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The Search for Similarity: Understanding and Harnessing the Power of Similar Role Models for Motivating Diverse Students in STEM
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Xiao-Yin Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2024
It is essential that all students who are interested in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) have the motivational supports to persist in their STEM career trajectories. "STEM role models," or successful individuals in STEM, can be powerful tools to motivate college students towards STEM careers, particularly if students…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Academic Persistence, Role Models, College Students
Happiness in Motion: Emotions, Well-Being, and Active School Travel
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Ramanathan, Subha; O'Brien, Catherine; Faulkner, Guy; Stone, Michelle – Journal of School Health, 2014
Background: A pan-Canadian School Travel Planning intervention promoted active school travel (AST). A novel component was exploring emotion, well-being, and travel mode framed by the concept of "sustainable happiness." Relationships between travel mode and emotions, parent perceptions of their child's travel mode on well-being, and…
Descriptors: Well Being, Psychological Patterns, Emotional Experience, Travel
Contemporary Daughter/Son Adult Social Role Performance Rating Scale and Interview Protocol: Development, Content Validation, and Exploratory Investigation
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Cozad, Dana Everett – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this study was to develop and content validate a Performance Rating Scale and Interview Protocol, enabling study of the social role performance of adult daughters and sons as they fulfill the societal norms and expectations of adult children. This exploratory investigation was one of 13 contemporary adult social roles completed by…
Descriptors: Expertise, Ethnicity, Race, Role