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Counselor Cognitions: General and Domain-Specific Complexity
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Welfare, Laura E.; Borders, L. DiAnne – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2010
Counselor cognitive complexity is an important factor in counseling efficacy. The Counselor Cognitions Questionnaire (L. E. Welfare, 2006) and the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (J. Loevinger & R. Wessler, 1970) were used to explore the nature of general and domain-specific cognitive complexity. Counseling experience,…
Descriptors: Counseling, Questionnaires, Cognitive Structures, Educational Experience
High School Students' Informal Reasoning Regarding a Socio-Scientific Issue, with Relation to Scientific Epistemological Beliefs and Cognitive Structures
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Wu, Ying-Tien; Tsai, Chin-Chung – International Journal of Science Education, 2011
This study investigated the relationship among 68 high school students' scientific epistemological beliefs (SEBs), cognitive structures regarding nuclear power usage, and their informal reasoning regarding this issue. Moreover, the ability of students' SEBs as well as their cognitive structures for predicting their informal reasoning regarding…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Nuclear Energy, Cognitive Processes, High School Students
Does Learning in Statistics Get Deeper or Shallower?
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Bilgin, Ayse A. B. – International Journal of Educational Management, 2011
Purpose: While the natural expectation is that students seek greater depth of learning as they develop intellectually during their studies, some research calls this into question and even suggests that student learning can become shallower from year to year. The present study aims to investigate the relative depth of students' learning at…
Descriptors: Evidence, Student Attitudes, Statistics, Teaching Methods
Learning in the Second Half of the Career: Stimulating and Prohibiting Reasons for Participation in Formal Learning Activities
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Kyndt, Eva; Michielsen, Maya; Van Nooten, Leen; Nijs, Sanne; Baert, Herman – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2011
Past research has shown that, as workers age, their participation in education and training declines, which is a problem in our fast changing society and economy. This study focuses on the stimulating and prohibiting reasons for participation in formal learning activities. It investigates whether employees in the second half of their career differ…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Public Health, Adult Learning, Factor Analysis
Why Do Higher Graduates Regret Their Field of Studies? Some Evidence from Catalonia, Spain
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Mora, Toni – Education Economics, 2010
The present paper focuses on transitions from school to work for recent higher education graduates in Catalonia, Spain. In particular, we concentrate on the relationship between mismatch and disappointment with the chosen university career. For that purpose, we employ cross-sectional survey data provided by The Quality Assurance Agency for the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Graduate Surveys, Education Work Relationship
A Twin-Study of Sleep Difficulties in School-Aged Children
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Gregory, Alice M.; Rijsdijk, Fruhling V.; Eley, Thalia C. – Child Development, 2006
This study examines frequency, overlap, and genetic and environmental influences on sleep difficulties, which are understudied in school-aged children. The Sleep Self Report and the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire were completed by 300 twin pairs (aged 8 years) and their parents. Child report suggested more frequent sleep problems than…
Descriptors: Sleep, Children, Genetics, Environmental Influences