A total of 196 secondary schools participated in the Secondary 2 Program of the Full Implementation Phase of the Project P.A.T.H.S. (Positive Adolescent Training through Holistic Social Programmes). After completion of the Tier 1 Program, 30,731 students responded to the Subjective Outcome Evaluation Form (Form A) to assess their perceptions of the program, instructors, and perceived effectiven...

Using data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988, we ask three questions. First, are there differences between single-sex and coeducational Catholic secondary school students in academic and social psychological outcomes? Second, do these differences especially favor young women in single-sex Catholic secondary schools, as prior research has concluded? Third, can pre-enrollment...

In the research, the primary and secondary school teachers’ styles of teaching, beliefs and applications related to the teaching approach have been analyzed in terms of teaching applications. In the research, in which descriptive and qualitative analyses have been carried out, mixed method has been used. The research has been performed with totally 200 teachers consisting of 106 women, 94 men w...

There is, internationally, increasing interest in the quality of children's character. This paper examines, in 21 elementary and 21 secondary schools, the role of classroom discipline in promoting student responsibility for the protection of learning and safety rights in the classroom. The results indicate that teachers are seen by students to react to classroom misbehavior by increasing their ...

The contribution of social context to school bullying was examined from the self-determination theory perspective in this longitudinal study of 536 adolescents from three secondary schools in Hong Kong. Latent class growth analysis of the student-reported data at five time points from Grade 7 to Grade 9 identified four groups of students: bullies (9.8%), victims (3.0%), bullyvictims (9.4%), and...

“Project-based learning (PBL) is a model that organizes learning around projects”(Thomas p.1, 2000). Projects are authentic tasks closely linked to learners' daily lives. By being engaged in projects, learners not only develop the 21st century skills but also promote their awareness of and care about surrounding environment and people. This research examines how the pupils in two lower secondar...

BACKGROUND Khat is widely consumed among the youth of Jazan region of Saudi Arabia. However, its prevalence is not well documented. OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to assess the prevalence and associated risk factors of khat chewing among college and secondary school students in Jazan region. METHODS The study was conducted in May 2006 in the colleges and secondary schools in Jazan regio...

Recent studies of technological education teachers in Germany, England, and Canada indicate that the socialization process these teachers undergo while adjusting to the profession is a difficult one (Hansen, 1998). Among other things, the adjustment is complicated by a preference for learning which is out of harmony with the teaching and learning strategies employed by teachers from other subje...

A great deal of interest has been shown in the British National Design and Technology Curriculum. A number of English Design and Technology education leaders have visited this country and a small group of American technology educators make periodic trips to Britain to observe the curriculum in action. Many of the reports provided to Americans by these individuals suggest that the British have T...