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Crystal L. Sanders – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate college students' beliefs of their parents' role in influencing their character development, and of their own character in influencing their college academic achievement. Two research questions guided the study: (1) What are college students' beliefs about how parental role modeling…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Role Models, Personality Development
Janyarat, Sirirat – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2023
The objectives of this research were (1) to study the satisfaction of higher education students towards learning management by using Educational Boardgame in personality development course, (2) to compare the learning achievement of the students both the experimental group and the control group in before and after the learning management period by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Satisfaction, Program Effectiveness
Aslan, Menekse – Online Submission, 2023
Sports is a new science that shapes human behavior and spiritual structure through individual or team games, movements, and various competitions, as well as improving individuals physically. In this study, it was aimed to examine the the reflection of school sports team life on their development. The research was a descriptive phenomenological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Student Athletes
Cetin, Saban; Cetin, Filiz – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Stunning developments in this era have brought different meanings in both educational conditions and time and space in education. Developing technologies have made education applicable everywhere. In other words, education has been taken outside of the known space (classic school walls). Individuals' constant innovation has caused the development…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Preservice Teachers, Foreign Countries, Continuing Education
Lumpkin, Angela; Stokowski, Sarah – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2011
While interscholastic sports help young athletes enhance sport skills, physical fitness, self-discipline, sportsmanship, teamwork, time-management skills, self-confidence, and mental toughness, they also promote life skills and lessons and enhance academic performance as well. Coaches have a tremendous opportunity--and responsibility--to instill…
Descriptors: Extramural Athletics, Athletes, Personality, Personality Development
Shaffer, Leigh S.; Zalewski, Jacqueline M. – NACADA Journal, 2011
Foreclosure students have prematurely committed themselves to academic majors and future careers, but present themselves to academic advisors as very decided. From a developmental theory perspective, foreclosures represent an immature identity status and include students whose failure to explore their personal and vocational identities and achieve…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Educational Research, Academic Achievement, Personality
Narang, Ritu – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2012
Purpose: Keeping in mind the urgent need to deliver quality education in higher education institutes, the current paper seeks to measure the quality perception of management students in India. Design/methodology/approach: Based on an exploratory study a modified version of SERVQUAL was employed as the research instrument. Data were collected from…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Quality, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals)
Sulzer, Arthur Henry, IV – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Urban high-school students' low average level of academic achievement is a national problem. A lack of academic progress is a factor that contributes to students failing to graduate. In response to these urban high school student problems, a growing number of urban charter high schools have opened as an alternative to the traditional public high…
Descriptors: Secondary Education, Secondary School Students, Urban Education, Marine Education
Porter-Samuels, Tute – Kairaranga, 2013
Pasifika learners, along with Maori, continue to experience high disparities in New Zealand's education system. Furthermore, it is predicted that over the next few decades, the majority of students in New Zealand primary schools will be Maori and Pasifika. The implications for classroom teachers are enormous. In reviewing a range of literature,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Culturally Relevant Education, Academic Achievement, Educational Improvement
Seevers, Brenda S.; Hodnett, Frank; Van Leeuwen, Dawn – Journal of Extension, 2011
Between 2000 and 2007, six western states conducted individual impact studies using public school youth in grades five, seven, and nine. Common areas of study included: risk behaviors, leadership positions held, helping others, close relationships with adults, self-identity, character, self-confidence, and empowerment. The purpose of the study was…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Program Effectiveness, Risk, Student Behavior
Elias, Maurice J. – Educational Policy, 2009
There is a missing piece to America's education agenda, and children will continue to be left behind until that piece is addressed. Furthermore, children are not being systematically prepared for their complex roles as citizens in our democracy. A growing body of evidence from research and practice suggests reconceptualizing education as an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Policy, Personality Development, Emotional Development

Hart, Daniel; Atkins, Robert; Fegley, Suzanne – Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 2003
Applied a person-centered approach to childhood personality development in 28 diverse samples of 3- to 6-year-olds studied over 6 years. Identified resilient, overcontrolled, and undercontrolled personality types. Found that the undercontrolled personality type related to intellectual decline over 6 years. The number of family risks predicted…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Child Development
Atkins, Marc S.; Shernoff, Elisa S.; Marinez-Lora, Ane – Journal of Research in Character Education, 2009
This commentary focuses on the promises and challenges facing the Social and Character Development (SACD) consortium in evaluating the effectiveness of seven universal SACD programs designed to enhance student behavior and school climate under conditions of real world practice. In this commentary, we highlight that the opportunity costs associated…
Descriptors: Student Behavior, Theory Practice Relationship, Social Development, Program Effectiveness

Tsatsanis, Katherine D.; Fuerst, Darren R.; Rourke, Byron P. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
A study involving 152 children (ages 7-13) with learning disabilities assessed the relationships between age and psychosocial functioning, and the relationships among psychosocial functioning, cognitive abilities, and academic achievement. Results found no increase in psychopathology with advancing age and clear relationships between academic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Ability
LeMay, Morris L. – J Counseling Psychol, 1969
Uses scores on the I (inner support) scale of Personal Orientation Inventory correlated with term grade point average, to clarify relationship between the two and to comment on previous research by Leib and Snyder. Findings support their conclusions of no direct relationship but rather a secondary one through separate relationships with other…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, College Students, Correlation