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Misti D. Gossett-Thrower – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This qualitative study aimed to understand the lived experience of marginalized young men who transformed from low academic achievement to academic success in obtaining post-secondary education. Boys have a long history of underperformance in secondary and post-secondary institutions, especially when they face additional barriers such as first…
Descriptors: Males, Low Achievement, Achievement Gains, Success
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Pimdee, Paitoon – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Having its originations in the 1987 UN Brundtland Report and the 1994 Oslo Symposium for sustainable consumption and production (SCP), education for sustainable development (ESD) has taken on global importance. As such, the study's author sought to examine the causal relationships on sustainable consumption behaviour (SCB) of Thai student science…
Descriptors: Correlation, Causal Models, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education
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Jung, Janis; Krahé, Barbara; Busching, Robert – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2018
Being surrounded by peers who are accepting of aggression is a significant predictor of the development and persistence of aggression in childhood and adolescence. Whereas past research has focused on social reinforcement mechanisms as the underlying processes, the present longitudinal study analysed the role of external control beliefs as an…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Aggression, Predictor Variables, Peer Influence
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Greenbank, Paul – Education & Training, 2015
Purpose: In order to compete for positional advantage in the graduate labour market students need more than a good degree classification. The evidence suggests that participation in extra-curricular activities (ECAs) can have a significant influence on labour market outcomes. The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Extracurricular Activities, Undergraduate Students, Student Participation
Orozco, Luis Antonio, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The continual rise of student loan debt seems to show the world that students are willing to do whatever it takes to become successful in life. However, when they have completed the requirement for the degree many question if the whole journey was worth it. The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative study was to examine the potential…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Postsecondary Education, Statistical Analysis
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Paladino, Angela; Ng, Serena – Environmental Education Research, 2013
This article examines the determinants of eco-friendly electronic good consumption among students at a large Australian university who have been exposed to a marketing campaign, Mobile Muster. Empirical research generally shows younger consumers to be less concerned about the environment. Similar studies demonstrate that peer pressure has a large…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Purchasing, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Crombie, Patricia-Ann; Brunet, Jennifer; Sabiston, Catherine M. – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance (JOPERD), 2011
Although physical activity may provide a means for adolescents to improve their physical appearance and subsequently lessen body-related concerns, the fear of being negatively evaluated by others can act as a barrier to physical activity. Moreover, environments where people are constantly looked at and evaluated--such as physical education…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Activities, Self Concept, Body Composition
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Whiting, Gilman – Roeper Review, 2009
Black males as a group experience disproportionate amounts of school failure. Compared to Black females and White males, for example, Black males have the highest dropout rates, poorest achievement, and lowest test scores. Further, they are sorely under-represented in gifted education and over-represented in special education. Of those Black males…
Descriptors: African American Students, Gifted, Dropout Rate, Males
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Pawlak, Roman; Malinauskas, Brenda – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2008
Objective: To identify beliefs about eating 2.5 cups of vegetables and to assess how well these beliefs predict intention to eat them. Design: A survey based on the Theory of Planned Behavior. Setting: Two public high schools in 2 counties in eastern North Carolina. Participants: 157 ninth-grade students (mean age = 14.71 years [SD = 0.82]).…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Intention, Eating Habits, Predictor Variables
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Kingston, Emma – Education & Training, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to compare the emotional competence of first year undergraduates enrolled on a high or low drop-out rate (HDR and LDR, respectively) course, at a newly established university within the UK. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed methods approach using both quantitative and qualitative data collection methods was…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Emotional Intelligence, Interpersonal Competence, College Freshmen
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Baltodano, Heather M.; Mathur, Sarup R.; Rutherford, Robert B. – Exceptionality, 2005
Identifying factors that contribute to delinquency and recidivism is critical in predicting the success of incarcerated youth transitioning back to the community. The task of identifying these salient factors becomes increasingly complex when compounded by the disproportionate representation of youth with disabilities in juvenile corrections.…
Descriptors: Programming, Disabilities, Peer Influence, Locus of Control
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Zinser, Otto; And Others – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 1994
College students (n=177) ranked influence they thought various factors had on their smoking behavior. Subjects ranked peers first and cigarette advertisements last as causes of starting to smoke; my decision and health education advertisements highest and peers lowest for quitting smoking. Findings suggest students perceived they had high degree…
Descriptors: Advertising, College Students, Higher Education, Locus of Control
Fox, Emogene – 1990
The "Contemporary Health Series" covers critical health and family life topics in a sequence of modules with two curricular divisions: "Into Adolescence" for middle school teachers and "Entering Adulthood" for high school teachers. This module presents a six-lesson curriculum for grades five through eight to provide students with the information…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Friendship, Intermediate Grades, Interpersonal Competence
Brehony, Kathleen A.; Geller, E. Scott – 1977
The decisions and attitudes of sex-stereotyped and androgynous individuals (as defined by the Bem Sex Role Inventory) were compared in a social conformity paradigm and on two measures of locus of control. The conformity paradigm consisted of 160 trials in which subjects predicted one of two possible stimuli after hearing predictions of two other…
Descriptors: Androgyny, College Students, Conformity, Females
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Lenney, Ellen – Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 1981
Reports experimental research testing the following hypotheses: (1) sex differences in self-confidence are a function of a particular ability area; and (2) self-confidence of women is more influenced than men's by the characteristics of the particular individual with whom they compare themselves. (Author/EF)
Descriptors: Ability, College Students, Females, Locus of Control
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