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Ozfidan, Burhan; Duman, John; Aydin, Hasan – Educational Studies, 2022
The purpose of the study is to examine the parents' perceptions of STEM-oriented public schools. The significance of study is to investigate whether any correlations were present among parental perception and ethnicity, linguistic, and income and educational background of parents. The parents from 13 different STEM-oriented schools in Texas state…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, STEM Education, Public Schools, Predictor Variables
Fetter, Sherri – ProQuest LLC, 2019
School choice is a current education reform effort that advances the idea that parents should be able to choose the best-fit school for their child rather than have a state or local school district assign a school based on residential address. The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of academic and nonacademic characteristics of…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Elementary School Students, Predictor Variables, Enrollment Influences
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Rojas, Raul; Iglesias, Aquiles – Child Development, 2013
Although the research literature regarding language growth trajectories is burgeoning, the shape and direction of English Language Learners' (ELLs) language growth trajectories are largely not known. This study used growth curve modeling to determine the shape of ELLs' language growth trajectories across 12,248 oral narrative language samples…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Spanish Speaking, Second Language Learning, Oral Language
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Hillman, George M. – Christian Higher Education, 2006
The problem of this study involved the identification of differences in leadership practices between master's-level students at Dallas Theological Seminary based on the independent variable of ministry leadership involvement. A total of 1,254 master's-level seminary students enrolled on the main campus of Dallas Seminary during the fall Semester…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Theological Education, Church Related Colleges, Catholic Schools