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Bannister, Nicole A. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation seeks to understand how teachers learn through interactions in newly formed workplace communities by examining how mathematics teachers engaged in equity-oriented reforms frame problems of practice. It examines how teachers' framings develop over time, and how teachers' shifting frames connect to their learning in a community of…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Student Problems, High School Students, Ethnography
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Burkett, Steven R.; White, Mervin – Urban Education, 1976
Examines various correlates of drinking consistent with the hypothesis that 'problem' drinking is frequently tied to withdrawal from the success stream through high school and involvement in patterns of peer rebellion in which physical aggression, immediate gratification, and peer loyalty are strongly emphasized; 545 male and 513 female senior…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Alcoholism, Drinking, High School Students
Kuntzelman, William P.; Camp, William L. – Ill Sch Res, 1969
Descriptors: Educational Environment, High School Students, Rating Scales, Rural Schools
Sokol, Alvin P.; Marshall, Jon C. – 1969
An investigation was conducted to determine the characteristics of independent (self-directing) students and those characteristics which differentiate independent from non-independent students. Each of the 35 teachers who had classroom contact with an 11th grade class of 525 was asked to name five students he felt best characterized…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Educational Environment, High School Students
Roseville Area School District 623, Minn. – 1975
The Focus program deals with those students who perform well below their capacity socially and/or academically. It has as its main goal to decrease the incidence of alienation among these youth, the staff, and the community. Sub-goals include the reduction of alienation and improvement of self-concept, an increased access to desirable social…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Group Dynamics, Group Unity, High School Students