scholarly journals Unpacking middle school achievement: how students perceive the effect of home, school, and community influences on their academic success

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Tracy A. Worthington
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Home School ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Community Influences ◽  
School And Community ◽  
And Coping

This transcendental phenomenological study set out to determine the nature and extent of influence on student success, as perceived by selected rising seventh-grade students at a particular mid-West middle school (grades 6-8), through analysis of a student-centered narrative. In particular, this study sought to ascertain how and why certain students believe they were successful, and how students perceive home, school, and community people and places to be positive and negative influences on their success in and outside of school. Analysis revealed that students see themselves ("self"), as well as individuals and places outside the home and school ("places and faces"), along with rewards and punishments (a "double-edged sword"), as combined influences on their success. Analysis of the student narrative also led to the development of an ecological footprint for the selected school, which revealed more influence from the macro-system than previously suggested by prior research. As such, it may be wise for schools, families, and community agencies, programs and individuals to develop mental health and coping strategies and programs to promote student success. Keywords: ecological systems theory, student voice, student success, middle school

Unpacking Middle School students’ perceptions regarding influences on academic success

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 43-64
Author(s):  
Tracy Worthington
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
First Year ◽  
School Students ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Teaching And Learning Environment ◽  
Community Influences ◽  
Sixth Grade Students

This single site case study examined influences on student success, as perceived by twelve selected sixth grade students (ages 11-12), at a mid-West U.S. middle school (grades 6-8). Using a strengths-based positivist approach, it examined how and why participants thought they had been academically successful during their first year of secondary school. Analysis of the resulting student-centered narrative applied elements of ecological systems theory to determine home, school, and community influences on academic success. This study reinforces the importance of listening to students, recognising the role student voice can have to improve the overall teaching and learning environment.

Minding the Gap: A (Re)consideration of Influences on Student Success

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Tracy Worthington
Keyword(s):  
International Students ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Home School ◽  
Academically Successful ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Teaching And Learning Environment

Drawing partly on publicly accessible commentary on 2015 Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) scores (Organisation for Economic Cooperation Development, [OECD], 2016),i this article reminds educators of the need to reflect on past, present, and possible future interventions and strategies to help all students be academically successful. Discussion includes how a STEM/STEAM-based 21st century skills framework can have a positive impact on student achievement by creating an engaging, challenging, rigorous, student-centered teaching and learning environment. The article stresses the importance of taking a unified ecological approach involving home, school, and community settings when attempting to understand how and why students have been academically successful, and conversely unsuccessful. Reminding educators of the importance of reform across the entire PK-21 setting, this article provides a timely (re)discussion of a perennial yet crucial educational topic on how to meet the needs of current and future students in a rapidly changing world.

Psychological Mind-Set and Student Success: The Importance of Internal Locus of Control in Students Who Overachieve

2019 ◽  
pp. 152102511989598
Author(s):  
Justin P. Micomonaco ◽  
Benjamin D. Espinoza
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Internal Locus ◽  
Internal Locus Of Control ◽  
Mind Set

Improving student success outcomes such as persistence and graduation rates remains a priority for higher education institutions, scholars, and advocates. Recent scholarly work argues for more qualitative work in this area to develop a deeper understanding of the issue and to identify more effective ways to increase college completion rates across all populations. This study examines student success by focusing on an understudied population in the literature: overachievers. We define overachievers as students who matriculate in the lowest quartile of an institution’s standardized test score range but are selected and persist as honors students after their first collegiate semester. This phenomenological study highlights the prevalence of a strong internal locus of control among overachievers. Using Bean and Eaton’s student success model as a framework, we explore how our participants operationalized an internal locus of control to achieve academic success in college and consider how higher education institutions can promote this mind-set and its related practices among students on their campuses.

Family Support and Conflict and Academic Success in Middle School Children

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peggy J. Cantrell ◽  
Beth Bailey ◽  
Christine L. Pearson ◽  
Chandni Patel
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Family Support ◽  
School Children ◽  
Middle School Children

scholarly journals Middle School Students’ Perceptions of the Quality of School Life in Ankara

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Figen Eres ◽  
Pinar Bilasa
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Middle School Students ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
School Management ◽  
School Life ◽  
School Students ◽  
Quality Perception ◽  
Quality Of School Life

The aim of this research is to measure the perception of middle school students in Ankara regarding the quality of school life. According to the findings obtained, the students have moderate level perceptions about the quality of school life. Their perceptions about sub-dimensions vary. While the students have the highest perceptions about sub-dimension “status”, they have the lowest perceptions about “school management”. The students have moderate perceptions about sub-dimension “student” which includes mutual relations between students. Similarly, they have moderate perceptions about feelings towards the school which include items related with school image as perceived by the students. The school management, which is directly responsible for the school climate and image, has an impact on life quality perception. Analyzing school life quality of the students by their demographic features, it was found that female students and students in a class consisting of 10-20 students have higher school life quality perception. Although academic success of the students varies, their school life quality perception does not vary.

“Caring for the Elderly is Very Difficult”: Challenges and Coping Strategies of Caregivers in Urban Poor Accra, Ghana

2020 ◽  
pp. 105477382098230
Author(s):  
Frank Kyei-Arthur ◽  
Samuel Nii Ardey Codjoe
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Family Caregiving ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Phenomenological Study ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Elderly Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Care Recipients ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
And Coping

This study is part of a broader phenomenological study on the experiences of family caregivers and their care recipients. There is a general paucity of research on the experiences of primary and secondary caregivers, and the negative impact of elderly care on caregivers in the urban poor settings in Ghana. This study explored primary and secondary caregivers’ challenges and coping strategies in the urban poor context in Accra, Ghana. This study was conducted in Ga Mashie. Thirty-one caregivers were interviewed. A phenomenological analysis was conducted using NVivo 10. Primary and secondary caregivers experienced economic, physical, social, and psychological burdens. Also, caregivers used spirituality and perseverance to cope with their challenges. The findings demonstrate that caregivers’ challenges varied by type of caregiver. Researchers and policymakers should consider the type of caregiver when designing interventions to mitigate the negative impacts of family caregiving on caregivers.

scholarly journals Dare to Dream: Promoting Indigenous Children's Interest in Health Professions through Book Collections

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-55
Author(s):  
Monique Clar ◽  
Éric Drouin ◽  
Sandy Iverson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Success ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Information Science ◽  
School Achievement ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Book Selection ◽  
Service Project ◽  
Book Collections

Introduction: Indigenous peoples in Canada experience significant health challenges, but few pursue careers in the health sciences. Two programs by medical librarians designed to encourage children in First Nations communities to dream of careers in the health professions will be presented. Description: An academic library in [Province] developed children’s health and science book collections with Indigenous school libraries. Library and information science students, as well as a librarian, participated in health education activities in the recipient schools. This project inspired the community service project of the joint MLA/CHLA-ABSC/ICLC Mosaic|Mosaïque 2016 conference, which focused on placing similar collections in Ontario Indigenous communities. The mechanics, benefits, and challenges of the programs will be discussed including book selection and delivery. Outcomes: Hundreds of books have been delivered and informal qualitative evaluative data from the recipient communities indicates positive outcomes. Some difficulties in providing optimal access to the books were identified due to communication problems or the relative lack of library infrastructure in these communities. Discussion: Reading for pleasure is linked to student's academic success. Access to varied and quality literature is important for school achievement, therefore these collections may potentially impact student’s future life chances. While a direct correlation between these collections and student’s future career choices cannot be easily measured, it is known that Indigenous high school graduates frequently choose to pursue professions linked to the needs of the community. Therefore any materials drawing attention to potential community health needs may well influence student’s choices.

Bullying: Home, School and Community

1998 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1231
Author(s):  
Dean X. Parmelee ◽  
Norman J. Geller
Keyword(s):  
Home School ◽  
School And Community

We, The Patients

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 574-574
Author(s):  
SALLY ANN PROVENCE
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Home School ◽  
School And Community

This is a revised edition of a book first published in 1939 and written primarily for parents. It represents, in the author's words, "A point of view that has grown through the years." It deals with a variety of things with which parents are concerned in rearing their children—authority and freedom, punishment, discipline, truthfulness and lying, individual capacities and formation of attitudes. There is a section on the role of the home, school and community in the child's development. The radios, movies and comics are discussed in an unprejudiced manner. Throughout the book the author reveals a sympathetic understanding of children and their parents. Her "point of view" seems to this reviewer for the most part wise and useful.

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