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Cooper, Cathy – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses is well documented with findings revealing both men and women experience victimization. Sexual assault often results in physical and mental issues, poor academic performance, and financial burdens for victims, families, and society. Traditional prevention efforts to reduce sexual violence…
Descriptors: Incidence, Rape, Victims, Prevention
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Wilson, Kate; Low, David; Verdon, Matthew; Verdon, Alix – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
We have investigated gender differences in performance over the past eight years on the Australian Science Olympiad Exam (ASOE) for physics,which is taken by nearly 1000 high school students each year. The ASOE, run by Australian Science Innovations (ASI), is the initial stage of the process of selection of teams to represent Australia at the…
Descriptors: Physics, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Science
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Sekarasih, Laras; Walsh, Kimberly R.; Scharrer, Erica – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2015
This study investigated the following research question: How do sixth-graders respond to a media literacy lesson that was designed to, among other goals, introduce the concept of the presence of commercial interest in media production, particularly regarding the prevalence of media violence? Forty-seven responses were analyzed thematically using…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Violence, Mass Media Effects, Media Literacy
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Wehrens, Maike J. P. W.; Buunk, Abraham P.; Lubbers, Miranda J.; Dijkstra, Pieternel; Kuyper, Hans; van der Werf, Greetje P. C. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 2010
The goal of the present study was to study the relationship between affective responses to social comparison and test scores among high school students. Our analyses showed that three types of responses to social comparison could be distinguished: an empathic, constructive, and destructive response. Whereas girls scored higher on empathic…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Scores
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Chi, Feng-ming – English Language Teaching, 2009
The purpose of this paper, drawing data from a large research base, was to investigate how and why Taiwanese EFL (English as a Foreign Language) male and female university students responded to feminist texts differently. These participants were taking an elective course titled Gender and Reading while this research was conducted. Weekly reading…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Feminism, College Students, Student Reaction
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Yakmaci-Guzel, Buket; Akarsu, Fusun – High Ability Studies, 2006
The study compares overexcitability scores of Turkish 10th graders who are grouped in terms of their intellectual abilities, motivation, creativity and leadership as well as gender. 711 students who were administered Raven Advanced Progressive Matrices Test (APM) were divided into three intellectual ability categories. From this pool, 105 subjects…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Academically Gifted, Foreign Countries, Grade 10
Stamper, John, Ed.; Pardos, Zachary, Ed.; Mavrikis, Manolis, Ed.; McLaren, Bruce M., Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2014
The 7th International Conference on Education Data Mining held on July 4th-7th, 2014, at the Institute of Education, London, UK is the leading international forum for high-quality research that mines large data sets in order to answer educational research questions that shed light on the learning process. These data sets may come from the traces…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Processing, Data Analysis, Data Collection