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Shi, Guangyu; Chan, Kan Kan; Lin, Xiao-Fan – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
The pervasive use of the Internet and technology has its impact on citizens' civic participation. There are growing numbers of research which explore digital citizenship (DC) for citizens' better civic participation in the information society. With the growing attention of digital citizenship, a systematic review of empirical research focused on…
Descriptors: Internet, Citizen Participation, Research, Research Methodology
Soni, Alisha; Bakhru, Kanupriya Misra – International Journal of Learning and Change, 2023
Social entrepreneurship is a planned behaviour and rapidly gaining its importance in society. This complex process can be understood by studying intention which is the single best predictor of subsequent behaviour. It helps in understanding the reasons behind the actions undertaken and the manner in which potential entrepreneurs decide and act to…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Behavior Theories, Intention, Predictor Variables
Shepherd, Caitlin B.; Berry, Katherine A.; Ye, Xian; Li, Kathie – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Conduct a scoping review of food and alcohol disturbance (FAD) in US college students to overview the literature within this population and identify research opportunities. Methods: Studies (n = 39) were selected using systematic searches of databases and references. Search terms included: drunkorexia, "food and alcohol…
Descriptors: Food, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Personality Traits
Patterson, Megan S.; Goodson, Patricia – Journal of American College Health, 2019
Objective: Social network analysis (SNA) is a useful, emerging method for studying health. College students are especially prone to social influence when it comes to health. This review aimed to identify network variables related to college student health and determine how SNA was used in the literature. Participants: A systematic review of…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, College Students, Social Influences
Turanovic, Jillian J.; Siennick, Sonja E. – National Institute of Justice, 2022
Although school violence is on the decline, it remains a significant concern for the general public, policymakers, and researchers. This report commissioned by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) takes a comprehensive look at the state of the research on school violence and includes additional discussions about research on serious violence and…
Descriptors: Violence, Educational Environment, School Safety, Delinquency
Parlindungan, Firman – TEFLIN Journal: A publication on the teaching and learning of English, 2017
There has been a consensus in research and practices that social and cultural aspects of lives contribute to literacy development, particularly in second language learning. The conception of literacy has been shifting from the lens of formal literacy learning in school settings into broader opportunities in sociocultural contexts, and some may…
Descriptors: Literacy, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction
Gulosino, Charisse; Miron, Gary – Journal of School Choice, 2017
This study uses logistic and multinomial logistic regression models to analyze neighborhood factors affecting EMO (Education Management Organization)-operated schools' locational attributes (using census tracts) in 41 states for the 2014-2015 school year. Our research combines market-based school reform, institutional theory, and resource…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Neighborhood Schools, Census Figures, School Location
Dupéré, Véronique; Leventhal, Tama; Dion, Eric; Crosnoe, Robert; Archambault, Isabelle; Janosz, Michel – Review of Educational Research, 2015
High school dropout is commonly seen as the result of a long-term process of failure and disengagement. As useful as it is, this view has obscured the heterogeneity of pathways leading to dropout. Research suggests, for instance, that some students leave school not as a result of protracted difficulties but in response to situations that emerge…
Descriptors: High School Students, Stress Variables, Dropouts, Models
Cunradi, Carol B.; Mair, Christina; Todd, Michael – Journal of Drug Education, 2014
Alcohol use is a robust predictor of intimate partner violence (IPV). A critical barrier to progress in preventing alcohol-related IPV is that little is known about how an individual's specific drinking contexts (where, how often, and with whom one drinks) are related to IPV, or how these contexts are affected by environmental characteristics,…
Descriptors: Violence, Intimacy, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse
Prins, Esther; Monnat, Shannon; Clymer, Carol; Toso, Blaire Wilson – Journal of Research and Practice for Adult Literacy, Secondary, and Basic Education, 2015
This paper uses data from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) to analyze the relationship between U.S. adults' self-reported health and proficiencies in literacy, numeracy, and technological problem solving. Ordinal logistic regression analyses showed that scores on all three scales were positively and…
Descriptors: Competence, Tests, Health, Knowledge Level
Brown, Heather M.; Oram-Cardy, Janis; Johnson, Andrew – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
This meta-analysis examined 36 studies comparing autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and control groups in reading comprehension. Three moderators (semantic knowledge, decoding skill, PIQ) and two text types (high vs. low social knowledge) were examined as predictors of reading comprehension in ASD. The overall standardized mean difference for reading…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Autism, Control Groups, Reading Comprehension
Gonzales-Backen, Melinda A. – Family Relations, 2013
A body of literature has increased our understanding of ethnic identity formation among ethnic minorities, but there remains a dearth of research focused on the ethnic identity formation of biethnic adolescents. Biethnic adolescents are likely to have unique experiences related to ethnicity that significantly alter the course of their ethnic…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Ethnicity, Identification (Psychology), Multiracial Persons
Ali, Abdiweli M.; Peek, Willam – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2009
This paper is an empirical analysis of the determinants of crime in Virginia. Over a dozen explanatory variables that current literature suggests as important determinants of crime are collected. The data is from 1970 to 2000. These include economic, fiscal, demographic, political, and social variables. The regression results indicate that crime…
Descriptors: Crime, Literature Reviews, Regression (Statistics), Predictor Variables

Rodgers, Joseph Lee; Rowe, David C.; Buster, Maury – Developmental Psychology, 1998
Expands an existing nonlinear dynamic epidemic model of onset of social activities (EMOSA), motivated by social contagion theory, to quantify the likelihood of pregnancy for adolescent girls of different sexuality statuses. Compares five sexuality/pregnancy models to explain variance in national prevalence curves. Finds that adolescent girls have…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Females, Incidence

Christenson, Sandra L.; Anderson, Amy R. – School Psychology Review, 2002
According to DiPerna and Elliott (2002, this issue), academic competence comprises both academic skills and academic enablers. This article describes a theoretical framework for considering the direct and indirect effects of important contexts on student performance and how these contexts change over time is described. Also, the literature…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Context Effect, Emotional Response