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The research reported in this article was carried out in four secondary schools, two with a peer support system (PS) and two without (NPS) and involved a total of 931 pupils, (49.5 per cent males, and 50.5 per cent females). Participants were aged between 11 and 15 years of age, mean age 12.8 years. The aim was to compare the perceptions of safety on the part of pupils in secondary schools with and without a system of peer support in place. The findings provided little evidence that the presence of a peer support system enhanced feelings of safety in the school population. On the positive side, PS pupils were slightly more aware of the value of having other people around as a means of enhancing feelings of safety. They were also less afraid of older pupils indicating that peer supporters may have influenced the attitudes of some older pupils towards younger peers and may have made them friendlier. However; for the PS pupils, toilets and corridors/stairs were less safe for them than for NPS pupils, largely because of the unpleasant actions of the peer group towards them. With specific regard to bullying, there was no difference between PS and NPS. Around one‐fifth of both PS and NPS pupils reported that the reason for feeling unsafe was because of bullying. The most common suggestions for making school a better place referred to action against bullying. 相似文献
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Erdo?an Tezci 《Educational technology research and development : ETR & D》2011,59(3):429-443
The current study aimed at identifying Turkish primary school teachers’ perceptions of school culture regarding ICT integration
in education. In addition, the current study was designed to investigate factors that might influence their perceptions. The
participants were 1540 primary school teachers. The findings revealed that the teachers’ perceptions regarding school culture
in both motivational and technical aspects were not positive. Gender, ownership of a personal computer, Internet access, professional
experience, and weekly computer use seemed to play an important role in the perceived school culture regarding ICT integration
in education. 相似文献
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In order to investigate the teachers and parents’ perceptions of school readiness, 218 parents and 370 teachers were surveyed. Based on the areas of “physical well-being and motor development”, “social and emotional development”, “approaches to learning”, “language use”, “cognition and general knowledge” and “family”, the study attempts to examine and compare kindergarten teachers’, elementary school teachers’ and parents’ beliefs about school readiness. Results are as follows: (1) on the whole, parents and teachers attach great importance to health, attention, parental rearing patterns, confidence, learning interest, etc.; (2) kindergarten and elementary school teachers share a similar outlook on school readiness while elementary school teachers emphasize more on areas such as compliance with teacher authority, parents’ educational level, manners, self-centralization, the ability to express and so on, and (3) the difference exists among parents, kindergarten teachers and elementary teachers’ perceptions of school readiness. 相似文献
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Chinese homeroom teachers’ performance of professional school counselor activities was explored. A total of 109 homeroom teachers
in Beijing and Harbin, China reported their performance of 68 different school counseling activities as part of their regular
actions as a homeroom teacher. Results found that on average homeroom teachers performed a wide variety of counseling tasks
and together almost all tasks were performed by homeroom teachers. Further, participants reported frequently providing individual
counseling to students on a range of concerns. Findings in this study support calls for the continued development of school
counseling in China, hiring more school counselors, and additional training for homeroom teachers. Limitations, recommendations,
and avenues for future research are described. 相似文献
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Self- and collective efficacy beliefs were examined as correlates of attitudes toward school of teachers, school staff, and
parents. 726 teachers, 387 staff members, and 1994 parents from 18 junior high schools in Milan and Rome, Italy, were administered
questionnaires assessing self-efficacy beliefs, perceptions about colleagues’ bahavior, collective efficacy beliefs, affective
commitment and job satisfaction of teachers and school staff and parents satisfaction with school.
Path analyses corroborated a conceptual model in which self- and collective efficacy beliefs represent, respectively, the
distal and proximal determinants of affective commitment and job satisfaction for teachers and staff and of satisfaction with
school for parents. Perceptions that teachers, staff and parents hold about the behavior of their colleagues largely mediated
the links between self- and collective efficacy beliefs. collective efficacy beliefs, in turn, largely mediated the influence
that self-efficacy beliefs and perceptions of school constituencies’ behaviors exert on attitudes toward school of teachers,
staff and parents. 相似文献
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This report shares a study that explored the perceptions pre-service teachers have of middle school students. Participants were asked to complete the Adjective Checklist (ACL) by endorsing the words they considered most characteristic of a typical middle school student. Items most frequently endorsed indicated a predominantly negative perception (e.g. “awkward”, “confused” and “emotional”). Implications for pre-service teacher training are discussed. 相似文献
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Kerstin Drossel Birgit Eickelmann Julia Gerick 《Education and Information Technologies》2017,22(2):551-573
This paper is based on the research question of what predictors (school characteristics, teachers’ attitudes, teacher collaboration and background characteristics) determine secondary school teachers’ frequency of computer use in class. The use of new technologies by secondary school teachers for educational purposes is an important factor regarding school and teaching processes. The use of digital media in schools is, among other things, associated with the goal of supporting learning processes and improving the quality of education. This contribution identifies relevant factors by means of multiple regression analyses of the teachers’ frequency of computer use for instruction in five countries (the Netherlands, Denmark, Australia, Poland and Germany) to get an idea of how to support the frequency of the use of computers in class. The analyses and findings are based on the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) study of International Computer and Information Literacy Study 2013 (ICILS), which investigates the computer and information literacy (CIL) of secondary school students and the contexts in which students develop CIL in 21 countries. Antecedents concerning school characteristics, teachers’ attitudes and teacher collaboration on the process level and background characteristics of secondary school teachers (N = 8.920) are examined in order to gain further insight into the nature and effect of predictors for secondary school teachers’ in-class use of information and communications technology. The analyses show that there are more country-specific results than similarities between the countries selected. In all countries, antecedents concerning teachers’ attitudes are more relevant for teachers’ in-class use of computers than school characteristics or teacher collaboration on the process level. 相似文献
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Bullying in schools is an international problem impacting negatively on children’s well-being. Children’s drawings can provide an insight into their emotional states. There is little published literature that uses children’s drawings to gain better understandings of the nature and impact of bullying. We report two studies using indicators of emotional distress to examine Australian primary school children’s drawings about bullying. In Study One, children’s drawings were examined using indicators of size, detail and line heaviness in terms of gender and developmental trends. The analysis showed no main differences for gender, however, there were clear developmental aspects to children’s depictions of school bullying. In Study Two, children’s self-reported victimisation was associated with the degree of detail and the relative distance between the protagonists represented in the drawings. The studies suggest that drawings could be used to counsel young people and help remediate the effects of bullying. 相似文献
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Dimitra Kokotsaki 《Educational studies》2016,42(2):201-220
This study aims to explore pupils’ affective engagement with school and music during their transition to secondary school. A gender comparison is also being made to ascertain any differences that may exist between boys and girls during this time. A sample of 182 pupils completed two questionnaires (attitudes to school and attitudes to music) three times (at the end of Year 6, at the beginning and end of Year 7). A series of one-way repeated measures analysis of variance tests showed that pupils’ overall attitudes to school dropped significantly from the end of Year 6 to the end of Year 7 with their enjoyment towards school and their satisfaction with the work environment declining. Pupils’ attitudes to music presented a significant fall at the end of Year 7 after a slight improvement at the beginning of secondary school. Girls held consistently more positive attitudes towards school and music than boys. It is suggested that pupils’ attitudes are malleable and responsive to environmental change and, therefore, this problem can be remedied if appropriate interventions are put into place particularly regarding the teacher-pupil relationship and pupils’ perceived autonomy in their learning. 相似文献
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Linda A. Reddy Christopher M. Dudek Stephanie Peters Alexander Alperin Ryan J. Kettler Alexander Kurz 《Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability》2018,30(1):47-70
This study examined attitudes and beliefs regarding teacher evaluation of teachers and their school administrators in the state of New Jersey, USA. The sample included 33 school administrators and 583 Pre-K through 12th grade teachers from four high-poverty urban school districts (22 schools). Participant attitudes and beliefs were assessed using the Teacher Evaluation Experience Scale (TEES; Reddy et al. in Educational Assessment, 21(2), 120–134, 2016). TEES is a multi-informant assessment designed to measure teachers’ and school administrators’ experiences with teacher evaluation through five scales (i.e., total and subscales of system, feedback, process, and motivation to change) and six open-ended questions. Based on the qualitative analyses, teachers identified collaborative communication and evaluation feedback as the most helpful aspects of their evaluation process. Based on the quantitative analyses, however, their average ratings did not exceed neutral on any of the four subscales. Overall findings suggest that school administrators’ experiences with teacher evaluation are more favorable than teachers’ experiences. Moderate correlations are found between participant characteristics and TEES scales. Implications for teacher evaluation are presented. 相似文献
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Drew Polly 《课程研究杂志》2017,49(2):132-148
With the adoption of new content standards, teachers are often left without adequate curriculum resources. This study examined how educators used their curricular resources to teach new mathematics standards in the USA. Analyses of open-ended survey responses from 257 teachers and teacher–leaders in Grades 3 through Grade 5 indicated that every educator reported supplementing their districts’ or schools’ primary curricular resources with other materials. These supplements primarily included resources found for free on websites and resources that claimed to be aligned to the new standards, but varied in terms of alignment to national standards for effective mathematics curriculum. Implications for this study include further research on how teachers make decisions regarding curriculum resources as well as increasing teachers’ access to quality curriculum materials that can support students’ mathematical learning. 相似文献
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Despina A. Stylianou 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2010,13(4):325-343
Current reform efforts call for an emphasis on the use of representation in the mathematics classroom across levels and topics.
The aim of the study was to examine teachers’ conceptions of representation as a process in doing mathematics, and their perspectives
on the role of representations in the teaching and learning of mathematics at the middle-school level. Interviews with middle
school mathematics teachers suggest that teachers use representations in varied ways in their own mathematical work and have
developed working definitions of the term primarily as a product in problem solving. However, teachers’ conception of representation
as a process and a mathematical practice appears to be less developed, and, as a result, representations may have a peripheral
role in their instruction as well. Further, the data suggested that representation is viewed as a topic of study rather than
as a general process, and as a goal for the learning of only a minority of the students—the high-performing ones. Implications
for mathematics teacher education, prospective and practicing, are discussed. 相似文献
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Some schools in the neighbourhood of Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU) in South Africa persistently yielded poor mathematics results in the past years. This was of concern since maths is the main subject for many opportunities, including admissiontoSMUstudy programmes. Some SMU maths lecturers partnered with local schools to prepare the students in these schools. The aimwas to improve maths teaching and matric maths results. The teachers were assisted with maths concepts of most difficulty. This article describes the initiatives by some academics of SMU in achieving this. 相似文献
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Zacharia Michal Goldberg Yablon Yaacov B. 《European Journal of Psychology of Education - EJPE》2022,37(3):903-919
European Journal of Psychology of Education - One of the negative consequences of bullying in schools is its adverse effect on students’ sense of safety. Previous studies yielded mixed... 相似文献
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This study examined teachers’ perceptions of classroom behaviour problems in five provinces of the People’s Republic of China. Researchers surveyed 527 Chinese teachers from 27 elementary schools. Consistent with previous studies in China, teachers perceived non‐attention to be the most frequent and troublesome behaviour problem. Teachers’ perceptions of which behaviour problems were most difficult to tolerate and most negative in their effects on student development were also investigated. Approximately 45% of the teachers reported spending too much time on behaviour problems. Significant differences were found in the prevalence of teachers’ perceptions of student misbehaviour and of the time spent on classroom management; there were also differences in these perceptions according to students’ gender, type of school, classroom subject taught, and teachers’ level of experience. The implications of these findings for researchers and practitioners are addressed. 相似文献
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Susan Pike 《Irish Educational Studies》2013,32(1):75-91
This research reviews a sample of fifth-class children's definitions of geography. It was carried out after the publication of the Revised Primary School Curriculum (1999) but before any staff development had taken place for the implementation of this curriculum. Since the data was collected, staff development for the 1999 curriculum in geography has been timetabled for the 2005–2006 school year. The data collected revealed most children had a clear idea what geography was, with the majority of children (97.3%) referring to one or more aspects of geography. Over half the children defined geography as being about themes and places. A clear emphasis on the learning of place names and fact learning came through in definitions. There were limited references to learning key ideas or concepts. Skills, with the exception of ‘maps’, were mentioned by few children. No child mentioned fieldwork. The definitions written by the children tended to reflect geography topics they had covered in school textbooks. The findings suggest areas of the 1999 curriculum that will be new to teachers and children and point to the challenges for the implementation of the curriculum. 相似文献
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Herbert Altrichter Johann Bacher Martina Beham Gertrud Nagy Daniela Wetzelhütter 《Studies in Educational Evaluation》2011,37(4):230-238
Recently, European school systems have seen various attempts to ‘modernise’ their governance. Market and competition oriented reforms have not been central to governance innovation strategies in German speaking countries, however, their number and relevance is rising in recent years. A free school choice policy which abolishes “school districts” which legally define fixed school catchment areas was introduced in the school year of 2007/2008 in the Austrian city of Linz.The effects of the implementation of this policy on the primary school sector were studied by a standardised questionnaire administered to a representative sample of 3425 parents of five age groups of primary school children. The return rate was about 55%. By special measures during data collection a satisfactory representation of parents with migrant background was achieved.Three questions are discussed in the paper: (1) Is there a rise in segregation in schools as a result of free choice policy? (2) Is there a change in the composition of the student population in different schools as a result of free choice policy? (3) Is there a change in parent school choice behaviour of as a result of free choice policy?Our data indicates that segregation in primary schools with respect to ethnic and social family characteristics increases after the policy implementation, but the sample size is too small to find significant results. In addition, no significant change is observed in the social composition of schools. In accordance with the previous findings no significant modifications of choice behaviour occur for different ethnic or social groups after free choice. However changes in choice motives can be observed. 相似文献
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Chit-Kwong Kong 《Learning Environments Research》2008,11(2):111-129
It is generally believed that classroom learning experiences very much influence students’ academic development. However,
relatively little is known about whether classroom learning experiences have much effect on students’ affective and social
development. In this study, we argued for the importance of learning experiences on students’ affective and social development.
From research on Accelerated Schools Project and active learning, we conceptualised Positive Learning Experiences, Teacher
Support in Learning, and Active Learning Experiences as three components of learning experiences and developed relevant measures
to tap these learning experiences. Using research data from a large-scale student survey in Hong Kong (N = 19,477), we examined the construct validity of learning experiences and quality of school life. Confirmatory factor analysis
provided very strong support for the measures and the underlying constructs that they tap. In two-way analysis of variance,
the effects of gender and school level (secondary versus primary) on learning experiences and quality of school life were
examined. Significant gender and school-level main effects, as well as gender by school-level interaction effects, were found
for students’ ratings of their learning experiences and quality of school life. Female students gave more favourable ratings
than male students, and primary students gave more favourable ratings than secondary students. In addition, gender differences
in these ratings in secondary schools were relatively smaller than in primary schools. In subsequent multilevel modelling,
learning experiences were strong predictors of quality of school life after controlling for the effects of gender, school
level and average school achievement. These findings provide strong empirical support for the significance of classroom learning
experiences for students’ social and affective development.
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Teachers’ innovative behaviour influences not only their teaching practices and professional habits, but also has an impact on students’ creation of novel and original ideas. In spite of the increasing demand for innovative behaviour, and also relatively high academic achievements of Estonian students in international comparison, teachers in Estonia often do not use innovative teaching practices, according to Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS). This study explores possible school environmental factors that may support the innovative behaviour of teachers. A model, where self-efficacy as a trait and different types of teaching practices as behaviour, are components of the model of teachers’ innovative behaviour. It is supposed that teachers’ innovative behaviour appears in school environments and may be supported by the following factors: interaction and involvement, need and freedom for innovation. The study is carried out as a secondary data analysis, based on a sample of TALIS survey. The results indicate that although the three factors mentioned do not constitute the integrated phenomenon, they do describe different aspects of a teachers’ innovative behaviour. 相似文献
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Edna O. Schack Molly H. Fisher Jonathan N. Thomas Sara Eisenhardt Janet Tassell Margaret Yoder 《Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education》2013,16(5):379-397
The goal of this study is to develop the professional noticing abilities of prospective elementary school teachers in the context of the Stages of Early Arithmetic Learning. In their mathematics methods course, ninety-four prospective elementary school teachers from three institutions participated in a researcher-developed five-session module that progressively nests the three interrelated components of professional noticing—attending, interpreting, and deciding. The module embeds video excerpts of diagnostic interviews of children doing mathematics (representations of practice) to prepare the prospective teachers for similar work. The module culminates with prospective teachers implementing similar diagnostic interviews (approximations of practice) to gain experience in the three component skills of professional noticing. A pre- and post-assessment was administered to measure prospective teachers’ change in the three components. A Wilcoxon signed ranks test was conducted and found the prospective elementary school teachers demonstrated significant growth in all three components. Selected prospective elementary school teacher responses on the pre- and post-assessment are provided to illustrate sample growth in the prospective teachers’ abilities to professionally notice. These results, the first in an ongoing study, indicate the potential that prospective teachers can develop professional noticing skills through this module. Continued data collection and analysis from the ongoing study by these authors and future, longer-term emphasis on professional noticing for prospective teachers should be studied. 相似文献