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Micah Stephen Truax – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Low financial literacy is a growing problem in young adults, which has effects throughout adulthood (Amagir et al., 2018). Record low personal savings rates, a shift toward increased personal responsibility for retirement, and increasing student loan balances put financial decision-making demands on young adults that have lifelong impacts (Lusardi…
Descriptors: Financial Literacy, Socialization, Colleges, Higher Education
Katherine Anne Pavidis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The study utilized a mixed-methods approach involving snowball surveys and teacher interviews. Participants were recruited through snowball sampling, and the surveys were administered online. The surveys were designed to gather information from teachers about their experiences with implementing class meetings. Additionally, teacher interviews were…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Classroom Techniques, Meetings, Classroom Communication
Sims-Jones, Jacquelyn – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Bullying is a problem experienced in schools across the country including in the ABC Elementary School in Georgia, where the No Place for Hate antibullying program is in place to address this problem. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to understand educators' perspectives on their experiences implementing the program. Bandura's social…
Descriptors: Bullying, Antisocial Behavior, Semi Structured Interviews, Teacher Attitudes
Garner, Russell J. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
An examination of the recent literature revealed there are no established standards for orienting online doctoral students. To address this problem, the relevant literature was examined and suggested that doctoral students can be effectively oriented to their academic environment when provided with the requisite programmatic and institutional…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, School Orientation, Computer Mediated Communication, Program Development
Feliciani, Meghan Lynn – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Educators often use reading programs to address younger students' reading abilities and teachers' perceptions of those reading abilities; however, few researchers have examined teachers' perceptions of the effects of sustained silent reading on middle and high school students. The conceptual framework for this study was based on social learning…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Sustained Silent Reading, Reading Ability, Reading Teachers
Duerden, Mathew David – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This study utilizes longitudinal, mixed-method data drawn from participants in an environmental education/international immersion program for middle high-school students to study outcomes and processes associated with program participation. Studies of program outcomes and processes are important for better understanding the design and impact of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Youth Programs, International Programs, Experiential Learning