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Achieving University Libraries User Loyalty through User Satisfaction: The Role of Service Quality
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Twum, Kojo Kakra; Adams, Matilda; Budu, Stephen; Budu, Rosina Akuokor Anati – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2022
This study examines the influence of library service quality dimensions (i.e. service affect, information access, library as place, and personal control) on user satisfaction, as well as user satisfaction on user loyalty. Data were drawn from 349 library users from a public university library in Ghana. The hypothesized relationships were analyzed…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, User Satisfaction (Information), Users (Information), Library Services
Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Preventive Intervention Program to Foster Social-Emotional Development and Attachment Security of Toddlers in Early Childhood Education and Care: The Papilio-U3 Program
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Ortelbach, Niklas; Bovenschen, Ina; Gerlach, Jennifer; Peter, Charlotte; Scheithauer, Herbert – International Journal of Developmental Science, 2022
Due to an increasing number of children under the age of three attending early childhood education and care (ECEC), there is an increasing need for high-quality care settings. In addition to primary caregivers, ECEC teachers are important socializers of children's emotional development and may become children's attachment figures. Early preventive…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Early Childhood Education, Child Care, Prevention
Evaluating the Role of Protected Natural Areas for Environmental Education in Italy
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De Dominicis, Stefano; Bonaiuto, Marino; Carrus, Giuseppe; Passafaro, Paola; Perucchini, Paola; Bonnes, Mirilia – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2017
Two quasi-experimental field studies (N = 419; 248) tested the effects of an outdoor environmental education program based in local Protected Natural Areas (PNAs) on 3rd-to-6th-grade students' proenvironmental attitudes and behaviors. Results show the program increases children's place attachment, proenvironmental attitudes, ethics and…
Descriptors: Conservation (Environment), Intervention, Foreign Countries, Quasiexperimental Design
Evaluation of a Place-Based Environmental Education Program: From There to Here
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Cincera, Jan; Johnson, Bruce; Kovacikova, Silvia – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2015
The article introduces a Czech environmental education middle school program focused on helping students develop place attachment to their community and on increasing their interest in natural area in their region. The evaluation applied a mixed approach combining pretesting/posttesting of the students (N = 158), two group interviews with selected…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Place Based Education, Middle School Students, Mixed Methods Research
Development of a Mentoring Program for Chinese Immigrant Adolescents' Cultural Adjustment
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Yeh, Christine J.; Ching, Alison M.; Okubo, Yuki; Luthar, Suniya S. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2007
The development and evaluation of a peer mentoring program for Chinese immigrant adolescents' cultural adjustment is described. Twenty-three high school students who recently immigrated from Mainland China participated in the year-long program and 4 high school students served as their peer mentors. Data analyses revealed that the students who…
Descriptors: Mentors, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, High School Students