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Jana Maine; Timothy J. Huelsman; Sandra Glover Gagnon; Rose Mary Webb; Pamela Kidder-Ashley – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
Temperament is a widely researched trait that significantly influences children's lives. Still, theorists differ in their perspectives on the construct. With their nine dimensions of temperament and three "categories" of children--"easy," "difficult," or "slow to warm up"--Thomas and colleagues (1968) laid…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Classification, Personality Traits, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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Çagla Okay; Özgür Ulubey – International Journal of Curriculum and Instructional Studies, 2023
The current study aimed to determine the extent to which classroom teachers' professional identity typologies predict their curriculum fidelity. A total of 332 classroom teachers participated in the current study, employing the correlational survey model. The data for the study were collected using the "Curriculum Fidelity Scale"…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Predictor Variables, Fidelity, Classification
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Donnellan, Ed; Aslan, Sumeyye; Fastrich, Greta M.; Murayama, Kou – Educational Psychology Review, 2022
Researchers studying curiosity and interest note a lack of consensus in whether and how these important motivations for learning are distinct. Empirical attempts to distinguish them are impeded by this lack of conceptual clarity. Following a recent proposal that curiosity and interest are folk concepts, we sought to determine a non-expert…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Interests, Definitions, Expertise
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Min-Ying Tsai – SAGE Open, 2024
The study aimed to explore the Chinese version of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale suitable for gifted junior high school students and to classify the types of perfectionism. The Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale was translated into Chinese to evaluate the factor structure and typology of academically gifted students in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Personality Traits, Measures (Individuals), Psychometrics
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Elizabeth H. MacGregor – Research Studies in Music Education, 2024
Although teachers and researchers frequently acknowledge that music education can benefit pupils' academic achievement, health and well-being, and social development, classroom music-making can have long-lasting, detrimental impacts. Individuals' experiences of failure, disappointment, and exclusion in the music classroom highlight an urgent need…
Descriptors: Classification, Music Education, Secondary School Teachers, Music Teachers
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Jackson, Dennis L.; McLellan, Chelsea; Frey, Marc P.; Rauti, Carolyn M. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2020
Academic entitlement (AE), which includes some students' tendencies to express deservingness of academic outcomes, not based on achievement, may have serious implications, such as academic dishonesty and classroom incivility. Some researchers have suggested that there may be different types of students with regard to AE, implying that motives for…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Personality Traits, Classification, Undergraduate Students
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Xie, Xin; Yang, Minseok; Batt, Lena; Gandy-Fastovich, Lydia; Rodriguez-Escutia, Yasmin; Yang, Hyunwoo; You, Eunji; Goff, Peter – Journal of Education Human Resources, 2021
This study develops, validates, and applies a teacher applicant typology using labor market data. We construct our typology by applying a correlated topic model to 11,000 personal statements teachers submitted as part of their applications for open positions in Wisconsin public schools between 2015 and 2017. We identify seven types of teacher…
Descriptors: Teachers, Job Applicants, Teacher Placement, Personal Narratives
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Gao, Ming; Zhang, Jingjing; Lu, Yu; Kahn, Ken; Winters, Niall – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: As a non-cognitive trait, grit plays an important role in human learning. Although students higher in grit are more likely to perform well on tests, how they learn in the process has been underexamined. Objectives: This study attempted to explore how students with different levels of grit behave and learn in an exploratory learning…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Academic Persistence, Personality Traits, Usability
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Thomson, Margareta M.; Faulkner, Valerie N. – Journal of Interdisciplinary Teacher Leadership, 2021
This mixed-methods study employed a typological approach and an Expectancy-Value framework to understand nontraditional prospective teachers' motivational beliefs, teaching motivations, and goals for choosing a teaching career. All participants (N=88) were nontraditional prospective teachers, graduate students enrolled in a Master of Arts in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Nontraditional Students, Student Motivation, Teacher Motivation
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Eman, Saima; Khalid, Ansab; Nicolson, Roderick I. – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2019
'Emotional reactivity' (ER) is an important construct in the analysis of individual temperamental differences, and has accounted for significant variance in studies with respect to its definition. Between 1920 and 2015, the meaning of ER has varied from physiology of emotional reactions, to stress, depression, and as a sub-type of empathy. This…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Definitions, Vocabulary, Personality Traits
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Birch, Heather J. S. – Journal of Online Learning Research, 2022
This case study is about understanding disruptive students who are motivated by a psychological need to invoke change in a learning space. Marczewski's User Types Test, a typology for classifying both intrinsic and extrinsic motivational tendencies, and based on Self-Determination Theory, was administered to 14 participants, aged 9 through 15, to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, High School Students, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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McGrath, Robert E.; Han, Hyemin; Brown, Mitch; Meindl, Peter – Journal of Moral Education, 2022
Having an agreed-upon definition of character education would be useful for both researchers and practitioners in the field. However, even experts in character education disagree on how they would define it. We attempted to achieve greater conceptual clarity on this issue through a prototype analysis in which the features perceived as most central…
Descriptors: Values Education, Moral Values, Specialists, Teaching Methods
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Kang, Minchul; Lee, Juyoung; Lee, A-Ra – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2020
This study identified the subgroups (latent classes) of Korean college students according to the influence of perfectionism on career stress and indecision, and explored the effects of sub-factors of perfectionism on career stress and indecision for each subgroup. Also, the study examined how individual self-esteem and stress coping styles affect…
Descriptors: College Students, Stress Variables, Coping, Personality Traits
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Thompson-Memmer, Carly; Glassman, Tavis; Diehr, Aaron – Journal of American College Health, 2019
Individuals who restrict their caloric intake and/or exercise excessively to mitigate the calories from alcohol consumption may suffer from an eating disorder, substance abuse disorder, or both. While the term "drunkorexia" has been used in both academic articles and popular culture, issues persist with respect to diagnosing and treating…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Vocabulary
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Sop, Aylin; Biskin, Serap Özdemir – Journal of Teacher Education and Educators, 2021
Developing character strengths in early childhood has attracted increased attention all around the world in recent years. Nevertheless, very few studies have examined teachers' awareness and practices concerning character strengths. The present study aimed to discover early childhood teachers' awareness of children's character strengths and…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Preschool Teachers, Classroom Techniques, Content Analysis
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