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Oswalt, Sara B.; Wagner, Laurie M.; Eastman-Mueller, Heather P.; Nevers, Joleen M. – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2015
Most research on sexuality courses in US higher education was conducted in the 1980s and 1990s. Less is known about what is being taught in undergraduate sexuality courses today; this study sought to fill that gap. Reviewing content based on 161 courses (provided by 150 different instructors) from all regions of the USA, this study examined…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Undergraduate Study, Course Content, Content Analysis
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Roche, Maree – American Journal of Business Education, 2010
This study provides preliminary examination of the efficacy of the "Best Authentic Leadership Self" exercise. A field quasi-experimental design was conducted with a dual purpose: (1) to ascertain the value of interventions aimed at triggering events to enhance the learning (c.f. teaching) of "authentic leadership? and how this…
Descriptors: Leadership Training, Foreign Countries, Quasiexperimental Design, Content Analysis
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Proulx, Christine M.; Helms, Heather M. – Journal of Family Issues, 2008
Guided by contemporary feminist revisions of individual theories on adolescent development, interviews with 142 parent dyads were conducted to better understand the variation in mothers' and fathers' perceptions of changes and continuities in their relationships with their firstborn young adult sons and daughters. A between-families content…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Mothers, Daughters, Young Adults
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Hirschinger-Blank, Nancy Beth; Simons, Lori; Kenyon, Alexandra – Journal of Experiential Education, 2009
A triangulation mixed-methods design was used to measure differences in service-learning outcomes for 32 students enrolled in criminal justice courses during the academic years 2003 (n = 16) and 2005 (n = 16). Results show that service-learners increase their political awareness and course value but experience a decrease in problem-solving skills…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Criminals, Service Learning
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Gottlieb, Benjamin H.; Still, Eva; Newby-Clark, Ian R. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2007
To further explore central developmental themes of emerging adulthood, the authors conducted a study that combines qualitative and quantitative data about the types of personal growth and decline reported by a sample of emerging adults, who also described the life events and other experiences that brought about these personal changes. After…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Young Adults, Experience, Individual Development
Hayden, Gretchen Purtell – 1969
This study analyzed how authors of selected books present their main character with regard to his personal development problems, how he resolves them, and what happens to his personal development in the process. On the basis of which Newbery Medal Award books were best suited for a study of how the main character develops, "Up A Road…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Books, Characterization, Childrens Literature