The purpose of the present study is to investigate the relationships of attachment styles and conflict behaviors among male and female university students. Three hundred and twelve university students from various departments and grades of Middle East Technical University in Ankara participated in the study. Turkish version of Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (ECR-R, Sel&ccedil / uk, G&uuml / naydin, S&uuml / mer and Uysal, 2005), and Conflict Behaviors Questionnaire (Tezer, 1986) was applied to students to collect data. The results of cluster analysis employed on the scores of ECR-R yielded four clusters corresponding to four attachment styles (fearful, dismissing, preoccupied, and secure). A two-way ANOVA (2 gender X 4 Attachment Style) was applied to each of the five conflict behaviors. Results yielded a significant main effect for gender in accommodating behavior and a significant main effect for attachment styles in compromising behavior. In accommodating behavior, independent samples t-test was used to find out any significant difference between males and females and the results showed that the males were more inclined to use accommodating behavior than females. No significant difference was found in any of the other conflict behaviors as a function of attachment styles between males and females.

The present study aimed to investigate optimism level of adolescents&rsquo / aged between 14-18 and its relation with parenting style, gender, and academic achievement. The sample consisted of 1366 students (708 male, 645 female, and 13 missing value) who volunteered to participate in the study from &Uuml / mitk&ouml / y Anatolian High School, T&uuml / rk Telekom Anatolian Technical High School and 75. Yil High School in Ankara. Life Orientation Test (Scheier &amp / Carver, 1985) and Parental Attitude Scale (PAS / Lamborn, Mounts, Steinberg, Dornbusch, 1991) were used as the data collection instruments. The results of one way and two way ANOVA indicated that the main effect of parenting style and academic achievement on optimism level of adolescents was found significant. The results yielded that the main effect for gender, the gender and parenting style interaction effect and the academic achievement and parenting style interaction effect was not significant. Optimism levels of high achiever adolescents were found higher than low achiever adolescents&rsquo / . The results revealed significant differences in optimism scores of the adolescents as a function of four parenting styles. In other words, the results of this study showed that the adolescents who perceived their parents as authoritative had a relatively higher level of optimism than those who perceived their parents as authoritarian and neglectful. Results also indicated that the adolescents who characterize their parents as permissive had a relatively higher level of optimism than those who characterize their parents as neglectful and authoritarian.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of Structured Peer Consultation Program on different dimensions of school counselors&#039 / burnout, namely, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment. Pretest and posttest experimental control group design was used to investigate the effect of the Structured peer Consultation Program on different dimensions of burnout. To determine the percipients of the experimental and control groups Maslach Burnout Inventory was administered 55 out of a total 96 school counselors in gaziantep. 8 counselors who had higher than means score in the different dimensions of burnout participated voluntarily in the Structured Peer Consultation program as an experimental group. 8 counselors were selected as a control group. While the program was being applied to the experimental group, the control group did not receive any treatment. The Structured Peer Consultation Program continued for five weeks. In the program the meetings were held once a week and lasted for 90 minutes. One-way analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used to test for significant treatment effect of the Structured Peer Consultation Program on different dimensions of burnout. The result of ANCOVA indicated that ANCOVAs examining treatment effect were significant on dimensions of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment of burnout. It seems that there was a significant improvement in the experimental group&#039 / s burnout level compared to the control group&#039 / s burnout level. At the end of the study the findings were discussed with the relevant studies and recommendations were presented.

Thesis (M.Ed.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1999. / Bibliography: leaves 67-69.

The purpose of this research study was to examine the impact of the consulting teacher model on referral and verification rates to special education. A population of schools which implemented the model (N = 17) was compared with a randomly selected comparison group of schools which did not (N = 30). All schools were from the Portland, Oregon, Public School District. The research was designed to cover a three school year period of time (1987 to 1990). Three different types of data were collected: the number of children who were discussed at regular education pre-referral meetings, the number of children who were referred for special education assessment and the number of children who verified as eligible for special education services. Three primary research questions addressed (a) the impact of the consulting teacher model on the number of children in the process, (b) the longitudinal impact of the model on referral rate accuracy and (c) referral rate accuracy differences between the consulting teacher and comparison group schools. Results from the first question indicated a difference in the numbers of children discussed at the initial regular education pre-referral step; 17 more children were discussed in the consulting teacher schools. Differences were also found between the 1987-88 school year and every other year; seven more children were in the process in the first year of the study than in the later years. Results from the second question found that length of time on the model does have a significant effect on referral rate accuracy in the consulting teacher schools. Two differences were found in this question: an increase in referral rate accuracy between years three and four and a decrease in referral rate accuracy between years four and five. Results from the third question indicated no differences between the type of school and school year. Referral rate accuracy remained the same in both the consulting teacher and comparison group schools throughout all three years of this study. / Graduation date: 1992

La Tesis versa sobre la transición académica en la educación media chilena desde la formación general hacia la modalidad diferenciada humanística científica ó técnico profesional, originada con la reforma curricular de 1998. Se inicia con una perspectiva general de la educación secundaria ante los desafíos de la globalización en los contextos mundial, latinoamericano, nacional y regional para centrarse en la educación media municipalizada de Temuco, Chile y los problemas de calidad y equidad, y en forma consecuente diversas propuestas surgidas de la política gubernamental para afrontarlos. El tema de la transición se aborda desde su conceptualización teórica, características del proceso, características del estudiantado en transición, algunos enfoques teóricos e investigaciones que dan cuenta del estado del arte. Sus objetivos apuntaron a conocer y analizar las dimensiones y variables personales, socio-familiares y socio-educativas que intervienen en la transición académica del alumnado al 3er año de educación media municipalizada de Temuco, en ambas modalidades de enseñanza, conocer comprensivamente su percepción sobre el proceso y proponer líneas generales de intervención de orientación y tutoría. En los procedimientos metodológicos se aplicó un cuestionario, validado para la realidad chilena, a estudiantes de 3os años de educación media municipalizada de la ciudad de Temuco y se trabajó con grupos focales. Los datos se procesaron e interpretaron con procedimientos de análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo, cuyos resultados se ilustran con numerosas tablas y gráficos. Se entregan resultados, conclusiones y sugerencias que destacan el rol que debería tener la orientación y tutoría como proceso de ayuda al estudiantado en transición académica. La Tesis se desarrolló en el Programa de Doctorado: Calidad Educativa para un Mundo Plural dictado por la Universidad de Barcelona en la Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile. / The thesis deals with the academic transition Chilean secondary education from general education to a separate part or professional technical scientific humanist, originated with the curriculum reform of 1998. It begins with an overview of secondary education to the challenges of globalization in the global context, Latin American, national and regional level to focus on secondary education municipalized of Temuco, Chile and the quality and equity issues, and consistently different proposals from government policy to address them. The issue of transition is approached from the theoretical conceptualization, process characteristics, characteristics of students in transition, some theoretical approaches and research that reflect the state of the art. Its objectives were aimed at understanding and analyzing the dimensions and personality variables, social and socio-educational family involved in students' academic transition to middle school 3rd year municipalized of Temuco, in both forms of education, knowledge comprehensively on their perception Overall process and propose intervention counseling and tutoring. In the methodological procedures applied a questionnaire validated for the Chilean, 3rd place students from middle school years municipalized of the city of Temuco and worked with focus groups. The data were processed and interpreted with procedures quantitative and qualitative analysis and the results are illustrated with numerous tables and graphs. Delivered results, conclusions and recommendations that highlight the role that should have the guidance and mentoring as a process aid to students in academic transition. The thesis developed in the PhD Program: Quality Education for a Plural World dictated by the University of Barcelona at the University of La Frontera, Temuco, Chile.

Since the 1980s, selective college admissions has become increasingly competitive. In 2021, for example, Harvard admitted a record-low 3.4 percent of applicants, compared to 18 percent in 1990. Trends at selective public institutions are similar. Concurrently, the role of race in admissions has evolved, as legal challenges, from Regents of the University of California v. Bakke onward, have limited the scope of affirmative action policies. The consideration of race in admissions, once intended to repair historical racial injustices, is now justified by the educational benefits of diversity. The same Supreme Court decisions also promoted the use of holistic review in admissions. These trends have collided in the latest legal challenges to affirmative action policies, which have mobilized Asian Americans as plaintiffs, accusing highly-selective schools of discrimination. Amidst this competitive and contested landscape, the private college consulting industry has grown exponentially. One trade association estimates that the number of independent educational consultants (IECs) in the United States quintupled between 2005 and 2015. Hired primarily by middle- and upper-class families, IECs occupy a unique position. They work intensively one-on-one with students to help manage a complicated process, while also maintaining ties to schools and colleges. They therefore serve as an analytical lens for understanding how broader trends in admissions affect students on the ground. Drawing on research on culture and educational inequality, the history of race in college admissions, and moral boundary-making, I ask how IECs help clients interpret elements of holistic review; how IECs respond to perceived discrimination and questions of racial diversity; and how participants in a system viewed as unequal draw moral boundaries around their work. Through interviews with 50 IECs in New York and California, I first show that IECs’ work makes the processes by which students successfully apply to colleges explicit. In doing so, they shine a light on what I call shadow criteria, or the unstated set of criteria that underlie the official criteria by which colleges judge applicants. Authenticity is one shadow criterion that requires students to translate their existing cultural capital into an application that is attractive to admissions officers – a process that, as I will show, is subject to class-based considerations. Second, IECs view White, Asian American, and underrepresented minority (i.e., Black, Latinx, and Indigenous) students as having different concerns about racial diversity and discrimination, and advise students accordingly. However, addressing these concerns at the individual level can reinforce colleges’ racialized admissions systems and reify stereotypes. Third, the majority of respondents view the overall admissions system either as flawed, or at best with ambivalence. Respondents draw moral boundaries between themselves and bad actors in the profession, legitimating their work and justifying it morally. Through the lens of the independent educational consultant, this dissertation contributes to our understanding of how actors within the college admissions ecosystem respond to competitive pressures. It also provides a greater qualitative understanding of how the growing field of private educational consulting operates.

Poor Physical Science performance in South African schools is due to ineffective Physical Science teaching. Quality Physical Science teaching stems from quality Physical Science subject advisory services. Traditionally interventions to raise teaching standards were done by inspectors who established if schools functioned according to set rules rather that supporting teaching staff. School inspection was considered a fault finding mission with punitive objectives; hence principals and teachers were negatively disposed to it. The Department of Basic Education since has re-interpreted intervention from checking compliance to support and development of school personnel. This task is allocated to units in district offices in provincial Departments of Education and district staff members’ responsibilities are linked to responsibilities of principals and teachers. The subject advisory unit focuses on curriculum matters in each school subject; thus Physical Science subject advisors support Physical Science teachers with content, pedagogical content knowledge, assessment and Interventions for improved results. This study investigated the role of Physical Science subject advisors in enhancing the quality of Physical Science teaching. Requirements for employment of a subject advisor (qualifications, work experience, interest, attitude and competence), challenges and solutions were explored by a mixed method study. A Physical Science provincial DCES, Physical Science subject advisors, principals, Physical Science teachers in four districts and four PLC support groups were purposefully sampled to explore perceptions of the subject advisor’s role in improving Physical Science teaching. Quantitative data collected by document analysis and questionnaires and qualitative data collected by individual and focus group interviews were analysed. Findings showed that the Physical Science subject advisors possessed minimum qualifications and experience; however, the school subject (Physics and Chemistry combined) does not match the specialization in tertiary institutions (divided into Physics and Chemistry). Thus, some subject advisors may major in one of two parts. Further, certain school content is not included in the university syllabus. This may limit advisors’ content knowledge, the core of content support in Physical Science. This influences support offered to Physical Science teachers and requires advisors’ professional development which is not currently offered by the Department of Basic Education. Recommendations based on the findings include immediate and long term solutions to improve effective subject advisory. / Curriculum and Instructional Studies / D. Ed. (Curriculum Studies)