Title of dissertation: INDIVIDUALAND CLASSROOMLEVEL SOCIAL SUPPORT AND CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR IN MIDDLE SCHOOL Shannon Lea Russell, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012 Dissertation directed by: Professor Kathryn R. Wentzel, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology This study investigated relations between middle school students’ perceptions of social support from their teachers and peers...

Background: Team-based learning is a structured type of cooperative learning that is becoming increasingly more popular in nursing education. This study compares levels of nursing students’ perception of the psycho-social climate of the classroom between conventional lecture group and team-based learning group.   Methods: In a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design ...

BACKGROUND School climate has been linked with improved academic achievement and reduced discipline problems, and thus is often a target of school improvement initiatives. However, few studies have examined the extent to which student and teacher perceptions vary as a function of individual, classroom, and school characteristics, or the level of congruence between teachers' and their students' ...

Research suggests that early classroom experiences influence the socialization of aggression. Tracking changes in the aggressive behavior of 4,179 children from kindergarten to second-grade (ages 5-8), this study examined the impact of 2 important features of the classroom context--aggregate peer aggression and climates characterized by supportive teacher-student interactions. The aggregate agg...

Research on classroom goal-structures (CGS) has shown the usefulness of assessing the classroom motivational climate to evaluate educational interventions and to promote changes in teachers' activity. So, the Classroom Motivational Climate Questionnaire for Secondary and High-School students was developed. To validate it, confirmatory factor analysis and correlation and regression analyses were...

This study examined the impact of training early childhood teachers in an emotional intelligence and classroom management program titled Conscious Discipline®. The researchers conducted eight one-day workshops monthly from September through April to an initial group of more than 200 participants. To assess attitudinal changes teachers answered a survey about their school climate and classroom m...

The main aim of this study is to investigate the effect of safe school and classroom climate on students’ reading achievement at both individual and class level. In previous research there is a consensus that a safe and secure school climate is of importance for children’s ability to learn, but the empirical support for this belief is weak. The current analyses are based on Swedish grade 3 data...

The present investigation focuses the study on Classroom Climate existing in Higher Secondary Schools of Puducherry District. Normative Survey Method has been used to collect a data by using random sampling techniques of 800 Higher Secondary School Students have been chosen and involved in this study. The collected data has been studied subjected to statistical analysis. This study indicates th...

BACKGROUND The tendency and motivation to progress and achieve the ideal position have always encouraged people towards acquiring the required education. OBJECTIVES The present research aimed to investigate the association of mental-social climate and social anxiety with self-efficiency and also predict the academic self-efficiency of first grade high school students based on social anxiety a...