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Connie Woytowich – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study provided a detailed analysis of why newly elected school board members ran for school board in New York from 2017-2022 and the governance challenges they expected to face. Secondary survey data of 1,064 school board members collected by the New York State School Boards Association were examined to explore how personal and professional…
Descriptors: Boards of Education, Motivation, Barriers, Governance
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Layher, Evan; Dixit, Anjali; Miller, Michael B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Individuals should "strategically" shift decision criteria when there are disproportionate likelihoods or consequences for falsely identifying versus missing target items. Despite being explicitly aware of the advantages for criterion shifting, people on "average" do not shift extremely, leading many theories to conclude that…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Individual Differences
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Bates, Glen W.; Rixon, Andrew; Carbone, Angela; Pilgrim, Christopher – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2019
Rapid transformation of the workplace and a highly competitive labour market has changed the nature of graduate employability. In addition to discipline related knowledge, students now need to be proactive and adaptable in identifying career opportunities. This paper presents a conceptual model that views employability as determined by an…
Descriptors: Job Skills, Employment Qualifications, Professional Identity, Models
Sallie Mae Bank, 2018
Introduced in 2009, "How America Saves for College" is Sallie Mae's national study conducted by Ipsos that surveys American parents with children under the age of 18 about how they are preparing financially for college. The 2018 study is the seventh in the series. This primary research captures data on parents' saving-for-college…
Descriptors: Paying for College, Parent Attitudes, Money Management, Parent Financial Contribution
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Rafiee, Marzieh; Abbasian-Naghneh, Salman – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2019
Since its introduction to the field of modern language instruction, willingness to communicate (WTC) attracted much attention from researchers and practitioners. Since then, a large and growing body of literature has investigated the factors influencing language learners' WTC. Among the factors identified, individual factors were found to have…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Fluency
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Costa, Alberto J.; Pinheiro, Margarida M.; Ribeiro, Mariana S. – Accounting Education, 2016
Our purpose is to empirically examine whether gender, age, work experience, and attendance of a course on ethics affect the ethical perceptions of Portuguese accounting students and analyze the influence of some individual factors that may affect their ethical decision-making. Additionally, we consider the degree of importance assigned to a list…
Descriptors: Ethics, Accounting, Gender Differences, Entrepreneurship
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Kuhnle, Claudia; Sinclair, Marta; Hofer, Manfred; Kilian, Britta – Journal of Experimental Education, 2014
Students' learning activities frequently compete with their leisure options, leading to regret after decisions to study. Using a sample of 233 German and 194 Australian undergraduate students, the authors explored possible determinants of the personality construct regret. They investigated whether the level to which students rely on intuition in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Decision Making, Intuition
Conner, Timothy W., II; Skidmore, Ronald L.; Aagaard, Lola – Online Submission, 2012
Dispositional optimism is an adopted orientation in which one believes that goals will generally be attained and that tasks can generally be successfully completed, whereas pessimists orient toward less belief in successful task or goal completion. A related concept, individuals with high self-efficacy believe they will be successful at particular…
Descriptors: College Students, Academic Ability, Self Efficacy, Undergraduate Students
Harrison, Allen F.; Bramson, Robert M. – Computer Decisions, 1983
Presented is a questionnaire to help individuals determine their own unique thinking style: pragmatist, analyst, realist, synthesist, and idealist. Questionnaire is from "Styles of Thinking: Strategies for Asking Questions, Making Decisions, and Solving Problems" by Robert Bramson and Allen Harrison. (JN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Decision Making, Individual Characteristics, Personality Traits
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Patterson, Janice H.; Collins, Loucrecia; Abbott, Gypsy – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2004
This paper describes a qualitative research study that investigated strategies used by urban teachers to build their personal resilience. Sixteen resilient teachers from four urban districts that reported student achievement equal to or higher than the state average on standard tests of reading and mathematics were interviewed. The definition of…
Descriptors: Urban Teaching, Urban Schools, Qualitative Research, Academic Achievement
California State Univ., Los Angeles. National Dissemination and Assessment Center. – 1982
The booklet is part of a grade 10-12 social studies series produced for bilingual education. The series consists of six major thematic modules, with four to five booklets in each. The interdisciplinary modules are based on major ideas and designed to help students understand some major human problems and make sound, responsive decisions to improve…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Bilingual Instructional Materials, Decision Making, Learning Modules
Gutierrez, Raymond Joseph – 1982
Previous research has stressed the role of both expectancies and reinforcement in the decision making process. In order to determine if the measure of externality and internality correlates with an association between willingness to risk and external/internal locus of control, and to determine the role of social learning in students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Decision Making, Educational Psychology
US Agency for International Development, 2009
The Doorways training program was designed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Safe Schools Program (Safe Schools) to enable teachers, community members and students to prevent and respond to school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV). Doorways II was designed for community counselors to prevent and respond to…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Personality Traits, Self Efficacy, Definitions