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An Examination of Relationships between Conditions of School Facilities and Teacher Satisfaction and Attributes in High Poverty Rural Schools
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Caffey, Arthur D. – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The study examined whether a relationship exist between teachers' perceptions of the quality of their school facility and their overall satisfaction and attitudes. The study also sought to determine whether perceptual differences between respondents based on gender, years of experience, or grade level taught. Respondents were teachers in rural…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Educational Facilities, Job Satisfaction, Gender Differences
An Exploration of Environmental Influences on Elementary School Attainment in Rural Guatemala
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England, Dawn Elizabeth – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Increasing elementary school attainment globally remains a key focus for improving internationally child development (UNESCO, 2010), and for girls in particular (UNICEF, 2015). This dissertation was designed to test and explore specific areas to target to improve educational attainment for rural indigenous communities using a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Elementary School Students, Environmental Influences
Educational Involvement among Immigrant and U.S.-Born Families: Antecedents, Trajectories, and Child Outcomes during Elementary School
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Sibley, Erin – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Family educational involvement is consistently and positively associated with child achievement, but little work has closely examined the involvement practices of families of color, particularly immigrant families. Utilizing data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort 1998-99 (ECLS-K), this study used Hierarchical Linear…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Immigrants, Minority Groups, Longitudinal Studies
A Longitudinal Case Study of a Literacy Program Titled Reading Recovery for Students in a Struggling Midwestern School District
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Ingrid Danielle McClendon – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study followed a cohort of students from Grade 1 to Grade 11 in one struggling school district that had Reading Recovery (RR) in the Grade 1. The RR program is an intervention given only to students in the Grade 1 who are reading below grade level on the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Assessment. The researched district had a high poverty, high…
Descriptors: Reading Programs, Reading Difficulties, School Districts, Grade 1