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Liu, Yanhong; Li, Dan; Xu, Yanqing – Professional Counselor, 2017
Indiscriminate friendliness (IF) is a prominent issue with children adopted from China to the United States. Through a mixed methods design, the authors explored four Chinese adoptees' experiences of IF within their real-life context, investigated potential factors associated with IF, and examined the IF-attachment relationship. This mixed methods…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Foreign Countries, Adoption, Case Studies
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Colgate, Orla; Ginns, Paul; Bagnall, Nigel – Educational Psychology, 2017
The role parents can play in supporting early reading attainment is well documented. There is still, however, a need to understand what motivates parents to become involved in reading at home with their child. Past research, based upon correlational studies, has mixed findings regarding the influence of the teacher and the child on parents'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Grade 2, Parents
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Johnson, Byron R.; Pagano, Maria E.; Lee, Matthew T.; Post, Stephen G. – Youth & Society, 2018
Because addiction is a socially isolating disease, social support for recovery is an important element of treatment planning. This study examines the relationship between social isolation, giving and receiving social support in Alcoholics Anonymous during treatment, and post-treatment outcomes among juvenile offenders court-referred to addiction…
Descriptors: Crime, Social Isolation, Addictive Behavior, Alcohol Abuse
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Deringer, S. Anthony; Wiggins, Afi Y. – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2018
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to examine the lasting impacts of students who attended outdoor orientation programs. This research sought to explore a critical gap in outdoor recreation research: longitudinal research about lasting impacts of outdoor orientation programming. We asked the following research questions to guide the…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Longitudinal Studies, Mixed Methods Research, Recreational Activities
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Chiu, Mei-Shiu; Yeh, Huei-Ming; Spangler, Jonathan – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2016
The emergent crisis of global warming calls for energy education for people of all ages and social groups. The Taiwanese government has publicized 10 declarations on energy conservation and carbon reduction as public behavior guidelines to mitigate global warming. This study uses interviews with quantitative assessment to explore the values and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Energy Conservation, Values, Behavior
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Wright, Ewan; Lee, Moosung; Feng, Siyuan – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2018
This paper outlines the findings of a mixed-method study of private supplementary tutoring received by students at international schools offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP) in China. Phase One was an online survey of 151 IBDP graduates across 14 schools, while Phase Two included semi-structured interviews with school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Tutoring, Advanced Placement Programs, Mixed Methods Research
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Altinsoy, Ertan; Okan, Zuhal – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2017
The purpose of this research is threefold. First, the relationship between teachers? beliefs and contextual factors is explored. Second, the factor which is most significant as perceived by the teachers themselves will be presented and finally, the existence of a meaningful difference between public and private school English teachers in terms of…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Beliefs, English (Second Language), Context Effect
Hermida, Alexander – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The attrition of doctoral students in U.S. higher education, especially those who are underrepresented, is an understudied problem. This study examines how underrepresented minority doctoral students experience belonging at a predominantly White institution in the Midwest to identify factors that lead to attrition. The study used a mixed methods…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Student School Relationship, Racial Composition
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Alam, Abdullah; Ahmad, Mushtaq – International Journal of Educational Management, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of instructional leadership, professional communities and extra "non-teaching" responsibilities for teachers on student achievement. Design/Methodology/Approach: For a sample of 214 teachers from 88 primary schools in Pakistan, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Communities of Practice, Teacher Responsibility, Academic Achievement
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Gleeson, Jim; O'Gorman, John; O'Neill, Maureen – International Studies in Catholic Education, 2018
This paper reports on the opinions of teachers in Queensland Catholic schools regarding the identity, purposes and characteristics of Catholic schools. It draws on survey data from 2287 teachers in Catholic schools as well as semi-structured interviews with 20 teachers. Respondents were asked about their reasons for working in Catholic Education…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Institutional Characteristics, Religious Education, Educational Environment
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Cooper, Katelyn M.; Haney, Brian; Krieg, Anna; Brownell, Sara E. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2017
Learning student names has been promoted as an inclusive classroom practice, but it is unknown whether students value having their names known by an instructor. We explored this question in the context of a high-enrollment active-learning undergraduate biology course. Using surveys and semistructured interviews, we investigated whether students…
Descriptors: College Science, Biology, Class Size, Teacher Student Relationship
Godfrey, Kathryn M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Rationale: Binge eating puts individuals at risk for dropout of weight loss treatments and weight regain after treatment. However, treatments for binge eating have not been successful at influencing weight. To improve obesity treatment, research needs to examine binge eating with new theoretical approaches, interdisciplinary paradigms that span…
Descriptors: Eating Disorders, Body Weight, At Risk Persons, Intervention
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Neuhauser, Alex – Early Child Development and Care, 2018
Maternal sensitivity is of central importance to a child's healthy development. This study examines how different types of psychosocial stress originating from the child, the parents, the context, and overall stress relate to maternal sensitivity. Psychosocial stress and its impact on maternal sensitivity are assessed in an at-risk sample of 248…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Development, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
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Whipp, Joan L.; Geronime, Lara – Urban Education, 2017
Correlation analysis was used to analyze what experiences before and during teacher preparation for 72 graduates of an urban teacher education program were associated with urban commitment, first job location, and retention in urban schools for 3 or more years. Binary logistic regression was then used to analyze whether urban K-12 schooling,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Urban Teaching, Teacher Persistence, Beginning Teachers
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Alzeban, Abdulaziz – Journal of International Education in Business, 2016
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the challenges faced by accounting educators in their attempts to incorporate IFRS materials in their teaching and explores the impact of various factors (instructor's attitude, size of accounting department, teaching load, type of institution, teaching experience and teaching materials) on the time spent on…
Descriptors: Accounting, Institutional Characteristics, Questionnaires, College Faculty
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