The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of alternative school intervention on subsequent student performance. The literature review examined the history and development of alternative schools, the legislation pertaining to alternative schools, and related studies. The population consisted of students placed in the discipline alternative education program (DAEP) of an alternative school located in a large suburban school district in north Texas. Students placed in DAEP in the spring semester of 2001 in grades 7, 8, 9, and 10 were included in the sample. Data on student success was gathered for the one semester prior to placement (pre-intervention) and for the two semesters after placement (post-intervention). Student success was measured in terms of course grade averages and attendance. The student sample was divided into the following subgroups: grade level, sex, ethnicity, and qualification for the school meal program. The students' grade averages were compared within the subgroups utilizing a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Tukey's post hoc comparison was utilized on the groups when ANOVA was found to be significant. The students' attendance was analyzed by comparing the proportion of days attended in each of the three semesters included in the study. A normal test of two independent means was conducted on the attendance proportions. The results of the study indicated the following significant findings (p <. 05): the eighth-grade students' grade averages were significantly lower in the second post-treatment semester, the 7th-grade students had lower attendance in the first post-treatment semester, the 8th-grade students had lower attendance in the second post-treatment semester, and the 10th-grade students had higher attendance in the first post-intervention semester. The female students' attendance was higher in both post-intervention semesters and significantly higher in the second. A discussion of the dropout rate for this group and recidivism to DAEP was included.

This study investigated whether students in an Alternative School differed significantly from students who remain on a regular high school campus on measures of goals of misbehavior which included the factors of attention, power, revenge, inadequacy, and on measures of social interest. This study also investigated whether the attitudes of parents of Alternative School students differed significantly from the attitudes of parents of regular campus students on the factors of confidence, causation, acceptance, understanding and trust.

Thesis (Ph.D. (Education))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007.

This collection of stories is based on the author’s experiences as a middle school teacher at an alternative campus in south Texas, in a district whose population was largely comprised of Mexican-American and low-income families. The Eagle School is based on a program that existed in the 1990s to address the special needs of “bubble” students, children who were failing in elementary school because of factors such as poverty, neglect, and violence at home. Students were selected for the program based on recommendations from their counselors, with the hope that the small campus of twelve teachers would provide its 150 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders with a safe haven, allowing them to focusing on their studies. The ultimate goals of the program were to prevent students from dropping out of school and to engage them in interdisciplinary projects that would advance them academically, preparing them to return to their appropriate grade levels in high school. Ms. Russel, a character based on the author, recounts stories of her efforts to help students at the Eagle School, as well as stories of her own friendships, aspirations, and disappointments off campus. Each story represents a distinct moment during the six years that she teaches at the Eagle School, and each focuses on a specific student or group of students whose conflicts complicate her own.

Because of the many shortcomings of public school education in Korea, an alternative school movement has begun to surface. Analysis of the philosophical foundations of this alternative movement reveals, however, that its programmes have thus far also been inspired by motives that have been characteristic for some time now of public schools, namely serious competition for places in higher education institutions. The purpose of this project was to, on the one hand, discover the shortcomings of current public and alternative schools in Korea, and on the other to reflect on replacing their current philosophies with a Christian approach and philosophy to schooling and education. The first step in understanding present day Korean education schooling was tracing the history and philosophy of Korean public and Christian alternative education. It emerged from this analysis that the biggest problem for Korean education is that education is knowledge-centred and intended for preparing students for entrance examinations to universities. instead of educating the whole person. The next step was to analise the history and philosophy of Australian Christian alternative schools. Christian schooling in Australia has contributed significantly to the development of a biblical understanding of' education. The Christian Parent Controlled Schools (CPCS) has for instance been emphasising parents' right of educating their children in schools of their choice and which suit their life views. Christian Community Schools (CCS), on the other hand, has put emphasis on the importance of the school a? a learning community where relationships arc more important than how they teach or even what they teach. Based on this comparative study and a study of a biblical philosophy of education, an educational philosophy for Korean Christian alternative schools could be suggested. Christian alternative schools have to teach education based on a Christian worldview and philosophy. Korean education. public as well as non-government school education, has thus far been totally dualistic in that it has tended to separate fact and \due, public realm from private. The Christian school rejects such dualisms and educates its students as complete and total persons to know this world, to live and survive in it, to practice their God-given calling of stewardship of reality, to maintain their cultural mandate, to serve God in doing so. and to love and serve their fellowmen. / Thesis (Ph.D. (Education))--North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2007

The purpose of this study was to explore paradigms, policies and practices governing alternative education in Central Vancouver Island. I sought whether current alternative education dimensions, models and pedagogies were aligned with 21st Century Learning principles set forth by the BC Ministry of Education. I interviewed key informants and approached this study with an Interpretivist qualitative research design grounded in phenomenological principles. Findings were generally congruent with the literature regarding defining, describing and understanding alternative education. Suggestions included redefining success and using relevant criteria to evaluate program efficacy and student achievement. Successful alternative education characteristics and features were highlighted and compared to the 21st Century Learning paradigm. Preliminary findings indicated similarities between the two educational philosophies. Recommendations included using successful alternative programs as models to implement 21st Century Learning in mainstream schools. Future research should include student, teacher and parent voices regarding alternative education delivery models, services and evaluation. / Graduate

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Partindo da perspectiva evolucionista da psicologia, que oferece uma compreensão filogenética dos comportamentos de cooperação e compartilhamento como decisivos para o processo adaptativo da espécie humana, e de um olhar ontogenético sobre o desenvolvimento moral, que aporta a dimensão cultural na qual esses comportamentos sociais são ainda hoje necessários para a vida harmoniosa em sociedade, o sentido de propriedade se destaca como um tema pouco estudado, porém de grande relevância, uma vez que a inserção da criança na cultura adulta de negociação e de trocas sociais dependerá do desenvolvimento do sentido de propriedade. A depender do ambiente e da intervenção de adultos com quem a criança convive, o desenvolvimento da noção de posse tenderá mais ou menos a comportamentos coletivistas. Com o objetivo de observar o impacto da escola sobre o desenvolvimento do sentido de propriedade em crianças entre cinco e oito anos de idade, foi desenvolvido um estudo correlacional que demonstrou haver diferenças estatisticamente significativas entre o desenvolvimento da noção de posse em crianças que frequentam uma escola de metodologia tradicional e crianças que assitem a uma escola de metodologia alternativa. Foram abordadas 78 crianças divididas em dois grupos. Um grupo de 38 crianças de uma escola tradicional e outro grupo de 40 crianças de uma escola alternativa. O procedimento consistiu na contação de quatro histórias, na quais os personagens se relacionam de diferentes maneiras e acabam por disputar um mesmo objeto. As crianças opinaram de quem elas achavam que era o objeto, quem elas achavam que merecia ficar com o objeto, e, então, entregaram elas mesmas o objeto ao personagem escolhido. Existindo as opções de dar para ninguém ou para ambos. De modo geral, o grupo de crianças da escola alternativa recorreu ao compartilhamento do objeto entre ambos os personagens em um maior número de situações, quando comparadas às crianças da escola tradicional. O que revela ser o contexto da escola alternativa mais propício aos comportamentos sociais de cooperação e compartilhamento, uma vez que eles fazem parte do cotidiano das crianças neste contexto escolar. Os resultados aqui desvendados corroboraram a hipótese inicial do estudo e encontraram respaldo na literatura. Espera-se, com isso, fortalecer o debate sobre os processos de escolarização com argumentação a favor dos contextos escolares inovadores e enriquecer os conhecimentos empíricos acerca do desenvolvimento do sentido de propriedade. / From the evolutionary perspective of psychology, which offers a phylogenetic understanding of the behaviors of cooperation and sharing as critical to the adaptive process of the human species, and from the ontogenetic look about moral development, which brings the cultural dimension in which these social behaviors are still now necessary for harmonious life in society, the sense of property stands out as a little studied topic, but very relevant, since it is from the development of the concept of property that children will be introduced in the culture of negotiation and social exchanges. Depending on the environment and the intervention of adults with whom the child is surrounded by, the development of a sense of property will tend more or less to collectivist behaviors. With the goal to observe the school impact over the sense of property development in children from five to eight years old, it was developed a correlational study wich has shown that there are significant statistic differences between the development of the concept of property in children attending schools with traditional methodology and of those attending schools with alternative methodologies. Seventy eight children were approached and divided into two groups. A group of 38 children were from a traditional school and another group of 40 children were from an alternative school. The procedure consisted of four stories that were told to the children, in which the characters related in different ways and eventually competed over the same object. Children judged who they thought the object belonged to, and whom they thought deserved to be with it, and afterwards the children themselves gave the object to the chosen character, with the possibility of giving the object to nobody or to both of the characters. Overall, the children group from the alternative school turned to object sharing between both characters in a larger number of situations in comparison to children from traditional school. This result reveals that the context of the alternative school is more prone to social behaviors of cooperation and sharing since they are part of the children daily routine in this school context. The results confirmed the initial study hypothesis and support in literature were also found. Therefore, it is expected that this study will strengthen the debate on schooling processes with arguments in favor of innovative school contexts and enrich the empirical knowledge about the development of the sense of property.

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Partindo da perspectiva evolucionista da psicologia, que oferece uma compreensão filogenética dos comportamentos de cooperação e compartilhamento como decisivos para o processo adaptativo da espécie humana, e de um olhar ontogenético sobre o desenvolvimento moral, que aporta a dimensão cultural na qual esses comportamentos sociais são ainda hoje necessários para a vida harmoniosa em sociedade, o sentido de propriedade se destaca como um tema pouco estudado, porém de grande relevância, uma vez que a inserção da criança na cultura adulta de negociação e de trocas sociais dependerá do desenvolvimento do sentido de propriedade. A depender do ambiente e da intervenção de adultos com quem a criança convive, o desenvolvimento da noção de posse tenderá mais ou menos a comportamentos coletivistas. Com o objetivo de observar o impacto da escola sobre o desenvolvimento do sentido de propriedade em crianças entre cinco e oito anos de idade, foi desenvolvido um estudo correlacional que demonstrou haver diferenças estatisticamente significativas entre o desenvolvimento da noção de posse em crianças que frequentam uma escola de metodologia tradicional e crianças que assitem a uma escola de metodologia alternativa. Foram abordadas 78 crianças divididas em dois grupos. Um grupo de 38 crianças de uma escola tradicional e outro grupo de 40 crianças de uma escola alternativa. O procedimento consistiu na contação de quatro histórias, na quais os personagens se relacionam de diferentes maneiras e acabam por disputar um mesmo objeto. As crianças opinaram de quem elas achavam que era o objeto, quem elas achavam que merecia ficar com o objeto, e, então, entregaram elas mesmas o objeto ao personagem escolhido. Existindo as opções de dar para ninguém ou para ambos. De modo geral, o grupo de crianças da escola alternativa recorreu ao compartilhamento do objeto entre ambos os personagens em um maior número de situações, quando comparadas às crianças da escola tradicional. O que revela ser o contexto da escola alternativa mais propício aos comportamentos sociais de cooperação e compartilhamento, uma vez que eles fazem parte do cotidiano das crianças neste contexto escolar. Os resultados aqui desvendados corroboraram a hipótese inicial do estudo e encontraram respaldo na literatura. Espera-se, com isso, fortalecer o debate sobre os processos de escolarização com argumentação a favor dos contextos escolares inovadores e enriquecer os conhecimentos empíricos acerca do desenvolvimento do sentido de propriedade. / From the evolutionary perspective of psychology, which offers a phylogenetic understanding of the behaviors of cooperation and sharing as critical to the adaptive process of the human species, and from the ontogenetic look about moral development, which brings the cultural dimension in which these social behaviors are still now necessary for harmonious life in society, the sense of property stands out as a little studied topic, but very relevant, since it is from the development of the concept of property that children will be introduced in the culture of negotiation and social exchanges. Depending on the environment and the intervention of adults with whom the child is surrounded by, the development of a sense of property will tend more or less to collectivist behaviors. With the goal to observe the school impact over the sense of property development in children from five to eight years old, it was developed a correlational study wich has shown that there are significant statistic differences between the development of the concept of property in children attending schools with traditional methodology and of those attending schools with alternative methodologies. Seventy eight children were approached and divided into two groups. A group of 38 children were from a traditional school and another group of 40 children were from an alternative school. The procedure consisted of four stories that were told to the children, in which the characters related in different ways and eventually competed over the same object. Children judged who they thought the object belonged to, and whom they thought deserved to be with it, and afterwards the children themselves gave the object to the chosen character, with the possibility of giving the object to nobody or to both of the characters. Overall, the children group from the alternative school turned to object sharing between both characters in a larger number of situations in comparison to children from traditional school. This result reveals that the context of the alternative school is more prone to social behaviors of cooperation and sharing since they are part of the children daily routine in this school context. The results confirmed the initial study hypothesis and support in literature were also found. Therefore, it is expected that this study will strengthen the debate on schooling processes with arguments in favor of innovative school contexts and enrich the empirical knowledge about the development of the sense of property.

The thesis discusses the specifics of the management of alternative schools in Czech Republic. The aim is to compare selected type of alternative schools in the Czech Republic, focusing on management, analysis of differences in management from the management of public schools. The theoretical part deals with the definition and the development of alternative schools, the features and functions of alternative schools. The practical part analyzes the document and standardized interviews with selected schools. The result is a comparison of selected types of alternative schools in the Czech Republic, with focus on the management, and analysis of the differences from management of public schools. KEYWORDS Alternative education, alternative schools, the specifics of management, functions of alternative schools.

Schoolwide Positive Behavior Interventions and Support (SWPBIS) is an approach designed to improve the correct implementation, consistent use, and maintenance of evidence-based practices related to behavior, classroom management and school discipline systems. Check-in/Check-out (CICO) is often recognized as a successful intervention in SWPBIS. However, most of the research on the use of CICO has focused on the school setting. This study provided an extension to the literature by examining the effects of the CICO program with homeless children attending an afterschool program. A non-concurrent multiple baseline across participants design was used to evaluate the CICO program effects. Students were exposed to a CICO intervention in which problem behaviors were targeted for reduction and task engagement was targeted for acquisition. Of the five participants selected for the study four participants were exposed to a CICO intervention. Results demonstrated a decrease in problem behaviors and an increase in task engagement for all four participants.