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Book Synopsis The Impact of School Culture on Student Achievement in a Southwest Texas Community by : Celia (Sally). Zuniga-Barrera
Download or read book The Impact of School Culture on Student Achievement in a Southwest Texas Community written by Celia (Sally). Zuniga-Barrera and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current study was developed to produce data about the relationship between school culture and student achievement. It was intended to contribute to the existing body of knowledge on professional collaboration, collegiality, and self-efficacy as related to both school culture and student achievement. There were five research questions developed to guide the research.
Book Synopsis Dissertation Abstracts International by :
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Investigation of the Impact of Implementing Smaller Learning Communities on Student Performance in an Urban High School in Texas by : Thomas J. Dilworth
Download or read book Investigation of the Impact of Implementing Smaller Learning Communities on Student Performance in an Urban High School in Texas written by Thomas J. Dilworth and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract The trend of the last 40 years to build fewer, but larger high schools has resulted in dollar savings to taxpayers, but at the cost of higher rates of absenteeism, weaker academic environments, and poorer student engagement in learning. External pressures in the way of educational reforms such as the federally mandated No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) have also had a negative impact on some large schools in urban school districts. Why is the United States undergoing such a broad national reform in education? The United States has a long history of educational reform. With every new generation comes a call for educational reform. Once education became compulsory in Texas in 1915 (Judd, 1918), so did calls to change it. Promises of changes to NCLB in the last year suggest that now we have left the "No Child Left Behind" reform movement (Duncan, 2009) and are moving toward a more culturally-centered approach to education where we acknowledge that societal problems affect the ability of students to get a quality education, we are able to provide constructive alternatives beyond the non-productive mantra that "if we just had better teachers and administrators, Johnny could learn." Arne Duncan (2009a), United States Secretary of Education, when interviewed on the television show The Colbert Report, said, "When schools are really the centers of the neighborhood and the heart of the community, our students are going to do very, very well." Indeed. Creating schools-within-schools (SWS) can serve to create neighborhoods -- academic neighborhoods -- that can serve students as the center of their educational community. The current national reform movement under President Obama as expressed by his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, (2009b) requires states seeking funds to implement four core-interconnected reforms: · to reverse the pervasive dumbing-down of academic standards and assessments by states. Race to the top winners need to work toward adopting common, internationally benchmarked K-12 standards that prepare students for success in college and careers, · to close the data gap, which now handcuffs districts from tracking growth in student learning and improving classroom instruction, states will need to monitor advances in student achievement and identify effective instructional practices, · to boost the quality of teachers and principals, especially in high-poverty schools and hard-to-staff subjects, states and districts should be able to identify effective teachers and principals and have strategies for rewarding and retaining more top-notch teachers and improving or replacing ones who are not up to the job, and finally, · to turn around the lowest-performing schools, states and districts must be ready to institute far-reaching reforms, from replacing staff and leadership to changing the school culture (p. 2). While this may seem to be more of the finger pointing found in NCLB, and does not seem to coincide with Duncan's previously cited comments, that "schools are really the centers of the neighborhood and the heart of the community," it does embrace the need for "far-reaching reforms." SWS\SLC can be one of those reforms. This study explores critically and carefully the extent to which a smaller learning community within a large urban high school affected student academic achievement, attendance, graduation, and dropout rates as well as student readiness for careers and post-secondary education. This study uses a qualitative case study methodology to describe an experiment in which the researcher, rather than creating the treatment, examines the effects of a naturally occurring treatment after that treatment has taken place (Lord, 1973). While a Smaller Learning Community (SLC) in and of itself is not a panacea for student improvement, SLCs may create conditions for improved student performance. Cotton (2004) reports, that among other benefits, students achieve at higher levels than do students in larger schools on both standardized achievement tests and other measures. The results of this study suggest that SLCs can provide an improved learning environment students have better relationships with teachers, and teachers with administration and parents. Because of limitations inherent in the data base, however this study is inconclusive in its findings regarding SLC effectiveness with regards to enhanced or diminished performance of students academically. While TAKS test scores were not markedly improved in comparison to the state average and a comparable group of high schools, college readiness indicators improved significantly. This suggests that other variables are at work in this research site and should be explored. Due to the aforementioned data issues, the reader should avoid drawing conclusions from the results that may reflect poorly on Texas High School's administrators, teachers, and students. A number of contextual and methodological limitations outlined in the study may have restricted the researcher's ability to investigate sufficiently the impact from SLC implementation on these performance indicators. The researcher provides recommendations for further evaluation of SLC implementation in light of these limitations.
Book Synopsis The Impact of School Culture and Climate on Student Achievement at the Elementary and Secondary School Level by : Jessica McKinney
Download or read book The Impact of School Culture and Climate on Student Achievement at the Elementary and Secondary School Level written by Jessica McKinney and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: School climate and culture, and its relevance to student achievement has traditionally been a topic of discussion among educators. There have been many research studies dedicated to determining if a school's culture and climate had an effect on student achievement. This study sought to determine if teachers' perceptions of school culture and climate had an impact on student achievement at the elementary and secondary level. In 1963, Halpin and Croft began their research on the organizational climate of schools and suggested that further research be conducted based on their findings. This research sought to determine if there was a relationship between teachers' perceptions of school culture and climate and students' marking period/trimester 1 grades, teachers' perceptions of school culture and climate and students' Start Strong scores, and teachers' perceptions of school culture and climate and school leadership. The New Jersey School Climate Survey was distributed to teachers in four small school districts in Warren County, NJ. Survey data was collected from a total of 62 respondents, and academic data was provided to the researcher on coded spreadsheets. Data analysis was performed using Pearson correlation tests and independent sample t-tests through the use of the SPSS program in order to determine if any potential relationships existed. The data revealed that teachers' perceptions of school culture and climate did not have an impact on student achievement. Additionally, there were a number of relationships that existed with regard to teachers' perceptions of culture and climate and school leadership. The results indicated that the high school respondents answered less favorably compared to the elementary school respondents on the school leadership survey questions. This study may help school leaders have constructive conversations with their staff with regard to the school's culture and climate.(ProQuest abstract).
Book Synopsis The Impact of School Culture on Student Achievement by : Kathy Dekle Nobles
Download or read book The Impact of School Culture on Student Achievement written by Kathy Dekle Nobles and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to contribute to the understanding about specific school culture components relating to effective school criteria (ESC) in order to improve student achievement in Florida. The unit of analysis was at the school level, and the sample included 4 elementary and 4 middle schools from small rural school districts in the Florida Panhandle. The study investigated the presence of ESC and the assigned school grade that implies effectiveness. The Quality School Assessment Instrument (QSAI) survey measured the presence of the ESC. To investigate the relationship, the QSAI score was compared to the school accountability score that equates to the school grade. A Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient of 0.93, p = 0.001 indicates a statistically significant positive correlation. This study also investigated the organizational structures of schools related to ESC measured with the School Culture Survey (SCS). Data to support the notion of the interdependency of the ESC and the way in which the school is organized to support the criteria are key concepts in utilizing the ESC for school improvement. The QSAI data compared to the SCS data generated a significant positive correlation as evidenced by the Pearson r of 0.94, p = 0.0006. A third analysis compared the QSAI data of the 4 schools deemed high performing to the 4 low performing schools in the sample utilizing a t test. The results indicate a statistically significant difference in the mean QSAI scores of the 2 groups: t(398) = 28.27, p
Book Synopsis A Study of the Relationship Between School Culture and Standardized Test Scores by : Andrew Lee Smith
Download or read book A Study of the Relationship Between School Culture and Standardized Test Scores written by Andrew Lee Smith and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this quantitative study was to discover the perceptions of school culture and correlate those perceptions with standardized test scores in elementary and secondary schools in southwestern Arizona. The intention of this study was to contribute to the field of education leadership related to student achievement and factors contributing to student achievement including organizational culture. A survey of teachers and administrators in participating schools in southwestern Arizona was completed and correlated with existing student achievement data for those participating schools. The School Culture Survey by Leithwood, Aitken, and Jantzi (2001) was used for the survey instrument, and the Stanford Achievement Test, Ninth Edition, was used to measure student achievement. The survey results and student achievement data were correlated and revealed that a relationship does exist between perceptions of school culture and student achievement.
Book Synopsis The Effect of School Culture on Student Achievement by : Bettie Jeanne Smith
Download or read book The Effect of School Culture on Student Achievement written by Bettie Jeanne Smith and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined school culture as identified through NC teachers' responses to questions regarding school leadership's sustained effort to address teachers' concerns about leadership issues, facilities and resources, the use of time in the school, professional development, teacher leadership, community support and involvement, managing student conduct, instructional practices and support, and new teacher support on the 2012 NC Teachers Working Conditions Survey. Teachers responded using a Likert-style scale and were clustered into Leadership Perception Groups (LPGs) that paralleled the Likert scale responses. Quantitative methods were used to determine the significance of association between the LPGs and the 2012 reading and math achievement data for third through eighth grade NC students. Percentage of proficiency was the student achievement measure. Findings revealed significance in about half of the grade and subject groups. The LPG characterized by negative responses most consistently associated with student achievement in reading and math at all grade levels. Results suggest that the association between negative culture and student achievement is an important area for further study. The findings from this study suggest three interpretations. First, teachers' perceptions regarding whether their school leadership addresses their concerns is a strong indicator of the culture of the school. Second, teachers' effectiveness is impacted by their administrators' reaction to their concerns. Finally, the concentration of teachers that is satisfied or dissatisfied with their school leadership is associated with student achievement significantly. The implications for cultural leadership are discussed.
Book Synopsis The Case for Community Schools by : Katherine Shamani Martin
Download or read book The Case for Community Schools written by Katherine Shamani Martin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Texas, one in every four children lives in poverty. Poverty negatively impacts children in a myriad of ways, which ultimately can effect their achievement in school. With accountability standards rising, struggling schools are working to increase student achievement through various turnaround strategies to keep their doors open. Often times, turnaround strategies solely focus on administration, teachers, and curriculum. These strategies have had mixed results and fail to address one of the root causes of low student achievement, poverty. The purpose of this report is to present an alternative turnaround strategy that addresses poverty’s negative effect on students while simultaneously increasing student achievement. A community school is an alternate turnaround strategy that serves as a place-based institution within a community where students are both held to high academic standards and have access to whole-child focused services, programs, and opportunities to address out-of-school challenges. Community schools collaborate with outside partners to meet the needs of students, families, and the broader community. By addressing out-of-school barriers that hamper student success by localizing and coordinating services on the campus, community schools across the United States have seen improved academic achievement, attendance rates, behavior, and engagement. This report identifies eight common attributes of successful community schools, explores the positive outcomes of community schools, and argues that Texas should allow struggling schools to adopt the community school model as a turnaround strategy to achieve student success.
Book Synopsis The Impact of School Culture on Students' Achievement by : Kimberly Boryszewski
Download or read book The Impact of School Culture on Students' Achievement written by Kimberly Boryszewski and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis School Culture Rewired by : Steve Gruenert
Download or read book School Culture Rewired written by Steve Gruenert and published by ASCD. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your school is a lot more than a center of student learning--it also represents a self-contained culture, with traditions and expectations that reflect its unique mission and demographics. In this groundbreaking book, education experts Steve Gruenert and Todd Whitaker offer tools, strategies, and advice for defining, assessing, and ultimately transforming your school's culture into one that is positive, forward-looking, and actively working to enrich students’ lives. Drawing from decades of research on organizational cultures and school leadership, the authors provide everything you need to optimize both the culture and climate of your school, including * "Culture-busting" strategies to help teachers adopt positive attitudes, outlooks, and behaviors; * A framework for pinpointing the type of culture you have, the type that you want, and the actions you need to take to bridge the two; * Tips for hiring, training, and retaining teachers who will actively work to improve your school's culture; and * Instructions on how to create and implement a successful School Culture Rewiring Team. Though often invisible to the naked eye, a school's culture influences everything that takes place under its roof. Whether your school is urban or rural, prosperous or struggling, School Culture Rewired is the ultimate guide to making sure that the culture in your school is guided first and foremost by what's best for your students.
Book Synopsis Learning Beyond Cognition by : Niels Kryger
Download or read book Learning Beyond Cognition written by Niels Kryger and published by Aarhus Universitetsforlag. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning beyond Cognition goes beyond a merely cognitive understanding of learning. The concept denotes the ideological and mental formation of the individual as well as the individual's own shaping of an identity. Learning beyond Cognition expands on the notion of 'Building' and the current debate about citizenship education. The book outlines contemporary educational policies and practices in Europe and other Western countries. The authors analyse dominating discourses and learning practices to identify their social and cultural 'grounding' and potentials. The authors are experienced international scholars. This book is aimed to become an essential resource for researchers, teachers, students and policy-makers who address the current challenges to learning.
Book Synopsis Irrefutable Influence by : Rosemary Tralli
Download or read book Irrefutable Influence written by Rosemary Tralli and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Relationship Between Professional Learning Communities and School Culture on Student Achievement by : Shannon K. Gross
Download or read book The Relationship Between Professional Learning Communities and School Culture on Student Achievement written by Shannon K. Gross and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Academic Achievement of First-Generation Mexican American Males in a Community College by : Carlos C. Peña
Download or read book Academic Achievement of First-Generation Mexican American Males in a Community College written by Carlos C. Peña and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine the complexities of successful attainment and achievement of 10 Mexican American males in a rural Southwest community college. This study strives to offer insights concerning the questions: (a) what behavioral patterns of current family, peers, and conditions in school have influenced the educational decisions of these Mexican American males? and (b) what social conditions motivate these Mexican American males to seek and achieve higher education despite adversity? This qualitative research was also aimed at establishing and understanding how a selected number of Mexican American males have achieved academic success. The researcher chose 10 men with either an associate of arts or an associate of science degrees for an in-depth interview and used a semi-structured interview guide in an effort to prompt oral discourse. The interviewer posed questions concerning academic conditions, family impact, college environment, and financial issues. The responses to the questions led to similar themes involved in these students' course completion and graduation. The researcher used a theoretical framework using Bandura's Social Learning Theory (1977) in which he suggests that not only environmental factors, but motivational factors along with self-regulatory mechanisms affect an individual's behavior. This research illustrated the conditions that facilitated reaching the participant's educational goal and mission, which was to complete a two-year degree at the community college. The inquiry examined the behavioral patterns that have been an influence on the educational decisions of these Mexican American males, and what social conditions have motivated them to seek and achieve higher education despite adversity.
Book Synopsis What Happens In the Classroom?: How School Culture Influences and Impacts Professional Development and Teacher Practice by : Dawn Kasal Finley
Download or read book What Happens In the Classroom?: How School Culture Influences and Impacts Professional Development and Teacher Practice written by Dawn Kasal Finley and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools spend a great deal of time, resources, and money seeking ways to both understand and increase student achievement on state standardized test that scores have become the customary measure of a school’s quality and success. Due to this narrow focus on standards and testing becoming more and more central in education, schools and teachers often do not implement the pedagogical strategies that work to increase student learning and thinking (Burke, 2010; Langer, 2001; Christenbury & Kelly, 1983; Nystrand, 1997; Wiggins & McTighe, 2005). In addition to a lack of focus on pedagogical practices, schools often ignore the impact culture has on both student achievement and teacher practice (Deal & Peterson, 2009). This study examines how culture and power structures within a school influence teacher practice. This year-long qualitative case study sought to answer the following questions: 1) What impact does a school’s culture have on teacher practice? 2) In what ways does classroom discourse position teachers and students as creators of knowledge? 3) How are reading and writing implemented to create environments where learning is valued? 4) How does the use of pedagogical labels allow teacher and schools to believe they are implementing effective practices? Through analysis of field notes and interviews, the research suggests that schools and teachers seeking to improve their educational outcomes examine honestly the practices in place and explore the impact that the school culture has on those practices. Findings suggest that for schools to succeed in improving their academic achievement both school and classroom culture need to value and have learning at the center.
Book Synopsis The Effect of the Policy of Reconstitution on Student Achievement in Texas by : Gregory Cumpton
Download or read book The Effect of the Policy of Reconstitution on Student Achievement in Texas written by Gregory Cumpton and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The failure of schools across the country to ensure students meet federal, state, and community standards continuously plagues the education system. More than a quarter of all schools in the nation failed to meet federal requirements in 2007, with 38% failing to do so in 2010. By 2011 that figure rose to nearly 50%. Failing schools ostensibly produce failing students who experience poorer outcomes than their peers including reduced earnings over their lifetime. A potential solution to failing schools is to reconstitute them. School reconstitution requires all staff at a failing school to reapply for their positions with the stated aim of improving student achievement. Started as a court-mandated desegregation action in San Francisco in 1983, school reconstitution quickly spread across the country in the 1990s. Incorporated into local and state accountability systems, scholars estimate thousands of schools reconstituted between 1983 and 2011. Despite its prevalence, information regarding how reconstitution began, spread, and made its way into Texas statute is scarce and theories related to why reconstitution should improve student performance lack cohesion. Even worse, little to no quantitative evidence demonstrates whether reconstitution improves student achievement. This dissertation takes advantage of a Texas law passed in 2003 mandating that schools failing to meet state standards for two years in a row must reconstitute. Estimated effects of reconstitution on student achievement apply state-wide student and school data between 2003 and 2011. Several methods, including regression discontinuity and student-level fixed-effects determine whether reconstitution improves student achievement and if developed theories explain this improvement. Discussion includes national, state, and local policy recommendations.
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Book Synopsis Research Anthology on Balancing Family-Teacher Partnerships for Student Success by : Management Association, Information Resources
Download or read book Research Anthology on Balancing Family-Teacher Partnerships for Student Success written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-10-28 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The partnership between families and teachers in education has been overlooked in the past to the detriment of students of all ages. This relationship can have a huge impact on the success of learners and must be examined further to ensure students receive the best education possible. The Research Anthology on Balancing Family-Teacher Partnerships for Student Success examines the best practices and challenges of establishing and maintaining a successful relationship between teachers and families. It discusses the history of this relationship as well as future directions that must be considered. Covering key topics such as early childhood education, work habits, assessments, and mentorship, this major reference work is ideal for administrators, principals, industry professionals, researchers, scholars, academicians, practitioners, instructors, and students.
