Part-time special education predicts students' reading self-concept development

Young children's reading self-concept

This paper reviews some of the literature in the field of humour and laughter that is relevant to child and educational psychology. It will consider methodological and epistemological features of research in what is a diverse and complex body of work. The paper will take an historical perspective and will examine the development of research paradigms over time as well as looking at the contribu...

More Than Only Skin Deep: Appearance Self-Concept Predicts Most of Secondary School Students’ Self-Esteem

One important goal of education is to develop students' self-esteem which, in turn, hinges on their self-concept in the academic, physical, and social domains. Prior studies have shown that physical self-concept accounts for most of the variation in self-esteem, with academic and social self-concepts playing a much lesser role. As pressure toward perfection seems to be increasing in education, ...

Tuition reimbursement for special education students.

The spring 1996 issue of The Future of Children on special education reviewed the legislative and litigation history of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). This Revisiting article examines the impact of the two U.S. Supreme Court cases setting forth school districts' responsibility to reimburse parents of students with disabilities for private school tuition under certain ci...

Structural Relationships of Parents\' Education and Goal Orientation with Motivation, Self-Concept and Academic Self-Efficacy of Adolescent Female Students

This study sought to examine the structural relationships of parentschr('39') level of education and their goal orientation with motivation, self-concept and academic self-efficacy of adolescent female students. A number of 601 female 10th graders responded to the research instruments, including the Students Perception of Parents Goal Orientation Questionnaire (Hruda & Midgley, 1997), Motivated...

The Study of University Students ’ Self - Concept