DIMENSIONS OF TIME USE ATTITUDES AMONG MIDDLE-HIGH SES STUDENTS

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ephraim Ben Baruch ◽  
James Edward Bruno ◽  
L. Lolly Horn
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Time Use ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Classroom Behavior ◽  
School Organization ◽  
School Dropouts ◽  
School Students ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
The Moment

Time use attitudes (TUA) of students is an important, but often neglected variable that can assist teachers in their understanding of student classroom behavior. This study empirically examines( time use attitudes for a group of 353 elementary and secondary school students. Using factor analytic techniques, four major constructs or dimensions to student attitudes towards time were extracted. These constructs included views of time that might be considered as Instinctive – (time use as dictated by the moment or instincts), Traditional (time use as dictated by market or economic forces) and Integrated – (time use as dictated by feelings and combinations of all three). The finding that students present themselves in classrooms with heterogeneous perceptions of time, while the school organization operates within a homogeneous (Traditional) view of time, presents special problems for students. The study strongly suggests that teachers and administrators, become more aware of the differences in time use attitudes of students when designing instructional strategies and developing curriculum. Important school policies dealing with issues such as school dropouts, vandalism, truancy, and year round schools could also be based upon a consideration of how students view time.

scholarly journals Exploring the Impacts of Student-Led Sustainability Projects with Secondary School Students and Teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2790
Author(s):  
Paul Vare
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
School Context ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Student Agency ◽  
School Students ◽  
Cultural Historical Activity ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact

Secondary school students are granted few opportunities to change their world, yet they are expected to engage fully as citizens the moment they leave school. This issue is growing starker with multiple global crises contributing to mental health concerns. This situation stimulated a practical education for sustainability project designed to promote student agency by supporting small, student-led, community-based projects, planned and supported within the secondary school context. This research ran alongside the project in order to investigate (a) the impact of implementing these projects on the students involved and (b) the implications of this for their teachers. The research approach was based on Cultural-historical Activity Theory, which explores the learning generated through multi-layered interactions within a given activity system. In stimulating student agency, it was clear that the project had challenged existing practice. Students sensed a shift in power relations, remarking on how teachers respected and listened to their opinions. Those teachers who appeared more authoritarian appeared to experience the greatest transformation although ceding power did not come naturally, particularly where this challenged notions around teacher responsibility. In this way, teachers’ professionalism threatened to become the means by which they withheld power from their students. Implications of this for schools and policy are considered.

Social Representations, Risk Behaviors and AIDS

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 565-575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigido Vizeu Camargo ◽  
Andréa Barbará S. Bousfield
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Risk Behaviors ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Sexual Partners ◽  
Unprotected Sex ◽  
School Students ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Relationship

This study's interest relies on adolescents' social representations of unprotected sex, more precisely on the relationship between the attitude towards the preservative and the reason attribution for its non use. 1386 secondary school students took part in the study, in the Brazilian cities of Florianópolis, Itajaí and Balneário Camboriú. In order to verify reasons attributed by the students, we focused on the sample that had sexual experiences without using the condom during last year. Data was analyzed with software ALCESTE, which showed three different classes of explanations for the non use of the preservative: the moment of the intercourse (unpredictable and incontrollable), trust in the partner and the option of the contraceptive pill, instead of the preservatives, in avoiding pregnancy. The students' attitudes towards the preservative are less favourable among those who maintain sexual intercourse with known people. The results revealed two representations of AIDS: one of trust in the partner and another of the experience with sex and the preservative – the first one gives sense to the adolescents' experiences with known sexual partners and the second, with less known sexual partners.

Using Secondary School Students’ Perceptions to Develop a Structural Model for Attitude to Christianity

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 248-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey P. Dorman ◽  
Campbell J. McRobbie
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Classroom Environment ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Religious Behavior ◽  
School Students

Over the past 30 years, independent lines of research in the fields of classroom environment and student attitudes to Christianity have been conducted. This research brought these two fields together by hypothesizing a model for the relationship among age, gender, students’ perceptions of religion classroom environment, students’ religious behavior and attitudes to Christianity. Responses from 815 Australian Catholic secondary school students on four attitude to Christianity scales, four classroom environment scales and the religious behavior of students and their parents were analyzed. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to validate the structure of the classroom environment and attitude to Christianity measures. Goodness of fit indices obtained from structural equation modeling revealed that the hypothesized model was a satisfactory fit to the data. Statistically significant path coefficients for the influence of students’ religious behavior and students’ perceptions of the religion classroom environment on students’ attitude to Christianity were found.

Evaluation of a Summer-School Program for Highly Gifted Secondary-School Students: The German Pupils Academy

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 214-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heinz Neber ◽  
Kurt A. Heller
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Summer School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
School Program ◽  
School Students ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Regulatory Strategies ◽  
Cognitive Framework

Summary The German Pupils Academy (Deutsche Schüler-Akademie) is a summer-school program for highly gifted secondary-school students. Three types of program evaluation were conducted. Input evaluation confirmed the participants as intellectually highly gifted students who are intrinsically motivated and interested to attend the courses offered at the summer school. Process evaluation focused on the courses attended by the participants as the most important component of the program. Accordingly, the instructional approaches meet the needs of highly gifted students for self-regulated and discovery oriented learning. The product or impact evaluation was based on a multivariate social-cognitive framework. The findings indicate that the program contributes to promoting motivational and cognitive prerequisites for transforming giftedness into excellent performances. To some extent, the positive effects on students' self-efficacy and self-regulatory strategies are due to qualities of the learning environments established by the courses.

Ethnolinguistic Identity and Television Use in a Minority Language Setting

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jake Harwood ◽  
Laszlo Vincze
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Minority Language ◽  
German Language ◽  
Tv Viewing ◽  
School Students ◽  
Ethnolinguistic Vitality ◽  
Ethnolinguistic Identity ◽  
Television Use

Based on the model of Reid, Giles and Abrams (2004 , Zeitschrift für Medienpsychologie, 16, 17–25), this paper describes and analyzes the relation between television use and ethnolinguistic-coping strategies among German speakers in South Tyrol, Italy. The data were collected among secondary school students (N = 415) in 2011. The results indicated that the television use of the students was dominated by the German language. A mediation analysis revealed that TV viewing contributed to the perception of ethnolinguistic vitality, the permeability of intergroup boundaries, and status stability, which in turn affected ethnolinguistic-coping strategies of mobility (moving toward the outgroup), creativity (maintaining identity without confrontation), and competition (fighting for ingroup rights and respect). Findings and theoretical implications are discussed.

Smart Girls, Dumb Boys!?

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Latsch ◽  
Bettina Hannover
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Stereotype Threat ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Learning Goals ◽  
School Students ◽  
Compensatory Strategies ◽  
Media Portrayal ◽  
Stereotype Lift ◽  
The Media

We investigated effects of the media’s portrayal of boys as “scholastic failures” on secondary school students. The negative portrayal induced stereotype threat (boys underperformed in reading), stereotype reactance (boys displayed stronger learning goals towards mathematics but not reading), and stereotype lift (girls performed better in reading but not in mathematics). Apparently, boys were motivated to disconfirm their group’s negative depiction, however, while they could successfully apply compensatory strategies when describing their learning goals, this motivation did not enable them to perform better. Overall the media portrayal thus contributes to the maintenance of gender stereotypes, by impairing boys’ and strengthening girls’ performance in female connoted domains and by prompting boys to align their learning goals to the gender connotation of the domain.

Gender and Age Changes in Math Mindset in Urban Sample of Elementary and Secondary School Students

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beijia Tan ◽  
Jenee Love ◽  
Leigh Harrell-Williams ◽  
Christian E. Mueller ◽  
Martin H. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary School Students ◽  
Age Changes ◽  
School Students ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Urban Sample
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