Unsafe schools can negatively impact students' wellbeing and educational success. This study focuses on one of the potential effects of unsafe schools, decreased standardized test scores. Research suggests that school climates that are positive and provide students with a place where they can feel insulated from neighborhood violence are…

We surveyed 237 first-time college students to examine the extent to which social-cognitive factors--self-efficacy, perceptions of mentorship, high school GPA, ACT scores, first-semester college GPA, and demographic characteristics-- influence freshmen's intent to persist. Standard multiple regression and MANOVA were conducted to determine the…

In a study of factors in the educational environment of the home, the school, and the peer group contributing to achievement and attitudes towards schooling at the upper primary and lower secondary school levels, an opportunity arose to examine the data available for configural and curvilinear relationships. Information was collected on 11…