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Hoffman, Holly; Hengesbach, Marie; Trotter, Shana – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2020
Many people believe supportive environments inclusive of all populations are of utmost importance. However, a concern centers on the language used to refer to individuals with disabilities, as some support person-first language, and others oppose this practice that became more popular in the late 1980's and early 1990's. Person-first language is…
Descriptors: College Environment, College Students, Language Usage, Student Attitudes
Martin, Hector; Craigwell, Renaldo; Ramjarrie, Karrisa – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
The influence of grit on engineering student's achievement has been understudied. The association between grit, self-regulated learning (SRL), and academic achievement in civil engineering students was investigated using correlation and regression analysis. One hundred and one civil engineering students from various nationalities completed a…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Correlation, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence
Xu, Pei; Lone, Todd – e-Journal of Business Education and Scholarship of Teaching, 2020
This study develops a three-stage adoption framework to measure the impact of selected factors on a student's learning experience and evaluates the effectiveness of service learning in each learning stage. The agribusiness service-learning course utilized in this study matches groups of students with non-profit agribusiness entities to identify…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Service Learning, Agribusiness, Business Administration Education
Alghamdi, Osamah Mohammed – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Online learning has the potential to expand collaborative learning and teaching. It has tremendous potential in the educational field, as it allows people to access computing services to share and edit data over the Internet. Yet few studies investigate the growing impacts of online learning on students' learning skills, such as collaborative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
Gelman, Susan A.; Frazier, Brandy N.; Noles, Nicholaus S.; Manczak, Erika M.; Stilwell, Sarah M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2015
Adults attach special value to objects that link to notable people or events--authentic objects. We examined children's monetary evaluation of authentic objects, focusing on four kinds: celebrity possessions (e.g., Harry Potter's glasses), original creations (e.g., the very first teddy bear), personal possessions (e.g., your…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Adults, Children, Attachment Behavior
Preuss, Michael D.; Sosa, Eric M.; Rodin, Jason C.; Dorsett, Christine R.; Ramos, Jorje D.; Burleson, Chenoa R. – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2021
Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) educate nearly two-thirds of the Hispanic/Latinx students who attend college. Yet little is known about the student populations they serve. Findings from two NSF-funded surveys completed with students at 14 HSIs in Texas and New Mexico in 2018 and four HSIs in TX in 2019 are presented. The combined sample was…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Minority Serving Institutions, College Students, Student Characteristics
Ruffalo Noel Levitz, 2019
Adult students (age 25 and older) make up almost 40 percent of the national undergraduate population. Since they are often balancing their college experience with work, family, and other responsibilities, adult students may have different priorities and challenges. What can campuses do to serve these students better and help more of them succeed?…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Student Satisfaction, Undergraduate Students, Student Needs
Shaukat, Sadia; Siddiquah, Aishah; Abiodullah, Muhammad; Akbar, Rafaqat Ali – Bulletin of Education and Research, 2014
Students often rate courses in research methods negatively and regard them as difficult. This study used the Attitudes towards Research Scale (Papanastasiou, 2005) to assess the attitudes of 201 randomly selected postgraduate students of teacher education programs from public and private universities in Pakistan. It was hypothesized that students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Teacher Education Programs, Student Research

Hesketh, Beryl; Watson-Brown, Christine; Whiteley, Sonja – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1998
Study 1 (n=35) established that value discounting (perceived value of outcomes reduced as a function of perceived delay) in job choice correlated with anxiety. Study 2 (n=68) revealed that older students discounted less at short delays, more at very long ones. Study 3 (n=33) found less discounting when delay intervals were filled with some kind of…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Anxiety, Career Choice, College Students

Wainryb, Cecilia – Child Development, 1991
Examined differences in moral judgments as they relate to informational assumptions. Sixth graders, high school seniors, and college students evaluated events concerning welfare, justice, and rights and reevaluated them in light of the opposite information. The relation between evaluations and informational assumptions was significant within each…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Beliefs

Zeidner, Moshe – Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 1988
Examination of 360 Israeli college student candidates demonstrates that upper-class candidates evidence higher levels of moral judgment than their lower-class counterparts. Moral judgment levels were also moderately correlated with total aptitude test scores and matriculation grades but were not differentiated by sex, ethnicity, or age.…
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Age Differences, College Students, Ethnicity

Skoe, Eva E.; Diessner, Rhett – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 1994
Investigated the relationship between identity and moral reasoning in high school and college students. Scores on a new measure of moral reasoning, the Ethic of Care Interview (ECI), were found to be significantly related to age, ego identity, and scores on Kohlberg's Moral Judgment Interview. The relationship between identity and ECI scores was…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Ethics, High School Students
Belcheir, Marcia J.; Ollenburger, Jane C. – 1998
This study examined faculty, student, and community perceptions of the purpose and value of a college education. A total of 536 undergraduates, 121 faculty, 211 members of the community of a metropolitan university completed a survey based on the ACT College Outcomes Survey that focused on educational outcomes and student growth. The results…
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Faculty, College Students, Community Attitudes

Zern, David S. – Adolescence, 1991
Surveyed 1,913 students on extent and type of influence they thought desirable in developing moral judgment in elementary, secondary, and college students. Average response across subjects, year of administration, and age of individuals for whom item was being tapped was highest for influence of individual him/herself and relatively high for three…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Clergy, College Students

Stolte, John F. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1996
Reviews two experiments that strongly support dual coding theory. Dual coding theory holds that communicating concretely (tactile, auditory, or visual stimuli) affects evaluative thinking stronger than communicating abstractly through words and numbers. The experiments applied this theory to the realm of age and evaluation. (MJP)
Descriptors: Age Differences, College Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Decision Making
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