Barriers preventing parental involvement in mainstream education of children with specific learning disabilities: parent perspectives

This study aims to investigate the barriers to parental involvement in Jordanian mainstream schools from the parents’ perspective. A 36-item questionnaire that addressed five domains was designed specifically for this study and distributed to 206 parents of children with specific learning disabilities. The results reveal that the main barrier to parental involvement relates to parents’ beliefs, followed by barriers related to mainstream schools’ teachers and team work, while ‘available facilities’ was viewed as the least significant barrier. The results indicate that there were statistically significant differences regarding parental income level for each of the five domains and the overall scale, but there were no differences attributable to parents’ educational levels and gender. Based on these findings, a number of suggestions and recommendations are made.     

Situational Indexes of Achievement Motivation,Help-Seeking,and Performance: Influences of the Learning Context and Gender Differences

Abstract

Sixteen college athletes and non-athletes were given 10 30-sec. practice trials to learn how to balance on a stabilometer. The next day they were allowed three more trials alone and three trials before a group of spectators. The non-athletes were significantly better on two of the three trials performed in front of the spectators. They also performed better than the athletes throughout the ten practice trials, although the tenth and last trial approached but did not yield a significant difference at the .05 level.     

Emotion regulation and academic perceptions in adolescence

Although studied extensively in the field of adolescent mental health, the role of emotion regulation (ER) in the academic functioning of adolescents is not well understood. This study examined the role of ER in adolescents’ perceptions of themselves and their learning environments. We compared adolescents with high and low levels of ER on perceptions of school achievement and attitudes towards school and their perception of their parents’ academic involvement. Students completed surveys about perceptions of their learning and parental involvement, as well as their ER abilities. Results indicated that students with higher emotion dysregulation endorsed more negative self-perceptions of their own academic abilities, had more negative attitudes towards school, and rated their mothers and fathers as more controlling in relation to their learning. These results demonstrate the importance of ER in the academic context, particularly in the home learning environment.     

Self-blame tendency of bullied victims in elementary and secondary schools

The current scales for self-blame are not suitable for school bullying scenarios and most lack validity. This study used a self-developed scale to measure bullied victims’ tendency to self-blame and further examined whether victims and bully/victims exhibited different tendencies toward self-blame under both bullied and generalized scenarios. The study consisted of 1,320 student participants from grades five to nine. The research instrument was a self-constructed bullied-victim self-blame scale (BSS), and the results were analyzed using the Rasch rating scale model. The Rasch results showed strong evidence of BSS reliability and validity. The results indicated that participants’ self-blaming tendency scores were positively correlated with depression (r = .31). In addition, participants’ self-blaming scores in relational bullying were higher than those in verbal and physical bullying. The self-blaming tendency of bully/victims under bullied scenarios was higher than that of victims, but no difference was found between bully/victims and victims for generalised scenarios. The participants’ tendency to self-blame under generalised scenarios was significantly higher than under bullied scenarios. The tendencies of various roles to self-blame under different scenarios and the self-blaming counselling strategies for victims are discussed at the end of this study.     

The role of invitations to parents in the completion of a child’s home reading challenge

The role parents can play in supporting early reading attainment is well documented. There is still, however, a need to understand what motivates parents to become involved in reading at home with their child. Past research, based upon correlational studies, has mixed findings regarding the influence of the teacher and the child on parents’ motivation at home. Through two quasi-experiments, the present study explored the influence of teacher invitations in Kindergarten classes, and child invitations in Grade 2 classes on completion rates of a home reading challenge. The completion of the home reading among families was investigated across two metropolitan schools in Sydney, Australia. Both of the interventions resulted in significantly higher completion rates compared to control groups (teacher invitations: d = .68; child invitations: d = .73). This paper adds to existing research by providing a clearer picture of the cause-and-effect relationship between schools’ use of invitations to facilitate children’s home reading.     

律师在民事行政抗诉案件中的角色与作用

随着检察机关对审判活动监督力度的增强，民行抗诉案件正趋于增长之势。在民行抗诉案件中律师应提前介入，积极主动地与检察机关配合，支持与协助检察机关的抗诉工作，提高检察机关抗诉的成功率，同时，充分发挥自的专己业持长，维护当事人的合法权益，以维护司法公正。     

Faculty Student Interaction at the Community College: A Focus on Students of Color

The present study describes the level of faculty--student interaction on 2-year college campuses, examines student characteristics correlated with faculty contact, and considers how interaction may differ among racial subgroups of students. Using data collected from the Transfer and Retention of Urban Community College Students (TRUCCS) survey, a sample of 2500 students informed this research. The findings reveal generally low levels of interaction, and especially with Asian American/Pacific Islander and Latino students. Having positive perceptions of the college environment and interacting with other members of the institution, from students to academic counselors, glow the strongest positive association with faculty contact among all racial subgroups of students. Prominent among the differences is the negative relationship between perceiving racial difficulties and interacting with faculty for Asian American/Pacific Islander students. The findings provide insight in how to increase and enrich faculty interaction on these campuses to better retain underrepresented students in the educational pipeline.     

亲子关系、同伴压力、学校活动卷入与农村中小学生吸烟饮酒行为的关系

以683名农村中小学生为研究对象,考察了农村中小学生吸烟饮酒行为的特点及其与亲子关系、同伴压力和学校活动卷入的关系。结果发现:(1)10.70%的农村中小学生报告曾有过吸烟行为,14.80%报告曾有过饮酒行为,不同性别和年级的农村中小学生吸烟饮酒行为差异显著,不同留守状况的农村中小学生的吸烟行为差异显著,但饮酒行为差异不显著;(2)亲子关系可以直接预测农村中小学生的吸烟饮酒行为,同伴压力和学校活动卷入在亲子关系与中小学生吸烟饮酒行为关系中发挥着部分中介作用;(3)学校活动卷入对农村中小学生吸烟饮酒行为的总效应值与亲子关系差异不大,且均大于同伴压力。提醒研究者除了关注家庭和同伴这两个影响中小学生吸烟饮酒行为的常规因素外,尤其要关注学校因素对农村中小学生群体吸烟饮酒行为的重要影响。     

高校教师工作卷入及对工作绩效的影响研究

探讨高校教师工作卷入水平以及对工作绩效的影响,可以为提高高校教师工作绩效水平,进而提高高校教育水平提供理论借鉴,具有重要意义。采用工作卷入及工作绩效量表对185名高校教师进行问卷调查。结果表明:高校教师工作卷入处于中等稍高水平,高级职称的卷入程度显著高于初级和中级职称教师。同时工作卷入与工作绩效有显著正相关,回归分析表明,工作卷入可以显著正向预测工作绩效。本文对此进行了讨论,并据此提出了提高高校教师工作卷入及工作绩效的建议。     

Parent involvement: perceptions of recent immigrant parents in a suburban school district,Minnesota

The study aimed to examine the perceptions of immigrant parents regarding their school’s efforts to encourage three types of parent involvement: Parenting, Communicating, and Learning at Home. The sample includes 106 immigrant parents with children who were enrolled in English Language Learners programmes at 10 schools in a suburban school district in Minnesota, USA. The results showed that depending on their ethnicities, the children’s school levels and the father’s educational level, the perceptions of the parents were significantly different in terms of the “Parenting” and “Learning at Home” involvement types. Mother’s educational level was significantly correlated to the languages used at home and to their children’s academic achievement in English. Results indicated that schools should consider ethnic backgrounds and educational levels of parents, and languages used at home to instil as collaborations between immigrant parents and schools.