The aim of the study is to analyse the achievement levels of undergraduate students attending to the faculty of education based on the type of the high schools they graduated from and their order of preferrence at the University Placement Examination. The sample of the study includes a total of 1957 undergraduate students attending to several departments within the faculty of education such as ...

The purpose of this study was to analyze foodservice operation, dietary life education, and nutrition counseling tasks of nutrition teachers and dietitians in elementary, middle, and high schools in Jeju, Korea, and to provide effective ways to implement dietary life education and nutrition counseling in schools. This study surveyed 94 nutrition teachers and 46 dietitians working at elementary,...

he era of reform has arrived at the doorstep and captured the full attention of schools across America. In many communities, fundamental assumptions about teaching and learning, particularly in high schools, are being carefully scrutinized and, in some cases, transformed dramatically. For the past fifteen years (i.e., since the publication of A Nation at Risk), the political, economic, and soci...

Valuing School Quality via a School Choice Reform Among policymakers, educators and economists there remains a strong, sometimes heated, debate on the extent to which good schools matter. This is seen, for instance, in the strong trend towards establishing accountability systems in education in many countries across the world. In this paper, in line with some recent studies, we value school qua...

Making science relevant in students’ learning is an important aspect of science education. This involves the ability to draw in examples from daily contexts to begin with the learning or to apply concepts learnt into familiar everyday phenomena that students observe and experience around them. Another important aspect of science education is the integration of practical work in students’ learni...

This study, which has a correlational survey design, aims to investigate creativity among children in kindergartens, primary, middle and high schools. The population of this study is comprised of all children attending kindergartens, primary, middle and high schools in the 2011–2012 academic years. The sample of the study consisted of a total of 1200 students, 100 of whom were randomly selected...

The efficacy of academic-mind-set interventions has been demonstrated by small-scale, proof-of-concept interventions, generally delivered in person in one school at a time. Whether this approach could be a practical way to raise school achievement on a large scale remains unknown. We therefore delivered brief growth-mind-set and sense-of-purpose interventions through online modules to 1,594 stu...

OBJECTIVES This article examines the hypothesis that in street robbery location choices, the importance of location attributes is conditional on the time of day and on the day of the week. METHOD The hypothesis is assessed by estimating and comparing separate discrete location choice models for each two-hour time block of the day and for each day of the week. The spatial units of analysis are...

Across the two states, school counseling was shown to be related to a range of important student outcomes including increased Math proficiency levels, increased Reading proficiency levels, lower suspension rates, lower disciplinary rates, increased attendance rates, higher graduation rates, higher Perkins program completion rates, greater percentages of students taking the ACT and higher averag...

Inclusive STEM high schools (ISHSs) (where STEM is science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) admit students on the basis of interest rather than competitive examination. This study examines the central assumption behind these schools-that they provide students from subgroups underrepresented in STEM with experiences that equip them academically and attitudinally to enter and stay in th...