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Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Of Middle School Teachers: A Study Of Their Relationship To School Climate And Student Achievement, Marsha Moye Jurewicz Jan 2004

Organizational Citizenship Behaviors Of Middle School Teachers: A Study Of Their Relationship To School Climate And Student Achievement, Marsha Moye Jurewicz

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In response to accountability issues mandated by federal and state legislation, educators are looking at various aspects within schools to identify relationships between school variables and student performance. This study addressed this issue by investigating the relationship between organizational citizenship behaviors of middle school teachers and student achievement, and organizational citizenship behaviors of middle school teachers and school climate within 82 middle schools throughout the state of Virginia. This study also explored the relative effects of student socio-economic status (SES) and organizational citizenship behaviors on student achievement. The Organizational Citizenship Behavior in School Scale (OCBS) was used to measure teacher …