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Raphael Aryee; Atia Alpha Alfa – Discover Education, 2025
Academic libraries are essential to teaching, learning, and national development, making adequate library resources crucial for academic institutions. This study examines how limited library resources, particularly recommended textbooks, affect library operations in Ghanaian public universities. Through semi-structured interviews with eleven…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Materials, Textbooks
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Gallagher, Kathleen; Valve, Lindsay; Rodricks, Dirk J. – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2023
This article explores the unexpected discovery of a significant divergence between the strong feelings of safety and belonging reported in a school and neighborhood safety survey, and the discursive, contradictory, and complex narratives about safety revealed by students' storytelling through theater and narratives shared with researchers in a…
Descriptors: School Safety, Neighborhoods, Foreign Countries, School Surveys
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Gomes, Hugo S.; Farrington, David P.; Krohn, Marvin D.; Maia, Ângela – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
Although research on sensitive topics has produced a large body of knowledge on how to improve the quality of self-reported data, little is known regarding the sensitivity of offending questions, and much less is known regarding how topic sensitivity is affected by recall periods. In this study, we developed a multi-dimensional assessment of item…
Descriptors: Self Disclosure (Individuals), Error of Measurement, Recall (Psychology), Crime
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Lamoreaux, Daniel; Sulkowski, Michael L. – Psychology in the Schools, 2020
In response to tragic school shootings, heightened attention has been devoted to making schools safer through the implementation of security features. However, excessive security measures have a negative impact on school climate, student functioning, and academic achievement. Therefore, there is a critical need to design schools that are safe and…
Descriptors: Crime, Prevention, School Safety, Educational Environment
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Irwin, Véronique; Wang, Ke; Cui, Jiashan; Thompson, Alexandra – National Center for Education Statistics, 2023
This is the 25th edition of Indicators of School Crime and Safety. This report provides summary statistics to inform the nation about current aspects of crime and safety in schools. This report does so by highlighting selected findings from 23 indicators on various school crime and safety topics. By synthesizing findings in this way, the report…
Descriptors: Crime, School Safety, Elementary Secondary Education, Violence
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Irwin, Véronique; Wang, Ke; Cui, Jiashan; Thompson, Alexandra – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
This is the 24th in a series of annual publications. Beginning with the 2020 edition, this report has been redesigned with the intention of increasing its usability for a wider audience. This report does so by highlighting selected findings from 23 indicators on various school crime and safety topics. It first examines different types of student…
Descriptors: Crime, School Safety, Elementary Secondary Education, Violence
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Paterson, Jim – Journal of College Admission, 2020
The pattern is familiar and frequent. The day following one of the chilling reports about a school shooting, Kristina Dooley's conversations with clients about college usually change at Estrela Consulting in Hudson, Ohio. The worries of the students and their parents bubble up. Rick Funk says his staff see a similar phenomenon among prospective…
Descriptors: School Safety, College Admission, Political Attitudes, Check Lists
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Garibay, Juan Carlos; Herrera, Felisha A.; Johnston-Guerrero, Marc P.; Garcia, Gina A. – Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Despite popular claims that the United States has reached a "post-racial" era--one in which race no longer matters for determining one's life chances--college students continue to have strong views toward whether or not racial discrimination is still a major problem in this country. Utilizing multilevel modeling on data merged from the…
Descriptors: Racial Attitudes, White Students, School Safety, Racial Discrimination
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Azhar, Sarwar Mehmood; Tashfeen, Rubeena; Khalid, Jaweria; Azhar, Tashfeen Mahmood – Journal of International Education in Business, 2019
Purpose: The Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2016 shows Pakistan as among the more corrupt nations in the world with a ranking of 117 among 176 countries surveyed. This situation raises concerns about members of the society and especially about the business communities. This paper aims to examine whether the tendency to corruption is also…
Descriptors: Ethics, Student Attitudes, Business Administration Education, Foreign Countries
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Uysal, Burcu; Stemmler, Mark; Weiss, Maren – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2019
Immigrant boys show higher rates of antisocial behaviour. However, results of previous studies showed some contradictory findings in terms of intercultural differences in antisocial behaviour. In our study, we used an intercultural comparison of antisocial behaviour based on two different definitions of migration status (nationality vs. migration…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Antisocial Behavior, Violence, Delinquency
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Sibanda, Rockie – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Literacy Association of South Africa, 2022
Background: In South Africa, developing criticality among learners is essential for their careers in school and outside school. However, knowledge and understanding of critical literacy within the schooling context is unclear, with only patchy guidance available for teachers. Objectives: An intervention project was set up to discover how community…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries, Critical Literacy
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Burns, Erin; Mann, Rebecca; Yanez, Christina – National Center for Education Statistics, 2022
The tables in this report include data from the 2019 School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). These tables show the extent to which students, ages 12 through 18, with different characteristics report being bullied, including estimates by student sex, race/ethnicity, grade, and household income. The U.S.…
Descriptors: Bullying, Crime, Victims, Comparative Analysis
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Irwin, Véronique; Wang, Ke; Cui, Jiashan; Zhang, Jizhi; Thompson, Alexandra – National Center for Education Statistics, 2021
This is the 23rd edition of Indicators of School Crime and Safety, a joint effort of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). This report provides summary statistics to inform the nation about current aspects of crime and safety in schools. This report covers a variety of topics on school…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, National Surveys, School Surveys, Crime
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Hollister, Brandon A.; Scalora, Mario J.; Hoff, Sarah M.; Hodges, Heath J.; Marquez, Allissa – Journal of School Violence, 2017
Campus violence prevention often includes proactively reducing crime through noticing and resolving concerning situations. Within these efforts, interventions aimed at enhancing reporting have been considered necessary. The current study explored several reporting influences on college students' responses to hypothetical and actual campus safety…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Risk, Violence, School Safety
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Bazezew, Arega; Neka, Mulugeta – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2017
Interpersonal conflict happens everywhere and at any time and is inherent in all societies. However, the methods of managing such conflict are quite different from one organisation to the other. The general objective of the study was to assess interpersonal conflicts and styles of managing conflicts among students at Bahir Dar University.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conflict, Interpersonal Relationship, Peer Relationship
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