NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Audience
Practitioners43
Researchers43
Teachers9
Administrators3
Policymakers3
Students2
Parents1
Support Staff1
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
Bayley Scales of Infant…2
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Showing 1 to 15 of 43 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Alper Uslukaya – Psychology in the Schools, 2024
Using the revised job demands-resources model, this study aimed to analyze the direct relationship of teacher self-efficacy with burnout and its indirect relationship through perceived social support as well as the moderating roles of teacher optimism in these relationships. The study used a Bayesian estimator with structural equation modeling to…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Self Efficacy, Teacher Attitudes, Psychological Patterns
Mynard, Jo; Burke, Michael; Hooper, Daniel; Kushida, Bethan; Lyon, Phoebe; Sampson, Ross; Taw, Phillip – Multilingual Matters, 2020
This book provides an in-depth exploration of psychological phenomena affecting language learning within a social learning space. Drawing on the literature from identity in second language learning, communities of practice and learner beliefs, in conjunction with other individual difference factors, it uncovers perceptions and assumptions that…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Psychological Patterns, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Katie Silvester – National Council of Teachers of English, 2024
This book demonstrates how researchers and practitioners in writing and rhetoric studies can engage in story work across differences in culture, language, locations, and experience. Based on an ethnographic study in Nepal spanning a decade, Katie Silvester speaks with and to the stories of Bhutanese women in diaspora learning English later in life…
Descriptors: Females, Literacy Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Gallagher, Matthew W., Ed.; Lopez, Shane J., Ed. – APA Books, 2019
This book is a primer for practitioners and researchers striving to incorporate the assessment of human strengths, resources, and fulfillment into their work. Contributors examine the scientific underpinnings and practical applications of measures of hope, optimism, self-efficacy, problem-solving, locus of control, creativity, wisdom, courage,…
Descriptors: Psychology, Evaluation Methods, Psychological Patterns, Self Efficacy
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Railean, Elena, Ed.; Alev Elçi, Ed.; Elçi, Atilla, Ed. – IGI Global, 2017
Metacognition plays an important role in numerous aspects of higher educational learning strategies. When properly integrated in the educational system, schools are better equipped to build more efficient and successful learning strategies for students in higher education. "Metacognition and Successful Learning Strategies in Higher…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Learning Strategies, Higher Education, Sustainability
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Vasudevan, Lalitha – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2015
In this article, I explore laughter as a form of multimodal play in which adolescents' engage across contexts and in various configurations. With a few recent exceptions, a focus on unscripted play is largely missing from ongoing research and discussion about the education of adolescents. Whereas the space to play has been vitally important to the…
Descriptors: Humor, Adolescents, Play, Educational Technology
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Burke, Meghan M.; Hodapp, Robert M. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2014
Although mothers of children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) experience high levels of stress and schools constitute an important resource, the relation remains unknown between maternal stress and educational services. Responding to a national, web-based survey, 965 mothers of students with disabilities completed a 163-item…
Descriptors: Mothers, Stress Variables, Developmental Disabilities, Children
Finkelhor, David; Turner, Heather; Shattuck, Anne; Hamby, Sherry; Kracke, Kristen – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2015
This bulletin discusses the second National Survey of Children's Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV II), which was conducted in 2011 as a followup to the original NatSCEV I survey. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sponsored both surveys. The Crimes against Children Research Center of the…
Descriptors: Violence, Children, Crime, Child Abuse
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Sharma, Ramesh C., Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
New tools and technologies are being developed to cater to the e-learning triangle of content, technology, and services. These developments (in technology, needs of students, emergence of new modes of education like MOOCs or flipped classrooms, etc.) have resulted in a change in the approach to teaching. "Innovative Applications of Online…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Instructional Design
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Mann, Michael J.; Kristjansson, Alfgeir L.; Sigfusdottir, Inga Dora; Smith, Megan L. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2014
Early adolescence represents a particularly vulnerable period of development during which young people are susceptible to establishing lifelong behavior patterns associated with poor life, health, and educational outcomes. Previous research demonstrates older adolescents and young adults often experience negative life events (NLEs) prior to…
Descriptors: Early Adolescents, Middle School Students, High School Students, College Students
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Peled, Einat; Sacks, Ilana – Family Relations, 2008
The purpose of the present study was to learn about the self-perception of women who live with alcohol-addicted partners. It was hoped that avoiding to label the women in advance as codependent would facilitate a better understanding of their lives and self-perceptions. The qualitative naturalist methodology used was based on a feminist framework.…
Descriptors: Females, Self Concept, Alcoholism, Interpersonal Relationship
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
You, Sukkyung; Furlong, Michael J.; Felix, Erika; Sharkey, Jill D.; Tanigawa, Diane; Green, Jennifer Greif – Psychology in the Schools, 2008
This study investigates the role of school connectedness in mediating the relation between students' sense of hope and life satisfaction for three groups: Bullied Victims, Peer Victims, and Nonvictims. Students in grades 5 to 12 (N = 866) completed the California Bully/Victim Scale, School Connectedness Scale, Children's Hope Scale, and Students'…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Measures (Individuals), Student Attitudes, Bullying
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Vass, Eva – Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2007
This paper reports a study on children's classroom-based collaborative creative writing. Based on socio-cultural theory, the central aim of the research was to contribute to current understanding of young children's creativity, and describe ways in which peer collaboration can resource, stimulate and enhance classroom-based creative writing. The…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Creativity, Cooperation, Group Activities
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Miyazaki, Yasuo; Bodenhorn, Nancy; Zalaquett, Carlos; Ng, Kok-Mun – College Student Journal, 2008
Literature on coping strategies and assessments has not previously included international students, who make up approximately 4% of university students. Results of an Internet survey of 555 graduate and undergraduate international students in U.S. universities are reported. The survey included the Brief COPE, a widely used assessment of coping…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Colleges, Coping, Graduate Students
Christenson, Sandra L., Ed.; Reschly, Amy L., Ed.; Wylie, Cathy, Ed. – Springer, 2012
For more than two decades, the concept of student engagement has grown from simple attention in class to a construct comprised of cognitive, emotional, and behavioral components that embody and further develop motivation for learning. Similarly, the goals of student engagement have evolved from dropout prevention to improved outcomes for lifelong…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Educational Research, Learning Motivation, Educational Indicators
Previous Page | Next Page »
Pages: 1  |  2  |  3