Combining the Resources of the Education System and Civil Society in Building a Model of Preventive Work with Children at “Risk Group”

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-122
Author(s):  
Yu.A. Puchkina ◽  
A.I. Timofeeva
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
General Scheme ◽  
Complex Model ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
School Students ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
The Individual

The article analyzes the practice of intersectoral interaction in building a comprehensive model of working with adolescents at risk, in particular, those who are in conflict. The model is based on combining the resources of schools, methodological structures, universities, non(profit organizations and volunteer communities. The article deals with the individual components of the model, which in each specific situation allow you to design your own scenario for working with the case of a teenager. The key components of the model are based on a restorative approach. The experience of conducting community Circles in situations of multidimensional conflicts and their integration into the General scheme of work with teenagers is presented. The article also reflects the practice of adapting the Belgian program of individual teenagers’ support to the system of work of the Russian school and shows its role in the complex model of deviant behavior prevention. Another component of the model is the technology of mentoring children at risk, implemented with the participation of student volunteers or high school students. The article focuses on the translation of this model to schools and providing methodological support to educational organizations in the case of its implementation.

Discriminant Validation of the Test of Reading Performance (TORP) for Identifying Children at Risk of Reading Difficulties

2000 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Padeliadu Susana ◽  
Georgios D. Sideridis
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Elementary School Students ◽  
Reading Difficulties ◽  
Reading Performance ◽  
Low Achievers ◽  
Children At Risk ◽  
School Students ◽  
Students At Risk ◽  
Group A ◽  
The Mean

Abstract This study investigated the discriminant validation of the Test of Reading Performance (TORP), a new scale designed to evaluate the reading performance of elementary-school students. The sample consisted of 181 elementary-school students drawn from public elementary schools in northern Greece using stratified random procedures. The TORP was hypothesized to measure six constructs, namely: “letter knowledge,” “phoneme blending,” “word identification,” “syntax,” “morphology,” and “passage comprehension.” Using standard deviations (SD) from the mean, three groups of students were formed as follows: A group of low achievers in reading (N = 9) including students who scored between -1 and -1.5 SD from the mean of the group. A group of students at risk of reading difficulties (N = 6) including students who scored between -1.5 and -2 SDs below the mean of the group. A group of students at risk of serious reading difficulties (N = 6) including students who scored -2 or more SDs below the mean of the group. The rest of the students (no risk, N = 122) comprised the fourth group. Using discriminant analyses it was evaluated how well the linear combination of the 15 variables that comprised the TORP could discriminate students of different reading ability. Results indicated that correct classification rates for low achievers, those at risk for reading problems, those at risk of serious reading problems, and the no-risk group were 89%, 100%, 83%, and 97%, respectively. Evidence for partial validation of the TORP was provided through the use of confirmatory factor analysis and indices of sensitivity and specificity. It is concluded that the TORP can be ut ilized for the identification of children at risk for low achievement in reading. Analysis of the misclassified cases indicated that increased variability might have been responsible for the existing misclassification. More research is needed to determine the discriminant validation of TORP with samples of children with specific reading disabilities.

After the Blackbird Whistles: Listening to Silence in Classrooms

2010 ◽  
Vol 112 (11) ◽  
pp. 2833-2849 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Schultz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
School Students ◽  
Student Talk ◽  
The Individual

Background/Context Students spend a large part of their time in schools in silence. However, teachers tend to spend most of their time attending to student talk. Anthropological and linguistic research has contributed to an understanding of silence in particular communities, offering explanations for students’ silence in school. This research raised questions about the silence of marginalized groups of students in classrooms, highlighting teachers’ role in this silencing and drawing on limited meanings of silence. More recently, research on silence has conceptualized silence as a part of a continuum. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study The purpose of this project was to review existing literature and draw on two longitudinal research studies to understand the functions and uses of silence in everyday classroom practice. I explore the question, How might paying attention to the productivity of student silence and the possibilities it contains add to our understanding of student silence in educational settings? Silence holds multiple meanings for individuals within and across racial, ethnic, and cultural groups. However, in schools, silence is often assigned a limited number of meanings. This article seeks to add to educators’ and researchers’ tools for interpreting classroom silence. Research Design The article is based on two longitudinal qualitative studies. The first was an ethnographic study of the literacy practices of high school students in a multiracial high school on the West Coast. This study was designed with the goal of learning about adolescents’ literacy practices in and out of school during their final year of high school and in their first few years as high school graduates. The second study documents discourses of race and race relations in a postdesegregated middle school. The goal of this 3-year study was to gather the missing student perspectives on their racialized experiences in school during the desegregation time period. Conclusions/Recommendations Understanding the role of silence for the individual and the class as a whole is a complex process that may require new ways of conceptualizing listening. I conclude that an understanding of the meanings of silence through the practice of careful listening and inquiry shifts a teacher's practice and changes a teacher's understanding of students’ participation. I suggest that teachers redefine participation in classrooms to include silence.

scholarly journals Parental Involvement and High School Dropout: Perspectives from Students, Parents, and Mathematics Teachers

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 469-480
Author(s):  
Giang-Nguyen T. ◽  
Byron Havard ◽  
Barbara Otto
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Parental Involvement ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
School Students ◽  
Education Statistics ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
The Individual

<p>Students drop out of schools for many reasons, and it has negative effects on the individual and society. This paper reports a study using data published in 2015 from the Educational Longitudinal Study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics to analyze the influence of parental involvement on low-achieving U.S. students’ graduation rates from high school. Findings indicate that both students and parents share the same perspective on the need for parental involvement in their academic progress. For low-achieving high school students, parental involvement in academic work is a positive factor influencing students’ graduation from high school.</p>

scholarly journals Óptica sociológica y dimensión cultural en el estudio de los jóvenes en un contexto urbano marginal / Sociological Perspective and Cultural Dimension in the Research about the Youth in a Marginal Urban Context

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ksenia Sidorova
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Urban Area ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Young Subject ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
The Individual

ABSTRACTHow can we approach the process of construction of young men and women as subjects in the case of a group of high school students, who, in some cases, come from the families of maya origin and are inhabitants of a marginalized urban area in the southeast of Mexico? In this paper I argue that their way of being, relationship with structures, future projects, and notions of “good life” become intelligible through an approach that puts into dialogue the concepts of social experience (Dubet, 2011) and otherness. The first one is a valuable tool that allows to discover a particular dialectic of integrationsubjectivation, which characterizes the relationship of these young people with social institutions and actors. The second one locates the students as constructors of a symbolic universe, where different cultural elements, among them those originated in the family and in school, interact. The representation of a young subject that I construct differs from the stereotypes – usually negative and homogeneous– that are used to describe the urban area in question; it also allows to understand the necessities and aspirations of these individuals according to their own notions of good life, in which the individual and the communal aspects are merged.RESUMEN¿Cómo podemos estudiar la construcción del sujeto en el caso de un grupo de jóvenes estudiantes de un bachillerato universitario, algunos de los cuales provienen de las familias de origen maya, habitantes de una zona urbana marginal, en el sureste de México? Arguyo que su forma de ser, relación con las estructuras, proyectos a futuro y nociones de la vida buena cobran inteligibilidad mediante un acercamiento que pone a dialogar los conceptos de experiencia social (Dubet, 2011) y alteridad. El primero representa una herramienta conceptual valiosa para descubrir una dialéctica sui géneris de integración-subjetivación que caracteriza la relación de estos jóvenes con las diversas instituciones y actores sociales. El segundo ubica a los jóvenes como constructores de un universo de sentido, en el que interactúan elementos culturales propios de sus familias de origen y el bachillerato universitario, entre otros. La representación del sujeto joven que construyo se aleja de aquellos estereotipos –generalmente negativos y homogeneizantes– que circulan acerca de los jóvenes de la zona en cuestión; asimismo permite comprender las necesidades y aspiraciones de estos individuos acorde a sus propias nociones de la vida buena en las cuales se funden lo individual y lo comunal.

scholarly journals SISTEM PENDUKUNG KEPUTUSAN PEMBAYARAN BEASISWA DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE WEIGHTED PRODUCT (WP)

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Evasaria M Sipayung ◽  
Yosi Yonata ◽  
Chrevita J Rende
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Information System ◽  
High School Students ◽  
School Students ◽  
Or Education ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Product Method ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Selection Of

Anak Pelangi Indonesia (API) Foundation is a non-profit foundation that offers scholarship programs for elementary, middle and high school students. This institute is supported by donaturs who give contribution to the Foundation. The donation is processed to be a cost that is used to pay Sumbangan Pembinaan Pendidikan (SPP) or Education Development Donation of each student. Currently, the provision of monthly donor fund is at uncertain amount so that the Foundation needs to determine the students of whom SPP will be firstly paid. However, the funding needs of each student are different due to the different amount of SPP and a giving fine from the school for the tardiness in paying the tuition. From these matters, the Foundation finds it difficult in deciding which students whose the tuition will be paid first. The solution to this problem is to use the four criteria referring to the tuition payment, namely the difference of pay date, fine, rank, and the amount of payment. The four criteria is then given the same integrity which is 25% for each criteria and counted by using Weighted Product (WP) method. The result of this research is an information system to the selection of scholarship payment using Weight Product method that takes the biggest value from the calculation result as a reference in deciding which students of whom SPP will be initially paid in accordance with the current fund condition.

scholarly journals A longitudinal study of the trajectories of deviant behavior among junior high school students

2009 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasuyo Nishino ◽  
Tatsuo Ujiie ◽  
Katsumi Ninomiya ◽  
Atsushi Igarashi ◽  
Hiromitsu Inoue ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
School Students

scholarly journals Self-efficacy, Adaptability and Intention of Searching for Vocational Guidance in Adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Augusto Matteo Ambiel ◽  
Thaline da Cunha Moreira ◽  
Dianniffer Aparecida Oliveira ◽  
Edson Cardoso Pereira ◽  
Débora Noemi Hernandez
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Vocational Guidance ◽  
Career Adaptability ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Vocational guidance (VG) involves several variables that can help the individual to make a professional choice and build his or her career. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship between self-efficacy for professional choice and career adaptability in high school students, as well as to verify possible differences regarding the intention or not to participate in a VG process. 272 students participated in this study, from a public school, aged between 14 and 19 years, 51.5% female. A Sociodemographic Questionnaire, the Self-efficacy Scale for Professional Choice (EAE-EP) and the Career Adapt-Abilities Scale (CAAS-Brazil) were applied. From the Pearson correlation analysis, ANOVA and Cohen’s d, the results indicated positive correlations between the constructs, in addition, it was observed the difference between the students who would like or not to undergo a VG process. Implications for the practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Examination of Cognitive Flexibility Levels of Young Individual and Team Sport Athletes

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Şehmus Aslan
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Team Sports ◽  
Team Sport ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Sports

The purpose of this study was to compare the level of cognitive flexibility of individual and team athletes who are students. The study included a total of 237 volunteer athletes, comprising 140 males (59.1%) and 97 females (40.9%) with a mean age of 18.98 ± 2.18 years (range, 16-26 years) who were licensed to participate in individual and team sports. Study data were collected using the Cognitive Flexibility Scale developed by Martin and Rubin (1995), which consists of 12 items in total. International validity and reliability studies were conducted by Martin and Rubin, and Turkish validity and reliability studies were conducted by Çelikkaleli on high school students (Çelikkaleli, 2014). The scores of the Cognitive Flexibility Scale were found to be higher in the team sports athletes compared with the individual sports athletes (p<0.05). No difference was determined between the levels of cognitive flexibility in male and female athletes. The results indicated that the cognitive flexibility levels of team athletes are higher than those of individual athletes.

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