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Relationship between Middle School Students' Innovative Thinking Tendencies and Entrepreneurial Skills
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Kiliçoglu, Gökçe; Yildirim, Damla – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2023
This study aims to determine the relationship between middle school students' innovative thinking tendencies and entrepreneurial skills and to identify the variables that predict entrepreneurial skill. To this end, the study used the correlational survey method. The study group consists of 274 5th-, 6th-, and 7th-graders studying in 3 middle…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Innovation, Cognitive Processes
Promoting Persistence: Peer Group Influences on Students' Re-Engagement Following Academic Problems and Setbacks
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Vollet, Justin W.; Kindermann, Thomas A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
This study examined the role that peer groups play in shaping students' academic re-engagement across their first year in middle school and whether influences are stronger from peers with whom students remained affiliated over time. Data were collected on an entire cohort of 366 sixth graders (48% female) in a small town. Students reported on…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Peer Groups, Peer Influence, Learner Engagement
The Relationship between Teachers' Emotional Intelligence and Attrition Intention
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Murray, Ashley Anderson – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative, correlational study with a predictive design examined the extent the level of teachers' emotional intelligence was a predictor of retention indicated by 3 or more consecutive years in the same school district. The study sought to determine if teachers with three or more years of teaching experience contributed emotional…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Correlation, Emotional Intelligence, Predictor Variables
Burnout Experience of Teachers Serving Students with Emotional Behavioral Disorders in Grades PreK-8 within Non-Public Special Education Day Schools
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Hill, Kendra A. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This exploratory study examined the relationships between five predictor variables identified by the literature (age, years of special education teaching experience, level of emotional behavioral disorders (EBD) preparation, principal support, and principal feedback) and two higher order terms (age and years of special education teaching…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Fatigue (Biology), Day Schools, Teacher Burnout
Selected Nonmusic Predictors of Urban Students' Decisions to Enroll and Persist in Middle School Band Programs
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Kinney, Daryl W. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2010
The purpose of this study was to fit theoretical models of prediction to students' decisions to enroll and persist in urban middle school band programs using independent variables of academic achievement, socioeconomic status (SES), family structure, mobility, ethnicity, and gender. Two models were fitted to the data using logistic regression…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Academic Achievement, Musical Instruments, Music Education
The Effects of Depression and Stressful Life Events on the Development and Maintenance of Syndromal Social Anxiety: Sex and Age Differences
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Aune, Tore; Stiles, Tore C. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2009
This study assessed age and sex differences in the prevalence and incidence rates of syndromal social anxiety (SSA), as well as the predictive role of depressive symptoms and stressful life events on the development and persistence of SSA. A sample of 1,439 young people, between 11 and 14 years of age, was assessed twice within a 12-month…
Descriptors: Incidence, Persistence, Age Differences, Gender Differences