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ItemA study of the relationship between students' perceptions towards school climate and their satisfaction at Shehong Middle School, Sichuan, ChinaThis study aimed to investigate the relationship between students' perceptions ofschool climate and their satisfaction at SheHong Middle School, Sichuan, China. By applying the Framework of school climates of Emmons, Haynes, & Comer(2002) and Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory (1987) theories, this study identified students'perceptions towards school climate of six dimensions: 1) Order and Discipline 2) Fairness 3) Parent Involvement 4) Sharing Resources 5) Student Interpersonal Relationship 6) Student-Teacher Relationship, compared their perceptions accordingto3 pieces ofdemographics. The results of this study indicated a significant relationship between students'perceptions towards school climate and students'satisfaction. The findings for research objective one revealed that the total mean score of the level of students'perceptions of school climate was 3.43, which was interpreted as Moderate. The findings for research objective two showed that the total mean score of the level of students'satisfaction was 3.46, which was interpreted as Moderate as well. The correlation result showed a positive relationship between students'perceptions of school climate and students'satisfaction. The researcher discussed the research findings and provided corresponding suggestions to related principals, teachers,and administrators at the selected school in Sichuan, China.
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ItemA comparative study of high school students' perception towards school environment according to their demographics at an International School in BangkokThis studymainly aimed to compare the high school students’ perceptions towards school environment according to their gender, nationality, grade and years of studying at anInternational School in Bangkok, Thailand. A total of 90 students from grade 10 to 12 got involved in this study. The adapted questionnaire based on Kate (2005) was used to students’ perception towards school environment of 6 indicators including health policies, physical environment, social environment, school-community relation, personal skill building, and access to health services at the selected international school. The collected data was analyzed statistically.The study found the overall level of high school students’ perceptions towards school environment at this international school wereregarded as high,particularly, the highest perception was for Health Policies, and the lowestperception was for School-community Relations.No significant differencesin thestudents’ perceptions towards schoolenvironmentaccording to their gender and gradewere identified, however, significant differences of the students’ perception towards school environment between Non-Thai students and Thai students;between the students studying at the international school of Bangkok for 1-3yearsand 10 years and abovewere determined.
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ItemA comparative study of students' perception towards quality assurance management according to their demographics at a university in Bangkok, Thailand( 2020) Pang, Yanmei ; Ye, YanThe main purpose of this study was to comparethe students’ perception towards quality assurance management at a selecteduniversity in Bangkok, Thailand. By applying the AUN-QA assessment framework and the theory of total quality management, this study identified students’ perception towards 6 categories: 1) top management commitment, 2) academic staff quality, 3) support staff quality, 4) student advice and support, 5) facility and infrastructure and 6) student focus, compared their perceptions according to 3 pieces of demographics. The results of this study indicated that, the students in the target universityhelda relatively positive attitude towards quality assurance management. Furthermore, students'most satisfying quality assurance management was student advice and support. The independent sample t-test showed that there was nosignificant difference of students’ perceptions towards quality assurancemanagement according to students’ gender and nationality, and one-way ANOVA showed that there was no significant difference of students’ perception according to their age. The researcherdiscussed onthe research findings and provided corresponding suggestions to related stakeholders including students, academic staff, support staff, and the top leadership at the selected university in Bangkok, Thailand.
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ItemA comparative study of teachers' motivation according to their demographics at Bangkok Christian College, ThailandThe major purpose of this study was to compare teachers’ motivation according to their demographics including gender, age, teaching grade, and year of work at Bangkok Christian College, Thailand. The researcher surveyed teachers’ motivation and their demographics in the academic year of (2016-2017). Herzberg’s motivation-hygiene theory and job satisfaction questionnaire adopted from Ghanbahadur, (2014), was distributed to all the primary teachers at Bangkok Christian College. The results confirmed that teachers’ motivation was regarding as “very high” based on their perception of working at this school. Furthermore, significant differences of teachers’ motivation according to their gender was found. However, there were no significant differences of teachers’ motivation according to their age, teaching grade, and year of work at Bangkok Christian College.
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ItemA comparative study of teachers' perception towards professional development according to their demographics in an International School in Pracha Uthit, Bangkok( 2020) Meng, Weichao ; Ye, YanThis study was to compare the significant differences in the teachers’ perceptions towards school’s professional development according to their gender, age, nationality, teaching experience and teaching level at aninternational school in Pracha Uthit, Bangkok, Thailand. Sixty-five teachers from the international school were surveyed by questionnaire based on Guskey’s (2000) Professional Development Evaluation model. The results showed that teachers’ perception level towards school’s professional development at the international school was high. Majority of teachers thought their professional learning had positive impacts on students’ learning achievement, and they felt that could gain new knowledge and skills from it. Nevertheless, teachers had relatively low perceptions regarding to the school professional development for students learning outcomes. No significant differences in the teachers’ perceptions towards school’s professional development according to their demographics: gender, age, years of teaching experience and grade level teaching were founded at the international school. However, significant differences of teachers’ perceptions towards their school’s professional development between Thai and Non-Asian existed at the international school inPracha Uthit, Bangkok.
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ItemA comparative study of teachers' perspectives of the learning through play approach according to their selected demographics at selected international schools in BangkokThe purposes of this study was to identify demographic profiles of the teachers, to determine teachers’ perspectives towards the learning through play approach at selected international schools in Bangkok and to compare teachers’ perspectives towards the learning through play approach from their practice of early years based on their nationalities, years of teaching experience and qualification specialty in 2016. From the total number of 170 preschool and kindergarten teachers working at 17 selected international schools in Bangkok; 93 teachers completed the survey. Statistical measures employed in this study included frequency and percentage, mean and standard deviation and independent samples t-test. The results of this study has indicated that overall teachers had positive perspectives towards the learning through play approach. There were no significant differences of teachers’ perspectives towards the learning through play approach according to their nationalities and years of teaching experience; however, the researcher discovered that there were significant differences of teachers’ perspectives towards the learning through play approach according to their qualification specialty. Teachers with education degree had more positive perspectives towards the learning through play approach than the teachers with non-education degree
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ItemElucidating students' perception of themes employed in business communicationAs mainstream literature in the business communication field has yielded a strong preference toward the specific skills required in the business field, this study aimed to elucidate students’ perceptions of the six main enduring themes, namely, rhetoric, technology, culture, dissemination, motivation, and impression, in current business communication instruction. A questionnaire survey was employed to determine the perceptions of 144 students toward topics they had already studied in a business communication course conducted in an international college in Thailand. Students’ perceptions were also compared with the five widely-used business communication textbooks, as well as the course syllabus being used in the above-mentioned business communication course. The analysis indicated technology as the most controversial theme with regard to the course, the five textbooks, and the students. The findings in this study have both theoretical and practical implications. The study considered the application of theme-based instruction into a business discipline by adopting a top-down approach to research students’ learning from “big ideas”, i.e. themes, rather than a superficial knowledge of a broader range of ideas, information or specific skills.
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ItemInstructional leadership practices for developing the 21st century competencies of undergraduate students at public universities in Tanzania( 2021) Mushi, Emmanuel Paul ; Ye, YanThe purpose of this paper was to identify key instructional leadership (IL) practices and the 21st century competencies (TFCC) and relate the two using the context of Tanzanian public universities. The paper relied on literature review and content analysis to come with survey questionnaire. From literature review and content analysis, thirteen (13) instructional leadership practices and six (6) 21st century competencies were identified. These included leadership focus on improvement of teaching and learning, use of appropriate leadership styles and competencies, and setting vision, mission and goals. Further, the practices included use of social-constructivist instructional methods such as student-centered approach, collaborative learning and problem-based learning. Survey questionnaire formed from the identified IL practices and TFCC was used to collect data from 222 public university lecturers in Tanzania. Analysis of the data though Pearson Correlation r indicated that there is a strong positive relationship between the instructional leadership (IL) practices and the 21st century competencies (TFCC). The analysis found a Pearson Coefficient (r) of .654, with a p-value of .000. Moreover, all the sub-variables under the instructional leadership correlated positively with sub-variables under the 21st century competencies, and there was on average strong positive association of the sub-variables within the two main variables.
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ItemInvestigation and attributes exploration on teacher overload in public schools of Nanchang City, China( 2019) Ye, Yan ; Xiong, JianhuiThis study mainly aimed to investigate the teacher overload in public schools of Nanchang City, China. A questionnaire based on Teacher Workload Survey (2016), Department of Education in United Kingdom was adapted and used in this study. The total of 10,380 public school teachers from all the primary, secondary and high schools of Nanchang were used as the population for this study. Questionnaire distribution and data collection were under the direction and assistance of Nanchang Education Department. The study proved that teacher overload in schools of Nanchang is at the level of moderate. Comparing teachers’ overload with their demographics, it found that the male teachers, teachers working for 21-30 years, teachers with doctoral degrees, and teachers working in the high schools were overloaded the most. Furthermore, the study also revealed that the significant multiple correlations with the multiple coefficient of determination R Square=.686 or 68.6% of teacher overload could be explained by the attributes, from the high to low rank were Long Working Hours, NoneTeaching Tasks, Salary and Income, Students’ Achievement, Parental Expectation, Position Evaluation or Promotion, Teaching Evaluation, and Public Concerns on Teachers. Analyses of teacher overload and strategies for reducing teacher overload for public schools in Nanchang city was provided in the discussion.
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ItemThe relationship between teachers' art experiences and their attitudes towards the importance of art education in an international school in Bangkok, ThailandThe purpose of this research was to identify teachers’ art experiences, as well as their attitudes towards the importance of art education, and subsequently determine the relationship between teachers’ experiences and their attitudes. The research focused on teachers from the primary level of an international school in Bangkok, Thailand. A questionnaire was used to gather information about teachers’ past art experiences as a student in primary, secondary school and university, as an adult and as related to family. Findings revealed that teachers value their art experiences in primary and secondary school as somewhat positive, while it was deemed neutral in university. A gradual change was also observed in the results regarding how teachers rated the importance of art education: from somewhat positive in primary and secondary school, to neutral in university. Correlation analyses further confirmed that there was indeed a significant relationship between teachers’ art experiences and their attitudes towards the importance of art education, particularly as a student.
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ItemThe relationship between teachers' demographic profiles and teachers' perception towards the internal quality assurance assessment at program level in two secondary high schools in Laiza and Mai Ja Yang Townships, Kachin State, MyanmarThe purpose of this study was to determine the teachers’ perception towards Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) Assessment at program level and relationship with the teachers’ demographic factors: age, educational qualification, years of service in school, and academic rank in two Secondary High Schools in Laiza and Mai Ja Yang Townships, Kachin State, Myanmar, and to compare teachers’ perception towards internal quality assurance system according to teachers’ gender. Two set of questionnaires were used to conduct this study: Questionnaires for teachers’ demographic profile and Questionnaires for Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) Assessment at Program Level. 95% of the questionnaires were returned valid and data were analyzed by frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r). The findings of objectives were that the teachers’ perception towards total internal quality assurance system based on fifteen components was at low level. Therefore, there was no significant difference between male teachers and female teachers’ perception towards internal quality assurance system according to teachers’ gender. There was no significant relationship between internal quality assurance system at program level and other teachers’ demographic factors. Since all the significant values were bigger than .05 at the significant level. The study recommended that school’s principals and board committee members should pay more attention to focus on IQA strategic planning and implementation process in order for promoting schools’ quality.
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ItemThe relationship between teachers' perception towards their leadership capacity and school climate in the lovers of the cross of Ubon Ratchathani Schools, Thailand( 2019) Watcharaporn Nakpansa ; Yan, YeThe purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between teachers’ perceptions towards their leadership capacity and school climate in five selected schools under the leadership of the Lovers of the Cross of Ubon Ratchathani Congregation. The researcher used the high leadership capacity instrument adopted from Kujur (2016), and based on Lambert’s (2003) Leadership Capacity School Survey (LCSS), as well as the Schools’ Organizational Climate Survey (SOCS) adopted from Josaphat (2005). The results of this study showed that there was both a strong and significant relationship between the teachers’ perceptions towards their leadership capacity and their school climate in the respective schools. This study discussed those respective findings and found that school improvement and student achievement could be better facilitated by increasing teacher leadership capacity and improving the educational effectiveness through the implementation of a more conducive atmosphere for teaching and learning. The teachers and administrators were recommended to identify methods to develop and offer greater opportunities for teachers to facilitate shared ideas, enhance workplace engagement opportunities, develop methods of coherent discussion, as well as to assist and support each other to achieve the school goals. This research suggested that the achievement of these recommendations could be done by developing the communication within the learning community, engaging and inspiring students, collaborating more between shareholders to strengthen leadership capacities and to ultimately improve the school climate within the school. To facilitate this, it was proposed that teachers should revamp their teaching-learning processes through professional development and training, in order to raise teachers’ commitment and devotion to each individual learner.
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