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Tamara Marie Davis – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Teachers' social and emotional learning (SEL) beliefs can impact SEL implementation efforts and consistency in primary and secondary schools. The diffusion of innovations theory is a suitable framework for understanding problems with SEL implementation and diffusion within educational organizations and among teachers over time. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Teacher Attitudes, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Nancy S. McIntyre; Lindsay F. Rentschler; Brianne R. Tomaszewski; Bonnie R. Kraemer – Remedial and Special Education, 2025
This longitudinal follow-up study of 129 autistic young adults and their parents in three U.S. states was designed to (a) investigate autistic young adults' postsecondary education experiences, (b) learn if the experiences align with their interests and if they are satisfied with them, (c) explore the educational supports and disability services…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Young Adults, Parents, Educational Experience
V. Paul Poteat; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Robert A. Marx; S. Henry Sherwood; Abigail Richburg; Gabriel R. Murchison; Arthur Lipkin; Megan K. Yang; Jerel P. Calzo – Grantee Submission, 2023
Gender-Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) are school clubs for LGBTQ+ youth and peer allies to support one another. This eight-week weekly diary study considered whether a youth's positive and negative affect during a given week could be predicted by experiences in their most recently attended GSA meeting. Ninety-nine GSA members (M[subscript age] =…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Clubs, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation
Paolo Banaag – ProQuest LLC, 2024
California community college (CCC) counselors assist a diverse student population with academic achievement, career exploration, and mental health/crisis interventions while tasked with administrative duties such as programming, coordinating, and advising. In addition, they have instructional duties such as teaching classes, writing syllabi, and…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Community Colleges, Altruism, Fatigue (Biology)
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Jessica Wise Younger; Zoe D'Esposito; Irene S. Geng; Stephanie L. Haft; Project iLEAD Consortium; Melina R. Uncapher – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2024
Growth mindset has been shown to predict academic achievement in a variety of student populations, though the strength of the relationship can vary depending on the characteristics of the students examined. Using a large-scale sample of middle school students from a diverse district in the United States, we examine how multiple facets of students'…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Beliefs, Middle School Students, At Risk Students
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Montanari, Simona; Vogel, Ron; Vasquez, Melinda – Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 2023
This study explores the demographic/background, academic, and environmental factors that predicted student retention after stopping out at a large Hispanic-serving institution in Southern California. The results show that (a) gender, (b) academic background, experience, readiness, and performance, and (c) personal and financial issues predicted…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Institutional Characteristics, Student Characteristics
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Armstrong, Cameron L.; Kim, Young K. – Christian Higher Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the levels of growth in cognitive outcomes among students attending Southern Baptist universities, as compared to their peers at other Council of Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), Catholic, and nonsectarian institutions, and to identify the college experiences that contribute to cognitive…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Church Related Colleges, Cognitive Development, Student Experience
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Harper, Casandra E.; Yeung, Fanny P. – College Student Journal, 2015
This study utilized logistic regression to test whether students' personal characteristics and experiences significantly predict their likelihood of dating interracially in college. The data were drawn from the Campus Life in America Student Survey (CLASS), which was administered to freshmen who were then resurveyed as juniors (n = 513). The most…
Descriptors: College Students, Predictor Variables, Racial Relations, Dating (Social)
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Lee, Garam; Curti, Christina; Zambrano, Jeanette; Muragishi, Gregg Abe; Thoman, Dustin – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Differences in family background and culture contribute to belonging concerns for first-generation students during their transition to college (Stephens et al., 2012; Harackiewicz et al., 2016). We investigated whether variability in students' on-campus experience, in particular perceived faculty support, in the first semester of college predicts…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, First Generation College Students, Cultural Influences, Family Characteristics
Porterfield, Victoria – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2017
Higher levels of civic and community engagement in higher education are positively associated with students' academic performance and they also build upon citizenship skills such as informed voting. Yet, while these are worthy and important outcomes of higher education, students from disadvantaged backgrounds can have more difficulty navigating…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Correlation, Voting, Student Participation
Slade, Nicole; Eisenhower, Abbey; Carter, Alice S.; Blacher, Jan – Grantee Submission, 2018
We examined parents' satisfaction with multiple aspects of their children's individualized education programs (IEPs). Parents (n= 142) raising children ages 4 to 8 years old with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) reported their satisfaction with four aspects of their children's IEPs: (a) content of the IEP document, (b) services provided, (c)…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Satisfaction, Individualized Education Programs, Young Children
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McKim, Aaron J.; Velez, Jonathan J.; Clement, Haley Q. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2017
The educational importance of teacher self-efficacy necessitates research into variables presumed to significantly influence teacher self-efficacy. In the current study, the role of personal and programmatic variables on the self-efficacy of school-based agriculture teachers was explored. Self-efficacy was measured in five aspects of the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Agricultural Education, Multiple Regression Analysis, Predictor Variables
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Berryhill, Katie J.; Slater, Timothy F. – Journal of Astronomy & Earth Sciences Education, 2017
As discipline-based astronomy education researchers become more interested in experimentally testing innovative teaching strategies to enhance learning in undergraduate introductory astronomy survey courses ("ASTRO 101"), scholars are placing increased attention toward better understanding factors impacting student gain scores on the…
Descriptors: Astronomy, Science Tests, Scores, Science Instruction
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Podolsky, Anne; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Doss, Christopher; Reardon, Sean – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
Despite wide achievement gaps across California between students from different racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, some school districts have excelled at supporting the learning of all their students. This analysis identifies these positive outlier districts--those in which students of color, as well as White students, consistently achieve at…
Descriptors: School Districts, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
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Podolsky, Anne; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Doss, Christopher; Reardon, Sean – Learning Policy Institute, 2019
The explosion of knowledge and the growing complexity of modern life are changing expectations for what young people need to learn and be able to do. Success in the 21st century does not depend solely on what people know, but also on what they can do with what they know. In this report, the authors summarize the results of a quantitative analysis…
Descriptors: School Districts, Minority Group Students, Racial Differences, Ethnicity
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