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An Empirical Investigation of Factors Contributing to Item Nonresponse in Self-Reported Bullying Instruments
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Bulut, Okan; Xiao, Jiaying; Rodriguez, Michael C.; Gorgun, Guher – Journal of School Violence, 2020
Researchers often use self-reported instruments to collect data from students when investigating the causes and effects of bullying. When completing the instrument, students may skip items despite anonymous data collection. To interpret data accurately, researchers must identify the causes of nonresponse. This study examined the impact of item…
Descriptors: Bullying, Responses, Student Behavior, Grade 8
Sex-Based Harassment in the United States' K-12 Schools: Rates and Predictors of Allegations, Student Reporting, and Student Discipline
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Richards, Tara N.; Holland, Kathryn; Kafonek, Katherine; Navarro, Jordana – Journal of School Violence, 2021
Title IX prohibits sex-based harassment (SBH) in all federally funded educational activities, yet little is known about SBH in K-12 schools. We used the Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) data (N = 96,440) to examine rates and school-, district-, and state-level predictors of SBH in K-12 schools. Results found the vast majority of schools had…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Attitudes
Pre-Service Teachers' Intention to Use MUVEs as Practitioners--A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
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Fokides, Emmanuel – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2017
Aim/Purpose: The study examines the effectiveness of university courses in shaping preservice teachers' intention to use 3D multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) when they become practicing teachers. Background: Four variables (perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, self-efficacy, and attitude toward use), as well as behavioral intention…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Intention, Preservice Teachers, Virtual Classrooms
Relationship between Leadership Styles of School Principals and Whistleblowing Behaviors of Teachers
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Erturk, Abbas; Donmez, Emrah – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This study aims to determine the relationship between leadership styles of school principals and whistle blowing behaviors of teachers. The sample of this study, which is designed in the relational survey model, consists of 393 teachers working in primary, secondary and high schools in the province of Mugla. The data were collected through…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Principals, Work Environment, Teacher Behavior
To Tell or Not to Tell: What Influences Children's Decisions to Report Bullying to Their Teachers?
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Cortes, Khaerannisa I.; Kochenderfer-Ladd, Becky – School Psychology Quarterly, 2014
Teachers are the primary agents for creating and maintaining a positive classroom climate--and promoting healthy interpersonal relations with, and among, their students (including the prevention of school bullying) is key to achieving this goal. For this study it was posited that students' willingness to report bullying to their teachers is an…
Descriptors: Influences, Attribution Theory, Bullying, Teacher Student Relationship
Friends' Responses to Children's Disclosure of an Achievement-Related Success: An Observational Study
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Altermatt, Ellen Rydell; Ivers, Ivy E. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2011
This study examined social support processes in the context of positive events. The conversations of fourth-grade through sixth-grade focal children and their friends (N = 116) were observed after focal children outperformed their friend on an achievement-related task. Changes in focal children's performance-related positive affect from…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Friendship, Student Adjustment, Self Disclosure (Individuals)