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Kagoiya, Patrick; Kagema, Njogu – Pedagogical Research, 2018
School discipline is a core indicator of school effectiveness. Learner management is crucial and educational researchers need to focus on factors leading to indiscipline in schools. Guided by Planned Behaviour Theory that explores on guidance, counseling and good classroom management the study used the survey research design to sample 91 teachers…
Descriptors: Discipline, Behavior Problems, Teacher Surveys, Teacher Attitudes
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Dache-Gerbino, Amalia; White, Julie A. – Community College Review, 2016
Objective: This study illustrates how external factors of urban and suburban racializations contribute to criminalization and surveillance of an urban community college campus and bus shelters surrounding it. Method: A postcolonial geographic research design is used to analyze geographic and qualitative data. Results: Results show that an urban…
Descriptors: Two Year College Students, Community Colleges, Urban Schools, Suburban Schools
Crowl, Justin – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examines the relationship between student perceptions of university police and fear of crime through the utilization of a rational choice perspective. Over the last three decades, a plethora of research has explored fear of crime and factors related to its occurrence. However, a thorough review of the literature revealed a limited…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Fear, Police, Correlation
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McConnell, William; Marton, John P. – Psychology Learning and Teaching, 2013
In an attempt to influence students' appreciation of the value of research, the authors introduced a multidimensional scaling activity in a section of introductory psychology. In two consecutive 80-minute classes, 32 students worked in pairs, categorizing 20 crimes on the basis of similarity and coding their partner's responses, and then worked in…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Psychology, Research Skills, Multidimensional Scaling
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Fleming, Kimberly; Parker, Karen – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2013
Readers readily identify with characters in literature; therefore, educators must be acutely aware of the overt and underlying messages conveyed in Newbery Medal books. In this quantitative content analysis with a qualitative component, the researchers employed nonparametric measurements to examine Newbery Medal books from the 1920s to the 2000s…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Moral Values, Individual Characteristics, Awards