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Alem Amsalu; Sintayehu Belay – SAGE Open, 2024
The main goal of the current paper was to determine the effects of perceived school climate dimensions (leadership, relationships, professional learning-teaching climate, safety, and physical environment) on students' learning performance in upper primary schools. Correlational design consisted of structural equation modeling with mediation…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Structural Equation Models, Elementary School Students
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af Ursin, Piia; Järvinen, Tero; Pihlaja, Päivi – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2021
School engagement is critical to learning and long-term academic success. Feeling overwhelmed with school demands form a threat to students' engagement. We examined the roles of person-internal (academic buoyancy) and person-external (social support) factors in mediating the association between academic stress and school engagement among primary…
Descriptors: Role, Social Support Groups, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement
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Chen, Chun; Yang, Chunyan; Chan, Meiki; Jimerson, Shane R. – School Psychology, 2020
To advance our scientific understanding about school climate and bullying victimization from the perspectives of both parents and cross-country comparisons, the present study examined the cross-country similarities and differences of the associations between overall school climate and 3 forms of bullying victimization between United States (U.S.;…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Bullying, Victims, Parent Attitudes
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Thien, Lei Mee – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2020
This study aims to assess the quality of school life as a second-order formative construct and provide empirical evidence for its measurement model. Data were collected from 1459 Malaysian Grade Five pupils. A partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) approach was used for data analysis. Findings supported that six reflective…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students, Grade 5
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In, Hyoyeon; Kim, Hyunhee; Carney, JoLynn V. – Psychology in the Schools, 2019
The present study examined the role of school connectedness in mediating the relations of social skills and school climate of diversity (SCD) to life satisfaction (LS) among school-aged children. This study also investigated whether there is any gender difference in relationships. Participants included 873 elementary school students in Grades 4…
Descriptors: Student School Relationship, Life Satisfaction, Interpersonal Competence, Student Diversity
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Magen-Nagar, Noga; Steinberger, Pnina – Learning Environments Research, 2017
An innovative learning environment is the current outcome of the constructivist approach, the essence of which is co-construction of knowledge in an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) environment. We examined how Israeli students perceived 10 characteristics of their classroom learning environment--student cohesiveness, teacher…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Educational Innovation, Elementary School Students
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Benbenishty, Rami; Astor, Ron Avi; Roziner, Ilan; Wrabel, Stephani L. – Educational Researcher, 2016
The present study explores the causal link between school climate, school violence, and a school's general academic performance over time using a school-level, cross-lagged panel autoregressive modeling design. We hypothesized that reductions in school violence and climate improvement would lead to schools' overall improved academic performance.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Environment, Surveys, Violence
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Goddard, Yvonne; Goddard, Roger; Kim, Minjung – American Journal of Education, 2015
The purpose of this article is to investigate the relationship between school instructional climate and students' fifth-grade mathematics and reading achievement, with a particular emphasis on norms for practice consistent with differentiated instruction. Using data from a stratified random sample of Michigan elementary schools, we employed…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Grade 5, Elementary School Students
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Leighton, Jacqueline P.; Guo, Qi; Chu, Man-Wai; Tang, Wei – Educational Assessment, 2018
Assessment of student learning outcomes is often discussed in relation to curriculum, standards and even administration practices. However, assessment of learning outcomes is rarely discussed in light of students' socio-emotional contexts, which might help or hinder learning outcomes. For example, do students' perceptions of the teacher as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Academic Achievement, Structural Equation Models, Well Being
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Freeman, Ruth; Gibson, Barry; Humphris, Gerry; Leonard, Helen; Yuan, Siyang; Whelton, Helen – Health Education Journal, 2016
Objective: To use a model of health learning to examine the role of health-learning capacity and the effect of a school-based oral health education intervention (Winning Smiles) on the health outcome, child oral health-related quality of life (COHRQoL). Setting: Primary schools, high social deprivation, Ireland/Northern Ireland. Design: Cluster…
Descriptors: Health Education, Role, Intervention, Dental Health
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Lui, Ming; Yang, Lan; Sin, Kuen-Fung – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2017
Students with special educational needs (SEN) are at an elevated risk of psychological and behavioural dysfunctions. In this study, we conducted a survey of parents of students with SEN in Hong Kong to examine the impact of two school practices--learning support and school climate--on the psychological and behavioural functioning (PBF) of students…
Descriptors: Special Needs Students, Educational Practices, Parent Attitudes, Educational Environment
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Winheller, Sandra; Hattie, John A.; Brown, Gavin T. L. – Learning Environments Research, 2013
This study used data from the Assessment Tools for Teaching and Learning project, which involved data on the academic performance of more than 90,000 New Zealand students in six subjects (i.e. reading, writing and mathematics in two languages). Two sub-samples of this dataset were included for detailed re-analysis to test the general applicability…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models, Mathematics Achievement, Teacher Effectiveness
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Kyriakides, Leonidas; Creemers, Bert P. M. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012
School policy on teaching and the school learning environment (SLE) are the main school factors of the dynamic model of educational effectiveness (Creemers & Kyriakides, 2008). A longitudinal study in which 50 primary schools, 108 classes, and 2369 students participated generated evidence supporting the validity of the dynamic model. This…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Mathematics Achievement, Program Effectiveness, Educational Environment
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Swanson, Jodi; Valiente, Carlos; Lemery-Chalfant, Kathryn – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
Components of the home environment are associated with children's academic functioning. The accumulation of risks in the home are expected to prove more detrimental to achievement than any one risk alone, but the processes accounting for this relation are unclear. Using an index of cumulative home risk (CHR) inclusive of protective factors, as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Risk Assessment, Family Environment
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Chen, Shin-Feng; Lin, Chien-Yu; Wang, Jing-Ru; Lin, Sheau-Wen; Kao, Huey-Lien – International Journal of Science Education, 2012
This study aimed to examine whether the relationships among family resources, school climate, learning participation, science attitude, and science achievement are different between primary school students and junior high school students within one educational system. The subjects included 4,181 Grade 4 students and 5,074 Grade 8 students who…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Science Achievement, School Activities, Context Effect
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