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Walker, Doshie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A convenience sample of 211 university research administrators working in research related organizations and universities in the United States and 18 years or older participated in the online survey. The research study explored a quantitative correlational study to examine the relationship among university research administrators' perception of…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Surveys, College Administration
Lamana Finn, Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between attachment style, shyness, shame, and college persistence and grade point average. While considerable research was conducted to examine these variables in children, less is known about how these variables interact in a college setting. This study used a quantitative,…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Psychological Patterns, Academic Persistence, Grade Point Average
Baker, Amanda R. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This dissertation consists of a theoretical essay and two empirical studies exploring the associations between students' perspectives on knowledge, the processes they use to negotiate dissonance, and their subsequent service-learning outcomes. The overarching goal of this research is to better understand why some students productively negotiate…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Postsecondary Education, Service Learning, Outcomes of Education
Huff-Franklin, Clairie L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to explore the correlation between state-recorded value- added (VA) scores and academic optimism (AO) scores, which measure teacher self-efficacy, trust, and academic emphasis. The sample for this study is 87 third through eighth grade Reading teachers, from fifty-five schools, in an urban school district in Ohio who…
Descriptors: Value Added Models, Urban Teaching, Reading Teachers, Psychological Patterns
Melton, Brian S. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Mormon college students may leave or delay their studies to serve missions for their church, typically for 18 to 24 months. This dissertation studies the impact of serving a mission on the spiritual development and psychological wellbeing of these students. Using a two-factor ANOVA fixed-effects, nonexperimental design, five measurement scales on…
Descriptors: Spiritual Development, Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Religious Cultural Groups
Al Ghamdi, Azala M. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the influence of leaders' sense of psychological empowerment for women leaders on those leaders' administrative creativity in both established and emerging universities in Saudi Arabia. The five guiding research questions were used at both established and emerging Saudi universities: (1) what…
Descriptors: Empowerment, Women Administrators, Foreign Countries, Administrator Attitudes
Xiao, Xiang – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are becoming a promising solution for delivering high-quality education on a large scale at low cost in recent years. Despite the great potential, today's MOOCs also suffer from challenges such as low student engagement, lack of personalization, and most importantly, lack of direct, immediate feedback channels…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Large Group Instruction, Online Courses
Bradley, Kirk – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to determine which academic and affective student factors were significant to student success in a mastery learning program in developmental mathematics and to determine if the mastery learning program led to increased mathematical knowledge retention and success in the subsequent math course. The first phase of the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Postsecondary Education, Developmental Studies Programs, Mathematics Education
Ames, Cathrine D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Unique challenges affecting the influx of online doctoral learners create opportunities to enhance their experience by mitigating limited contact. This quantitative causal-comparative and correlational study examined differences based on frequency and duration of video-based coaching doctoral learners received from their dissertation chairs, at a…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Correlation
Mills, Erin L. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Graduate students encounter specific career difficulties in making career decisions, and turn to various sources of assistance, help-seeking resources and guidance (Gati, Gadasi & Shemesh, 2005). Previous research into graduate student career needs have not sought to better understand the specific differences between international and domestic…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Guidelines, Instructional Design
Can, Ahmet – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of the study was to explore the influence of adjustment problems, homesickness, and perceived discrimination on the psychological well-being of international college students. Additionally, there was an examination of whether there were any gender differences as they relate to adjustment issues, homesickness, perceived discrimination…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Student Adjustment, Foreign Students, College Students
Cholewicki, Judith Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2015
With the rapid increase in the rate of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), there has been a surge in treatment interventions and outcome measures. Treatment interventions consist of evidence-based practices and programs that lack scientific validation. Parents' selection of a treatment or multiple treatments is often based on…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Quality of Life, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children
Hwang, Tony – ProQuest LLC, 2014
One of most significant challenges for international students studying in the U.S. is their ability to adjust to a new social setting. The maladjustment of international students in a host country has been associated with negative impacts to their psychosocial development, educational experience, and perception of the host culture. The increasing…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Acculturation, Student Adjustment, Correlation
Wallenberg-Lerner, Helena – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Global competencies, with differences in terminology by various researchers, had been frequently investigated, primarily from an American-biased perspective. Little or no defining research existed that identified requisite, universally agreed upon global competencies, or identified what affective components were perceived to be important cross…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Global Approach, Competence, Cross Cultural Studies
Carr, Amanda R. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this quantitative study was to compare the stress, strain, and coping levels between pretenured faculty and recently tenured faculty in institutions of higher education in Northeast Tennessee. Aging faculty population combined with talented people leaving the area is common in rural parts of the United States. There is a need to…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Stress Variables, Coping, Stress Management