Middle School Campus Research Articles

Case Article—Optimizing Transportation and Equity in a District Zoning Problem for ORville Public Schools

This case asks students to solve a multiobjective optimization decision problem applied to school district zoning. In the case, residential areas in a school district must be assigned to middle schools having capacity limits. The operational considerations on the decision are the weighted distances traveled between students’ residences and their assigned middle school campuses. The ethical considerations pertain to equity in education and are measured using the numbers of economically disadvantaged students assigned to each middle school. This problem, including its two objectives, is motivated by a real zoning problem faced by a school district. Publicly available data from the school district and its rezoning efforts are used to populate the case. To complete the case, students model and solve an optimization problem both with and without the ethical considerations included. In doing so, they observe how ethical considerations can change the outputs generated by the optimization model. Evidence is provided from student surveys to indicate how completion of the case impacts perceptions of the importance of and understanding of how to include ethical considerations in optimization modeling. Results indicate statistically significant increases in those perceptions. Supplemental Material: The Teaching Note and DataAndMetricsDemo Excel workbook are available at https://www.informs.org/Publications/Subscribe/Access-Restricted-Materials .

Investigation of the current situation of Chongqing Shapingba District School Cup Basketball League

With the vigorous development of sports, basketball as one of the three balls is also more and more loved by people, the influence of basketball leagues such as the NBA, CBA and so on to promote the continuous improvement and development of Chinese middle school basketball leagues, and the atmosphere of middle school campus basketball also highlights its important role in the impact of campus culture under this trend, forming a unique campus cultural phenomenon and environment. In this paper, 6 head coaches, 36 small coaches, and relevant responsible persons of various schools participating in the league are surveyed through questionnaire survey method and interview method. Investigate the development status and management mechanism of the Shapingba District Campus Cup Basketball League, analyze the operation system of the Shapingba District Campus Cup Basketball League and the situation of the players and coaches of the basketball teams of each school, propose solutions to the problems that arise in the development of the league, make suggestions for the development of the Shapingba District Campus Cup Basketball League, guide and improve the training of the basketball teams of each school, improve the professional level of the Shapingba District Campus Cup Basketball League, and promote the progress and development of basketball culture in Shapingba District.

Changing of the Guard: Reflecting on the Impact of Administrative Change on Campus Stakeholders

This case study explores the challenges faced by incoming principals who encounter unexpected situations along with the impacts on multiple stakeholders of leadership transition on a middle school campus. Leadership shifts are felt throughout organizations in diverse ways and may even have a personal impact on individuals in a school community. Leadership transition, by its very nature, is a change. Change, especially at the top, presents organizations with myriad possibilities and similar stressors. Principal turnover has a direct impact on school achievement. The principal is key to sustainable school improvement, a process that may take 5 to 7 years after a new principal has been named. High-performing principals often leave campuses and move to central office positions because of their success with campus achievement. In the late 1990s and early 2000s in Texas, more than 30% of principals left their campuses within the first 2 years. Principals leave schools for varying reasons, such as promotions to other campuses, district-level roles, new opportunities in other districts, retirement, and positions out of the educational field. The reader should consider all perspectives in the narrative. This case study involves issues related to transition, change, instructional policies, decision-making, staff culture, and the impacts of COVID-19 on student achievement.

Research on the Construction of Computer Network Security System in Middle School Campus Network

Research on the Construction of Computer Network Security System in Middle School Campus Network

Study on Countermeasures of Middle School Campus Landscape Design Based on Interactivity Concept

Study on Countermeasures of Middle School Campus Landscape Design Based on Interactivity Concept

The Influence of Social Support and Ability Perception on Coping Strategies for Competitive Stress in Soccer Players: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Assessment.

Objectives: To explore the effect of social support and ability perception on stress coping strategies for competitive stress, and to reveal the mediating effects of primary and secondary evaluation, so as to further improve the theoretical model of stress coping in soccer players.Methods: A total of 331 male athletes from 22 teams in the Chengdu Middle School Campus Football League were taken as survey samples, and surveys were conducted on their stress experience, social support, ability perception, cognitive assessment, and coping strategies for competition stress. SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0 statistical analysis software were used. Descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were used to process the obtained data.Results: (1) Positive primary assessment acted as a full mediator in the relationship between social support and secondary assessments, and negative primary assessment acted as a partial mediator in the relationship between competence perception and secondary assessments; (2) Secondary assessment played a partial mediating role between positive primary assessment and positive coping strategies, and a full mediating role between negative primary assessment and positive coping strategies; (3) Secondary assessments played the mediator neither between social support and a coping strategy for stress nor competence perception and a coping strategy for stress; (4) Positive primary assessment, positive negative assessment, and secondary assessment all had significant positive benefits for positive coping. Still, the impact of positive primary assessment on positive coping was significantly better than negative primary assessment and secondary assessment.Conclusion: The coping strategy for the competitive stress model proposed by this study has a very good fit for the causal model. It can be used to explain the observed data from soccer players in middle schools. The primary and secondary assessments play different roles in the model. The combination of problem focuses and emotional focus on the positive stress coping strategy is suitable in the field of competitive sports. Still, the relevant research results need to be further explored and verified in the future.

A dynamic post-evaluation analysis strategy based on Space syntax for optimizing middle school campus layout

Space syntax has injected new vitality into quantitative and parameterized planning and design of middle school campus. Although, there are extensive interpretative problems in space syntax that need to be clarified during engineering planning and design of campus. This paper focuses on: (1) the parameters and models of space syntax are clarified from the perspectives of planning and design; (2) the specific application of space syntax in campus planning and design is discussed from the four stages of preliminary research, scheme analysis, scheme design and scheme optimization; (3) a relatively reliable quantitative, visual and procedural post-evaluation system of campus planning and design is provided with GIS spatial analysis technology and dynamic simulation means.

A Middle School Campus Case Analysis with Dynamic Post-evaluation Strategy of Space Syntax

Due to the lack of technology, the post-evaluation system of spatial syntax has the limitations of inexperience, 3D vision and spatial problems prediction. The paper focuses on: (1) combined with the layout evaluation case of Nanning No.2 Middle School, the application of dynamic post-evaluation system in the evaluation process is refined, and the rationality of the system is verified; (2) combined with sDNA and GIS, a isovist model is built to expand the spatial syntax in 3D; (3) the simulation model is integrated into the post-evaluation system to solve the problem of dynamic feedback space, which enriches the dynamic post-evaluation system and improves the efficiency of campus layout.

篮球运动对中学校园体育文化的影响研究

篮球运动对中学校园体育文化的影响研究

Identification and estimation of landslide-debris flow disaster risk in primary and middle school campuses in a mountainous area of Southwest China

In China, school campuses are greatly affected by natural disasters such as landslide-debris flows in mountainous areas. To minimize disaster losses, it is very important to identify and assess disaster risks for every relevant subsystem. By comprehensive consideration of natural and human activities, landslide-debris flow hazard, environmental susceptibility, and exposure of primary and middle school campuses were identified in Chuxiong, a mountainous area of southwest China. These factors were assessed by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process method and k-means Clustering Algorithm. A risk index was also proposed, and a risk map was developed based on it. The results show that hazard density and extreme precipitation intensity were the key hazard-inducing factors. The distributions of rivers, faults, slopes, and soil erosion were the key environmental susceptibility factors, and this finding is consistent with the intensive risk distribution. The increasing amounts of human disturbance, such as serious soil erosion due to farming on steep slopes, degradation of vegetation caused by changes in land use, and highway construction due to rapid urbanization, also play important roles in increasing the risk. We conclude that the environmental factors determine the distribution and intensity of the landslide-debris flow hazard risk to some extent. However, the exposure of primary and middle school campuses, including the density of schools and their contribution, leads to potential losses in landslide-debris flow hazard zones. We highlight the integrated risk assessment including hazard-inducing factors, environment susceptibility, and campus exposure. The results have practical implications for sustainable campus management, planning, and disaster insurance.

The Green Space Growing from Building: Space Analysis and Evaluation on the Outdoor Environment of Shenzhen Foreign Languages School

With rapid economic development in China and input into primary educational facilities, outdoor environment of middle school campus has also increasingly drawn attention from people from all walks of life. In spite of this, we still have many problems and misunderstanding about outdoor environment of middle school campus in the aspects of cognition and actual construction. Based on the example of Shenzhen Foreign Languages School (Senior High School), this paper has introduced and analyzed its outdoor environment space of campus and summarized spatial processing methods finally to demonstrate existing problems in the outdoor environment design of campus, including safety and function problems, excessive attention to expression of campus culture and restriction of base conditions.

Study on Seismic Design of Primary and Middle School Campus Planning of Disaster Prevention

Japan is an earthquake-prone country since ancient times. A lot of valuable experience has been accumulated. One of the mature and effective measures is that primary and middle schools are used as refuge of community residents. Introduce the advanced concept in China, the availability and practicability of the emergency shelters should be improved. Research on the earthquake disaster prevention, effective measures of aseismic should be adopted in primary and middle school planning to mitigate the damage. A safe social environment should be built.

This Mattered to Me

Health-Related Fitness of Children Who Are Visually Impaired, by Lauren J. Lieberman and Elaine McHugh, published in the May 2001 issue of the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, Volume 95, Number 5, pp. 272-287. Recommended by Patricia Leader Fitness for children is an ongoing and increasing crisis in the United States, and it is even more critical for children with visual impairments. I have observed this crisis since I began my teaching career in the 1970s, and I have witnessed little improvement in this area in the school systems. I discovered the Lieberman and McHugh article in the Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness (JVIB), which addresses this issue through a research study, and it sheds some light on the subject. The data and discussion included in the article support and validate what I have observed in my career. The authors summarize the issue of fitness for children with visual impairments (that is, those who are blind or have low vision) with seven recommendations, which remain relevant today. I found their results interesting, and I feel they will stimulate professionals and families to take action. INCLUSION THAT STOPS AT THE GYMNASIUM DOOR A few years after I began my career, I found myself on a middle school campus. I discovered that children with special needs were provided with adapted physical education, by a specialist. This arrangement appeared to meet the students' needs; however, these students--with visual impairments, as well as those with other disabling conditions--received no physical education services when the adapted physical education specialist was not on campus. The students sat in the school office or library while their peers attended physical education classes. At a time when integration and mainstreaming were at the forefront of education, it did not seem appropriate for these students to be excluded from physical education. I approached the administration and asked that my students be allowed to participate in physical education as long as I, and my support staff members, accompanied them. This request began a campaign at my school to encourage students with visual impairments to be physically active, and to help them develop lifetime recreational skills. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REMOVING BARRIERS The authors of the article that Mattered to Me make recommendations for removing the barriers faced by children with visual impairments to becoming physically active. They promote introduction to movement in early life, to set the stage for healthy activity. This recommendation is relevant today, as it is essential for young children to be encouraged to explore and move in order to achieve developmental milestones. It is critical to teach children with visual impairments about physical activities, which they are unable to learn incidentally. The authors point out the fact that healthy patterns of activity at an early age can have a lifelong effect. In addition to encouraging movement, educators and parents also need to help children with visual impairments establish appropriate cardiovascular fitness levels. The article challenges educators to instruct parents, caregivers, teaching staff members, and coaches in community sports programs about the abilities of children with visual impairments. …

高级中学校园规划与建筑设计初探——以内蒙古牙克石市育才中学为例

本文从三个方面对高级中学校园规划与建筑设计进行探索。首先，回顾国内外学校建筑历史，对其现状和未来发展方向进行研究。从上世纪50年代至今，国内外学校建筑注重开放空间、交往空间、绿色环境的设计，使校园建筑空间生活化、人情化、生态化；未来学校建筑应向更全面的开放化、生态化、智能化、人文化发展。其次，通过对牙克石市育才中学的校园规划的介绍，论述了其开敞化、人文化、生态化空间塑造的重要性。最后，阐述校园单体建筑设计对策，分别从建筑的平面、立面、剖面和细部设计等方面提出注重营造开放性、地域性、交流性、人文性的建筑空间。 This paper comments on three aspects of senior middle school campus planning and architecture design preliminary exploration. Firstly, it looks back the history of the school buildings, and it researches the current situation and future development direction. From the 1950s to the present, it seems that the development of school buildings at home and abroad pay attention to open space, communication space and green environment design; it make the campus be- come architectural space of life and human feeling, ecology; and it predict the future school buildings to more comprehensive opening up to society, ecology, intelligence, and culture development. Secondly, through the Yucai middle school campus planning in senior middle school campus planning preliminary exploration, campus planning should tend to split open change, culture, ecology space shape. Lastly, it represents the design countermeasure of Yucai middle school monomer building. It comes up with many ways to design the Yucai middle school monomer building, such as plane, facade, profile, and detail design. And it Put forward the campus building monomer design should pay attention to open, regional, ac resistance, communication, humanities monomer building of space.

How to Create Green Buildings from Perspective of Evaluation Label: Taking Taiyuan No. 63 Middle School Campus Rebuilding Project as an Example

Based on the Evaluation Standard for Green Buildings, we selected Taiyuan No. 63 Middle School Campus Rebuilding Project (which won “Two-Star Evaluation Label for Green Building Design”) as an engineering case, studied main design methods and technical means for this project from the perspective of an evaluation label, summarized relevant experiences, and put forward factors to be emphatically taken into account in creating green buildings as well as associated precautions.

The Relationship Between Teachers� Collective Efficacy And Student Achievement At Economically Disadvantaged Middle School Campuses

The Relationship Between Teachers� Collective Efficacy And Student Achievement At Economically Disadvantaged Middle School Campuses

Numerical Simulation of Campus Wind Environment

This paper adopted computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method, used k-ε RNG turbulence model-closed control differential equations for numerical simulation. Through numerical simulation and analysis of wind environment in a middle school campus, the round wind field under dominant wind direction was got in the summer and winter. According to the results of velocity field and pressure field, analysis the wind environment, compared the influence of wind direction and surrounding buildings space to the natural ventilation, provided guidance introduce for the layout of the school.

Teaching politics to nursing students: An innovative project

For some time now, the nursing literature has supported course content, courses, and classes on nurses becoming more politically aware and active (Andreoli, Musser, & Otto, 1987; Dean, 1983; Labelle, 1986; Martin, White, & Hansen, 1989; Taylor, 1995; Winter, 1991). A strong case has been made that, for nurses to be in a position to influence health, health policy, and health delivery (Taylor, 1995), nursing students, through nursing curricula, must have political content included in their undergraduate and graduate studies. Andreoli et al. (1987) made an even stronger case by reminding us that, if nurses are to be effective in competing for scarce resources, our profession must increase its numbers and activities involved in the political process. To this end, an innovative semester-long capstone project was introduced in the first-semester senior professional development course—the “From Idea to Bill Project.” The members of a group project (the group is usually 7–10 students who are already working together in their clinical learning communities) select an important healthrelated idea from their clinical experience and/or discussion with their clinical instructors. These ideas have ranged from having sunshades at each bus stop (in Arizona's heat), to no candy or soda machines on public elementary and middle school campuses, to mobile prenatal clinics, to Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus education in the correctional facilities, to full resuscitation response at the homeless shelter, to even the creation of a nursing icon stamp series. These projects must be well thought out and have complete group buy-in as they are ongoing throughout the semester and can be intensive experiences—in

Assessing the Impact of Separate Schooling for African American Male Adolescents

An instructional program designed specifically for African American male adolescents was examined to determine its impact on participating students' school adjustment and achievement. Participants in the study were 20 African American male students (Grades 6 through 8) who attended a specialized, self-contained program located on a middle school campus and a matched group of 20 students who remained in the mainstream academic setting. Self-report data on students' perceived competence and perceptions of support from significant others were collected, as well as archival data on students' attendance and course grades. Consistent with a goodness-of-fit model, experimental class participants perceived themselves more academically competent, rated their teachers and classmates as more supportive, and attended school on a more regular basis when compared to students in the mainstream program. Results were discussed in terms of the need for more effective academic interventions for at-risk youth and the concomitant need for broader social change.

The "Make-Up" Fever on Campus

Today, whenever you walk onto any middle school campus, you quickly discover that some girls appear to be a lot more "mature" than they used to be. As soon as they arrive at puberty, they begin to search for ways to express their beauty, and they want to make people acknowledge their "maturity" of personality as quickly as possible.…