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Landeros-Thomas, Barry Ryan – ProQuest LLC, 2017
American Indian students exhibit significant delays in academic skills and are at greater risk of school leaving or dropout than mainstream peers. A core component of these academic difficulties are persistent reading deficits across grades, but little research exists on the underlying foundation of these reading deficits. The purpose of this…
Descriptors: American Indian Students, Cognitive Processes, Reading Skills, Statistical Analysis
Lorenz-Reaves, Amanda R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Insects are the most abundant and diverse group of animals on Earth. Though as a group they do far more ecological good than harm, previous studies have shown that human attitudes toward insects are mainly negative. Attitudes have affective (emotions) and cognitive (beliefs, mental representations) components that interact to influence behavior.…
Descriptors: Entomology, Animals, Attitudes, Affective Behavior
Hochberg, Eric David – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Teachers' professional learning is regarded as one means through which to improve instruction and student achievement, but how teachers' learning experiences actually translate to improved outcomes is not clearly understood. This is particularly true for novice teachers, who, through a combination of induction programs, broader professional…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Mixed Methods Research, Faculty Development
Gordon, Gina M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study examined cognitive and affective empathy as predictors of proactive and reactive aggression. This study also explored whether levels of cognitive and affective empathy differed among children who use proactive and reactive aggression. Cognitive and affective empathy were measured by the Basic Empathy Scale (Jolliffe & Farrington,…
Descriptors: Empathy, Multiple Regression Analysis, Aggression, Correlation
London, Julie E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The use of audio technology by online nursing educators is a recent phenomenon. Research has been conducted in the area of audio technology in different domains and populations, but very few researchers have focused on nursing. Preliminary results have indicated that using audio in place of text can increase student cognition and socialization.…
Descriptors: Asynchronous Communication, Audio Equipment, Feedback (Response), Nurses
Scarfone, Melissa Delores – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to investigate if there are differences in how cognitive and noncognitive variables predict academic performance for college students with learning disabilities. In particular, this study examined the extent to which the cognitive variables of high school grade point average and SAT (combined verbal and math) or ACT…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes, Academic Achievement
Walker, Justin Moore – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study set out to determine if the Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, Successive (PASS) cognitive processing model, a model previously investigated with children, would hold its factorial structure with adults. A collection of PASS experimental tasks were analyzed through Maximum Likelihood Factor Analysis. A four-factor solution consistent…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Reading Achievement, Prediction, Factor Analysis
Dykes, Michelle – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Too few community college students who intend to transfer and earn a baccalaureate degree actually do. Further, low-income and first-generation college students are overrepresented at community colleges. Education is considered a means of social and economic mobility for low-income, first-generation students; therefore, retaining this population…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, First Generation College Students, Student Attitudes, Transfer Students
Just, Glen A. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Although there is a trend towards increased use of online instruction for undergraduate instruction, online delivery lacks the student-teacher interactivity and the easy exchange of visuals that is available during face-to-face environments. Interactivity and visualization are valuable for mathematics instruction as a way of reducing cognitive…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Quasiexperimental Design, Mathematics Education
Guthmiller, Mark L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
A cohort of 87 Latino elementary school students participated in a study to identify factors predictive of the math reasoning and math computation performance levels. Multiple regression analyses were used to determine which of the five blocks or combination of blocks were significantly predictive of performance levels on two standardized academic…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Intelligence, Language Proficiency, Thinking Skills