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Factors Affecting Policy In Educational Media Services, Diane S. Barker
Factors Affecting Policy In Educational Media Services, Diane S. Barker
Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education
Teachers use a variety of resources to motivate students and to enrich and expand learning experiences in the classroom. Media, including films, videotapes, and other audiovisual materials, are some of those resources.
Over the years, as teacher access to media increased, researchers began to investigate factors which encouraged or discouraged its use. Factors which had an impact on teacher use or lack of use of media were and are important indicators to administrators responsible for allocating resources and for establishing policy concerning how media are organized and distributed.
The purpose of the study was to investigate current factors involved in …
Parent Participation In The Educational Process And Student Achievement, Linda Worrell Deans
Parent Participation In The Educational Process And Student Achievement, Linda Worrell Deans
Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education
The purpose of this study was to determine the level of parental involvement between parent and child as well as between parent and school. After the level of parent participation was established, the data set was used to determine whether a relationship exists between the level of parental involvement and student achievement at selected secondary urban schools. The selected secondary schools include two different school divisions.
The study employed five approaches: (1) a descriptive analysis of the variables of parental interaction with the child as it relates to a personal, affective level; a monitoring level; and a social level; as …