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De La Garza, Thomas R. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Student veteran achievement in community college has received increased attention this past decade with the surge in enrollment by returning military personnel and retired veterans. Similar to previous eras, today's student veterans seek post-war educational opportunities at postsecondary institutions. Yet unlike previous student veteran…
Descriptors: Veterans Education, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Needs
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Zoellner, Jamie; Estabrooks, Paul A.; Davy, Brenda M.; Chen, Yi-Chun; You, Wen – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2012
Objective: To describe sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) consumption and to establish psychometric properties and utility of a Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) instrument for SSB consumption. Methods: This cross-sectional survey included 119 southwest Virginia participants. Most of the respondents were female (66%), white (89%), and had at least a…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Age, Psychometrics, Statistical Analysis
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Kuhn, Simone; Schmiedek, Florian; Schott, Bjorn; Ratcliff, Roger; Heinze, Hans-Jochen; Duzel, Emrah; Lindenberger, Ulman; Lovden, Martin – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2011
Perceptual decision-making performance depends on several cognitive and neural processes. Here, we fit Ratcliff's diffusion model to accuracy data and reaction-time distributions from one numerical and one verbal two-choice perceptual-decision task to deconstruct these performance measures into the rate of evidence accumulation (i.e., drift rate),…
Descriptors: Expertise, Evidence, Training, Individual Differences
Walker, Justin Moore – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study set out to determine if the Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, Successive (PASS) cognitive processing model, a model previously investigated with children, would hold its factorial structure with adults. A collection of PASS experimental tasks were analyzed through Maximum Likelihood Factor Analysis. A four-factor solution consistent…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Reading Achievement, Prediction, Factor Analysis
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Grundgeiger, Tobias; Sanderson, Penelope; MacDougall, Hamish G.; Venkatesh, Balasubramanian – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2010
Interruptions are frequent in many work domains. Researchers in health care have started to study interruptions extensively, but their studies usually do not use a theoretically guided approach. Conversely, researchers conducting theoretically rich laboratory studies on interruptions have not usually investigated how effectively their findings…
Descriptors: Nurses, Memory, Researchers, Models
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Chi, Guangqing – Rural Sociology, 2010
The effects of highways on transforming human society and promoting population change have been investigated in several disciplines, including geography, sociology, economics, and planning. Currently, the primary highway construction activity in the nation is highway expansion; however, this expansion has not been the focus of much of the existing…
Descriptors: Population Trends, Civil Engineering, Performance Factors, Economic Impact
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Boeren, Ellen; Nicaise, Ides; Baert, Herman – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2012
This article explores satisfactory learning experiences of adult learners in Flemish formal adult education. Satisfaction is an important issue in motivational psychology. We used the Comprehensive Lifelong Learning Participation Model of Boeren, Nicaise and Baert and explored whether satisfactory experiences relate to characteristics of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Learning, Adult Education, Learning Experience
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Fornes, Sandra; Rocco, Tonette S.; Rosenberg, Howard – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2008
This research presents an analysis of factors predicting job retention, job satisfaction, and job performance of workers with mental retardation. The findings highlight self-determination as a critical skill in predicting the three important employee outcomes. The study examined a hypothesized job retention model and the outcome of the three…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Mental Retardation, Job Performance, Job Skills
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Reid, Renee S.; Harris, Richard I. D. – Education & Training, 2002
This study looks at SME spending on training in Northern Ireland. We include a range of human resource management functions, as well as workforce characteristics, the external environment, size, and the impact of changes in ownership status as important determinants of training expenditure in SMEs. Particular attention is also paid to the…
Descriptors: Ownership, Foreign Countries, Human Resources, Expenditure per Student