English I and Biology I end of course Tennessee Value Added Assessment System assessments and former 2018-2019 Freshman Academy student survey responses of the Student Engagement Instrument survey on peer student support and teacher student relationships. The researcher found that no statistical difference existed between the two Freshman Academy models on student achievement and engagement.

Download or read book A Quantitative Study Comparing Traditional High Schools and High Schools Implementing Freshman Academies in the State of Tennessee written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to compare 9th grade student achievement in Tennessee schools the year before and after the schools implemented a freshman academy, as well as compare such schools with traditional Tennessee high schools. The factors in this study that impact student achievement and serve as the dependent variables were attendance rates, number of credits earned, and suspensions for 9th graders. Data were obtained by various software programs used by the schools to enter, maintain, and retrieve student data. 2 x 2 ANOVAs were conducted to determine if there were differences in the mean attendance rates and mean number of credits earned among 9th graders based on the type of institution, the academic years prior to and following the implementation of the freshman academy approach, and the 2-way interaction between the type of institution and the academic year. Crosstabulated tables and chi-square tests were used to determine if there was a relationship between suspensions prior to the academic year the Freshman Academy was implemented and the academic year following its implementation. The 2 x 2 ANOVAs conducted using Freshman Academy A and Traditional High School C indicated there was a significant difference in mean attendance rates and mean number of credits earned. Mean attendance rates and mean number of credits earned were higher at Freshman Academy A once the academy approach was implemented. The 2 x 2 ANOVAs conducted using Freshman Academy B and Traditional High School D indicated there was no significant difference in mean attendance rates and mean number of credits earned once the academy approach was implemented. Two-by-two crosstabulated tables and chi-square tests were used to determine if there was a relationship between suspensions at the Freshman Academy high schools (A & B) for years prior to and following implementation of the academy approach. The analysis of the data indicated there was a significant difference in the number of stude.

Download or read book The Impact of a Freshman Academy Small Learning Community on Student Achievement and Engagement written by Christopher M. Fulco and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Comparison of the Impact of A Freshman Experience Program Provided for College Bound High School Students Versus A Freshman Experience Program Completed as College Freshmen written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over two thirds of high school graduates going on to pursue postsecondary options after high school and over one fourth at 4-year institutions and nearly half at 2-year schools never reaching their sophomore year, it is evident that the transition from high school to college is a broken one for many students. There has been a nationwide call to redefine the senior year of high school and rethink the transition from secondary to postsecondary education. Aligned with this plea, Walters State Community College began an initiative, the Freshman Experience program, to ease some of the strains associated with the transition process and, in 1993, began offering this course to high school seniors. The program was expanded and offered to seniors at 23 high schools in a rural 10-county service delivery area in East Tennessee. The purpose of this study was to determine whether students who completed a freshman experience course while still in high school engaged in more actions that positively impact retention than did those who had not had such a course prior to college enrollment. The study included 1,391 students, 550 who completed the course at the high school level and 841 who completed the course during their 1st semester of college enrollment. Chi-square analysis of the data was conducted to investigate 6 variables. The major findings were that high school freshman experience completers (a) made application for college earlier, (b) earned significantly more advanced studies credits, (c) had significantly fewer absences during their 1st semester of college, (d) had significantly fewer course withdrawals, (e) had significantly fewer course failures, and (f) had significantly higher cumulative GPAs at the end of the 1st semester than did the postsecondary program completers. Based on the findings of this study, the implementation of a freshman experience course or similar program serves to positively impact the transition of high school seniors to the postsecondary en.

Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Exploring a Rural School District s Freshman Academy Program Through Parent and Staff Member Perspectives written by Dustin G. Morehead and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Impact of Freshman Academy Experiences on Student Academic Intrinsic Motivation written by Shirley C. Sealy and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation was designed to explore the transition of a group of ninth-grade students into a large rural upstate South Carolina high school. The primary focus was to ascertain the students' levels of academic intrinsic motivation toward English, math, science, history, and their general orientation toward school learning, and to explore those freshman academy experiences that the students felt most directly impacted these attributes. The freshman academy at this school was implemented in 2006 as a district initiative to strengthen the transition to high school and ultimately increase the graduation rate. -- This was a mixed methods case study in which the researcher sought to gain insight into the students' academic intrinsic motivation toward subject areas as well as their general motivational orientation. Data were measured quantitatively by administering the Children's Academic Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (CAIMI) to a group of current ninth graders enrolled in the freshman academy at a South Carolina high school. -- The students' scale scores on the CAIMI measured their levels of motivation across five subscales--English, math, science, history, and general orientation toward school learning. Qualitatively, the researcher conducted three student focus groups, four teacher interviews (one teacher from each of the four subject areas), and an administrator interview with the assistant principal in charge of the freshman academy. Additionally, the researcher conducted a review of the written descriptions of the freshman academy. -- The results from this study led the researcher to conclude that the students, teachers, and administrator perceived the overall impacts of the freshman academy on ninth-grade transition as positive and supportive, thus easing the transitional challenges of its students from middle school to high school. All participant categories perceived the academy's structure and program design to have diminished the possible deleterious effects of the academic, procedural, and social challenges experienced by the students as they transitioned to high school. All participant categories perceived the teachers to be primary motivational sources for their students. Students indicated that, although this impact had been mostly positive for them as learners, in some cases, the teachers' impact had been to decrease their desire to learn. CAIMI subscale scores were low in all four subject areas, as well as toward school learning in general. This indicated a possible disconnect between what the teachers did to motivate their students to learn, and what the students perceived as motivating. The researcher's recommendations were for the school to assess the motivation levels of their incoming freshmen and to use this data to guide them in design and implementation of their instructional programs and schedules. In addition, the school should develop and implement professional development on intrinsic motivation theory and practical implications for the classroom teachers.

Download or read book Exploring the Relationship Between the Freshman Academy Environment and Academic Achievement and Resilience written by Taneesha George and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student success or failure during the transition to high school is an accurate predictor of student success beyond the ninth grade. In an attempt to support students during this transition, many schools across the nation have implemented small learning communities called freshman academies to bridge the apparent gap in achievement between middle and high school. Research has linked freshman academies and ninth grade success in terms of test scores (Styron & Peasant, 2010). There is, however, little empirical research that examines the success of freshman academy students in terms of promoting resilience and other factors during this time of risk. Therefore, this correlational study tested the resilience and stage-environment fit theories by exploring the relationship between student perceptions of the freshman academy environment and student resilience in terms of academic achievement (grade point average), socio-emotional adjustment, and school confidence. Each of the research hypotheses was analyzed using Spearman's rho to relate students' perceptions of the freshman academy to each of the criterion variables. The research failed to reject the first null hypothesis, as there was not a statistically significant correlation between school environment and academic achievement. However, the research rejected the last two null hypotheses, proving that there was in fact a statistically significant correlation between school environment and perceived socio-emotional adjustment and school confidence. The researcher concluded that freshman academy success is linked more to the social aspects of the high school transition than to the academic aspects.

Download or read book Examining the Effectiveness of Freshman Academy at a Middle Tennessee High School written by Sherrie Marie Woods and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzed Freshman Academy at a Middle Tennessee high school. The purpose of this study was to explore the effectiveness of Freshman Academy as an intervention program so leaders can determine if the resources being spent on the Freshman Academy in the country have positively impacted the areas of student achievement, attendance, and discipline as measured by attendance rates, numbers of discipline referrals, and numbers of students retained for male and female students of both the majority race and minority races enrolled in the program their first year of high school.

Download or read book The Effects of a Freshman Academy Program on Student Achievement written by Wendy B. McClain and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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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 Impact of Freshman Academy on the Different Genders written by Greg Broadbent and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was competed to find if there is a significant difference in the impact that the use of a Freshman Academy has on the outcomes of each gender. The use of the Freshman Academy was meant to help at risk students to gain a better chance at getting back on grade level and back on track academically. Findings of this study show that in the thirty-eight students that were enrolled in the Freshman Academy at the high school only fifteen percent of students showed an increase in their grade from Freshman Academy English to English Language Arts II. Within that percentage there is a disparity between the amount of growth between girls and boys. Girls grew at seven percent while boys had a growth rate of eight percent. The growth percentage is very close, however the maintaining the passing grade is where you see the larges difference between the two genders. Girls maintained their grade between Freshman Academy English and English Language Arts II at a thirty-four percent, while the boys managed only four percent. It is clear that there is a difference between the effectiveness of the Freshman Academy when it comes to gender. Girls are maintaining, and improving their grades at a better percentage than boys.

Download or read book The Association of Tennessee Promise and Post secondary Trends in One Rural East Tennessee High School written by Kristi C. Windsor and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the introduction of TN Promise, a last dollar scholarship providing two years of college tuition free to Tennessee students, the effects of the post secondary initiative on college enrollment must be examined. This researcher performed a quantitative, descriptive analysis to study the effects of TN Promise on one rural high school in East Tennessee. A total of 422 students were included in the study. The researcher identified characteristics of post secondary enrollees through the use of quantitative data from a National Student Clearinghouse database. This researcher performed a descriptive analysis on the results of a high school opinion survey to identify prevalent trends. The research revealed more female than male TN Promise recipients enrolled in college in 2017—after TN Promise—than in 2014—before TN Promise. The researcher also found the number of economically disadvantaged TN Promise recipients enrolling in college increased from 2014 to 2017. Additionally, the researcher concluded there was a decrease in the percentage of students enrolling in college with a GPA of less than 3.0 between 2014 and 2017.

Download or read book Effects of the Freshman Academy written by Ulrica Paremore Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Comparison of a Traditional Freshman Class with a Freshman Academy in Selected Schools written by Carol Sue Hendrix and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to determine if a small learning community, specifically a Freshman Academy, was statistically significantly difference than a traditional freshman class without a Freshman Academy. Two hundred and eight students in the DeKalb County High School traditional freshman class and 413 students in the Sevier County High school Freshman Academy participated in the study during the 2005-2006 school year. Data were analyzed using the unpaired t test, Mann-Whitney U and Chi Square Test at the .05 level of significance. Statistically significant differences in grade point average were found for students of high socioeconomic status; Algebra I Gateway scores for females, males, Caucasians, students of high socioeconomic status and students of low socioeconomic status; core credits earned in students of high socioeconomic status; attendance in females; and discipline referrals in males and students of low socioeconomic status. No statistically significant differences were found in credits earned and promotion rate. It was recommended that (1) Freshman Academies should be implemented across the state; (2) Professional development should be conducted for all administrators and teachers prior to the implementation of the Freshman Academy; (3) Summer transition programs for at-risk students should be developed; (4) Before and after school remedial and enrichment programs should be developed; (5) Replication of the study should be conducted in both rural and urban areas in different parts of the United States; (6) DeKalb County High School should implement a Freshman Academy during the 2007-2008 school year; and (7) Longitudinal studies should be developed to determine the sustained effects of a Freshman Academy.

Download or read book Freshman Year Programming and Its Impact on High School Graduation Rate written by Janis L. Ulicny and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much research has been conducted to indicate that the freshman year of high school has an impact on a student's potential graduation from high school. Existing literature reveals that through the evolution of education in the United States, schools have been forced to place a strong emphasis on graduation. Many factors, including academic success, socioeconomic status, race, and gender, can impact a student's likelihood of graduating on time. This study looks at the importance of the freshman year of high school programming -specifically two programs at a small urban high school in Northeast Ohio -and their influence on the graduation rate for three cohorts of students. Using a mixed-methods design, the researcher investigated the classes of 2019, 2020, and 2021. Through an examination of school surveyresults from 58 former students, and interviews with nine graduates, the quantitative and qualitative data indicated that the voluntary summer Freshman Academy (a one-day voluntary program) program and year-long required Freshman Advisory (a full-year mandatory course) course do have an impact on student success. For school districts looking to aid with the transition to high school, the results of this research can provide some ideas and suggestions for successful programming.