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Joseph Crawford; Gemma Lewis; Jo-Anne Kelder – Educational and Developmental Psychologist, 2024
Objective: There remains a need for effective and ethical development in students, for cohesive and connected societies of moral actors. This paper adopts an authentic leadership development in students perspective as a possible complement to discipline expertise. This research explored whether taking leadership roles while studying had a positive…
Descriptors: Student Leadership, Leadership Training, Leadership Styles, Leadership Role
DeSouza, Lisette M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The purpose of this research was to assess student progress in and completion of a career-technical education (CTE) program. This study focused on the Williamson College of Trades (WC) in Media, PA and explored the relation between student strengths of school engagement and vocational identity, and contextual assets, of program quality and family…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Academic Achievement, Learner Engagement, Self Concept
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Rosch, David M.; Collier, Daniel; Thompson, Sara E. – Journal of College Student Development, 2015
This exploratory study examined the motivation to lead of a random sample of 1,338 undergraduate students to determine the degree to which motivation to lead can predict leadership behaviors. Results suggested that students' internal self-identity as a leader positively predicted behavior, while their "social normative" motivation to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Leadership, Student Motivation, Predictor Variables
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Fischer, Donald V.; Wielkiewicz, Richard M.; Stelzner, Stephen P.; Overland, Maribeth; Meuwissen, Alyssa S. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2015
Incoming first-year college students completed a leadership survey prior to any formal leadership education. These students were reassessed during the spring of their senior year; 386 students completed both surveys. The differential effect of 33 leadership and demographic variables on change in hierarchical and systemic leadership beliefs were…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Longitudinal Studies, Leadership Training, College Freshmen
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Wisner, Marie D. – Christian Higher Education, 2011
This study investigated the degree to which strengths ownership, psychological capital (PsyCap) qualities of hope, self-efficacy, optimism, and resiliency, and demographic characteristics of gender, college class level, leadership experience, and strengths experience are predictive of effective leadership practices as defined by the Leadership…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Leadership, Student Development, Models
Shertzer, John; Wall, Vernon; Frandsen, Alisa; Guo, Yan; Whalen, Donald F.; Shelley, Mack C., II – College Student Affairs Journal, 2005
Multiple regression was performed on four dependent variables derived from the results of a student survey measuring attitudes about student leadership: (a) leadership is important to the student, (b) the student considers himself or herself to be a leader, (c) leadership will be important to the student after college, and (d) leaders need to be…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Student Surveys, Student Leadership, Predictor Variables