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Berger, Christian; Lisboa, Carolina; Cuadros, Olga; de Tezanos-Pinto, Pablo – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2016
Peer relations constitute a main developmental context for adolescents. Peers offer an instance for identity definition and set the norms of acceptable and valued characteristics, behaviors, and attitudes, representing a societal model that allows and restrains avenues for adolescents' socioemotional development. The present article departs from…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Peer Relationship, Emotional Development, Social Development
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Morris, Rebecca J.; Cahill, Maria – School Library Research, 2017
In this study we investigated the research designs employed to study the interdisciplinary profession of school librarianship during a time period of notable changes across both the Pre-K-12 and school library domains. To conduct this work, we analyzed all 217 articles published in "School Library Research" (SLR) and "School…
Descriptors: Research Design, School Libraries, Library Research, Content Analysis
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Erb, Sarah E.; Renshaw, Keith D.; Short, Jerome L.; Pollard, Jeffrey W. – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2014
This article reviews empirical studies of the role of college roommate relationships in students' mental health and college adjustment. We propose a systemic conceptualization of roommate relationships that highlights roommates' interdependence and origins of roommate relationship dynamics. We discuss practice implications for student…
Descriptors: College Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Peer Relationship, Mental Health
Stansell, John C.; Patterson, Leslie – 1987
The teaching profession's present notion of the ability of teachers to contribute to theory development in language education needs reexamination. University researchers can best foster this ability by encouraging and assisting teachers to become engaged in classroom research. On the basis of both published evidence and field data, it can be…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Data Collection, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Gonzalez, Gerardo M., Ed.; Clement, Vonnie V., Ed. – 1994
This publication presents four major research papers on college campus substance abuse prevention and research with reviews of the papers by practitioners in the substance abuse prevention field. Following a Preface and Introduction, the first paper is "Theories, Dominant Models, and the Need for Applied Research" by Gerardo M. Gonzalez.…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Campuses, College Environment, College Students
Freeland, Brett – 2000
This report, which is based primarily on figures released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), reviews the indicators available for international comparisons of vocational education and training (VET) to clarify the following issues: the kinds of comparability problems that exit, their extent and severity, their…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Differences