Quality Of Accomplishment Research Articles

School climate policy and its relations with social and emotional competencies, bullying and cyberbullying in secondary education

Some school policies are designed to promote a positive school climate, but little is known about their effectiveness. This study aims at describing the relation among the quality of school climate policy documents, social and emotional competencies, bullying and cyberbullying in students. This ex-post-facto cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted using a survey of a representative sample of 2139 adolescents. School climate policy documents varied greatly in the quantity and quality of accomplishment in each criterion. According to the evidence from this study, promoting a positive school climate from the school climate policy document is worthy, as bullying perpetration could be reduced. The findings of this study have implications for school policy and educational reforms.

El plan de convivencia y su relación con las competencias socioemocionales, el bullying y el cyberbullying en la educación secundaria

Some school policies are designed to promote a positive school climate, but little is known about their effectiveness. This study aims at describing the relation among the quality of school climate policy documents, social and emotional competencies, bullying and cyberbullying in students. This ex-post-facto cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted using a survey of a representative sample of 2,139 adolescents. School climate policy documents varied greatly in the quantity and quality of accomplishment in each criterion. According to the evidence from this study, promoting a positive school climate from the school climate policy document is worthy, as bullying perpetration could be reduced. The findings of this study have implications for school policy and educational reforms.

Efficiency in State and Local Government Expenditures

The large and growing size of state-local spend ing makes the search for efficiency increasingly important. The biggest issues are those dealing with program elements, but operations and management also involve large amounts. The concept of efficiency in government spending presents dif ficult problems, several being noted as helping to explain apparent slowness in achieving results. Ten factors associated with the growth of state-local spending and obstacles to ef ficiency are identified. One line of progress is to improve organization as such, and much has already been done in some states and localities. Various factors continue to delay actions having much promise of good results. Central supervision of local activities can both help and hurt. To date, methods of tested success in the quest for improvement are less generally used than reason would indicate as feasible to raise the quality of accomplishment and reduce cost. The same applies to personnel policies. The large portion of total spending which goes for salaries makes personnel practices of key significance. Civil service merit systems, though extensive, are far from universal in state-local government. Fourteen specific areas for improving operating methods are listed, with the conclu sion that general adoption of means which experience has shown can yield good results would produce significant cumu lative benefit. Improvement of purchasing methods is one of the more important. Special commissions and permanent non- official groups have a record of accomplishment which argues for an expansion of their use.

Poems on Pertinent Topics.

Doctors who lapse into verse or who make any consistent or considerable contribution to this form of literary grace are rare in these days of intense focus on the mundane. Now that Merrill Moore is dead there is no medical man recognized as an outstanding versifier and poet except for William Carlos Williams who has achieved greatness as a poet. The poems collected in this book by a doctor who writes under the name of Walter Erwin give us a wide sweep of subject matter and techniques of versifying as well as considerable variability in the quality of accomplishment. A few of the earlier ones, especially, used rhythm so freely that I was not quite certain wherein the poems differed from prose. However, the intensity of the feeling, particularly of the reactions to the tremendous word upheavals of the years from the time of Hitler on, evoke acute and sometimes