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El Zaatari, Wafaa; Maalouf, Imad – SAGE Open, 2022
The central concept of this review underscores the fact that the development of a feeling of belonging at school occurs because of different interactions between developing students and the school's ecological environment over time. This review argues that Bronfenbrenner's Bio-ecological Systems Theory can best explain the development of school…
Descriptors: Systems Approach, Student School Relationship, Student Adjustment, Student Role
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Nisle, Stephanie; Anyon, Yolanda – Applied Developmental Science, 2023
This study explores the association between school-level poverty rates and young peoples' perceptions of student empowerment, drawing on survey and administrative data from a large urban district. Participants included 29,318 diverse youth in grades 6-12 from 211 schools. We used multilevel linear regression models to estimate the relationships…
Descriptors: Poverty, Secondary School Students, Urban Schools, Student Attitudes
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Rowley, Rochelle L.; Wright, David W. – Journal of Negro Education, 2011
Racial inequality in education is a serious problem in the United States. The latest government attempt to address this problem was the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). This study used the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002 (ELS: 2002) to examine the relationship between race and composite reading and math scores among Black and White…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, African American Students, Federal Legislation, Grade 10
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Brewer, Susan; Klein, James D. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2006
In this study, we investigated the effect of type of positive interdependence (roles, rewards, roles-plus-rewards, or no structure) and affiliation motives (high vs. low) in an asynchronous, collaborative learning environment. College reentry students worked together in small, fully online discussion groups that lasted for seven days. Results…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Discussion Groups, Cooperative Learning, Correlation