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Darolia, Rajeev; Harper, Casandra – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
A prominent concern is that college students are harming their long-term economic prospects by making student loan decisions without full information about the implications of their choices. We designed an experiment to examine students' responses to a debt letter, an increasingly popular strategy to provide easily accessible information about…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Financial Aid, Debt (Financial), Decision Making
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Algozzine, Bob; Horner, Robert H.; Todd, Anne W.; Newton, J. Stephen; Algozzine, Kate; Cusumano, Dale – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2016
Although there is a strong legislative base and perceived efficacy for multidisciplinary team decision making, limited evidence supports its effectiveness or consistency of implementation in practice. In recent research, we used the Decision Observation, Recording, and Analysis (DORA) tool to document activities and adult behaviors during positive…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Participative Decision Making, Positive Behavior Supports, Meetings
Anderson, Catherine L. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Today's interconnected technical environment creates unprecedented opportunities while simultaneously introducing risks. With economic, social and personal interactions increasingly occurring in technology-mediated settings new vulnerabilities are continually being introduced. This dissertation seeks to improve extant understanding of how…
Descriptors: Cues, Health Education, Hospitals, Health Conditions
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Bengston, John K.; Marshik, Tesia T. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Two interpretive case studies are reported that investigate the intentionality of defensiveness versus open-mindedness in persons who hold flawed ideological beliefs. The 1st analyzes an academic authority's resistance to information that disconfirms a therapeutic intervention that he has been successfully promoting. His dissociation and…
Descriptors: Ideology, Case Studies, Beliefs, Intention
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Swanson, Jon Colby – Journal of School Health, 1972
The author presents a three phase flow model or consistency theory to show the role of education in modifying health behavior. (Author/BY)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes, Behavior Change, Health Behavior
Moore, Shirley G.; Olson, Frances – Child Develop, 1969
Research supported by NICHD training grant number T1-HD-105-02.
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Agents, Concept Formation, Generalization
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Irvine, LaVerne F.; Brierley, Norman R. – College Student Journal, 1973
Evaluates six one-day workshops which were conducted to assist teams of public school teachers and principals, involving both blacks and whites, in resolving problems relating to the desegregating of schools. It was recommended that findings of the behavioral sciences be incorporated into workshop design and that workshops be organized in ways to…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Desegregation Methods, Information Dissemination, Information Utilization
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Bowen, Robert O. – Journal of School Health, 1972
The study investigated the response of college students to health information obtained in an informal setting as it related to visitation patterns in a student health service. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, College Students, Health Education, Information Dissemination
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Saunders, Bruce T.; Di Tullio, William M. – Psychology in the Schools, 1972
The results of this study indicated that there is no substantive evidence to support the hypothesis that teachers' perceptions of children as emotionally disturbed can be modified through the application of the Rosenthal effect. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Bias, Elementary School Students
Sexton, Richard E.; And Others – 1979
The usefulness of providing specific information and a progress/feedback mechanism to control utility usage in community-based, halfway houses for dependent-neglected and for delinquent adolescents was explored. The investigation was carried out in a random sample of 12 houses of an Arizona facility, divided into equivalent groups of three houses.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Delinquency, Energy Conservation
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Serdahely, William J. – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1980
Literature suggests that the factual approach to drug education may cause an increase in drug usage. The pharmacological approach was used in a college drug education course, and an assessment of students' drug consumption was made. No statistically significant changes were found for the substances surveyed. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, College Curriculum, College Students, Drug Education
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Hansen, William B.; Evans, Richard I. – Adolescence, 1982
Tested the efficacy of several programs using feedback about carbon monoxide as strategies for deterring experimentation with cigarettes in sixth-grade children (N=405). Compared to no-treatment controls, the only program to reduce experimentation with cigarettes was the information-only program. Several programs had increases in rates of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Children, Comparative Analysis
Stevens, David W. – 1968
The purpose of this study was to discover whether job seekers can be expected to act on the basis of new knowledge about the local labor market, and if they do act, whether their probability of success in finding a job is increased. This supplementary labor market information experiment was conducted in a single employment service office and…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Control Groups, Employment, Employment Opportunities
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Rotem, Arie; Glasman, Naftaly S. – Review of Educational Research, 1979
Research on the effectiveness and use of college students' evaluation of faculty is reviewed. It is suggested that the research shows student feedback has a minimal effect on instructional improvement at the university level. (MH)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, College Faculty, Educational Research, Feedback
Eagle, Norman – 1980
A study was conducted at the Bronx Community College to: (1) test the hypothesis that instructors' knowledge of their ratings by students and of their relative standing among their colleagues in terms of these ratings is sufficient to produce a significant change in ratings over time; and (2) correlate the effects of instructor age, sex, tenure…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Age, Behavior Change, College Faculty
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