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Postareff, Liisa; Mattsson, Markus; Lindblom-Ylänne, Sari; Hailikari, Telle – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
The demands and pressures during the first study year at university are likely to arouse a variety of emotions among students. Nevertheless, there are very few studies on the role of emotions in successful studying during the transition phase. The present study adopts a person-oriented and mixed-method approach to explore, first, the emotions…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Transitional Programs, Higher Education, Mixed Methods Research
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Vivanco, Borja – British Journal of Religious Education, 2018
A substantive and differentiating element of the Jesuits' university paradigm is the promotion of social justice. The results of a telephone poll conducted amongst professors and researchers convey the initiatives to further social justice that Jesuit universities in Spain have been carrying out primarily since the 1990s. Although still a limited…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Church Related Colleges, Christianity, Social Justice
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Sun, Jerry Chih-Yuan; Lin, Che-Tsun; Chou, Chien – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
This study aims to apply a sequential analysis to explore the effect of learning motivation on online reading behavioral patterns. The study's participants consisted of 160 graduate students who were classified into three group types: low reading duration with low motivation, low reading duration with high motivation, and high reading duration…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Student Behavior, Reading, Behavior Patterns
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Czerwonka, Marta; Karwowski, Maciej – Creativity Research Journal, 2018
People tend to perceive and assess their own creativity in a positive, yet not always accurate, way. This study explores whether differences in self-ratings of the creative self-concept (creative self-efficacy and creative personal identity) are related to the sequence in which self-report measures are applied: the order effect. A randomly chosen…
Descriptors: Creativity, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Self Concept, Sequential Approach
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Cho, Hwajin; Seo, Young Seok – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2017
The purpose of this study is to explore the counselors' understanding of which behaviors represent real relationship during the counseling process. Twenty-four participants who are counseling psychologists were interviewed on what observable behaviors and verbalizations they deemed to represent real relationship between the counselors and the…
Descriptors: Ethics, Counselor Attitudes, Cultural Traits, Foreign Countries
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Lutes, Lyndell; Davies, Randall – Education Sciences, 2018
This study compared student workload and perceived value of coursework assigned for a matching set of semester and term general education courses at Brigham Young University. Statistically significant differences in workloads were found between most semester and term courses. While term workloads were slightly lighter in general, both could be…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Scheduling, Study Habits
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Tsai, Chun-Yen; Li, Yuh-Yuh; Cheng, Ying-Yao – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2017
This study investigated the relationship among adult affective factors, engagement in science, and scientific competencies. Probability proportional to size sampling was used to select 504 participants between the ages of 18 and 70 years. Data were collected through individual face-to-face interviews. The results of hierarchical regression…
Descriptors: Adults, Affective Behavior, Interviews, Regression (Statistics)
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McGonagle, Katherine A.; Brown, Charles; Schoeni, Robert F. – Field Methods, 2015
Recording interviews is a key feature of quality control protocols for most survey organizations. We examine the effects on interview length and data quality of a new protocol adopted by a national panel study. The protocol recorded a randomly chosen one-third of all interviews digitally, although all respondents were asked for permission to…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Interviews, Quality Control, Test Length
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Pujadas Botey, Anna; Vinturache, Angela; Bayrampour, Hamideh; Breitkreuz, Rhonda; Bukutu, Cecilia; Gibbard, Ben; Tough, Suzanne – Child Care in Practice, 2017
Parents and non-parental adults who interact with children influence child development. This study evaluates the knowledge of child development in two large and diverse samples of adults from Alberta in 2007 and 2013. Telephone interviews were completed by two random samples (1,443 in 2007; 1,451 in 2013). Participants were asked when specific…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Development, Knowledge Level, Familiarity
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Tumusiime, Emmanuel – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2017
Purpose: This study examines the suitability of the system of rice intensification (SRI) for diverse small-scale farmers in Tanzania by exploring if poor and non-poor farmers adopt the system to a similar extent. Originality: The suitability of low-external input technologies such as SRI for diverse African farmers is a contentious issue. Existing…
Descriptors: Food, Foreign Countries, Agricultural Occupations, Multivariate Analysis
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Bellantuono, Alessandro; Saigh, Philip A.; Durham, Katherine; Dekis, Constance; Hackler, Dusty; McGuire, Leah A.; Yasik, Anastasia E.; Halamandaris, Phill V.; Oberfield, Richard A. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
Objective: Given the need to identify psychological risk factors among traumatized youth, this study examined the family functioning of traumatized youth with or without PTSD and a nonclinical sample. Method: The Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales, second edition (FACES II; Olson, Portner, & Bell, 1982), scores of youth with…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, At Risk Persons, Trauma, Youth
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Ashwin, Paul; Deem, Rosemary; McAlpine, Lynn – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
In this article, we explore the extent to which 42 newer researchers, in the academic sub-field of higher education, were aware of, responded to and negotiated their careers in relation to higher education policies. Participants, who were mainly from European countries, tended to divide into two similarly sized groups: one that engaged with and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Researchers, Educational Policy, Interviews
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Midgette, Allegra – Journal of Moral Education, 2018
Previous research has found that when children engage in social and moral transgressions, they take steps to either remedy or explain their behavior. However, no prior systematic investigation has examined the strategies children employ to 'correct' their behavior in future situations. The present study employed a domain theory lens to investigate…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Child Development, Moral Values, Social Development
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Vaughn, Brian E.; Santos, António J.; Monteiro, Ligia; Shin, Nana; Daniel, João R.; Krzysik, Lisa; Pinto, Alexandra – Developmental Psychology, 2016
This study tested the hypothesis that social engagement (SE) with peers is a fundamental aspect of social competence during early childhood. Relations between SE and a set of previously validated social competence indicators, as well as additional variables derived from observation and sociometric interviews were assessed using both…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Peer Relationship, Adjustment (to Environment), Interpersonal Competence
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Turhan, Burcu; Kirkgöz, Yasemin – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2018
English is an access to a global society (Normark, 2013), which implies studying a specific subject area through English is crucial in today's educational arena. The reason behind this is that English is a motive for universities to gain a global status as Coleman (2006) argued. Thus, the focal point of this study is to reveal motivational…
Descriptors: College Students, Engineering Education, Student Motivation, College Faculty
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