Considering that organizational climate corresponds to what organizational actors mostly represent and with regard to their organization and taking into account that the most intense student experiences occur within the classroom, we wanted to know whether student views on teachers’ leadership and practices are related to what they perceive as school climate. The students came from schools all ...

Research was conducted on associations between classroom psychosocial environment in mathematics classrooms and academic efficacy. A sample of 3,602 mathematics students from Australian, British and Canadian secondary schools responded to an instrument that assessed 10 dimensions of mathematics classroom environment (viz. Student Cohesiveness, Teacher Support, Investigation, Task Orientation, C...

Children with auditory processing disorders (APD) were fitted with Phonak EduLink FM devices for home and classroom use. Baseline measures of the children with APD, prior to FM use, documented significantly lower speech-perception scores, evidence of decreased academic performance, and psychosocial problems in comparison to an age- and gender-matched control group. Repeated measures during the ...

Bio-demographic diversity which refers to age and gender of members in a team, has been frequently identified to influence team innovation directly. As the theories expanded, biodemographic diversity was suggested to influence team innovation via psychosocial trait and interaction process. This study examines those suggestions, in which psychosocial trait and interaction process were operationa...

THE early theories of teaching styles operative within the instructional setting, were based on a few classical studies describing the social climate of the classroom. The most frequently quoted research of Anderson (2) and Lippitt-White (18) tended to view teacher leadership in terms of polar roles—dominative and integrative, auth oritarian or democratic teaching styles. The term "climate" was...

There is growing emphasis on the use of positive behavior supports rather than exclusionary discipline strategies to promote a positive classroom environment. Yet, there has been limited research examining the association between these two different approaches to classroom management and students' perceptions of school climate. Data from 1902 students within 93 classrooms that were nested withi...

This paper describes a work in progress in which multimedia is integrated into classroom instruction with the goal of enhancing clinical reasoning skills among third year occupational therapy students. The integration of multimedia and problem-based learning is designed to create a clinical climate in the classroom. The goal is to provide additional opportunities to use learning materials, and ...

T he number of women earning bachelor’s degrees in computer science (CS) peaked at 15 126 in 1986 but plunged to 7063 by 1995. Since then, the number has increased slightly to 10 474 in 2000 [18, tab. 222]. Yet, a survey of incoming freshman in 2002 revealed that only 3.2 percent of women planned to major in CS, compared to 14.6 percent of men [17, p. 2-6]. Although a growing number of women ea...

This study explored the association between psychosocial work characteristics and incidence of depression as indicated in three complementary models (the Job Strain Model, the Team Climate Model, and the Procedural Justice Model). Participants were 4815 Finnish hospital personnel (4278 women and 537 men) free from diagnosed depression at entry into the study. A baseline survey in 1998 measured ...