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Bowles, Terence V. – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2017
Social skills training is a long-standing intervention for adolescents with social anxiety, while self-esteem is often ignored. However, there is little evidence suggesting that those with social anxiety require social skills training or interventions associated with self-esteem. The aim of the research was to investigate whether social skills and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Anxiety, Adolescent Development, Interpersonal Competence
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Engle, Robert L.; Nash, Briana – Journal of Teaching in International Business, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine the degree to which a specific time-based country experience outside of the subject's native regional cultural cluster, would be able to explain the subject's level of cultural intelligence. Using a sample of 143 subjects, the results suggest individuals who have identified the country within which they…
Descriptors: Travel, Cultural Awareness, Intelligence, Multicultural Education
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Amsale, Frew; Bekele, Mitiku; Tafesse, Mebratu – Online Submission, 2016
The purpose of this study was to assess the extent to which educational leaders in the western cluster public universities of Ethiopia are ethical. Ethical leadership variables such as fairness, equity, multicultural competence, modeling ethical behaviors and altruism are considered in describing the ethical behaviors of the leaders. Descriptive…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, Ethics, Cluster Grouping
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Ellis, Robert A. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2016
There is variation in the university student experience of learning. Prior research has shown that factors that shape this include student characteristics, the learning context, student perceptions of that context and approaches to learning and their learning outcomes. In blended contexts, there is a need to identify variables which can explain…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Educational Environment, Inquiry, Higher Education
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Van den Berghe, Lynn; Cardon, Greet; Aelterman, Nathalie; Tallir, Isabel Barbara; Vansteenkiste, Maarten; Haerens, Leen – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2013
Burnout in teachers is related to different maladaptive outcomes. This study aimed at exploring the relationship between emotional exhaustion and motivation to teach in 93 physical education teachers. Results showed that teachers report more emotional exhaustion when they are less autonomously motivated, while the opposite relationship was found…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teacher Motivation
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Mistades, Voltaire – Science Education International, 2007
Research in science education identified a variety of attitudes and beliefs that shape and/or are shaped by classroom experience. The present study identified high school teachers' beliefs about Physics and learning Physics. Since the background of the forty-one teachers who participated in a six-week in-service training program was neither in…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Science Teachers, Physics, Inservice Teacher Education
Plummer, Joseph T. – 1971
In measuring the characteristics of mass-communication audiences, three dimensions are frequently used: demographics, social class, and psychological characteristics. The author proposes a fourth, "life style," which offers reliable data, is more colorful than demographics and more useful than psychological characteristics. This dimension is…
Descriptors: Audiences, Cluster Grouping, Correlation, Group Structure