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Sheng, Xiaoming – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article employs Bourdieu's conceptual tools to unpack family influences on students' subject and university choices in China. This empirical study employed mixed research approaches, using both quantitative and qualitative methods, to examine students' choices of subjects and universities in a sample of secondary school students from the age…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Family Influence, Majors (Students), Foreign Countries
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Xinzhuo, Zhu; Junhua, Shi; Zhihui, Dong – Chinese Education & Society, 2015
A survey and comparative analysis of the family backgrounds of the entire undergraduate student body of X University and the group of student union cadres shows: the proportion of college students who serve as student union cadres who come from cities and have families with high social status, high family income, and parents with high educational…
Descriptors: Correlation, Family Characteristics, Student Unions, College Students
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Ding, Cody; Yang, Dong – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2013
The purpose of the study was to examine grade-level differences in coping behaviors among adolescents using a probabilistic multidimensional scaling (MDS) single-ideal-point model. Using data from students in middle school and at college, this article illustrated the MDS single-ideal-point model as an alternative to examine students' typical…
Descriptors: Coping, Adolescents, Age Differences, Middle School Students
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Tseng, Mei-Hui; Fu, Chung-Pei; Wilson, Brenda N.; Hu, Fu-Chang – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
The aim of this study was to adapt and evaluate the Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire (DCDQ) for use in Chinese-speaking countries. A total of 1082 parents completed the DCDQ and 35 parents repeated it after 2 weeks for test-retest reliability. Two items were deleted after examination of test consistency. Cronbach's [alpha] for the…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics, Probability