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The State of Texas implemented the No Pass-No Play Rule within House Bill 72 in the spring semester of 1985. The addition of this section to the state education code was a part of the state's efforts toward educational reform. The perceived rationale implied in House Bill 72 is that extracurricular activities can inspire student motivation and increase student achievement. The No Pass-No Play Rule seems to imply that there is a relationship between student achievement and extracurricular activities, and further implies that a student can be motivated to achieve by the desire to continue to participate in extracurricular activities. The problem of this study was a comparison of academic achievement for high school pupils involved in extracurricular activities and those who did not participate in extracurricular activities under the Texas No Pass-No Play Rule. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of extracurricular activities on the academic achievement of high school students, specifically looking at the years 1983 through 1986, when the No Pass-No Play Rule was implemented. This study was an ex post facto study with data obtained from a cooperating Texas school district. Students were matched on critical variables, and their scores on a measure of achievement were analyzed to determine if there was any relationship between extracurricular activities and achievement. Repeated measures of achievement were also analyzed to determine if students involved in extracurricular activities scored differently from those not involved in extracurricular activities over this time period in which the No Pass-No Play Rule was implemented. Results indicated that for those students involved in this study, there was no significant difference on a measure of achievement for students involved in extracurricular activities and those who did not participate. Results also indicated that in the years 1983 through 1986 all students involved in the study declined slightly in their achievement scores, regardless of involvement with extracurricular activities.

The problem of the study was to ascertain the perceptions of high school personnel and students regarding the effectiveness and implementation of the educational reforms and the No-Pass, No-Play section in Texas House Bill 72 and compare them to changes in reported student academic performances. Questionnaires were mailed to a stratified random sample of fifteen high schools in Texas. Six persons were asked to respond at each school. The sample consisted of ninety participants. In addition, each school provided forty student grade profiles, twenty from 1984 and twenty from 1986. The instrument, "Questionnaire on Texas Educational Reform Legislation, Extracurricular Activities and No-Pass, No-Play," had eighteen questions. Questions one and two provided demographic data for the study. Questions three through eighteen assessed the perceptions of high school personnel and students regarding educational reforms and the "No-Pass, No-Play" rules. Hypotheses one through four used chi-square Tests of Independence to determine the significance among variables. Hypothesis five used a t value to measure the comparison of the grade-point averages from 1984 and 1986. Hypothesis six compared the result of hypothesis five and a z value generated from a comparison of a percentage of participant responses and the neutral value. The findings were that of 120 chi-square calculations only ten showed significance for 8.3 percent of the total. There were no significant differences found among the variables regarding the questions asked. There was a significant difference in what study participants thought about students' achievement and the actual differences in the student grade-point averages. A major conclusion was that the participants believed that students were achieving more academically since Texas House Bill 72 and "No-Pass, No-Play." In summary there were six findings, eleven conclusions, seven general recommendations, eight specific recommendations and six recommendations for further study reported as a result of this research.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:25:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Camila Santos Andrade.pdf: 895919 bytes, checksum: 6d5d65e3d6da4436f3f306e230e86a15 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-03-23 / This present study tackles the importance of social intervention in the educational process: the Educommunication in the Society. The subject is developed through the use of descriptive and explanatory bibliographic research with a brief analysis of the History of Education. Following this, the educational crisis and Jacques Delors four educational bases are discussed. It is then analyzed the fundamental right to education, subjective pubic right, in the Constitution as a programmatic rule that has immediate applicability in order to consolidate the Democratic Rule of Law. Through this, particularities of such Society and the tendency of the globalized world are verified. It is then discussed the relevance of mitigating the apprentice s errors, value the multiplicity of individual talents, which is the educational purpose across lifetime. The last chapter discusses about the importance of adopting the Educommunication, the intermediary agent which unifies education, communication and technology in the educational process, whose media related instrumental leads to the use of educommunicative practices, organized by the communicative ecosystem in the Society. At last, this study aims to point the Educommunication s purposes through the use of multidisciplines and with the educommunicator s help in order to fully develop the individual granting him citizenship / O presente estudo aborda importância da educação, por via da intervenção social: a Educomunicação na Sociedade em Rede. Desenvolve-se o trabalho, por meio de pesquisas bibliográficas exploratórias descritivas com análise breve da História da Educação e, em seguida discorre-se sobre a crise da educação e os quatro pilares da educação de Jacques Delors. Depois, analisa-se o direito fundamental à educação, direito público subjetivo, previsto na Constituição na espécie de norma programática que possui aplicabilidade imediata a fim de consolidar o Estado Democrático de Direito. A partir disso, verificam-se as peculiaridades da formatação da Sociedade em Rede e, logo em seguida, as tendências no mundo globalizado. Perpassa-se, ainda, a discursar sobre a relevância de mitigar os erros na aprendizagem, valorizar a multiplicidade de talentos individuais, propósitos da educação ao longo de toda a vida. O último capítulo trata da relevância de se adotar a Educomunicação, agente mediador que atua no processo educativo conciliando educação/comunicação/tecnologia, cujo instrumental midiático se transforma em práticas educomunicativas, organizadas pelos ecossistemas comunicativos na Sociedade em Rede. Por derradeiro, busca-se apontar os fins da Educomunicação, utilizando-se da inter-trans-poli-disciplinaridade com o auxílio do Educomunicador a fim de desenvolver integralmente a pessoa e, por conseqüência, garantir a cidadania plena

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T16:33:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Vera Balbino da Silva Ignacio.pdf: 454857 bytes, checksum: f53868e0f52591345fd4dc8f1dbaeca4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008-05-06 / Secretaria da Educação do Estado de São Paulo / This research s aim is to study, from the pedagogical coordinator teacher s point of view, the teaching of African-Brazilian History and Culture subject, recently included in the curriculum of the state primary and secondary public schools Law 10.639/03 , which modifies the LDBN 9.394/06 Law of Guidelines and Bases of the National Education Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional. The main objective was to verify the pedagogical coordinator s comprehension towards the legal statements of the Law 10.639/03, that is, the ethnic-racial debate in the school context. Therefore, we intended to relate the coordinator s view about the possibilities and limits in the pedagogical treatment of the African matrix teaching, referring to the fulfillment of this legal mechanism. It is exploratory research that took place in a regional teaching directorship in the city of São Paulo. The data was collected from the anti-racism federal educational law and by means of questionnaire referring to African-Brazilians demands, culture and history answered by ten coordinators who had agreed to take part in the research. In order to analyze the articulation between the educational laws, pedagogical practices and racial relationships, concepts from the Critical Theory were chosen as theoretical reference, especially in relation to the analysis of prejudice, which aroused during the research procedures. After the data collection, we realized there was no straight relation between the coordinator s speech and practice because we could notice on their speech an apparent harmony that did not fit the subtle prejudice which does not allow them to break the barrier of invisibility before important aspects that characterize the multicultural education. This conclusion indicates that the possibilities brought by the educational law must be accompanied by social, educational, and individual conditions that are being built / O objetivo, neste trabalho, é estudar o ensino da História e Cultura Afro-Brasileira sob a óptica do professor coordenador. Deve-se destacar que a inserção da História da Cultura Afro-Brasileira é uma medida relativamente recente, pois passou a compor o currículo das escolas públicas estaduais de ensino fundamental e médio pela Lei nº 10.639/03, que altera a LDBN 9.394/06 Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional. O objetivo principal foi verificar a compreensão do professor coordenador no que preconiza a Lei nº 10.639/03, isto é, o debate étnico-racial no contexto escolar. Portanto, pretendeu-se relacionar a visão do professor coordenador acerca de suas possibilidades e limites no trato pedagógico do ensino de matriz africana, no que se refere ao cumprimento deste dispositivo legal. Trata-se de uma pesquisa exploratória, realizada em uma Diretoria Regional de Ensino da cidade de São Paulo. Os dados foram obtidos por meio da legislação educacional federal anti-racismo e de um questionário referente às reivindicações, à cultura e à história do negro no Brasil, aplicado a dez professores coordenadores que se predispuseram a participar da pesquisa respondendo ao questionário. Para analisar a articulação entre a legislação educacional, práticas pedagógicas e relações raciais foram utilizados conceitos da teoria crítica, especialmente no que tange à análise do preconceito, que ganhou relevo durante a pesquisa. Após coleta de dados, constatou-se que não existe uma correlação direta entre os discursos dos professores coordenadores e a prática, pois na fala deste profissional percebe-se uma aparente harmonia que não condiz com o preconceito sutil que os impede de quebrar a invisibilidade diante de aspectos importantes que caracterizam a educação multicultural. Estas conclusões indicam que as possibilidades trazidas pela legislação educacional devem ser acompanhadas de condições sociais, educacionais e individuais que ainda estão por ser construídas

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MEd (Educational Management) / Department of Educational Management / The aim of the study was to investigate the capacity-building of School Governing Bodies (SGBs) in the area of policy interpretation and implementation. The research was carried out in schools under Klein Letaba Circuit in the Mopani Education District, in the Limpopo Province. This was a qualitative study where the researcher used purposive sampling to select schools and participants and interviews and document analysis to collect requisite data. In analysing data collected, content analysis was used. On the basis of data analysed and interpreted, the research findings revealed that SGBs do not have the necessary capacity to interpret and implement policies in schools. This is as a result of the inadequate training that they receive during their term of office, high level of illiteracy among them and lack of monitoring and support by the Department of Basic Education (DBE). The study therefore recommends that SGBs be adequately trained in their home languages and encouraged to form cluster committees to share experiences to develop their capacity. The DBE should continuously monitor and support SGBs in the execution of their duties.