Chronic absenteeism has been a significant issue facing school districts since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic when nearly 30% of students were chronically absent from school (Hays, 2024). A substantial challenge that teachers face is trying to deliver high-quality instruction to students when a significant portion of those students are…

The study aimed to identify the theoretical frameworks of administrative empowerment and its level of reality, its faced obstacles and the components of the proposed perception of the reality for the administrators in Secondary schools for males in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the…

This report describes a program for increasing students' intrinsic motivation in an effort to increase academic achievement. The targeted population consisted of secondary level students in a middle to upper-middle class suburban area. The students of the targeted secondary level classes appeared to be disengaged from learning due to a lack of…

This study formulates a general semantics theory of societal cohesion, and tests the extent to which general semantics instruction in public schools can alter group attitudes in the directions suggested by the theory. The test instrument, which consists of measurable elements, rationality, acceptance of change, nonprejudice, and…

Reported is a study, using five instruments of varying objectivity, designed to measure the degree of quantitative analytic (QA) and non-quantitative analytic (NQA) nature in students. One hundred forty ninth-grade students in a semi-rural high school were administered these instruments by the researcher, and correlations were computed between…

This study examined the belief orientations related to drugs of selected adolescents. Drug use was considered a result of arrested belief orientation development. The sample consisted of 382 subjects (drug users) from secondary school level through college. Data were collected from the Conscience Orientation Test and the Balanced Three Factor Q…

Helping adolescents make successful career decisions has been the concern of the education system, with a variety of methods being tried over the years. A literature review indicated that there are a number of successful programs giving adolescents a good basis from which to make career choices. State and national levels contribute funding and…

A sample of fifteen short stories, taken from the universe of short stories in ten hard-cover literature anthologies, was investigated to determine which characteristics of fiction would be most appealing to a panel of ninth grade student judges. The responses of seventeen ninth grade student judges were recorded on fourteen rating scales…

To develop environmental education in Australia, a survey of tenth-grade students was undertaken. Thirty knowledge items and ten belief items were constructed. A panel of environmentalists and educators identified best responses for the knowledge items, and a common reference point, preservation of homo sapiens, for the belief items, so a…

This study examined in detail the success factors of guidance counselors in the College Discovery and Development Program in New York City. The writer attempted to approach the study of human dynamics and humanistic qualities on several levels: the philosophical, the psychological, the organizational, and the experiential. The program sought to…

The purposes of this study were: (1) to identify and state those behaviors which, in the opinion of various scientists and science educators as expressed in their written statements, might foster an understanding of science and a positive attitude toward science; and (2) to determine which scientific behaviors as exhibited by students in selected…

Reported is a study designed to investigate three cognitive style dimensions exhibited by third-, sixth-, and ninth-grade children as they viewed, categorized, and organized biological phenomena. Subproblems were related to the effects of the independent variables of grade, sex, and IQ on these cognitive style dimensions. A stratified random…

A narrative study was conducted of the visual models in two movies preferred by Chinese adolescents in two schools (n=152). The two movies studied were "Three Decisive Campaigns" (A Chinese Trilogy) and the American science fiction movie, "Jurassic Park." The modified approach from Bandura's modeling theory and film semiotics…

The verbal interaction of science inquiries in homogeneous and heterogeneous small groups was investigated in this study involving 106 students of chemistry from two schools in a large urban district. Films depicting chemical phenomena were presented. Students were then divided into small groups and asked to generate test hypotheses to explain the…

The extent to which juvenile delinquents differ significantly from non-delinquents and probationary-delinquent adolescents in terms of self-esteem and self-concept levels, attitudes toward school, levels of school achievement and failure was investigated. Male students between the ages of 14 and 16 attending three schools in two towns in British…