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Dodez, Orin; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1982
Examined the relationship between anxiety and self-actualization in a sample of college students. Items (N=33) from the Personal Orientation Inventory were found to measure anxiety and scored negatively for self-actualization. Removal of anxiety items and rescoring yielded self-actualization measures related postively to anxiety test scores.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, College Students, Higher Education, Individual Development

Pring, Richard – Scottish Educational Review, 1995
Questions the validity of much current educational research in Great Britain, suggesting that researchers lose sight of the "educational" in search of the "fundable." Offers examples of how education is missing from the purposes and language of research into "effective schools" and into the "learning…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Educational Research, Effective Schools Research, Foreign Countries

Day, Christopher – British Educational Research Journal, 1993
Reviews research on the role of reflection subsequent to action research in the professional development of teachers. Discusses the use of reflection as a part of the learning process. Calls for partnerships within collaborative organizations that provide opportunities for interaction and reflection. (CFR)
Descriptors: Action Research, Collegiality, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education

Reid, Jo-Anne; Kamler, Barbara; Simpson, Alyson; Maclean, Rod – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 1996
Examines problems with representing poststructuralist research. Argues that researchers' positioning within major discourses governing education may have as much influence on what is seen in classrooms as does physical positioning. Challenges researchers to make explicit their underlying interests and agendas. Uses a study of gender-role…
Descriptors: Classroom Research, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Experimenter Characteristics
Parkyn, David Lee – 1991
This paper reviews two areas of limitations concerning college outcome assessments and argues that while cognitive outcomes may be effectively measured during the students' academic careers, the perceptions of alumni are a necessary component of the assessment of affective outcomes. The limitations that are addressed concern first, determining…
Descriptors: Alumni, Church Related Colleges, College Graduates, College Outcomes Assessment

Dubet, Francois – Journal of Education Policy, 2000
In France, the sociology of pupils has focused on studying inequalities related to teacher expectations. Greater proportions of working-class students in secondary schools and colleges have forced a change in researchers' perspectives. Pupils are now defined by how they, as individuals, make sense of their school experience. (Contains 22…
Descriptors: College Students, Diversity (Student), Educational Sociology, Equal Education