<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Salomea A.  Popoviciu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ioan  Popoviciu</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ioan  G. Pop</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Daria  Sass</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">THE ROLE OF THE SCHOOL SOCIAL WORKER IN IMPROVING PUPIL’S ACHIEVEMENT THROUGH A SYNERGISTIC PARENT-PUPIL-TEACHER CONTEXTUAL COMMUNICATION</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">contextual communication model</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">learning spaces</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">school achievement</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">school social work</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">November/2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/abstract.php?icid=924388</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">25</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pupil’s level of achievement is enhanced by bridging the gap between learning spaces and facilitating the transfer of knowledge, behaviours, skills, values, preferences and understandings from one context to another. An important part in this process is the exchange of information between home and school through an improved parent-pupil-teacher communication assisted by the school’s social worker. The research focus of this paper is to identify the challenges pupils face in relation to their learning spaces and to establish the role of the school social worker in improving pupil’s achievement through a contextual communication model of maintaining the collaboration between family, school and community. The research methodology included (1) a questionnaire applied to 110 pupils from one Romanian high-school with ages between 12-15 years; (2) semi-structured interviews with social workers, school teachers, a school psychologist, educational experts and parents and (3) synthesis and comparisons of the psychological and didactical relations between pupils and the context studied. Using the results of the survey and the interviews, this research identified the areas of discrepancy between pupils and their learning spaces, and mapped the role of the social worker in improving pupils’ level of achievement and school adaptation. This mediator role is exemplified through an innovative synergistic model of parent-pupil-teacher contextual communication. </style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">122-137</style></section></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mai Normak</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Leida Talts</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ADOLESCENTS’ TEST-RELATED EMOTIONS IN ESTONIAN SCHOOLS</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Problems of Education in the 21st Century </style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">school achievement</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">test-related emotions</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2009</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">December/2009</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://oaji.net/articles/2014/457-1399916260.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">18</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Positive and negative emotional experiences play an important role in academic achievement settings. Students at school experience a variety of stress-related situations. A major type of stress-related situations is tests students are regularly confronted with.
 The purpose of this study was to compare test – related emotions of students studying in schools with Estonian as the language of instruction and with Russian as the language of instruction and also compare the evaluations of students studying in mainstream classes to evaluations of students studying in special classes for learning and behavioural difficulties.
 This study assessed participants (N = 687) emotional experiences in academic settings when taking tests. We measured students’ positive emotions (enjoyment, hope and pride) and negative emotions (anger, anxiety, shame and hopelessness) (Academic Emotions Questionnaire [AEQ] Pekrun, 2000).
 Results showed that in academic achievement there were differences in grade, sex and class type level. In lower grades students reported significantly better marks than those in upper grade levels. According to our research test- related emotions differ between students studying in schools with Estonian as the language of instruction and with Russian as the language of instruction. That means those in Russian as the language of instruction reported significantly grater positive and negative emotions than those in schools with Estonian as the language of instruction. There was no significant difference in test- related emotions between regular classes and students in the classes for students with learning and behavioral difficulties.</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Original article</style></work-type><section><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">128-137</style></section></record></records></xml>