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Biernbaum, Mark A.; Lotyczewski, Bohdan S. – Online Submission, 2015
Bullying is an international public health problem that school climate could help prevent or promote. The present paper contains an analysis of an anonymous school climate survey, completed by 9554 students, in grades 5-12 (response rate 87%). Links in the literature between school climate and bullying lack specificity. We examined associations…
Descriptors: Bullying, Educational Environment, School Culture, Student Surveys
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Park, Jennifer; Chu, Hye-Eun; Martin, Sonya N. – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
Demographic trends in Korea indicate that the student population is becoming more diverse with regards to culture, ethnicity and language. These changes have implications for science classrooms where inquiry-based, student-centered activities require culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students to connect with their peers and successfully…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Elementary School Teachers
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Servoss, Timothy J.; Finn, Jeremy D. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2014
This study utilized school-level data from several combined national databases to address two questions regarding school security policy: (1) What are the school characteristics related to levels of security? (2) How does security relate to school suspension, dropout, and college attendance rates? Among the predictors of school security, having a…
Descriptors: School Security, School Policy, Institutional Characteristics, College Attendance
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Guzman, Michele R.; Calfa, Nicolina A.; Kerne, Valerie Van Horn; McCarthy, Christopher – Journal of School Counseling, 2013
The study investigated 227 school counselor's multicultural counseling competencies (MCC). MCC were measured with a self-report inventory, and with ratings of responses to short vignettes, designed to assess "demonstrated" competency. Results indicated that school counselor self-ratings did not predict demonstrated ratings of MCC. People…
Descriptors: School Counselors, School Counseling, Competence, Counseling Effectiveness
Byard, Sally L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study sought to determine if teachers' perceptions of trust and self-efficacy were related to school academic performance based on Ohio Achievement Assessment results for the 2009-10 school year in eight Midwestern public schools. Additionally, the study sought to determine if teacher trust and self-efficacy were related to one another. …
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Educational Strategies, Achievement Tests
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Chen, Chien-Hsien; She, Hsiao-Ching – Educational Technology & Society, 2012
This study reports the impact of Recurrent On-Line Synchronous Scientific Argumentation learning on 8th grade students' scientific argumentation ability and conceptual change involving physical science. The control group (N = 76) were recruited to receive conventional instruction whereas the experimental group (N = 74) received the Recurrent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Based Instruction, Scientific Concepts, Persuasive Discourse