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Faber, David – Journal of Catholic Education, 2019
When the National Standards and Benchmarks for Effective Catholic Schools (NSBECS) were first developed, principal and superintendent of Catholic schools in the Diocese of Grand Rapids, Michigan, David Faber writes in this article of his elation at the possibilities for measuring quality and for addressing total school improvement that the…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Surveys, Strategic Planning, School Effectiveness
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Cornell, Dewey; Shukla, Kathan; Konold, Timothy – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
School climate is widely recognized as an important influence on peer victimization in schools. The purpose of this study is to examine how authoritative school climate theory provides a framework for conceptualizing 2 key features of school climate--disciplinary structure and student support--that are associated with 3 measures of peer…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Victims, Bullying, Peer Relationship
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Harrison, Lyn; Ollis, Debbie – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2015
This paper discusses pre-service teachers' responses to a critical analysis of gender/power relations using examples from a final assessment for an intensive elective unit called Teaching Sexuality in the Middle Years. This unit critically examines gender/power relations, the production of difference, heteronormativity and pleasure and desire,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Sexuality, Sex Education
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Liang, Guodong; Akiba, Motoko – Educational Policy, 2015
Using statewide longitudinal teacher survey data collected in 2009 and 2010, this study examined the characteristics of teacher evaluation used to determine performance-related pay (PRP), and the association between PRP and improvement in the practice of constructivist instruction. The study found that 10.9% of middle school mathematics teachers…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Teacher Evaluation, Merit Pay, Longitudinal Studies
Sakai, Kyohei; Shiota, Shingo; Eguchi, Kiyotaka – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
In conventional information moral education, lessons often focus only on trouble cases and perpetrators without examining the level of awareness among the parties involved. This is especially apparent among students who communicate over the Internet. For example, one student's perspective of writing ill on the Internet might greatly differ from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Junior High School Students, Workshops, Internet
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Kim, Sung Won; Brown, Kari-Elle; Kim, Edward J.; Fong, Vanessa L. – Comparative Education Review, 2018
This article examines how Chinese citizens perceived the relationship between wealth and achievement among their former middle school classmates. It draws on a survey of 503 respondents in their late twenties and early thirties (who have been followed since 1999, when they were eighth or ninth graders in Dalian City, China) and on interviews with…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Interviews, Urban Areas, Correlation
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Espelage, Dorothy L.; Hong, Jun Sung; Kim, Dong Ha; Nan, Luana – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2018
Background: Children's bullying involvement may arise from biases and deficiencies in social information processing, and it is important to consider cognitive and emotional aspects of bullying because social cognition is an important aspect of children's social skills and their ability to get along with others. It is also important to understand…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Empathy, Bullying
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Yuan, Kun; Engberg, John; Kaufman, Julia; Hamilton, Laura; Hill, Heather; Umland, Kristin; McCaffrey, Daniel – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2014
High-quality measures of instructional practice are essential for research and evaluation of innovative instructional policies and programs, as well as for providing feedback to teachers and administrators. In this study, the authors examined whether using anchoring vignettes in web-based surveys improved the validity of teachers' self-assessments…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), Mathematics Teachers, Vignettes, Online Surveys
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Bostic, Jonathan D. – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2016
Instruction promoting reasoning and proof should be a part of K-12 mathematics teaching. Preservice teachers (PSTs) need mathematics content instruction that helps them construct valid justifications for mathematical notions and develop positive perceptions of proof. This case study describes instruction with proof-related tasks and manipulatives…
Descriptors: Mathematical Logic, Validity, Mathematics Instruction, Case Studies
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Atalmis, Erkan Hasan; Yilmaz, Mustafa; Saatcioglu, Argun – Policy Futures in Education, 2016
Private tutoring refers to additional instruction out of school. With its determinants and effects, private tutoring has received increasing attention from scholars over the past decades. Because of the increasing role of school and high-stakes exams, the demand for private tutoring has increased tremendously in Turkey. The purpose of this study…
Descriptors: Tutoring, Socioeconomic Status, Mathematics Achievement, Correlation
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Snead, Donald; Burris, Kathleen G. – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to understand middle school teachers' perspectives on the role of homework. Approximately 118 middle school teachers volunteered to complete open-ended surveys describing their perceptions regarding the effectiveness of homework. Qualitative analysis revealed teachers identified several instructional and…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Homework, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Motivation
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Dhir, Amandeep; Chen, Sufen; Nieminen, Marko – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2017
The proliferation of Internet usage has motivated Internet researchers and practitioners to study possible gratifications underlying Internet use. Despite the fact that research examining Internet gratification is more than two decades old, no attempt has been made in the last decade to develop an instrument that has known reliability of scores…
Descriptors: Internet, Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Student Surveys
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Rawlings, Jared R.; Stoddard, Sarah A. – Research Studies in Music Education, 2017
Previous research suggests that students participating in school-based musical ensembles are more engaged in school and more likely to connect to their peers in school; however, researchers have not specifically investigated peer connectedness among adolescents in school-based music ensembles. The purpose of this study was to explore middle school…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Middle School Students, Music Education, Musical Instruments
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Shih, Shu-Shen – Journal of Educational Research, 2017
There is a shortage of studies that explore adolescents' academic procrastination. The author hence attempted to examine the mechanisms determining Taiwanese adolescent students' perfectionistic tendencies, time management, and academic procrastination. A total of 405 eighth-grade Taiwanese students completed a self-reported survey assessing their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Time Management, Personality Traits
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Hansen, Caitlin E.; Okoloko, Edirin; Ogunbajo, Adedotun; North, Anna; Niccolai, Linda M. – Journal of School Health, 2017
Background: Countries with high human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates have achieved this success largely through school-based vaccination. Using school-based health centers (SBHCs) in the United States, where HPV vaccine remains underutilized, could improve uptake. In this mixed-methods study, we examined acceptability, facilitators, and…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Immunization Programs, Microbiology, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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