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Good Practice in Secondary School Careers Programs: A Case Study of the Approach of One Inner City School
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Broadbent, Robyn; Cacciattolo, Marcelle; Papadopoulos, Theo – Education & Training, 2012
Purpose: Career programmes within secondary school curriculum can impact on a young person's sense of direction and meaning in life. The purpose of this paper is to report on an evaluation that was conducted in 2009 of the careers programmes in one secondary college in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Design/methodology/approach: The research…
Descriptors: Evidence, Urban Schools, Student Attitudes, Focus Groups
An Analysis of Teacher Perceptions of a Principal's Leadership Behaviors Associated with the Integration of a One-to-One Laptop Program for Students in a Parochial Secondary School
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Skevakis, Anthony – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this explanatory single-case case study (Yin, 2003) was to investigate teachers' perceptions of a principal's leadership behavior associated with the integration of a one-to-one laptop program in a parochial secondary school. The sample included the school principal and teachers who have had at least one year of teaching experience…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Teaching Experience, Leadership, Principals
Refining the Measurement of Exposure to Violence (ETV) in Urban Youth
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Brennan, Robert T.; Molnar, Beth E.; Earls, Felton – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
Correlational analysis, classical test theory, confirmatory factor analysis, and multilevel Rasch modeling were used to refine a measure of adolescents' exposure to violence (ETV). Interpersonal violence could be distinguished from other potentially traumatic events; it was also possible to distinguish three routes of exposure (victimization,…
Descriptors: Violence, Adolescents, Factor Analysis, Urban Youth