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Jeffery Clark Arnott – ProQuest LLC, 2021
In this qualitative study, adult students placed in an eight-week, closed-cohort GED preparation program were introduced to blended learning while attending in-person instruction five days a week during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants had the opportunity to receive their curriculum in a blended format, which provided some convenience for the…
Descriptors: Adult Students, High School Equivalency Programs, Test Preparation, Blended Learning
Little-Hunt, Catherine Cecchini – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Increasing numbers of Florida parents are withdrawing their children from traditional public schools in highly-rated school districts to enroll them in tuition-free, startup, charter schools. Since not all parents have equal access or are as equally motivated to elect school choice alternatives, the fiscal sustainability of the traditional public…
Descriptors: School Choice, Feedback (Response), Educational Policy, Case Studies
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Silva, Kassondra M.; Spinrad, Tracy L.; Eisenberg, Nancy; Sulik, Michael J.; Valiente, Carlos; Huerta, Snjezana; Edwards, Alison; Eggum, Natalie D.; Kupfer, Anne S.; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Phillips, Beth M.; Wilson, Shauna B.; Clancy-Menchetti, Jeanine; Landry, Susan H.; Swank, Paul R.; Assel, Michael A.; Taylor, Heather B. – Early Education and Development, 2011
Research Findings: The purpose of this study was to examine the relations of children's effortful control and quality of relationships with teachers to school attitudes longitudinally in an ethnically diverse and economically disadvantaged sample. Data were collected as part of a larger intervention project during mid-fall, winter, and late spring…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, School Attitudes, Low Income, Structural Equation Models
Froman, Terry – Research Services, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, 2009
Each school year, the School Climate Survey is administered to gather information on the perceptions that students, their parents, and school staffs hold concerning their schools and their performance. In 2008-2009, the survey was distributed to approximately 90,200 parents, 54,200 elementary, secondary, and adult students, and 25,000 staff. In…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Public Schools, School Attitudes, Parent Surveys
Hedges, William D. – 1980
This is a study of the attitudes toward education of three groups of people associated with 40 Florida high schools (parents, teachers, and students). The purpose was to examine differences in attitudes towards the high school education of their children between and among the three groups. The thesis was that the two populations would evidence…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Measures, High Achievement, High Schools
EPIC, Inc., Tallahassee, FL. – 1977
Designed for use with elementary students, this booklet contains four instruments developed and validated by the Educational Progress in Careers (EPIC) project to evaluate career, economic, and community education programs in Florida schools. The instruments included in the document are: Attitudes Toward School and Careers; Worker Titles; Workers…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Education, Economics Education
EPIC, Inc., Tallahassee, FL. – 1977
Designed for use with senior high students, this booklet contains fourteen instruments developed and validated by the Educational Progress in Careers (EPIC) project to evaluate career, economic, and community education programs in Florida Schools. The instruments included in this document are: Attitudes toward School; Worker Titles; Education and…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Planning, Community Education
EPIC, Inc., Tallahassee, FL. – 1977
Designed for use with middle and junior high school students, this booklet contains ten instruments developed and validated by the Educational Progress in Careers (EPIC) project to evaluate career, economic, and community education programs in Florida schools. The instruments included in this document are Attitudes Toward School; Worker Titles;…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Planning, Community Education
Damico, Sandra – 1974
The primary objective of this study was to determine whether a student's participation in a particular friendship group within his high school class had any relationship to his academic performance, his self-concept as learner, or his perception of his school environment and the other students in it. The class of 1975 at the P. K. Yonge Laboratory…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Attitudes, Friendship, Group Status
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Eitle, Tamela McNulty; Eitle, David James – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2007
Research indicates that lower levels of school commitment may be one potential outcome of policy initiatives such as high-stakes testing and exit exams. Such outcomes may lead these policy initiatives to have unintended consequences for students, particularly racial or ethnic minority students. This study examines whether race or ethnicity…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Racial Factors, Racial Differences, Drinking
Waltz, Freddie C.; Beeman, Carl E. – 1984
To address the issues of student recruitment and retention in Florida, a three-year research study was conducted. The three phases of the study sought the following: (1) to describe barriers to recruitment and retention of disadvantaged, unemployed, underemployed, out-of-school youth as perceived by students, teachers, counselors, and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Administrator Attitudes, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropout Prevention
Foster, Garrett R. – 1970
The overall educational strategy used by the Nova High School of Broward County was to use all of the major educational innovations, such as team teaching, individualized instruction, and flexible student grouping, which had been developed and tested in separate schools during the 1960's. Since the Nova Plan is essentially a trial combination of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Facilities, Educational Facilities Design, Educational Innovation
Norwood, Marcella M., Ed. – 1993
This conference provided a forum for presenting research findings to educators and other audiences interested in marketing education. The following papers were presented: "Issues and Trends in Wisconsin Marketing Education" (Searle); "Competencies Necessary for Student Teachers" (Littman); "A Report of a Study of More than…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Curriculum Development, Distributive Education, Distributive Education Teachers