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Pandya, Samta P. – Religious Education, 2018
Based on a one-year longitudinal experimental study with 3,782 kindergarten school children across 15 countries, this article examines the association between prayer and happiness. Results show that the post-test scores on the faces scale were higher for the participant group who had taken the prayer lessons vis-à-vis the comparison group.…
Descriptors: Scores, Cross Cultural Studies, Christianity, Pretests Posttests
Nicol, Allison A. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Nurses must possess culturally competencies to effectively care for patients of diverse backgrounds. The groundwork to build cultural competence in nurses should be laid in nursing school. Nursing faculty are obligated to develop and provide appropriate cultural learning opportunities for nursing students. However, students enrolled in community…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Cultural Awareness, Study Abroad, Transformative Learning
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Bouvet, Cyrille; Coulet, Aurélie – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
This pilot study is a randomized controlled trial on the effects of relaxation on anxiety, self-esteem, and emotional regulation in adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) working in a center of supported employment in France. We studied 30 adults with mild or moderate ID who were split at random into a relaxation group (RG, 15 subjects), who…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Randomized Controlled Trials, Relaxation Training, Anxiety
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Nogry, S.; Jean-Daubias, S.; Guin, N. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
This article deals with evaluating an interactive learning environment (ILE) during the iterative-design process. Various aspects of the system must be assessed and a number of evaluation methods are available. In designing the ILE Ambre-add, several techniques were combined to test and refine the system. In particular, we point out the merits of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Ogan, Amy; Aleven, Vincent; Jones, Christopher – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2009
Most successes in intelligent tutoring systems have come in well-defined domains like algebra or physics. We investigate how to support students in acquiring ill-defined skills of intercultural competence using an online environment that employs clips of feature films from a target culture. To test the effectiveness of a set of attention-focusing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Perspective Taking, Cultural Awareness
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Williams, Tracy Rundstrom – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2005
This study answers a need for outcome assessment in study abroad by exploring the intercultural communication skills of study abroad and on campus students. Through a pretest and posttest of two specific skills, intercultural adaptability and intercultural sensitivity, study abroad students were compared to students who stay on campus to measure…
Descriptors: On Campus Students, Intercultural Communication, Communication Skills, Study Abroad