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Going Solo: Students' Strategies for Coping with an Independent GIS Project
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Whyatt, Duncan; Davies, Gemma; Clark, Gordon – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
A GIS project is an effective means of linking learning "about" GIS and learning "with" GIS, and it can enhance students' employability. However, individual project work creates challenges that could result in failed assessment. Here we adopt a mixed-methods approach to examine how students of mixed abilities cope with GIS…
Descriptors: Geographic Information Systems, Coping, Student Projects, Independent Study
Adult Attachment Orientations and College Student Distress: The Mediating Role of Problem Coping Styles.
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Lopez, Frederick G.; Mauricio, Anne M.; Gormley, Barbara; Simko, Tracy; Berger, Ellen – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2001
Examines relations among adult attachment orientations, maladaptive problem coping styles, and a composite measure of current distress within a sample of 55 undergraduates. Results indicate that each adult attachment orientation and each problem coping style measure was related in expected directions to students' distress. (Contains 39 references…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, College Students, Coping, Higher Education
Needs, Attitudes and Behaviors of Teachers Relative to Stress Situations of Children.
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Zucker, Martine; Snoddy, James E. – 1979
Elementary school teachers and teachers in training responded to a questionnaire related to their experiences with stress situations in the lives of their students. The responses reflected the teachers' awareness of stress in the children's lives, what resources in the school-family system addressed these areas, their own preparation for…
Descriptors: Coping, Family Problems, Helping Relationship, Problem Solving
Theories of Coping: Retrospect and Contemporary Trends.
Peck, Robert F. – 1980
Psychologists have long been interested in the causes of student success or failure in college. In the late 1950's, investigators began to examine behaviors beyond the cognitive realm as crucial elements in the student's adaptation to college life. Research on adolescents' transition from high school to college identified several components of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, College Environment
Student Problems. Adult Literacy Independent Learning Packet.
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Koefer, Ann M. – 1993
This independent learning packet, which is designed for administrators, teachers, counselors, and tutors in Pennsylvania's Region 7 Tri-Valley Literacy Staff Development area as well as for their adult students, examines the following seven problems encountered by students: the job market, child care, single parenting/parenting skills, divorce,…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Role, Alcoholism
How About a Little Strategy? An Idea Book for Mothers in School or Training.
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Paull, Barbara I. – 1980
This guidebook was developed to aid mothers who are attending school or training programs and also have preschool or school-age children at home, to find new approaches to their complicated life situations. Based on the experiences of 215 women in Allegheny County Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), the booklet describes some of the problems they faced as…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, Career Choice, Child Caregivers