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Evaluating the Impact of Homogeneous Classrooms on the Persistence of Heterogeneous Academic Achievers: Implications for Developing Effective Support Systems
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de Guzman, Florentino I.; Balmeo, Marshelle G. – Online Submission, 2023
This study aimed to determine the factors that affected the diminishing persistence of heterogeneous academic achievers when induced in homogeneous classes as a basis for developing a support system to address the situation. This study identified the common hindrances the heterogeneous academic achievers encountered as they were brought to a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Homogeneous Grouping, Peer Influence
Mobility and Belonging -- A Case from Provincial Denmark
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Gulløv, John; Gulløv, Eva – Journal of Pedagogy, 2020
Young people in rural areas are gradually convinced that they have to leave their homes for education. They move, and hereby amplify the problem of local economic and demographic decline. The article explores the role of education as well as the social dynamics behind this process in a minor community in Denmark. Drawing on children and young…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Educational Attainment, Student Mobility, Educational Opportunities
What is Recognised as Ability in Physical Education? A Systematic Appraisal of How Ability and Ability Differences Are Socially Constructed within Mainstream Secondary School Physical Education
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Wilkinson, Shaun; Littlefair, David; Barlow-Meade, Linda – European Physical Education Review, 2013
In sport, schools and physical education (PE) ability has invariably been understood as an inherent and relatively immutable capacity, amendable to varying degrees by interventions such as training regimes and education. Differences in achievement are assumed to be an inevitable consequence of natural variations in ability and an indication of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Ability, Student Attitudes
Exploring the Social-Ecological Determinants of Physical Fighting in U.S. Schools: What about Youth in Immigrant Families?
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Hong, Jun Sung; Merrin, Gabriel J.; Peguero, Anthony A.; Gonzalez-Prendes, A. Antonio; Lee, Na Youn – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2016
Background: Despite the growing presence of immigrant families in the US, little is known about physical fighting in school among youth from those families. Objective: The present study examines the social-ecological determinants of school physical fighting among youth in immigrant families. Implications for practice are also discussed. Method:…
Descriptors: Violence, Aggression, Social Influences, Ecological Factors