This study aims to examine the co-existing patterns of teachers' satisfaction with personal lives and online teaching, and the factors of these patterns during the pandemic. Self-report questionnaire was administered to 751 primary and secondary school teachers in China during the pandemic. Latent profile analysis and multiple logistic regression…

Indonesia's new literacy initiative, Gerakan Literasi Sekolah (GLS), focuses on developing literacy-rich school environments through a sequence of book engagements. As the locus of control in daily literacy activities (Lehman, 2007), teachers in Indonesia assume much of the responsibility for student literacy learning. Despite this expectation,…

Purpose: The main objective of this study was to gain insight into school-based speech-language pathologists' (SLPs') perspectives on and experiences with telepractice as a service delivery model at the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic. A better understanding of the facilitating and challenging factors that belie telepractice-based services…

Educational research on attitudes shows that both teaching and student learning are affected by the attitudes of the teacher. The aim of this study is to examine technology teachers' perceptions of and attitudes towards teaching technology in Swedish compulsory schools, focusing on teachers' perceived control. The following research question is…

We investigated the effects of stereotypical expectations regarding cultural diversity on teachers' feelings of burnout, stress, and self-efficacy beliefs. With an experimental design, we confronted teachers with fictitious schools that were either high or low in cultural diversity and assessed the teachers' feelings of burnout and self-efficacy…

While the teacher shortage is a national crisis, the manifestations of the shortage are felt most acutely at the local district level. The diversity of these micro-contexts often leads to disparities in the ways local school systems are served by large-scale initiatives. District leaders provide an important lens for understanding the localized…

This study focused on the extrinsic and intrinsic motivation levels of eighth grade students and its relationship with their mathematical achievement. The participants of the study included 6,829 students who took TIMSS in 2011 and 239 mathematics teachers. The data obtained from the student and teacher questionnaires that are included in the…

This report uses data drawn from the 2011-12 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS:12), administered by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in the U.S. Department of Education, to present an in-depth look at the career and technical education (CTE) teaching profession today. The purpose of this report is to provide policymakers and…

This report examines the short-term effects of the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) on students' non-cognitive skills and civic values. While a growing number of studies have evaluated K-12 school voucher programs along academic dimensions, few have focused on the development of non-cognitive skills and civic values. This study aims to address…

A study of 158 students reveals that the learning-disabled students perceive their locus of control to be significantly more external than do their non-disabled counterparts. (Author/MLF)

Self-concept and attributions made about academic successes and failures were compared in 46 students with learning disabilities and 47 normally achieving students (mean age 12 years). Attributions regarding internal versus external causes for successes and failures and stable (ability) versus unstable (effort) causes for failures did not…

Describes the complex context of language choice in schools in Cree communities on the east coast of James bay in Quebec before Cree was used as the language of instruction. Four important threads of concern were identified: locus of control, economies of scale, community visions of language and education, and the role of literacies. (Author/VWL)

Social scientists have only recently begun to explore students' conceptions of their world and the relationship of these conceptions to their success in school. In particular, investigators have found that students who perceive themselves to be more in control of their environment are more successful in school than are students who feel less in…

Administered Children's Depression Index to 304 elementary and secondary school students. Found that 21 percent of students reported mild to moderate levels and seven percent reported severe levels of depression. Females reported more overall depression than did males. Results suggest that females tend to internalize difficulties while males…

Evaluation of locus of control for academic achievement and correlated competencies in adaptive behavior with 17 blind or partially sighted children (ages 6-19 years) indicated that responsibility for positive intellectual achievement events correlated significantly with increased adaptive behavior scores. (Author/DB)