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Challa, Sowmya – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this study is to identify any trends in personality traits of students at a mid-western university along with the influence of gender, choice of STEM or non-STEM academic major, and level of education on personality traits. The chosen mid-western university is Indiana State University (ISU) located in Terre Haute, Indiana. This…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Trend Analysis, College Students, Gender Differences
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Miech, Richard A.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – Institute for Social Research, 2017
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of American adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates through age 55. It has been conducted annually by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research since its inception in 1975 and is supported under a series of investigator-initiated, competitive research grants…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Drug Use, Futures (of Society), Adolescents
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Miech, Richard A.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – Institute for Social Research, 2016
Monitoring the Future (MTF) is a long-term study of American adolescents, college students, and adult high school graduates through age 55. It has been conducted annually by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research since its inception in 1975 and is supported under a series of investigator-initiated, competitive research grants…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Drug Use, Futures (of Society), Adolescents
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Maskit, Ditza; Orland-Barak, Lily – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2015
This article presents and discusses the findings of a study which focused on student teachers' evaluation of their practice teaching in the context of a university-school partnership model integrated for the first time into the academic programme of a university teacher education department in Israel. A questionnaire was developed to examine the…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Student Teachers, Student Teacher Evaluation, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Dembo, Richard; Briones-Robinson, Rhissa; Barrett, Kimberly; Ungaro, Rocio; Winters, Ken C.; Belenko, Steven; Karas, Lora M.; Gulledge, Laura; Wareham, Jennifer – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2014
Substance use and sexual risk behaviors are common among adolescents, but research has focused attention on alcohol use. Much less is known about the relationship of marijuana use and sexual risk behavior among high-risk, especially truant, youths. We report interim findings from a NIDA-funded experimental, brief intervention (BI) study involving…
Descriptors: Intervention, Sexuality, Substance Abuse, At Risk Persons
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Joan, D. R. Robert – Journal on School Educational Technology, 2013
Mobile learning is a kind of learning that takes place via a portable handheld electronic device. It also refers to learning via other kinds of mobile devices such as tablet computers, net-books and digital readers. The objective of mobile learning is to provide the learner the ability to assimilate learning anywhere and at anytime. Mobile devices…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Surveys
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Clariana, Merce; Gotzens, Concepcion; Badia, M. del Mar; Cladellas, Ramon – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2012
Introduction: This article has two purposes. First, to show the correlation between two unfortunately very common academic habits: procrastination and cheating. Second, to analyse the sequential trend of these two tendencies, from the final year of compulsory secondary education (in Spain 4th year of ESO; age 16) to the final year of university…
Descriptors: Cheating, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Private Schools
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Chang, Yu-Kai; Etnier, Jennifer L.; Barella, Lisa A. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2009
Although a generally positive effect of acute exercise on cognitive performance has been demonstrated, the specific nature of the relationship between exercise-induced arousal and cognitive performance remains unclear. This study was designed to identify the relationship between exercise-induced arousal and cognitive performance for the central…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Reaction Time, Trend Analysis, Cognitive Processes
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Barlow, Alexandra; Woods, Susan E. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
There have been mixed results concerning any association between self-esteem and smoking prevalence in young people. The aim of this paper was to investigate cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between self-esteem and the uptake of smoking in childhood, and how various sub-components of self-esteem are related to smoking. A sample of…
Descriptors: Smoking, Children, Self Esteem, Incidence
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Engel, Laura C.; Rutkowski, David; Rutkowski, Leslie – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2009
The paper draws on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2007 data for nearly 60 educational systems to explore the characteristics and patterns of school violence across a number of countries and the extent to which measures of violence are associated with achievement in mathematics and science. Using a multi-level…
Descriptors: Violence, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement, Educational Trends
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Scheerder, Jeroen; Vanreusel, Bart; Taks, Marijke; Renson, Roland – European Physical Education Review, 2005
The purpose of this study was to examine (a) whether adolescents' leisure-time sports participation is socially stratified, and (b) whether possible stratification patterns have changed over the last decades. The population for the study consisted of four random samples of high school boys and girls in Flanders who were exposed to a standardized…
Descriptors: Athletics, Social Stratification, Adolescents, Trend Analysis
Card, J. J.; And Others – 1975
The ROTC/Army Career Commitment Model focused on the process of career commitment during the young adult years by examining the career path of an Army officer via the ROTC route. Research questions were related to who joins ROTC and why, who remains as a career Army officer and why, and background factors which increase or decrease commitment to…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Choice, Career Development, Careers