Author: Colin J. Smith Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 119
Book Description
This study employed data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to examine the relationship between school social network variables and adolescent student perceptions of school climate. School climate is a multi-dimensional construct that represents a student’s feelings of connectedness with the school institution and social community. As a result, positive perceptions of school climate have been linked to improved outcomes across a broad spectrum of student life, including academics, social-emotional health, and pro-social behavior. While climate is frequently examined through school attributes, little research has been done to explain its relationship to the patterns of social relationships within the student population. As a student’s perception of school climate, represented by their holistic impression and relationship with the institution of school, is so greatly dependent on the social context within which they are embedded, it is imperative to understand and explain the effect of network structure at the school level. In response to this need, the purpose of this study is to explore the ways in which the structure of students’ social relationships at a school level is associated with their perceptions of school climate. In order to understand the transactional relationship between climate and network structure, a quantitative cross sectional design was used to examine data at the school level through standard and sequential predictor entry multiple linear regressions. In addition, interaction terms were created in order to understand the way that school size moderates this relationship. Significant transactional relationships with school climate were found with both school size and racial salience, while a significant interaction effect was found between school size and racial diversity. Results indicate important implications not only for school size, but the organizational makeup of social sub-divisions within the school. Recommendations for future research includes replication with a contemporary sample, alternate statistical methodology, and the design of network-based climate interventions.
Author: Luba Falk Feigenberg Publisher: ISBN: Category : Behavior disorders in adolescence Languages : en Pages : 200
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In the second article, I report three findings about the effects of perception of school climate, school context, and culture on students' behavior in school. First, I found a negative relationship between students' perceptions of school climate and their reported school risk behavior. In other words, students who rated their overall school climate more positively also tended to engage in fewer risk behaviors in school. Second, the broader school context also plays a role in the way students perceive their school climate, such that the effect of a positive school climate was stronger for students in district schools as opposed to students in charter schools. Lastly, students' ethnicity also seemed to be a factor in the way they perceived climate as well as their behavior in school. The effect of a positive school climate on behavior was most pronounced for Latino and Black students in district schools.
Author: Suzanne Salzinger Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 131773937X Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 337
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Research on adult personal-social networks has contributed greatly to an understanding of mental health, illness, and responses to stress. Fueled by this successful research and a growing concern for today's youth, the contributors to this volume have conducted investigations into the functioning and structures of the social networks of toddlers, school-age children, adolescents, and college students. The editors of this volume move beyond vague generalizations about characteristic and behavior acquisition through socialization in childhood by applying a longitudinal perspective to the sampling of child, adolescent, and young-adult network research. Social Networks of Children, Adolescents, and College Students unites several major empirical studies of children's social networks, investigating the acquisition of specific behaviors from particular groups of individuals under certain conditions. Topics covered include: * the effects of social networks on child development and disorder * the relationship between social networks and coping with stress the role of friends or groups in positive socialization * Of special interest to practitioners, researchers, and advanced students are: * comparative data on children from other cultural groups and non-mainstream American youths descriptions and evaluations of methodologies * introductory materials by the editors commenting on the field and the research extensive bibliographies
Author: Drew Gitomer Publisher: ISBN: 0935302484 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 1553
Book Description
The Fifth Edition of the Handbook of Research on Teachingis an essential resource for students and scholars dedicated to the study of teaching and learning. This volume offers a vast array of topics ranging from the history of teaching to technological and literacy issues. In each authoritative chapter, the authors summarize the state of the field while providing conceptual overviews of critical topics related to research on teaching. Each of the volume's 23 chapters is a canonical piece that will serve as a reference tool for the field. The Handbook provides readers with an unaparalleled view of the current state of research on teaching across its multiple facets and related fields.
Author: K. Ann Renninger Publisher: Psychology Press ISBN: 1317783522 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 423
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Interest is just emerging as a critical bridge between cognitive and affective issues in both learning and development. This developing "interest" in interest appears to be linked to an increasing concern for studying the individual in context, examining affective variables as opposed to purely structural features of text, analyzing the interrelationship of cognitive and social development, understanding practical applications of theories of motivation, and recognizing the importance of developmental psychology for the study of learning. This book addresses both how individual interest and interest inherent in stimuli (books, text, toys, etc.) across subjects affect cognitive performance. While the book's particular emphasis is on theory-driven research, each of the contributing authors offers a unique perspective on understanding interest and its effects on learning and development. As such, each has contributed a chapter in which particular questions in interest research are described and linked to a clearly stated theoretical perspective and recent findings. Relevant material from the broader literatures of psychology and education are analyzed in the context of these discussions. In addition, the introductory and concluding chapters build on the contributions to the volume by providing the basis of a coherent view of interest across genres such as stories and expository text, and domains as varied as play, reading, and mathematics.
Author: Faith Benvenuti Publisher: ISBN: Category : Classroom environment Languages : en Pages : 190
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"The purpose of this study was to examine students' perception of their school climate as well as the characteristics and benefits of an authoritative school climate. Participants were students in a high school in Eastern Canada. This quantitative study employed questionnaire surveys for collecting data. Results demonstrated significant relationships between an authoritative school climate and student self-esteem, school engagement, and students' perception of independent academic problem solving. Also, the strength of the relationship between an authoritative climate and students' perception of positive peer evaluations approached the level of significance. Students indicated that in an authoritative school climate, the majority of the school responsibilities were perceived as being taken on primarily by either their peers or themselves. Recommendations for school-wide changes that may foster authoritative school environments are provided."--Abstract.
Author: Zheng, Robert Z. Publisher: IGI Global ISBN: 160566927X Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 300
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"This edited volume addresses the pressing need to establish a unified theoretical framework for adolescent online social communication research, specifically, identify the role and function of the Internet in adolescent social communication behavior, dynamic relationships among such things as adolescent social-psychological needs, personality, and social norms in online communication, and theories with practices in adolescent online social communication"--T.p. verso.
Author: Barbara Schneider Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319766945 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 614
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This handbook unifies access and opportunity, two key concepts of sociology of education, throughout its 25 chapters. It explores today’s populations rarely noticed, such as undocumented students, first generation college students, and LGBTQs; and emphasizing the intersectionality of gender, race, ethnicity and social class. Sociologists often center their work on the sources and consequences of inequality. This handbook, while reviewing many of these explanations, takes a different approach, concentrating instead on what needs to be accomplished to reduce inequality. A special section is devoted to new methodological work for studying social systems, including network analyses and school and teacher effects. Additionally, the book explores the changing landscape of higher education institutions, their respective populations, and how labor market opportunities are enhanced or impeded by differing postsecondary education pathways. Written by leading sociologists and rising stars in the field, each of the chapters is embedded in theory, but contemporary and futuristic in its implications. This Handbook serves as a blueprint for identifying new work for sociologists of education and other scholars and policymakers trying to understand many of the problems of inequality in education and what is needed to address them.
Author: Colin J. Smith
Author: Luba Falk Feigenberg
Author: Frank Nestmann
Author: Suzanne Salzinger
Author: Drew Gitomer
Author: Steinberg
Author: K. Ann Renninger
Author: Faith Benvenuti
Author: Zheng, Robert Z.
Author: Barbara Schneider