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West, Stephen G.; Hughes, Jan N.; Kim, Han Joe; Bauer, Shelby S. – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2019
The Motivation for Educational Attainment (MEA) questionnaire, developed to assess facets related to early adolescents' motivation to complete high school, has a bifactor structure with a large general factor and three smaller orthogonal specific factors (teacher expectations, peer aspirations, value of education). This prospective validity study…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Educational Attainment, Questionnaires, Adolescent Attitudes
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Lichtman, Allan – Social Education, 2012
Conventional pundits, pollsters, and forecasters are focused on whether the economy will improve sufficiently in 2012 for President Barack Obama to gain reelection. The Keys to the White House, a prediction system that the author developed in collaboration with Vladimir Keilis-Borok, founder of the International Institute of Earthquake Prediction…
Descriptors: Political Campaigns, Presidents, Elections, Economic Development
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Messinger, Adam M.; Davidson, Leslie L.; Rickert, Vaughn I. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Population-specific data on factors that affect intimate partner violence (IPV) are needed on female adolescents and young adults, a cohort at greatest risk of IPV in the United States (Rennison, 2001). Studies have frequently overlooked the role of relationship communication as a gatekeeper to IPV (Ridley & Feldman, 2003). To address this…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Young Adults, Females, Adolescents
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Renninger, K. Ann; Cai, Ming; Lewis, Mark C.; Adams, Margot M.; Ernst, Katherine L. – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2011
As hypermedia, online teacher professional development (TPD) should ideally support diverse learners to work with online content effectively because it involves multiple representations and a nonlinear format. Differences among participants in motivation and learning provide challenges for design. The present study is a use-inspired, mixed-method…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Hypermedia, Profiles
Sommers, Dixie – Occupational Outlook Quarterly, 2012
In an uncertain economy, reliable information about tomorrow's labor market can be a valuable tool in career planning. Understanding the future workforce helps an individual prepare for his/her place in it. When choosing among careers--or assisting others who are making such choices--it helps to know a few basics: the types and number of jobs…
Descriptors: Career Planning, Employment Patterns, Labor Market, Occupational Information
Soine, Karen M. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This primary purpose of the study was to expand the work of Garet, Porter, Desimone, Birman, and Yoon (2001) by creating and psychometrically testing an instrument designed to measure teachers' perceptions of characteristics of professional development. Elementary teachers (n = 406) from five school districts in Washington State participating in a…
Descriptors: Psychometrics, Construct Validity, Predictive Validity, Factor Analysis
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Goodwin, John; O'Connor, Henrietta – Journal of Education and Work, 2009
In this paper, we explore what happened to the young workers featured in the classic text "Young workers: From school to work." In this book, the authors made predictions about the labour market outcomes and careers for the young people in their study, classifying them into three groups: the "careerless", the "short-term careers" and the "extended…
Descriptors: Careers, Labor Market, Education Work Relationship, Graduate Surveys
Hejazi, Sara – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Organizations worldwide have been turning to Six Sigma program (SSP) to eliminate the defects in their products or drive out the variability in their processes to attain a competitive advantage in their marketplace. An effective certification program has been touted as a major contributor to successful implementation of SSP. An effective…
Descriptors: Expertise, Predictor Variables, Intention, Information Systems
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Gunawardena, Charlotte N.; Linder-VanBerschot, Jennifer A.; LaPointe, Deborah K.; Rao, Lalita – American Journal of Distance Education, 2010
This study explores factors that predict learner satisfaction and transfer of learning in an online educational program at a multinational corporation, established to improve organizational learning by providing training in technical skills. A mixed-methods design was used, selecting both quantitative methods (utilizing survey research) and…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Self Efficacy, Transfer of Training, Methods