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Psychometric Properties of Characteristics of Teacher Professional Development Instrument
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Soine, Karen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This primary purpose of the study was to expand the work of Garet, Porter, Desimone, Birman, and Yoon (2001) by creating and psychometrically testing an instrument designed to measure teachers' perceptions of characteristics of professional development. Elementary teachers (n = 406) from five school districts in Washington State participating in a…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity, Factor Analysis
Enabling School Structure & Transformational School Leadership: Promoting Increased Organizational Citizenship and Professional Teacher Behavior
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Mitchell, Roxanne M. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2019
This study explored the relationships between enabling school structure (ESS), transformational leadership (TSL), organizational citizenship (OCB), and professional teacher behavior (PTB). Confirmatory factor analysis tested whether the theoretical dimensions of setting directions (SD), developing people (DP), redesigning the organization (RO),…
Descriptors: Transformational Leadership, Instructional Leadership, Structural Equation Models, Teacher Behavior
An Evaluation of a District Implemented K-4 Balanced Literacy Program
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Jordan, Jaretha L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Students who struggle to read on grade level by the end of third grade are less likely to make academic progress and graduate before the age of 19. The district leaders in a suburban district in Texas were interested in determining the root cause of stagnant reading standardized test scores. After determining the root cause, a lack of a…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Literacy Education, School Districts, Suburban Schools
Physical Activity Intensity, Lesson Context, and Teacher Interactions during an Unstructured Afterschool Physical Activity Program
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Behrens, Timothy K.; Miller, Daniel J.; Schuna, John M.; Liebert, Mina L. – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: Afterschool programs are promising arenas to improve youth physical activity (PA) levels. During the school year for 2012-2013, 5 elementary schools from a low-socioeconomic status (SES) school district in southern Colorado participated in evaluation of the afterschool program entitled Keep It Moving! (KIM). Methods: In this…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Physical Activities, Correlation, Physical Activity Level
Assessing the Efficacy of Outdoor Education on Campers' Perceptions of Environmental Stewardship, Civic Engagement, and College and Career Pathways
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Frame, Amy – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Given global threats to the continued functioning of ecosystem services that sustain us all, educators would be wise to embrace the task of redefining our individual and collective orientations to the natural world. Since the inception of the modern environmental education movement in the 1970's, outdoor education at residential camps has…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Environmental Education, Self Efficacy, Residential Programs
Real School Improvement: Is It in the Eye of the Beholder?
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Evans, Margaret Jean; Cowell, Naina – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2013
The outcomes of a school improvement programme were measured in 26 primary schools over one year. Authorised pupil and staff absences and staff turnover decreased, and unauthorised pupil absences significantly increased ("p" < 0.05). Fixed-term exclusions significantly decreased ("p" < 0.001). The self-esteem of 316…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Elementary Schools, Teacher Persistence, Self Esteem
Focus Points for School Health Promotion Improvements in Dutch Primary Schools
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Leurs, Mariken T. W.; Bessems, Kathelijne; Schaalma, Herman P.; de Vries, Hein – Health Education Research, 2007
To enable improvements in school health promotion, this paper examines associations between the number of health-promotion issues addressed by primary school teachers in the Netherlands and factors thought to influence this behavior. The main factors studied are context characteristics and constructs of attitude, social influence, self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Promotion, Self Efficacy, Social Influences