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Direct linkTiffany Capri Arnold – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The achievement gap has alluded school leaders for more than 50 years. Students living in poverty are continually at the bottom of every academic measure, specifically in mathematics. The COVID-19 closures have exacerbated the gap to a point where it will be noticeable for our entire lifetime. This study sought to enlighten educators on the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Poverty, Low Income Students, Self Efficacy
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Download full textKristen Carroll; Juliann Sergi McBrayer; Marlynn Griffin; Taylor Norman; Summer Pannell; Mary Josephine Carney – School Leadership Review, 2024
This study examined the perceptions of educators to determine if they felt that they were adequately prepared to teach in a high poverty school setting. The participants, educators from four school districts, completed a survey based on their perceptions of their own level of self-efficacy and preparedness to work in high poverty schools. The…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Poverty, Elementary Schools
Clarke-Midura, Jody; Sun, Chongning; Pantic, Katarina – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2020
In response to the need to broaden participation in computer science, we designed a summer camp to teach middle-school-aged youth to code apps with MIT App Inventor. For the past four summers, we have observed significant gains in youth's interest and self-efficacy in computer science, after attending our camps. The majority of these youth,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Middle School Students, Computer Science Education, Summer Programs
Sikes, Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine teacher perceptions on cyberbullying to determine the extent to which teachers feel confident in addressing cyberbullying in schools. Further, the study aimed to examine the factors that may have an impact on teacher self-efficacy. A total of 287 middle school teachers in the southeast completed an online…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Bullying
McKenna, Corey – Educational Renaissance, 2014
The purpose of this multi-case study was to discover the causes of low self-efficacy for math for a group of historically low-performing 7th grade students at a high-poverty urban middle school based upon Bandura's (1986) Social Cognitive Theory, specifically the concept of self-efficacy. Qualitative methods were used to collect data, including…
Descriptors: Mastery Learning, Middle School Students, Social Cognition, Self Efficacy
Kier, Meredith Weaver – ProQuest LLC, 2013
National efforts to interest students in STEM careers are intensifying around the globe, due to a shortage of professionals to fill the growing demands in these fields. Although some US studies find high interest in STEM in K-12 students, longitudinal studies show a decline in interest following middle school. Many students, particularly females…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Interests, Video Technology, Career Development
