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Yu-Kuan Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation consists of two chapters studying problems faced by youths in two contexts that could be pivotal to their future: admissions to higher education and the juvenile criminal justice system. The underrepresentation of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields has been studied extensively, and there have…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Gender Differences, Achievement Gap, Ethics
Huang, Xiaochang – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The violence between intimate partners is a critical public health threat and a non-unitary complex phenomenon involving factors like the types of violence, gender, and cultural influences. Traditional feminist theorists proposed the female's risk of becoming a violent victim was higher than the male in the patriarchal context. Though, studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Violence, Interpersonal Relationship, Intimacy
Liu, Chia-fen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study was conducted to identify the factors that may influence the academic and social adjustment of college students with hearing loss in Taiwan. These factors included age, gender, degree of hearing loss, primary communication mode, amplification, high school educational experience, and family relationship. The instruments used to address…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, College Students
Ozdogru, Asil Ali – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Out-of-school time constitutes a major context of social and emotional development for children across cultures. Because it is not constrained by school attendance, weekend time allows cultural and gender differences in time usage to emerge. In this study, children's weekend activities, choice, and some of the related emotional outcomes were…
Descriptors: Socialization, Parent Role, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Chen, Ho-Yuan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between older learners' demographic characteristics and their satisfaction with distance learning in the Web-based environment at National Open University in Taiwan (NOUT). Increases in the older adult population have had many impacts throughout societies. The major purpose of older…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Older Adults, Adult Education, Foreign Countries
Su, Chia-chun – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Reading comprehension plays a key role in academic success in today's classrooms. Literature Circles (LCs), a learner-centered collaborative reading activity, brings together the ideas of cooperative learning, independent reading, and reader response theory to enhance students' reading comprehension as well as their motivation toward learning…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Reading Comprehension, Qualitative Research, Student Attitudes