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Leon Freude; Jordi Bonet; Clara Camps Calvet – European Journal of Education, 2024
Digital Gender-Based violence (DGBV) is a social problem affecting overproportionally younger people, especially women and LGTB. Training programmes to combat DGBV are recommended but we lack evidence-based evaluation of them. We evaluate a series of trainings at university for all participants (N = 190), taking into account gender and sexual…
Descriptors: College Students, Violence, Gender Issues, Computer Mediated Communication
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Cooper, Stewart E.; Dranger, Paula N. – Journal of College Student Psychotherapy, 2018
Clinical staff members at virtually all college counseling centers provide therapy for victims of sexual misconduct experiences such as sexual assault, sexual harassment, relationship violence, and stalking. A number of college counseling center counselors are also involved in primary, secondary, and tertiary sexual assault prevention efforts.…
Descriptors: College Students, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Harassment, Violence
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Makola, Qonda – Journal of Student Affairs in Africa, 2017
The majority of the students who enroll at the Walter Sisulu University (WSU) in South Africa are not equipped with the necessary academic/learning skills to cope with the university environment, especially in Mechanical Engineering. The Department of Higher Education and Training (2013, p. 17), further states that "students' support is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Readiness, Engineering Education
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Miller, Carol D.; Seitz, Mark James – Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects, 2014
Students in a Sociology of Gender class were each required to provide five digital photos of something they have seen in their worlds that represents beliefs or behaviors related to gender. The photos were organized into themes related to assigned readings on gender and work, family, sexuality, health, education, and more. A short film using their…
Descriptors: Sociology, Gender Issues, Photography, Equal Opportunities (Jobs)
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Case, Kim A.; Stewart, Briana – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2013
The transgender community encounters pervasive prejudice, discrimination, and violence, yet social science literature lacks research that focuses on reduction of antitransgender prejudice. This experimental study examined the effectiveness of three interventions aimed at decreasing negative attitudes toward transsexuals, correcting participants'…
Descriptors: Intervention, Negative Attitudes, Gender Issues, Identification (Psychology)
Ochonogor, Chukunoye Enunuwe – Online Submission, 2011
The problem of the study was to analyze the results of university biology education students as a case study against gender and performance and empirically determine the implications of the findings to countries, such as Nigeria, South Africa and the rest of the world. The study made use of all the 344 students in the levels from 100 to 400 of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Science Education, Case Studies
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Steele, Diana F.; Levin, Amy K.; Blecksmith, Richard; Shahverdian, Jill – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2005
The purpose of this study was to investigate the ways in which a multi-layered women's calculus course influenced the participants' learning of mathematics. This study, conducted in a state university in the Midwestern region of the United States, revealed not only that women in this particular section of calculus were likely to select careers…
Descriptors: Calculus, Intervention, Mathematics Instruction, Self Esteem