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The Impact Of Single-Gender Scheduling On Students In A Title I School, Janet L. Moss
The Impact Of Single-Gender Scheduling On Students In A Title I School, Janet L. Moss
Education Dissertations and Projects
This dissertation was designed to examine the impact that single-gender scheduling would have on students who attend a struggling Title I middle school. The importance of the middle level cannot be denied. Strong research points to this time in a student's life as the pivotal crux on which success and failure are balanced. Middle level educators are charged with the responsibility of tipping the scales in the favor of student success by arming them with the skills they will need to survive and succeed.
A middle school in the northeastern part of Mecklenburg County had the majority of its students …
An Attributional Analysis Of Students' Reactions To Success And Failure, Donelson R. Forsyth
An Attributional Analysis Of Students' Reactions To Success And Failure, Donelson R. Forsyth
Jepson School of Leadership Studies articles, book chapters and other publications
Like it or not, evaluation is as much a part of education as is learning. In most schools and universities students are regularly tested and evaluated by their teachers, who communicate their appraisals in the form of a grade. When the papers are handed back, the grades are posted, or report cards are sent home, students find out if they have succeeded or if they have failed.
How do students react to these academic evaluations? According to a growing number of studies, the answer to this question depends upon their attributions: students' inferences about the causes of their performances and …