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The Predictive Influence of Headteachers' Task-Oriented Managerial Leadership Behaviours on Teachers' Retention Intentions in Ghana
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Semarco, Stanley K. M.; Cho, Seokhee – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2018
The study examined if significant dynamic and reciprocal relationships exist among the task-oriented managerial behaviours of headteachers, and how these behaviours specifically and jointly influence teachers' retention intention. Out of the multistage sampled 350 schools, suitable questionnaires from 279 schools representing 558 questionnaires…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Principals, Leadership Styles, Administrator Behavior
A Structural Model for Predicting Student Retention
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Sass, Daniel A.; Castro-Villarreal, Felicia; Wilkerson, Steve; Guerra, Norma; Sullivan, Jeremy – Review of Higher Education, 2018
Student retention models were tested via structural equation modeling to examine the interrelations and predictability among socioeconomic status, psychosocial, and student success variables with a sample of 445 undergraduate students attending a large Hispanic serving institution. The proposed theoretical model included socioeconomic status…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Structural Equation Models, Predictor Variables
Psychological Help-Seeking Intention among College Students across Three Problem Areas
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Hess, Timothy R.; Tracey, Terence J. G. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2013
The theory of planned behavior (TPB) was used to understand psychological help-seeking intention for 3 common concerns: anxiety or depression, career choice concerns, and alcohol or drug use. Eight hundred eighty-nine university students completed surveys for the TPB variables plus belief in personal efficacy and control to solve the problems.…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Behavior Theories, College Students, Anxiety
Teachers' Perceptions and Attitudes toward the Implementation of Web 2.0 Tools in Secondary Education
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Quadri, Lekan Kamil – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Researchers have concluded that Web 2.0 technologies offered many educational benefits. However, many secondary teachers in a large northwestern school district were not using Web 2.0 tools in spite of its possibilities for teaching and learning. The purpose of this quantitative correlational research was to explore the relationships between the…
Descriptors: Researchers, Web 2.0 Technologies, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary Education
Predicting Civic Engagement in Urban High School Students. CIRCLE Working Paper #69
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McIntosh, Hugh; Munoz, Marco A. – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), 2009
The landmark Civic Mission of Schools report of 2003 laid out an argument for the role of schools in promoting youth civic engagement and presented a range of promising ideas and practices to accomplish that. In this study we describe the civic engagement outcomes that Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) in Louisville, KY, has chosen to promote…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Extracurricular Activities, Citizen Participation, Conflict Resolution
Correlates of Problem Recognition and Intentions to Change among Caregivers of Abused and Neglected Children
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Littell, Julia H.; Girvin, Heather – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2006
Objective: To identify individual, family, and caseworker characteristics associated with problem recognition (PR) and intentions to change (ITC) in a sample of caregivers who received in-home child welfare services following substantiated reports of child abuse or neglect. Methods: Caregivers were interviewed at 4 weeks, 16 weeks, and 1 year…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Welfare Services