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Ramsey, Eric Wayne – ProQuest LLC, 2015
This study involved a mixed design to generate the perceptions of students and teachers about failing ninth-grade students and the impact of learning resources. The participants in this study were a purposive selection of ninth-grade students and ninth-grade teachers in one Missouri school district. The conceptual framework of this study was based…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Grade 9
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Ncontsa, Vusumzi Nelson; Shumba, Almon – South African Journal of Education, 2013
We sought to investigate the nature, causes and effects of school violence in four South African high schools. A purposive sample of five principals, 80 learners and 20 educators was selected from the four schools used in the study. A sequential mixed method approach was used in this study; both questionnaires and interviews were used. The design…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Etiology, Cognitive Mapping, School Safety
Moyer, Gary S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this research study was to increase the understanding of the state of discipline of a suburban high school by interrogating the factors that affect the perception held by the school's various stakeholders. The stakeholders in this study consisted of those individuals who have the responsibility for the formation of the school's…
Descriptors: Suburban Schools, High Schools, Attitude Measures, Stakeholders
DeGarmo, John Nelson – ProQuest LLC, 2012
As more children are placed under foster care, schools often have difficulty in responding to newly placed foster teens. Foster teens often exhibit both academic and behavioral adjustment issues, leading to disciplinary problems and high failure, and dropout rates. Attachment theory related to placement disruptions, school performance and…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Placement, Foster Care, School Districts
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Gregory, Anne; Ripski, Michael B. – School Psychology Review, 2008
Cooperative behavior is important for well-functioning high school classrooms in which students trust their teachers and actively engage in academic tasks. Yet, discipline referrals for disruption and defiance are all too common and can result in lost instructional time and increased teacher stress. As such, more needs to be understood about…
Descriptors: High School Students, Discipline Problems, Discipline, Trust (Psychology)
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Kim, Jeong-Hee – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2006
This article is a study of conflicting voices inside an alternative high school in Arizona. Voices of alternative schools are, quite often, not included in the discourse of curriculum reform even though the number of alternative schools is growing every year. Bakhtinian novelness of polyphony, chronotope, and carnival are incorporated into an…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Nontraditional Education, Personal Narratives, Accountability