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Zhou, You; Sackett, Paul R.; Brothen, Thomas – Applied Measurement in Education, 2022
We sought to replicate prior findings that admissions tests' underprediction of female college performance was driven in part by the omission of Big 5 personality factors from the predictive model, using 5,400 college students. We investigated gender differences in an elaborated model subdividing the Big 5 into ten aspects. We found differences at…
Descriptors: College Students, College Entrance Examinations, Prediction, Females
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Jennifer McKinney; Mei-Lin Chang; David Glassmeyer – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2021
Gender disparities in science, engineering, technology, and mathematics (STEM) degrees continue to be a global problem. Increasing equitable participation in STEM majors requires understanding how and why these disparities arise. This study examined relationships between female's selection of a STEM major, personality, STEM interest, STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Majors (Students), Females, Decision Making
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Beeman, Kendall L. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2022
The transition to online learning due to COVID-19 changed the nature of participation in class. Typically quiet middle grades girls who had struggled to participate in their in-person classes were provided many different avenues to contribute to class online. While prior research has examined the reasons students are quiet and the ways teachers…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Student Participation, Middle School Students
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Zambrano, Jeanette; Kennedy, Alana A. U.; Aguilera, Crystal; Yates, Nicole; Patall, Erika A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2022
Agentic engagement refers to students' proactive and constructive contribution into the flow of classroom instruction and activities. Given its potential as a student-initiated pathway to promoting motivation and learning, the goal of this study was to describe agentic engagement from the perspectives of racially diverse students in urban high…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Urban Schools, High School Students, Student Diversity
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Chance, Nuchelle L. – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2021
In this essay, the author compares and contrasts accessibility to higher education senior leadership for women in the United States and Peru. This paper addresses the disparity and challenges of women in higher education senior leadership focusing on minority women such as indigenous and Afro-Peruvian women in Peru and women of color in the United…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Higher Education, Females
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Gabdreeva, Guzel Sh.; Khalfieva, Alisa R. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the "female" management features study is driven by the active penetration of women to management in various fields and the emergence of a new social category "Business-women". The article contains the results of a study aimed to identify the features of personal properties and structure of low-level,…
Descriptors: Females, Women Administrators, Personality Traits, Administrator Characteristics
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Ganimian, Alejandro; Barrera-Osorio, Felipe; Biehl, María Loreto; Cortelezzi, María Ángela – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2020
We evaluate a long-standing program run by one of the largest education foundations in Argentina that offers scholarships and nonacademic mentoring to secondary school students. We randomly assigned 408 grade 6 students within 10 public schools in the Province of Buenos Aires to either receive the program throughout secondary school or not to…
Descriptors: Mentors, Scholarships, Program Evaluation, Grade 6
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Datu, Jesus Alfonso D.; Yuen, Mantak; Chen, Gaowei – School Psychology Quarterly, 2018
Previous investigations mostly relied on the two-factor model of grit (with "perseverance of effort" and "consistency of interests" as major dimensions) which received a number criticisms in the extant literature. Recent studies have provided promising lines of evidence regarding the "triarchic model of grit" (TMG)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Females, Resilience (Psychology)
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Thomas, Ursula, Ed. – IGI Global, 2019
Gender and diversity are crucial areas that require more attention in multiple academic settings. As more women progress into leadership positions in academia, it becomes necessary to develop solutions geared specifically toward success for females in such environments. "Navigating Micro-Aggressions Toward Women in Higher Education"…
Descriptors: Females, Higher Education, Conflict, Interpersonal Relationship
Bryan, Claudia Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The field of choral conducting has been traditionally male-dominated. As more women enter the field, are they finding more challenges or encouragements? This qualitative case study explored the career paths women choral conductors in the United States have taken to find success. This study focused on in-depth, open-ended interviews with four women…
Descriptors: Singing, Music Education, Music Activities, Females
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Ozanska-Ponikwia, Katarzyna – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2017
The present study investigates the link between gender, emotional intelligence (EI), personality traits and self-reported emotional expression in the second language (L2). Data analysis suggests that gender might not influence self-perceived emotional expression in the L2, as the results of the t-test show that both males and females declare…
Descriptors: Females, Gender Differences, Empathy, Correlation
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Wucherer, Barbara Verena; Reiterer, Susanne Maria – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2018
Notwithstanding a surge of novel insights into the male/female variable on human behaviour and cognitive functions, the gender factor is still far from being well understood. Pursuing an interdisciplinary approach, informed by neuroscientific research, this study used linguistic and psychological measures to investigate gender differences in the…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Females, Gender Differences, Second Language Learning
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Franklin, Cortney A.; Brady, Patrick Q.; Jurek, Alicia L. – Journal of School Violence, 2017
Bystander intervention has been an effective strategy for crime prevention and has been successful in the context of campus sexual assault. Less is known about the extent to which individual-level factors correlate with intervention behavior in situations of intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual harassment. The present study used a sample of…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Violence, Victims, Sexual Harassment
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Akdemir, Ahmet Selçuk; Takkaç, Mehmet – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This study aims to investigate extraversion as a personality trait of female EFL learners as listeners. The study is based on qualitative research design. Five students, who were studying as freshman students at English Language Teaching Department of a public university in Turkey, are the participants of the study. All participants have been…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Extraversion Introversion, Females, Qualitative Research
Albert, Jennifer L. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
A cohort of 15 participants was chosen to engage in a study to identify a relationship between personality type and the propensity to choose professions in student affairs. Participants were chosen based upon specific demographic criteria in an effort to highlight inconsistencies in traditionally accepted variables, including gender, ethnicity,…
Descriptors: Females, Student Personnel Workers, Qualitative Research, Correlation
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