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Physical Education Teacher Change: Initial Validation of the Teacher Change Questionnaire-Physical Education
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Kern, Ben D.; Graber, Kim C. – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2017
Program satisfaction, self-efficacy to change, and willingness to change, are dispositions that influence physical education teacher change. The study purpose was to validate an instrument measuring program satisfaction, self-efficacy to change, and willingness to change relative to teachers' likelihood to change. A 15-item Teacher Change…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Test Validity, Questionnaires, Self Efficacy
Emotional Support Consistency and Teacher-Child Relationships Forecast Social Competence and Problem Behaviors in Prekindergarten and Kindergarten
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Brock, Laura L.; Curby, Timothy W. – Early Education and Development, 2014
Teachers' ratings of conflict and closeness as well as observed emotional support are known predictors of children's social functioning. Consistency in emotional support represents an emerging line of research. The goal of the present study is to understand whether the relation between the consistency of teachers' emotional support and children's…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Teacher Student Relationship
Does Adolescents' Disclosure to their Parents Matter for their Academic Adjustment?
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Cheung, Cecilia S.-S.; Pomerantz, Eva M.; Dong, Wei – Child Development, 2013
The role of adolescents' disclosure to their parents in their academic adjustment was examined in a study of 825 American and Chinese adolescents (mean age = 12.73 years). Four times over the seventh and eighth grades, adolescents reported on their spontaneous disclosure of everyday activities to their parents, the quality of their relationships…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Parent Child Relationship, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Foreign Countries
Unpacking the Black Box of the Chicago School Readiness Project Intervention: The Mediating Roles of Teacher-Child Relationship Quality and Self-Regulation
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Jones, Stephanie M.; Bub, Kristen L.; Raver, C. Cybele – Early Education and Development, 2013
Research Findings: This study examines the theory of change of the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP), testing a sequence of theory-derived mediating mechanisms that include the quality of teacher-child relationships and children's self-regulation. The CSRP is a multicomponent teacher and classroom-focused intervention, and its…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, School Readiness, Self Control, Intervention
Principal Effects in Illinois: A Research Brief. Policy Research: IERC 2011-3
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White, Bradford R.; Bowers, Alex J. – Illinois Education Research Council, 2011
This report, the fourth in an IERC series on public school principals in Illinois, summarizes recent research on the characteristics associated with principal effectiveness and examines Illinois data on the relationship between principal characteristics, student proficiency, and teacher qualifications. In order to investigate the relationships…
Descriptors: Teacher Qualifications, Academic Achievement, Principals, Educational Policy
School Climate in Urban Elementary Schools: Its Role in Predicting Low-Income Children's Transition from Early Educational RCT to Kindergarten
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Lowenstein, Amy E.; Raver, C. Cybele; Jones, Stephanie M.; Zhai, Fuhua; Pess, Rachel A. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2011
Past research on school-level factors that predict children's development has focused largely on associations between a limited number of characteristics, such as school size and school resources, and children's academic achievement. Few studies take a more comprehensive look at the measurement of school climate or examine its relationship to…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Academic Achievement, Kindergarten, Individualized Education Programs