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Ejura Yetunde Salihu; Lora Ebert Wallace – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Purpose: This study assessed gender, race, use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), attitudes toward CAM, and disclosure of CAM use to health providers using an online survey of 506 students at a regional public university. Methods: Ordinary least squares regression models were used to examine relationships of interest, including use,…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Medicine, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
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Mollica, Molly Y.; Kajfez, Rachel Louis; Riter, Elizabeth – Advances in Engineering Education, 2021
Community engaged learning has demonstrated educational benefits and is an especially promising method to engage a diverse group of students in engineering. In this work, we present toy adaptation for children with disabilities as a novel community engaged learning tool. According to students surveyed, this process is enjoyable, demonstrates the…
Descriptors: Toys, Children, Disabilities, Engineering Education
Fletcher, Carla; Webster, Jeff; Cornett, Allyson; Niznik, Aaron; Gardner, Tanya; Knaff, Cassandra – Trellis Company, 2022
The Student Financial Wellness Survey (SFWS) provides a snapshot of student financial wellbeing during the fall of 2021. Over 700,000 students were surveyed from 104 schools in 25 states and 63,751 students responded. During this period Federal stimulus funding helped stabilize finances for many students, but many still struggled to make ends…
Descriptors: Well Being, Paying for College, Credit (Finance), Educational Finance
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Kyle Miller; Jordan A. Arellanes; Toy Beasley; Megan Kybartas – School Community Journal, 2024
Fathers make important contributions to children's learning and development; however, schools and community organizations consistently report challenges to engaging fathers in their work. As part of a larger community-based participatory research project, a local fatherhood coalition created and distributed a survey to learn how various…
Descriptors: Social Services, Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Personnel, School Personnel
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Simon F. Haeder; Daniel Marthey; Daniel Skinner – Journal of School Health, 2025
Background: School-based health centers (SBHCs) have been shown to offer substantial benefits to students but we know little about how the public thinks about them. We sought to assess US public attitudes about SBHCs and the provision of 7 health service lines--primary care, preventive care, vaccinations, preventive dental care, preventive vision…
Descriptors: School Health Services, Public Opinion, Child Health, Adults
Matt Bryant; Ami Magisos – Washington Student Achievement Council, 2025
Washington Student Achievement Council (WSAC) coordinated the development and administration of the Washington Student Experience Survey (WSES) in 2022 as a response to research showing that unmet basic needs represent an increasing barrier to the success of higher education students. This survey collected census-level data on basic needs security…
Descriptors: Security (Psychology), College Students, Food, Housing
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Wodika, Alicia B.; Middleton, Wendi K. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: This study identified the attitudes and behaviors of college students regarding their advocacy for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Specifically, perceptions of climate change were assessed and advocacy activities were identified for climate change and/or other topics. Design/methodology/approach: Using convenience sampling,…
Descriptors: Climate, Advocacy, Correlation, Student Empowerment
Maria Luísa de Bivar Black; María Pilar Santos Tambo; Hedvika Janecková – European Commission, 2021
This toolkit has been developed for secondary school teachers and secondary school young learners (14-15 years old). It aims to support teachers to organise discussions in the classroom to effectively address gender stereotypes, based on the example of the transport sector. Other than secondary school teachers, this toolkit also allows school…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Teachers, Gender Differences, Gender Bias
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Kaitlyn Culiton; Lourdes M. Marquez; Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2024
This study analyzes the outcomes of a service-learning course where Latinas in a higher education setting created a 16-page children's book for at-risk students as part of their education coursework in a regional public Hispanic-serving institution (HSI). There is a well-documented lack of Latina/o/x representation in children's literature, which…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cultural Pluralism, Writing (Composition), Hispanic American Students
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Pearl, Andrew J.; Christensen, Robert K. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2017
This study extends a line of research focused on motivational factors that contribute to first-year students' reasons for engaging in service-learning. Among first-year students, altruistically-motivated students (Christensen, Stritch, Kellough, & Brewer, 2015) and minority students (Pearl & Christensen, 2016) were not only more…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Service Learning, Volunteers, Statistical Analysis
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Chan, Tak Cheung; Jiang, Binbin; Chandler, Mary; Morris, Robert; Rebisz, Slawomir; Turan, Selahattin; Shu, Ziding; Kpeglo, Sena – New Waves-Educational Research and Development Journal, 2019
The purpose of this study is to examine if school principals' roles and responsibilities in China, Ghana, Hungary, Turkey, Poland and the United States are significantly different from one another. This study adopts a survey design which provides a quantitative or qualitative description of trends, attitudes, or opinions of a population by…
Descriptors: Principals, Administrator Role, Role Perception, Administrator Attitudes
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Vergés Bosch, Núria; Freude, Leon; Camps Calvet, Clara – Teaching Sociology, 2021
Service learning (SL) is growing in our universities and in Spain. However, still much action and research are needed with a gender perspective. This article aims to evaluate an SL project that consisted of workshops in schools on gender and technology. We evaluated the experience with a mixed-methods approach and a gender perspective. This…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Teaching Methods, Sociology, Gender Differences
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Pinho, Micaela; Pinto Borges, Ana – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
This article aims to investigate to what extent health care professionals in Portugal find health-related behaviors relevant as a criterion to priority setting, to study what type of risk behavior they consider relevant in such decisions and to compare their views with those of laypersons. An online questionnaire was used to collect data from a…
Descriptors: Health Personnel, Health Services, Health Behavior, Patients
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Dickson, Martina; Tennant, Lilly – Studies in Continuing Education, 2018
The levels of support which faculty provide to students have been linked to a number of positive effects on students such as lower rates of attrition, greater satisfaction with college life, enhanced self-concept, improved academic performance and more likelihood of remaining enrolled in college through stressful life periods. There are surely…
Descriptors: Mothers, Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Teacher Role
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Kim, Ha Yeon; Gjicali, Kalina; Wu, Zezhen; Tubbs Dolan, Carly – Journal on Education in Emergencies, 2021
Rigorous evaluation of social and emotional learning programs requires the use of measures that provide reliable and valid information on the meaningful differences in children's social emotional skills across treatment and control groups, as well as changes over time. In contexts affected by conflict and crisis, few measures can provide the…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Social Emotional Learning, Psychometrics, Conflict
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