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George Spencer; Janine de Novais; Emily Carolyn Chen-Bendle; Elizabeth Ndika – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Despite high college expectations and enrollments among young people, their trajectories through higher education have become increasingly complex. Even after initially starting as "traditional" students, many college graduates are only able to complete a bachelor's degree after a series of stops and starts across multiple institutions.…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Nontraditional Students, Student Educational Objectives, Academic Aspiration
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Benjamin M. Torsney; Timothy J. Patterson; Joseph I. Eisman – Teacher Educator, 2024
This study examined motivators of preservice teachers (PSTs) for pursuing a teaching career. We used latent profile analysis to identify four profiles of PSTs based on their scores on personal utility value, civic mindedness, and intentions for future professional engagement. Using logistic regression, we identified motivational differences among…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Teacher Motivation, Value Judgment
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Nourollah Zarrinabadi; Mohsen Rezazadeh; Alireza Mohammadzadeh Mohammadabadi – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This article reports on a study that examined the relationship between language learners' L2 grit and language mindsets and their attitudes toward CALL. The participants of the study were 625 EFL learners (male = 165, 26.4%; female = 460, 73.6%) with the mean age of 24.4 years (SD = 1.74). They were asked to respond to questionnaires on language…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Resilience (Psychology), Student Attitudes, English (Second Language)
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Kwon, Ronald; Brint, Steven; Curwin, Kevin; Cantwell, Allison – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2020
We consider features of cocurricular activities as important learning environments outside of the classroom. Using survey data from seven large public research universities we investigated 17 specific learning opportunities that occur in student clubs and organizations. We found that cocurricular learning experiences are common and that students…
Descriptors: Research Universities, Extracurricular Activities, Public Colleges, Clubs
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Lee, Bora; Landberg, Monique; Lee, Ki-Hak – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2016
This study examined how the endorsement of work values changed over time and investigated the role of socioeconomic status in the development of work values. A 5-year longitudinal sample of Korean adolescents was used. Three work values were measured: Extrinsic reward, working conditions, and personal development. Findings indicate that Korean…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Adolescents, Rewards
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Tanriogen, Zeynep Meral – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Problem Statement: Behavior is the visible conclusion of unseen values. More concretely, the teaching attitudes of teachers are affected by their values. The study of values is therefore fundamental to the study of teaching. If it is possible to understand the values of teachers, it is possible to estimate the teaching behaviors of teacher…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Value Judgment, Preservice Teachers, Values
Bruce, Mary; Bridgeland, John – Civic Enterprises, 2014
This report shares the findings from the first nationally representative survey of young people's perspectives on mentoring. While mentoring is needed and wanted by young people to help them stay on the path to high school graduation, college success, and productive adulthood, a significant mentoring gap exists in America, especially for at-risk…
Descriptors: Mentors, Surveys, Student Attitudes, Academic Aspiration
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Derryberry, W. Pitt; Barger, Brian – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2008
To assess reaction time and attributional complexity as factors contributing to the relatively high moral judgment of gifted youth, a sample of 30 gifted youth and 30 college students responded to a computerized measure of moral judgment development, which also indexed reaction time. Additionally, participants completed a measurement of…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Gifted, Youth, Moral Values
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Rozin, Paul – Developmental Psychology, 1990
Discusses problems of general interest in developmental psychology that can be successfully studied in the domain of food; these include (1) development of food likes and dislikes; (2) establishment of the edible/inedible distinction; (3) disgust and contagion; (4) transgenerational communication of preferences; and (5) transition to food…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classification, Concept Formation, Food
Langford, Peter E.; Claydon, Leslie F. – 1988
This document reports on two studies that used a novel approach to categorize justifications for moral judgments made by Australian subjects from 7 to 15 and from 7 to 21 years of age. The coding categories consisted of levels of abstraction and reflection. Level of abstraction was determined by the reference group used in justifications. Levels…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Foreign Countries, Individual Development
Pope, William R.; Forsyth, Donelson R. – 1983
In analyzing various moral and legal philosophies, two perspectives emerge, absolute moral rules/higher law, and situationally-specific moral rules/legal positivism. From these two perspectives, four types of individuals emerge in accordance with their degree of adherence to ideological tenets: (1) situationists (high on idealism and relativism);…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Ethics, Evaluative Thinking, Individual Development
Langford, Peter E.; D'Cruz, J. Vin – 1988
Reported are two studies of the categorization of adolescents' justifications for the morality of others' actions. To analyze interview data, a new method of scoring moral judgments was developed. Study 1, involving 180 individuals from 12 to 21 years of age, focused on dimensions of reflection and abstraction associated with four categories of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Classification, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
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Teo, Thomas; And Others – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1995
Examined the variability in the development of moral judgment by reanalyzing a set of Kohlberg's data studies on the concept of structured wholeness, a deep cognitive organization unifying different surface judgments given by the same subject. Although the results failed to show total consistency they also show that it is not meaningful to claim…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Individual Development, Interpersonal Relationship, Moral Development
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Bakken, Linda; Ellsworth, Randy – Educational Research Quarterly, 1990
The relationships of age, gender, and educational level with moral development in 94 middle-class 28- to 55-year-old adults (32 males and 62 females) were studied. Subjects were administered Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Interview (MJI). Males scored higher on the MJI than females. Findings support the continued development of moral judgment through…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Comparative Analysis, Educational Background
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Hart, Daniel; Fegley, Suzanne – Child Development, 1995
Examined the self-understanding and moral judgment of 15 African American and Hispanic American adolescents nominated by community leaders for their exemplary caring behavior. These "care exemplars" were more likely than comparison adolescents to describe themselves in terms of moral personality traits and goals and to view themselves as…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Blacks, Hispanic Americans, Individual Development
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