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Erickson, Olivia A.; Cole, Rebecca B.; Isaacs, Jared M.; Alvarez-Clare, Silvia; Arnold, Jonathan; Augustus-Wallace, Allison; Ayoob, Joseph C.; Berkowitz, Alan; Branchaw, Janet; Burgio, Kevin R.; Cannon, Charles H.; Ceballos, Ruben Michael; Cohen, C. Sarah; Coller, Hilary; Disney, Jane; Doze, Van A.; Eggers, Margaret J.; Farina, Stacy; Ferguson, Edwin L.; Gray, Jeffrey J.; Greenberg, Jean T.; Hoffmann, Alexander; Jensen-Ryan, Danielle; Kao, Robert M.; Keene, Alex C.; Kowalko, Johanna E.; Lopez, Steven A.; Mathis, Camille; Minkara, Mona; Murren, Courtney J.; Ondrechen, Mary Jo; Ordoñez, Patricia; Osano, Anne; Padilla-Crespo, Elizabeth; Palchoudhury, Soubantika; Qin, Hong; Ramírez-Lugo, Juan; Reithel, Jennifer; Shaw, Colin A.; Smith, Amber; Smith, Rosemary; Summers, Adam P.; Tsien, Fern; Dolan, Erin L. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic shut down undergraduate research programs across the United States. A group of 23 colleges, universities, and research institutes hosted remote undergraduate research programs in the life sciences during Summer 2020. Given the unprecedented offering of remote programs, we carried out a study to describe and evaluate them.…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Distance Education, Undergraduate Students
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Guetterman, Timothy C.; Creswell, John W.; Deutsch, Charles; Gallo, Joseph J. – Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 2019
The Mixed Methods Research Training Program for the Health Sciences aims to enlarge the national pool of trained investigators in mixed methods and improve the quality of grant applications to the National Institutes of Health. Selected scholars are assigned a consulting team, participate in webinars, and attend an annual "retreat"…
Descriptors: Mixed Methods Research, Consultants, Workshops, Intervention
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Behar-Horenstein, Linda S.; Roberts, Kellie W.; Dix, Alice C. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2010
Mentoring is believed to be one of the most influential factors in US efforts to encourage college-aged students to seek careers in science, yet the role that mentoring plays in this process has not been elucidated. The researchers were interested in understanding whether the long-held beliefs about the importance of mentoring would be revealed as…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Research Projects, Mentors, College Faculty
Parsons, Jim; Harding, Kelly – Online Submission, 2011
This paper synthesizes four research projects the authors completed between 2006-2011. The first research study was a case study of leadership in five highly-effective elementary schools in Alberta. Second, we thoroughly reviewed literature in the area of "Student Engagement." Our third research project included 50+ interviews compiling…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Projects, Synthesis, Learner Engagement
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Falconer, John; Holcomb, Dianne – College Student Journal, 2008
Undergraduate research programs are becoming more prevalent, but research on the processes and outcomes is limited and deals largely with perceptions of student learning gains. This paper adds to the literature by describing undergraduate research activities from the student perspective. A phenomenological approach was used to analyze journals…
Descriptors: Student Research, Stimulation, Mentors, Student Attitudes
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Hendel, Darwin D. – Counseling and Values, 1978
This article describes an instrument which measures what characteristics students consider important in selecting a mate. The author examines differences in responses to the instrument by a sample of Minnesota high school and college students. Implications of these findings are discussed for high school and college counselors. (Author/JEL)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interpersonal Relationship, Marriage, Research Projects
King, Michael; Sobel, Douglas – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1975
Sexual attitudes and behaviors of a representative sample of single students at a California college were surveyed in spring 1972. Eighty-three percent of the males and 72 percent of the females reported premarital intercourse. This behavior is discussed in terms of its interpersonal context and the students' sexual attitudes. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Behavior, College Students, Interpersonal Relationship
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Porter, Kay; O'Connor, Nancy – Educational Gerontology, 1978
A 17-item semantic differential attitudinal measure was completed by 30 students and 22 older consultants enrolled in a Psychology of Aging course during the first and last class meetings. Positive changes in attitudes about old people were found for almost all pairs of items. (Author)
Descriptors: Attitude Change, College Students, Course Evaluation, Interpersonal Relationship
Christ, Susann – 1977
The attitudes of community college students toward premarital sexual relationships were investigated. Subjects were 83 Black college men and women. A 30-item questionnaire was administered to each subject. Results indicated that: (1) females reported less frequent occurrence of sexual relations than males; (2) neither sex reported a high incidence…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Black Students, Interpersonal Relationship, Marriage
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Ivester, Connie; King, Karl – Gerontologist, 1977
Adolescents' attitudes toward aged were positive, regardless of age. Contact with grand-parents and more positive attitudes were found in middle class compared to lower class, and among whites compared to nonwhites. Questionnaires were given to all 9th and 12th grade students in a rural high school (N=413). (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Age Differences, Gerontology
McBride, Martha C.; Ender, Kenneth L. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1977
College students from three campuses in the southeastern U.S. were surveyed as to their attitudes toward sex and their sexual behavior. Results indicate that there was substantial agreement between attitudes and reported behavior when affectionate feeling existed between partners. (Author)
Descriptors: College Students, Dating (Social), Emotional Response, Interpersonal Relationship
Morgan, Lewis B. – 1971
This study sought to discover how 91 counselor trainees felt about participating in an encounter group as part of their program. Subjects responded to pre-course, post-course, and followup questionnaires dealing with their attitudes toward groups and the actual group experience, and behavioral change attributable to the group experience.…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Counselor Training, Curriculum Development
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Cavior, Norman; And Others – Social Behavior and Personality, 1975
Tenth and twelfth grade males and females who knew each other judged, within grade levels, their classmates on physical attractiveness (PA), perceived attitude similarity (PAS), and interpersonal attraction (IA). Regression analyses supported the hypotheses that PA and PAS are positively correlated. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, High School Students, Interpersonal Relationship
Pascarella, Ernest T.; Terenzini, Patrick T. – 1975
This study, done at Syracuse University in 1975, investigated the multidimensional differences in freshman perceptions and experience of the academic and non-academic aspects of college associated with varying amounts of informal contact with faculty. Discriminant analysis indicated that factor dimensions, termed Interest Value, Practical Appeal…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Environment, College Faculty, College Freshmen
Brown Univ., Providence, RI. – 1980
A report of The Brown Project, which concerns coeducation at colleges in the late 1970s, is presented. Section one contains five working papers on various aspects of the undergraduate experience, based on the work of the research team representing six institutions. Topics concern: academic and intellectual development and sex differences;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Policy, Coeducation, College Environment