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Shulan Zeng; Afsheen Sardar; Amoneeta Beckstein; Noor Hassline Mohamed; Renhong Shen; Yunhui Xiu – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2024
Background and Aims: A literature review of both Eastern and Western literature regarding families of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) revealed limited empirical research that examines ASD in China. Furthermore, most research in this area comes from a deficit model and there is a lack of research that comes from a strengths background.…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Test Construction, Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Callander, Emily J.; Lindsay, Daniel B. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2018
Parental employment is a significant factor in ensuring financial ability to access care for children with autism spectrum disorder. This article aimed to identify the influence of autism spectrum disorder on parental employment and whether childcare access may effect labour force participation using the "Longitudinal Survey of Australian…
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Employment Level, Children, Autism
Borgonovi, Francesca; Pokropek, Artur – OECD Publishing, 2017
The paper examines between-country differences in the mechanisms through which education could promote generalised trust using data from 29 countries participating in the OECD's Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC). Results indicate that education is strongly associated with generalised trust and that a large part of this association is mediated by…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), International Assessment, Educational Attainment, Literacy
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Bonjar, Abdolreza Bagheri – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2017
Delinquency is a social phenomenon and has social context though biological factors, psychological, geographical, ethnic, racial and other items in the forming and occurring type of delinquency play an important role, explain the issue is on the basis of the social environment, limiting attitude of sociology scope in particular, the performance of…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Socioeconomic Status, Foreign Countries, Correlation
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Travaglianti, F.; Babic, A.; Hansez, I. – Studies in Continuing Education, 2018
Current statistics show that the attrition rate among PhD candidates is high (i.e. from 30% to 40% depending on the discipline and the country). This high-attrition rate has an impact on both economic (e.g. negative impact on the return-on investment in doctoral education) and human levels (e.g. negative consequences on candidates' self-esteem and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Employment Level, Job Satisfaction, Doctoral Programs
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Rothes, Ana; Lemos, Marina S.; Gonçalves, Teresa – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2017
This study investigated profiles of autonomous and controlled motivation and their effects in a sample of 188 adult learners from two Portuguese urban areas. Using a person-centered approach, results of cluster analysis and multivariate analysis of covariance revealed four motivational groups with different effects in self-efficacy, engagement,…
Descriptors: Learning Motivation, Learning Strategies, Independent Study, Profiles
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Gorry, Devon – Education Economics, 2016
This paper analyzes the distribution of education and labor market benefits from sports participation. Results show that effects are similar across gender, but differ on other dimensions. In particular, participants in team sports show greater gains than those in individual sports. Quantile regressions show that educational gains are larger for…
Descriptors: Athletics, Team Sports, Regression (Statistics), Adolescents
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Caricati, Luca; Chiesa, Rita; Guglielmi, Dina; Mariani, Marco Giovanni – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
The research undertaken for this article aims to analyse the correspondence between perceived employability and the actual national employment rate among Italian students and graduates undertaking different courses in a large Italian university. Data were collected through a cross-sectional survey of 2087 students in 19 faculties, and compared…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Graduate Surveys, Comparative Analysis
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Bell, Robin – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between students' entrepreneurial attitudes and traits and their classification of employment six months after university graduation. It aims to identify what specific attitudes and traits of entrepreneurial graduates are linked to employability in a professional or managerial…
Descriptors: Correlation, Entrepreneurship, Employment Level, Classification
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Rinat, Michael; Cinamon, Rachel Gali; Most, Tova – American Annals of the Deaf, 2015
The study examined the contribution of parents' occupational status and expectations regarding persons with hearing loss to career-related support they provide their deaf and hard of hearing (dhh) adolescent children. Thirty-eight parents completed the Evaluation of Occupational Competence Scale (Weisel & Cinamon, 2005), the Evaluation of…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Adolescents, Hearing Impairments, Expectation
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Esmaeili, Zohreh; Mohamadrezai, Hosein; Mohamadrezai, Abdolah – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
The current article attempts to examine the relation between authority styles of teachers and learning of students of secondary school of district 9 Tehran. The researcher has collected theoretical information by library method and then arranged the field information from teachers of secondary schools of district 9 of Tehran by questionnaire; the…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Professional Identity, Teacher Leadership, Secondary School Students
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Alseraty, Wafaa Hassan – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Parents' socioeconomic status is mainly impact their children health outcomes, cognitive, social and emotional development. It also had a great impact on children health-related knowledge, health-related attitudes, health-related communication, health-related behavior, and self-efficiency level. Enhancing health literacy domains are the keystone…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Income, Socioeconomic Status, Correlation
Minor, Tameika D. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This study investigates the relationships between demographic characteristics, perceptions of the academic climate, and the employment continuation plans of tenured and tenure-track faculty of color in CORE accredited rehabilitation counselor education (RCE) programs. Furthermore, this study aims to identify which factors best predict the…
Descriptors: Minority Group Teachers, Teacher Characteristics, Tenure, Nontenured Faculty
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Helles, Adam; Gillberg, I. Carina; Gillberg, Christopher; Billstedt, Eva – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
This study examined objective quality of life (work, academic success, living situation, relationships, support system) and subjective quality of life (Sense of Coherence and Short-Form Health Survey-36) in an adult sample of males (n = 50, mean age: 30 years) with Asperger syndrome diagnosed in childhood and followed prospectively over two…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Males, Quality of Life, Clinical Diagnosis
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Kong, Rui; Gao, Xiaowei; Zhong, Wanxing; Zhou, Xiaoling – Frontiers of Education in China, 2015
MBA education has become the fastest growing segment of education in China in recent years and a segment that can now be considered indispensable. However, how best to teach it has long been a source of debate. One of the key issues is how to match student traits with teaching methods. While engaged as teachers of marketing management, the authors…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Masters Degrees, Masters Programs, Educational Quality
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