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María-Luisa Rodríguez-de Arriba; Paz Elipe Muñoz; Virginia Sánchez-Jiménez; Rosario Del Rey – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2024
Violence towards LGBTQ+ people is a topic of growing social and research interest. The scientific literature has mainly focused on victimization, with few studies exploring the factors that could trigger LGBTQ+ harassment perpetration in adolescents. Moral disengagement is postulated as a possible predictor variable as it has previously shown a…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Social Bias, Bullying, Moral Values
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Guillén-Gámez, Francisco D.; Linde-Valenzuela, Teresa; Ramos, Marta; Mayorga-Fernandez, María J. – Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning, 2022
In the current socio-health situation, new educational challenges have emerged, such as the need to implement a virtual tutorial action. Therefore, this study has three objectives: (1) to investigate the level of digital competence that early childhood and primary school teachers possess to carry out quality online tutorial actions; (2) to analyse…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Technological Literacy, Early Childhood Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Caballero, Gloria; Álvarez-González, Paula; López-Miguens, María Jesús – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
This study proposes a holistic model of perceived employability in university students, covering the following five areas: human capital, social capital, cultural capital, individual attributes and behaviours, and contextual factors. Three studies comprising five experts and 1,088 students were performed. Through these studies, the psychometric…
Descriptors: College Students, Employment Potential, Social Cognition, Human Capital
Liao, Yuqi – American Institutes for Research, 2020
This analysis compares 15-year-old students who reported career expectations in finance in 13 education systems that participated in the financial literacy assessment of the 2015 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). In particular, it explores (a) selected demographic characteristics of students who expected to have a career in…
Descriptors: High School Students, Occupational Aspiration, Finance Occupations, Expectation
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Ayala, Juan Carlos; Manzano, Guadalupe – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
This study, using a time-lagged design, investigated whether or not a relationship between the dimensions of resilience and engagement, and the academic performance of first-year university students, existed. Moreover, we investigated whether or not the dimensions of resilience and engagement were different in students who dropped out of their…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Academic Achievement, Resilience (Psychology), Learner Engagement
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Fernández-Avilés, Gema; Pérez-Zabaleta, Amelia; Martínez-Merino, Juan-Luis – Journal of International Education Research, 2014
At present, one of the major issues and most interesting discussions within the European Higher Education Area is the rate of success in university-level study, and therefore the adaptation of today's university education system to society's requirements. Moreover, we have seen significant growth in distance education throughout recent decades, as…
Descriptors: Profiles, Open Universities, Student Characteristics, Distance Education
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Sainz, Milagros; Lopez-Saez, Mercedes – Computers & Education, 2010
The dearth of women in technology and ICT-related fields continues to be a topic of interest for both the scientific community and decision-makers. Research on attitudes towards computers proves that women display more negative computer attitudes than men and also make less intense use of technology and computers than their male counterparts. For…
Descriptors: Social Class, Females, Rural Areas, Foreign Countries
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Vela-Bueno, Antonio; Fernandez-Mendoza, Julio; Olavarrieta-Bernardino, Sara; Vgontzas, Alexandros N.; Bixler, Edward O.; de la Cruz-Troca, Juan Jose; Rodriguez-Munoz, Alfredo; Olivan-Palacios, Jesus – Journal of American College Health, 2008
Objective: Between November 2002 and March 2003, the authors assessed the prevalence and correlates of napping among Spanish university students. Participants: The sample comprised 1,276 first-year university students; the mean age was 18.74 [plus or minus] 1.24 years, and 35.45% were men. Methods: The study was cross-sectional, and the students…
Descriptors: Coping, College Freshmen, School Schedules, Predictor Variables
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Dronkers, J.; Robert, P. – Journal of School Choice, 2008
The paper approaches the issue of school choice in an indirect manner by investigating the effectiveness of public, private government-dependent and private independent schools in 19 Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development countries selected from the PISA 2000 survey for this purpose. In a multilevel approach we estimate these…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Private Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries
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Benitez, Juan Luis; Justicia, Fernando – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2006
This article purports to present this Special Issue about Bullying and, at the same time, to introduce the phenomenon of bullying in order to facilitate readers an updated vision about the problem that will be worked from different perspectives by researchers from national and international scope. With this purpose, we present some controversial…
Descriptors: Bullying, Risk, Age, Sex
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers