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Paige Ellington; Tom Cariveau – Analysis of Verbal Behavior, 2024
Recent reviews of behavior analytic journals suggest that participant demographics are inadequately described. These reviews have been limited to brief periods across several journals, emphasized specific variables (e.g., socioeconomic status), or only included specific populations. The current scoping review included all published articles in…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Native Language, Age Differences, Socioeconomic Status
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Mazzurco, Andrea; Jesiek, Brent K.; Godwin, Allison – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2020
Due to globalization trends, engineers are increasingly expected to work effectively across national and cultural boundaries. However, there remains a lack of valid and reliable measures of global engineering competency. To address this gap, the research team has undertaken a large-scale research project to develop a suite of instruments to…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Decision Making, Measures (Individuals), Trend Analysis
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Castera, Jeremy; Sarapuu, Tago; Clement, Pierre – Journal of Biological Education, 2013
Innatism is the belief that most of the human personality can be determined by genes. This ideology is dangerous, especially when it claims to be scientific. The present study investigates conceptions of 1060 students from Estonia and France related to genetic determinism of some human behaviours. Factors taken into account included students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Gender Differences, Genetics, Foreign Countries
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Roman, Mallory; Medvedev, Katalin – College Student Journal, 2011
There's ample evidence that peer approval and group acceptance play a role in many social phenomena. This influence can manifest itself through the bystander effect, peer pressure, social facilitation and in many other ways. However, dress as a means of social influence has been largely ignored. This study was designed to determine whether peer…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Purchasing, Social Influences, Peer Influence
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Blankenship, Jason; Starling, Randall; Woodall, W. G.; May, Philip A. – International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 2009
New Mexico experienced a surge in the gaming industry during the mid-1990s with the initiation of a state lottery and other new gaming opportunities, as well as the development of many Indian gaming establishments. This paper explores patterns associated with gambling in two random samples of the adult population (N = 2674) in the entire State of…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Females, Correlation, Gender Differences
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Wulczyn, Fred – Future of Children, 2009
Fred Wulczyn explores how data on the incidence and distribution of child maltreatment shed light on planning and implementing maltreatment prevention programs. He begins by describing and differentiating among the three primary sources of national data on maltreatment. Wulczyn then points out several important patterns in the data. The first…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Child Abuse, Prevention, Child Welfare
Maryland State Department of Education, 2008
Periodically, Maryland's sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders are surveyed to determine the nature, extent, and trend of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use among adolescents. The "2007 Maryland Adolescent Survey (MAS)" presents the latest findings regarding ATOD use by Maryland's adolescents and compares State and local…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Marijuana, Prevention, Adolescents