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Sharifah Holder; Munjireen Sifat; Charlene Kuo; Kerry Green – Education and Urban Society, 2024
Racial disparities are evident in both educational outcomes and incarceration rates when comparing African American and white youth. It is essential to understand the school-to-prison pipeline and the ways in which school discipline practices and other factors disproportionately affect African American students, limit educational attainment, and…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, African American Students, White Students, Anxiety
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Renaud, Jesse; Barker, Erin T; Hendricks, Charlene; Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2019
Despite the robust link between dispositional optimism and well-being across the lifespan, the developmental origins of dispositional optimism are unknown. Understanding the pathways that lead to greater optimism during the transition from adolescence into young adulthood may be important given that this stage of the life course involves the…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Psychological Patterns, Positive Attitudes, Well Being
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Naseer, Naila; Majid, Shaista – Pakistan Journal of Distance and Online Learning, 2018
The purpose of the study was to predict academic achievement of distance learners from Locus of Control. The study was delimited to teacher education Programs (M.A., M.Ed and B.Ed) offered by universities of Pakistan through distance learning mode. A total number of 1513 students was selected through stratified sampling technique. The Nowicki-Duke…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Locus of Control, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables