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Zhan, Ginny Q.; Moodie, Douglas R.; Sun, Yanmin; Wang, Bailing – Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 2013
This research project explores learning styles of college students in the US and China. The Grasha-Reichmann Student Learning Style Scale, designed to measure how college students view their learning, was used as the main instrument for the current study. A total of 511 college students, 274 from the US and 237 from China, participated in this…
Descriptors: College Students, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Campbell, Esther L.; And Others – 1982
A study conducted in a newly desegregated school system during its first year of reorganization revealed that black students were being suspended at a substantially higher rate than white students. The study also indicated that suspension rates were disproportionately high for males, for students from families receiving Aid to Families with…
Descriptors: Class Rank, Discipline, Discipline Policy, Disproportionate Representation
Howard, Eugene R. – 1980
Many factors that contribute to a negative school climate also cause discipline problems. Our schools are "rigged," like gambling casinos, in that they must produce a certain percentage of losers. The present school system, in performing its screening role for society, demands that some fail. Students today are aware of this rigging and the…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Class Rank, Competition, Crime