This paper presents a multi-informant study on school climate with the aim of (a) comparing students’, teachers’, and parents’ perceptions of several school climate dimensions and (b) examining the associations between dimensions pertaining to classroom practices and school atmosphere in both stude...
where natives are quite likely to have low levels of education, and Portugal, where both patterns are reversed. Among the second generation there is remarkable heterogeneity regarding whether those with one or two foreign-born parents are more or less likely to be in the low education category....
popular choice as a curriculum, noted for its greater breadth than, for example, A' Levels. It has as much currency as 'A' Levels with UK university applications, and, arguably, more value for applications to universities in the U.S., Continental Europe and many countries in South East ...
From this theoretical perspective, children’s development is considered to occur within overlapping systems of relationships, and transitions are seen as negotiated interactions among the multiple levels of the systems. The ecological framework also enables the transition to be viewed from a chronological...
Smartphone apps can help to significantly reduce anxiety levels in those suffering from the disorder, new research from the University of Manchester revealed Thursday. Chen Long takes worlds' only wild card The Badminton World Federation (BWF) announced Thursday that Chinese star Chen Long was granted...
Among longitudinal studies, homework was the only school-related sedentary exposure. Findings were consistently reported as null in 1/3 studies [57] and more homework was favourable for adiposity indicators in 1/3 studies, indicating that higher levels of homework were associated with lower adiposity...
However, in upper secondary education, school burnout seems to become more stable; both Salmela-Aro and Upadyaya, 2014a, Sorkkila et al., 2020 found mostly stable trajectories among students in upper secondary education, which mainly differed in the initial mean levels of burnout. Nevertheless,...
The 1998 Schools Standards and Framework Act brought LEAs back into the admissions arena. In this paper we examine LEAs' admissions policies and the extent to which these regulate local patterns of socio-economic segregation between schools. In this study we draw on a sample of 74 LEAs to ...
[54, p.273]. A child described her experience in the project as ‘life-changing’: “In the sixth grade,I was an outsider in the class. Then ‘the project’ changed my life. Everyone invested so much in helping me improve at different levels,so I felt compelled to change the way I...
The authors examined how students’ emotions and discourse moves differ in Knowledge Building discourse and metadiscourse and correlations between emotions and different discourse moves. The results show: (1) greater levels of enjoyment, reflection on previous ideas, and proposals for new directions for...