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Administrators' Conceptions Of Corporal Punishment On Elementary School Students, Betty Jean Marshall
Administrators' Conceptions Of Corporal Punishment On Elementary School Students, Betty Jean Marshall
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
There is a considerable gap in practice between research on the negative aspects of corporal punishment and its continued use by public school administrators on elementary school students in educational settings. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenographic study was to understand the conceptions of administrators’ practices specific to the use of corporal punishment in public elementary schools. The research questions addressed the conceptions of administrators about the efficacy of corporal punishment and the infliction of physical punishment in 4 elementary schools in the southeastern United States. Bandura’s social learning theory and Hirschi’s social control theory were used to form the …
The Impact Of A New Teacher Support System On Teacher Efficacy, Tonja Denise Simpson
The Impact Of A New Teacher Support System On Teacher Efficacy, Tonja Denise Simpson
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Retaining novice teachers is a major concern for school districts across the United States. At an urban high school in a Southeastern state, over 30% of novice teachers hired over a 3-year period did not return after their first year of teaching. The purpose of the study was to examine novice teachers' perceptions of support received during their first year to determine how school-based support could increase novice teacher retention. The theoretical framework was Bandura's theory of self-efficacy and the concept of teacher efficacy espoused by Tschannen-Moran, Woolfolk-Hoy, and Hoy. The research questions focused on the perceptions of novice teachers …