Alternative School Students' Perceptions of Past [Traditional] and Current [Alternative] School Environments
The opening of a new alternative school in a suburb of a small midwestern city in 1995 provided the opportunity to elicit student perceptions of their past and current school environments. Students were asked at two different times to complete three short scales that characterized teacher, counselor...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The High School journal 2001-12, Vol.85 (2), p.12-23 |
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Zusammenfassung: | The opening of a new alternative school in a suburb of a small
midwestern city in 1995 provided the opportunity to elicit student
perceptions of their past and current school environments. Students
were asked at two different times to complete three short scales that
characterized teacher, counselor and administrative responsiveness to
them: the first time they were surveyed they were asked about their
former school; the second time they were surveyed they were asked about
their experiences in their new alternative school. The students were also
asked to rate the overall experience of their past and current school
and explain their responses. The responses to these scales clearly point
to a perception among the alternative school students that their new
alternative school experience-- including interactions with teachers,
counselors and administrators-- was significantly better than the schools
they left. An examination of the reasons they gave for these differences
is illustrative of the needs of these at-risk students and suggests
intervention strategies to keep them in school. |
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ISSN: | 0018-1498 1534-5157 1534-5157 |
DOI: | 10.1353/hsj.2001.0024 |