There is also a definitely a positive correlation between extracurricular activities and retention and academic performance. y creating appropriate, engaging, and entertaining extra curricular activities and by involving all the students, schools could not only expect to increase the learning outcomes of all the students, but most importantly, make the children to enjoy the learning process.
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Alexa Lamm, Amy Harder, Dennis Lamm, Herb Rose & Glen Rask, (August 2005), 'Risk Factors Affecting High School Drop Out Rates and 4-H Teen Program Planning', Journal of Extension, Volume 43 Number 4,
Retrieved on June 7th 2007, from, http://www.joe.org/joe/2005august/rb6.shtml
United Health Foundation, 'High School Graduation', retrieved on June 7th 2007, from, http://www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/shr2005/components/hsgrad.html
Mahoney, J.L., & Cairns, R.. (1997). "Do extracurricular activities protect against early school dropout?" Developmental Psychology, 33(2), 241-253.
Alspaugh (1998), Achievement Loss Associated With the Transition to Middle school and High School, the Journal of Educational Research, 92, 20-25.
Zill N, Nord CW, Loomis LS. 'Adolescent…...
mlaBibliography
Alexa Lamm, Amy Harder, Dennis Lamm, Herb Rose & Glen Rask, (August 2005), 'Risk Factors Affecting High School Drop Out Rates and 4-H Teen Program Planning', Journal of Extension, Volume 43 Number 4,
Retrieved on June 7th 2007, from, http://www.joe.org/joe/2005august/rb6.shtml
United Health Foundation, 'High School Graduation', retrieved on June 7th 2007, from, http://www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/shr2005/components/hsgrad.html
Mahoney, J.L., & Cairns, R.B. (1997). "Do extracurricular activities protect against early school dropout?" Developmental Psychology, 33(2), 241-253.
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On the other hand, though, and more importantly for the purposes of this analysis, some studies have shown that those students who completed a high school economics class still developed a more keen awareness of the conditions that contributed to economic outcomes and what role they may play in later life. According to Lopus and Maxwell (1994), "Students who took high school economics, irrespective of the curriculum, did not outperform students without high school economics on a pretest or a post test of college-level economics.... Although students who take high school economics may not have increased knowledge of college-level economic principles, they may have an increased awareness of current events, consumer issues or economic history. As well, the high school economics class may address the needs of the non-college bound student" (emphasis added) (p. 62). Clearly, then, while the jury may still be out on how high school economics…...
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Becker, W., Greene, W., & Rosen, S. (1990). Research on high school economic education. Journal of Economic Education, 21 (3), 231-45.
Bellisimo, Y., Maxwell, N.L., & Mergendoller, J.R. (2000). Comparing problem-based learning and traditional instruction in high school economics. The Journal of Educational Research, 93(6), 374.
2001). Problem-based learning: Modifying the medical school model for teaching high school economics. Social Studies, 92(2), 73.
Brasfield, D.W., Harrison, D.E., & McCoy, J.P. (1993). Impact of high school economics on the college principles of economics course. Journal of Economic Education, 24(2), 100.
High School Students and World Wide Web
This is a research proposal about the problems of high school students
The use of World Wide Web by high school students to complete school assignments is now becoming a common practice. This study aims to find the problems and difficulties that students have using the World Wide Web as their primary source of information. The students who use World Wide Web as their primary source have difficulty evaluating whether the information on a web site was scholarly. In addition there is a growing problem of plagiarism, students are taking information off the Internet without attribution. The research considered Perry's scheme of Student Development, the unique nature of Internet and other literature to validate claims of evaluating scholarly information and Plagiarism. It was discovered that students actually use a good variety of resources, including libraries, articles and papers on the Internet to find information for…...
mlaBibliography
Donna Hoffman and Thomas Novak, Bridging the Digital Divide: The Impact of Race on Computer Access and Internet Use, (Arlington, VA: ERIC Document Reproduction Service, ED 421-563, 1999)
William Perry, Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme, (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970).
Frances Jacobson and Emily Ignacio, "Teaching Reflections: Seeking and Evaluation in a Digital Library Environment," Library Trends 45 (1997): 771-802.
S.G. Hirsh, "How do Children Find Information on Different Types of Tasks? Children's Use of the Science Library Catalog," Library Trends, 45 (1997): 725-745
In this case the educational institutions will need to provide access to student records to evaluate how well students performed when they attended test preparation vs. when they did not attend test preparation classes.
Much as the researcher proposes, Henze & Lucas (1993) predict it is possible to "shape" classroom instruction and test preparation courses to promote greater success and mastery of language among high school students (p. 54). The researchers note obstacles to student achievement on standardized tests include poor language or reading skills (Henze & Lucas, 1993) suggest test preparation courses should consider whether the student's primary language is English. If it is not, there is reason to believe test preparation courses that include instruction of the English language may automatically increase standardized test scores, especially among minority students.
Conclusions
There are many tools educational facilities can use to improve a student's success and ability to achieve positive outcomes on…...
mlaReferences
Banks, J. (2005). African-American college students' perceptions of their high school literacy preparation, Journal of College Reading and Learning, 35(2): 22.
Henze, R.C. & Lucas, T., (1993). Shaping instruction to promote the success of language minority students: an analysis of four high school classes, Peabody Journal of Education, 69(1): 54.
Kenny, D.T. & Faunce, G. (2004). Effects of academic coaching on elementary and secondary school students. The Journal of Educational Research, 98(1): 1.
Seidman, I. (1998). Learning in the field: An introduction to qualitative research.
I had a crush of my own during high-school, but I knew that she was beyond my league. Jessica was probably the most beautiful girl in the school and she was a senior (I was a sophomore at the time). I wrote her the most beautiful poem that I could possibly think of and I hoped that this would show her that I was actually different from the other guys. She was actually impressed with my letter, but she didn't feel the same way for me. She practically asked me to write a poem for a boy that she was fond of at the time and she ended up dating him as a result of that poem. I know - life can sometimes be very cruel!
One of the things that I enjoyed most about high school was the fun you could have during Ms. Kissinger's classes. Ms. Kissinger was about…...
High School Campus Violence
What measurable outcome do you choose to explain?
The measurable outcome this study will explain is the relationship between hyperactivity caused by sugar and caffeine in the diets of highschool students and campus violence.
How would you measure the outcome?
The outcome of this study would be measured by keeping track of all school records relating to violent incidents on campus reported to the school nurse, teachers, and administrators.
Identify a "manipulable" causal influence (intervention) on your chosen outcome?
The intervention would be the removal of high-sugar and caffeine containing foods from the school cafeteria and vending machines so that they will not be as easily accessible to students during the school day. This would include soda and candy, as well as many other common foods served in most high school cafeterias.
State you hypothesis
Both sugar and caffeine have been shown in numerous studies to cause hyperactivity and to impair logical thought processes…...
Each of us is born with the ability to feel compassion for our fellow man; even as babies we cry when we hear other children in the nursery shed tears. However, somewhere along the line, we loose this ability to feel compassion for others. Instead, we begin to gain enjoyment for the pain that others feel. We start to find pain, disaster, and hurt in others amusing. Perhaps this is as a result of too many motivational speakers telling high school graduates to go out and achieve to their utmost potential when this is not realistic, and in some cases undesirable. All that this advice does is tell high school graduates is the only thing that matters is success. But this, my friends, is a destructive lie. What matters is happiness and compassion for others. When we loose this drive to achieve against all odds and instead gain the…...
As can be deduced from the examples in section one, these causative theories include the taking of drugs, as well as immature emotional responses and the influence of the media in the portrayal of images of violence that are accepted by the larger culture. Another factor is the relative accessibility of weapons. While these factors form part the main causative theories, they all tend to indicate that the root underlying cause lies in the structure of the society itself and the intolerance at schools for those who appear and act differently to the norm. This would also seem to suggest that this intolerance is a reflection of the larger society and the inability to accept those who are "different" in any sense.
Aligned with the above view is the fact that society and schools often do not provide enough support for youngsters who may not be emotionally mature. Emotional instability…...
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After the Columbine media coverage, the nation became terrified that our schools were no longer safe, even though the facts show they are safer than ever" (2003, p. 14).
This point is also made by Kondrasuk et al. (2005), who note, "More recently the violent events have garnered increased media coverage due to the dramatic nature of the crimes. In this age of instant communications and open dialogue, the media has almost been forced to report deaths and other violent acts in schools. As such, violence in schools has warranted more attention by researchers and the schools themselves" (p. 638). Likewise, Fast (2003) emphasizes that, "While this [Columbine] was the sixth of such school shootings in 18 months, it riveted the attention of the nation because it involved well-to-do suburban children, had the greatest number of victims and because it played out on television" (emphasis added) (Fast, 2003, p. 484).
esponses…...
mlaReferences
Fast, J.D. (2003). After Columbine: How people mourn sudden death. Social Work, 48(4), 484.
Kondrasuk, J.N., Greene, T., Waggoner, J., Edwards, K., & Nayak-Rhodes, a. (2005). Violence affecting school employees. Education, 125(4), 638.
Muschert, G. (2003, August). USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), 132(2699), 14.
Peterson, T.L., & Hoover, J.H. (2005). No easy answers: The truth behind death at Columbine. Reclaiming Children and Youth, 13(4), 249.
Sometimes the line was rather vague and athletes endorsed violence as a legitimate response." (Miracle, 92)
Sports promote violence because physically harming opponents is a natural part of the game, and just increasing the amount of harm enough to disable them is always a seductive option to losing. This promotion of violence would not be true if students would just play for fun -- no one would remain friends with a boy who, for example, kicked people in the shins so they couldn't run fast enough to get away in hide and seek! ut a boy who obeyed his coach and "took down" another football player with enough force to keep him on the bench for the rest of the game might become a school hero if this won his team the game. Miracle and Rees explain the way that that compete the analyzing the way in which it misguides…...
mlaBibliography
David, Paulo. Human Rights in Youth Sport: A critical review of children's rightrs in competitive sports. London: Routledge 2003
DeMoulin, Donald. "Examining the impact of extra-curricular activities on the personal development of 149 high school seniors" Journal of Instructional Psychology, Dec, 2002 [archived at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCG/is_4_29/ai_95148392 ]
Hoberman, John. Darwin's Athletes: How Sport Has Damaged Black America and Preserved the Myth of Race. New York: Mariner Books, 1997
Sleek, S. "High school athletes get good grades, but are more drawn to alcohol and drugs, study suggests" APA Monitor. Vol 29; # 8. August 1998 [archived at http://www.apa.org/monitor/aug98/drug.html]
Indeed, one can frame motivation in terms of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which provides that basic needs must be met before higher order needs can be attended to. In short, motivation is a higher need, and basic needs must be met (i.e. physical needs) before anything involving self-actualization can occur (Kong, 2009).
eacher Attitudes and Approaches
eachers provide the means by which students can build relationships because they are given an opportunity for social interaction. Non-academic enrichment programs geared toward socialization help build relationships, and teachers can encourage that. Examples of such programs can include sporting activities, dance, music, swimming, art, and even home economics such as sewing and learning to cook. Lesson plans in the classroom can be modified to include group activities. eacher-led measures that meet a student's needs for peer acceptance help build strong relationships between the student and the teacher (Kong, 2009).
When students are continually challenged to excel…...
mlaThese entail methods such as individualized instruction based upon the student's level of development, identification and utilization of individual learning styles, as well as discrete learning exercises that produce success at almost each step (which limits failure and heightens motivation). Students are also completely included in their goal-setting. With guidance from their instructor, these goals are pragmatic and some goals are immediately obtainable to allow instant success and positive feedback (Lockwood, 1989).
Conclusion:
This paper has proffered the thought that self-esteem is closely linked to student motivation, and is dependent upon three main areas as found in the scholarly research literature. Namely, the school environment and physical needs of the student; teacher attitudes and approaches; and finally, classroom methods. This discourse has demonstrated the necessity of these three main areas in maximizing the path to student self-esteem, and hence, student motivation. While the particular psychologies of adolescence were not discussed in this paper, a closer examination in any one topic area that was offered could include the topic of adolescence as well as other social factors for a future research report. What this essay has chosen to attempt to elucidate, is the powerful effect that self-esteem has on student motivation in a high school setting.
But this dream is available to only very few college athletes. While many talented high school players in various sports do receive financial assistance upon transitioning to college, not many are able to take their careers to a professional level. It is important to remember that many college athletes do not play sports with a wide spectator following. High school athletes in sports like crew and lacrosse may win scholarships or at least win admission to a more competitive college than they might otherwise, were they not an athlete, based upon their grades and test scores. But only a select few sports can offer an athlete a stable professional career, post-college, regardless of the level at which the athlete may play. A top shot-putter cannot have the same level of professional aspirations as a potential candidate for the NBA.
There are so many unsung sports in high school and college: women's…...
It must also be pointed out, as it is by Elder and Conger that fewer adult role models in rural settings are likely to have achieved any significant success in higher education, as they were often as limited as their children are for such opportunities.
This malevolence about post-secondary education by default and by reality proves troubling as post-secondary achievement is often seen as the end game of a secondary education. In other words high schools are geared toward the mark of success as students enrolling in college, even though this may not be seen in the community as an option or even a reasonable goal. So, it must be said that students who look at high school as a means to enter college but have no interest in college, often due to lack of exposure or even blatantly low educational goals in the community are likely to see high…...
mlaResources
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Moreover, most psychologists agree that "sports provide many benefits such as teambuilding, cooperation, skill development and fitness," (Brochu). If a student shows promise, he or she might earn a scholarship or financial aid package. The opportunity to attend college is denied to many high school students from disadvantaged neighborhoods or who have a keener predilection for sports than for math. Therefore, high school recruiting can be an immensely positive force and even if the student does not become the next Lebron James, he or she stands a solid chance of enjoying the next four years at university, meeting new people, developing athletic as well as academic skills, and expanding horizons.
Therefore, the recruitment of high school athletes needs to be tempered with common sense rules and adequate access to physical, social, and psychological support systems. Drug testing is only one facet of the proper recruitment of high school students, albeit…...
mlaWorks Cited
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Brochu, Kevin. "Stress and the Young Athlete." The Athlete's Advisor. 1997. Online at http://www.athletesadvisor.com/strength/catz_02.htm.
Dempsey, Cedric. "A letter from Cedric W. Dempsey, NCAA President." NCAA. Online at http://www.ncaa.org/eligibility/cbsa/index1.html.
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Alcohol
L. Jones
High School Survey: Underage Drinking at Graduation
Underage drinking is a serious issue. Although much lip service is given to the dangers of drinking in general, within the teenage community (and sometimes younger), little credence is given to the possible repercussions of drinking in a "party situation." hile most teenage students (high school seniors in this survey) readily see the dangers inherent in driving while intoxicated, few understand the possible health risks that can arise in a social or party atmosphere. Given the recent cases of "alcohol poisoning" in which individuals have died from ingesting in effect an "overdose" of alcohol, a survey concerning the levels of knowledge about the effects of alcohol on the human body was conducted.
Alcohol poisoning is not only serious, but it can result in death. ithin the United States, acute alcohol poisoning generally impacts underage or college age drinkers due to their lack of…...
mlaWorks Cited
MayoClinic. Staff. (2005). "Alcohol poisoning: A serious consequence of binge drinking." Web site. Retrieved on July 16, 2005, from, http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HQ00199
MedNet. Staff. (2005). "Alcohol Poisoning." Web site. Retrieved on July 16, 2005, from, http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=10930
There is a substantial amount of evidence that authoritarian parenting is a sub-optimal parenting style because of its negative impacts on children. To understand why, it is important to understand the authoritarian parenting approach. Authoritarian parents take a strict approach to their children, with an emphasis on obedience from their children. Authoritarian parents rely on punishments, threats, and shaming to elicit desired behaviors. They are often described as cold, lacking warmth and responsiveness to their children. The three other parenting types are permissive parents who are described as warm but lax; authoritative parents who expect their kids to follow the....
Helping you come up with titles on this would be a little easier if we knew which specific issue you want to focus on in your high school exit project because the title should specifically address the content of the paper. We wanted to give you that disclaimer, because some of these titles may be inappropriate for whatever paper you have written. We are going to provide a variety of different titles that will include a range of topics related to combat wounded veteran rehabilitation. They touch on some topics that are controversial among the wounded veteran....
Teen pregnancy is a complex topic that can relate to a variety of other topics, making it possible to include body paragraphs that touch on everything from child sexual abuse to educational attainment by teen mothers. That is because teen pregnancy does not generally exist in a vacuum, but is the result of a combination of varied social factors including race, socioeconomic status, religious affiliation, educational level, and residency.
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The most important thing about writing a persuasive essay is that you are not simply presenting information; you are trying to convince the reader to agree with your position. It is also not an argumentative essay. In a persuasive essay, it is not only permissible to use opinions and emotion, but in an argumentative essay the writer needs to rely solely on logic. The idea that secondary or high school students should be required to do community service as a condition for graduation is one that many people have discussed. People give many different reasons....
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