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Plank, Stephen B.; Bradshaw, Catherine P.; Young, Hollie – American Journal of Education, 2009
This article considers school climate and perceptions of social disorder. When a school is characterized by disorder or physical risk, basic educational goals and processes are jeopardized. We use survey data from 33 public schools serving grades 6-8 in a large mid-Atlantic city to examine relationships among physical disorder (e.g., broken…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Public Schools, School Surveys, Urban Schools
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Chang, Lilian Ya-Hui – System: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics, 2007
This study explores how group processes, such as group cohesiveness and group norms, influence an individual EFL learner's autonomy--their autonomous beliefs and actual autonomous behaviors. Questionnaires were administered to 152 Taiwanese university students from the English Department of a National Science and Technology University in southern…
Descriptors: Group Unity, Group Dynamics, English Departments, Foreign Countries