BACKGROUND Few researchers have the data required to adequately understand how the school environment impacts youth health behaviour development over time. METHODS/DESIGN COMPASS is a prospective cohort study designed to annually collect hierarchical longitudinal data from a sample of 90 secondary schools and the 50,000+ grade 9 to 12 students attending those schools. COMPASS uses a rigorous ...

Present study was undertaken to investigate the significance of relationship between alienation and emotional intelligences among urban adolescents. A sample of 200 adolescents was selected randomly from four Government senior secondary schools of urban areas of Ludhiana district of Punjab. A self constructed alienation scale (2014) and Emotional intelligence scale by Mangal and Mangal (2004) w...

This article provides an analysis of teachers’ perceptions of and responses to gendered harassment in Canadian secondary schools based on in-depth interviews with six teachers in one urban school district. Gendered harassment includes any behaviour that polices and reinforces traditional heterosexual gender norms such as (hetero)sexual harassment, homophobic harassment, and harassment for gende...

Health inequalities emerge during childhood and youth, before widening in adulthood. Theorising, testing and interrupting the mechanisms through which inequalities are perpetuated and sustained is vital. Schools are viewed as settings through which inequality in young people's health may be addressed, but few studies examine the social processes via which institutional structures reproduce or m...

This paper describes an integrated instructional model for integrating web-based instruction and classroom teaching in educational institutions in the Caribbean. Two studies are presented: one, a 1-semester Computer Science course for students at university level and the other, a 2-year course in Information Technology designed for secondary school students across the Caribbean. In each case, w...

This paper draws on insights gained from the evaluation of the Curriculum Innovation Projects (CIPs) conducted over 2003–2004 (Boyd et al., 2005). The four secondary schools and the school cluster in the CIPs were offered two years of additional Ministry of Education funding to assist them to implement local solutions which addressed some of the challenges of today’s educational environment. Fo...

Our purpose was to extend the Job Demand-Resources Model (Schaufeli & Bakker, 2004) by including personal resources, job demands and job resources to predict burnout (exhaustion, cynicism, depersonalization) and work engagement (vigour and dedication). The sample comprised 274 teachers from 23 secondary schools of the Valencian Community (Spain). Hierarchical multiple regression analyses have r...

Recent worldwide trends in curriculum policy have re-emphasised the role of teachers in school-based curriculum development. Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence is typical of these trends, stressing that teachers are agents of change. This paper draws upon empirical data to explore school-based curriculum development in response to Curriculum for Excellence. We focus on two case studies – seco...