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Drum, Jennifer; Ladda, Shawn; Geary, Colette; Fitzpatrick, Corine – Metropolitan Universities, 2014
This study examined college adjustment between athletes and non-athletes at Manhattan College, a medium-sized college participating in NCAA Division I athletics located in the Bronx, New York. Groups included a total of fifty-two athletes, fifty-six non-athletes, twenty-five female athletes, twenty-seven male athletes, twenty-six female…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Athletes, College Athletics, College Students
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Koskey, Kristin L. K.; Stewart, Victoria C. – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2014
This small "n" observational study used a concurrent mixed methods approach to address a void in the literature with regard to the qualitative meaningfulness of the data yielded by absolute magnitude estimation scaling (MES) used to rate subjective stimuli. We investigated whether respondents' scales progressed from less to more and…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Scaling
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Geduld, Bernadette – Africa Education Review, 2016
Open distance students differ in their preparedness for higher education studies. Students who are less self-regulated risk failure and drop out in the challenging milieu of open distance learning. In this study, the differences between the application of self-regulated learning strategies by low and high achievers were explored. A multi-method…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Learning Strategies, High Achievement, Low Achievement
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Guner, Necdet – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
This study examines and classifies the metaphors that twelfth grade students formulated to describe the concept of "learning mathematics". The sample of the study consists of 669 twelfth grade students (317 female, 352 male) of two Anatolian and two vocational high schools located in the city center of Denizli. The following questions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 12, High School Students, Figurative Language
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Chiang, Shyh-Bao; Sun, Chun-Wang – Educational Media International, 2013
This research looked into the effect of how cognitive development toward imagery is formed through visual perception by means of a quantitative questionnaire. The main variable was the difference between the learning backgrounds of the interviewees. A two-way ANOVA mixed design was the statistical method used for the analysis of the 2 × 4 (2 by 4)…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Visual Perception, Visual Literacy, Educational Background