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Direct linkLemos, Marina S.; Gonçalves, Teresa; Cadima, Joana – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
The present study was particularly interested in identifying resilient trajectories of engagement, and analyzing their association with student's motivation, specifically, their perceived control. In a longitudinal study following 391 students across three measurement points, encompassing the transition from 9th to 10th grade (from basic to…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Secondary School Students, Locus of Control, Student Adjustment
Dooley, T. Price; Schreckhise, William D. – Youth & Society, 2016
This study evaluates the Youth Development Program (YDP), a component of the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA). We examine whether the YDP reduced dropout rates among youth in secondary schools in seven school districts in the impoverished Mississippi River Delta in southeast Arkansas. Initially, the program seems to have an impact. Students…
Descriptors: School Holding Power, Dropouts, Dropout Rate, Comparative Analysis
Guillory, John Daniel – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Teachers are in the perfect position to be an influential source of help to students with life and academic circumstances that inhibit them from staying on the path to graduation, but they often underestimate their role in helping students develop the resilience to do so. Re-engaging students in the learning process who are severely off the…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Correlation, Learner Engagement
Monachino, Kimberly S. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research study examined the impact of the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program on students' self-efficacy and academic achievement outcome measures at the middle and high school level. AVID is a college readiness system designed to prepare at-risk students in the fourth through 12th grade for college. The main focus of this…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, High School Students, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
Download full textCantrell, Susan C.; Carter, Janis C.; Rintamaa, Margaret – Collaborative Center for Literacy Development, 2012
This Striving Readers evaluation examined the impact of a targeted intervention for struggling adolescent readers in participating schools. This study was conducted in nine high schools in nine school districts serving large percentages of at-risk students in Kentucky. The targeted intervention for struggling readers was the Kentucky Cognitive…
Descriptors: Intervention, Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, At Risk Students
