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Elliott, Gregory; McCormick, John; Bhindi, Narottam – British Journal of Religious Education, 2019
Religious education in Australian Catholic High Schools is the raison d'etre for the Catholic education system and religious education teachers are critical to this mission. This paper offers a framework for investigating the self-efficacy of religious education teachers.We first describe the nature and context of religious education in Australian…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Catholic Schools, Self Efficacy, Foreign Countries
Edwards, TerCraig D. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This narrative inquiry explored how low-income first-generation college students who have participated in Upward Bound (UB) experienced their educational identity development (EID). Specifically, this thesis project uncovered how they described the role of UB in shaping their self-perceptions around educational achievement. The population studied…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Low Income Students, Identification (Psychology), Program Effectiveness
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Kuperminc, Gabriel P.; Darnell, Adam J.; Alvarez-Jimenez, Anabel – Journal of Adolescence, 2008
A path model based in a theory of social capital was tested with Latino middle school (n = 195, 58% female, average 13.8 years of age) and high school students (n = 129, 64% female, average 16.8 years of age). Most participants (77%) were immigrants (predominantly from Mexico). Questionnaires assessed student perceptions of parent involvement,…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Student Adjustment, Hispanic American Students, Middle School Students
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Close, Wendy; Solberg, Scott – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
This study used structural equation modeling to evaluate whether a combination of social cognitive and self-determination theories [Bandura, A. (1986). "Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory." Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall; Deci, E. L., & Ryan, R. M. (1987). The support of autonomy and the control of behavior.…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Ability, High School Students, Hispanic American Students