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Johnson, Sarah Lindstrom; Burke, Jessica Griffin; Gielen, Andrea Carlson – Children & Schools, 2012
This article provides information about aspects of the school environment students perceive to influence the occurrence of school violence. Concept mapping, a mixed-methods methodology, was used with two groups of urban, primarily African American high school students (N = 27) to create conceptual frameworks of their understanding of the school…
Descriptors: Violence, Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Concept Mapping
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Powers, Joelle D.; Bowen, Gary L.; Rose, Roderick A. – Children & Schools, 2005
Evidence-based practice (EBP) requires that school social workers base their interventions on established empirical links between desired results and the determinants of these results. Using survey results from 10,344 middle and high school students who were administered the School Success Profile (SSP), this study examined the relationship…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Student Attitudes, Intervention, Social Work
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Chapman, Mimi V. – Children & Schools, 2003
Investigates associations between students' perceptions of their social environment and academic outcomes. Results suggest that contextual factors influence students over and above their perceptions of their environment and demonstrate the value of considering the social context in which a students lives when choosing interventions. (Contains 36…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Context Effect, Economic Factors, Intervention