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Boeck, Claire A.; Torres, Vasti; Bush, Mollie – Journal of College Student Development, 2022
Feeling a part of a university community is an important factor in college students' success, yet little is known about how transfer students construct a sense of community at their new institutions. Drawing from surveys and interviews of transfer students at a highly selective university, we used a multi-method approach to understand the elements…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, College Transfer Students, Student Attitudes, Group Membership
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Cwik, Sonja; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022
Student sense of belonging in physics classes may not only play a key role in shaping course outcomes but also influence student persistence and future career aspirations. Prior research has shown that women have a lower sense of belonging than men in calculus-based introductory physics courses. However, prior research has generally not…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Physics, Science Instruction, Grades (Scholastic)
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Smith, Thomas J.; Walker, David A.; Chen, Hsiang-Ting; Hong, Zuway-R. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2020
The present study examined data from the 2015 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study to address cross-cultural differences in 4th grade students' attitudes towards science and how students' sense of school belonging (SSSB) scores were related to attitude towards science. Regression results indicated that SSSB emerged as a…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Achievement Tests, International Assessment, Mathematics Achievement
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Kuang, Xiaoxue; Kennedy, Kerry J. – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2021
The aim of the study is to explore alienated and disaffected students in Latin America and investigate the development of their civic attitudes. The study has focused on a context that is assuming growing importance globally and about which more needs to be known, especially in terms of its potential for democratic development. The focus is on…
Descriptors: Alienation, Gender Differences, Scores, Social Values
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Kopanidis, Foula Zografina; Shaw, Michael John – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: Educational institutions are caught between increasing their offer rates and attracting and retaining those prospective students who are most suited to course completion. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the influence of demographic and psychological constructs on students' preferences when choosing to study in a particular…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Course Selection (Students), Preferences, Models
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Kuang, Xiaoxue; Kennedy, Kerry John – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2018
As an important group of students, the alienated and disaffected students are often overlooked in more general studies of civic education. Based on data from the International Civics and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS 2009), the study investigated alienated and disaffected students in Asia and explored the development of their civic attitudes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies, Statistical Analysis, International Studies
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Warmerdam, Amanda; Lewis, Ioni; Banks, Tamara – Education & Training, 2015
Purpose: Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) framework, the purpose of this paper is to explore whether the standard TPB constructs explained variance in Generation Y (Gen Y) individuals' intentions to join their ideal organisation. Design/methodology/approach: A mixed methods approach was used featuring qualitative and quantitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Behavior Theories, Generational Differences
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Pollack, Brittany; DuPaul, George J.; Weysandt, Lisa L.; Anastopoulos, Arthur D. – Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 2018
Young adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms are more likely than their peers to engage in risk-taking behaviors, including harmful alcohol use, consumption of illicit drugs, and risky sexual behaviors. These behaviors become more common in the general population of young adults as they enter college, particularly for…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Risk, Health Behavior, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
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Soria, Krista M.; Stubblefield, Robin – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2015
This goal of this study was to examine the benefits of a campus-wide initiative to build first-year students' strengths awareness. The results of a survey of the first-year class (n?=?1,421) suggest a positive and significant relationship between students' strengths awareness and their belief that the strengths initiatives on campus positively…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Group Membership, Interpersonal Relationship
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Ghadirzadeh, Reyhaneh; Hashtroudi, Fariba Pourabolfathe; Shokri, Omid – English Language Teaching, 2013
The present study investigated the effect of university students' demotivational status, language learning strategies and learning style preferences on their underachievement in English language learning. To begin, 260 Iranian undergraduate students were selected through the multi-stage cluster sampling method. They were put into two successful…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Underachievement
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Schreiner, Laurie A. – About Campus, 2010
In the previous two issues of "About Campus," the author has described the national study of college-student thriving that she has conducted with her doctoral students at Azusa Pacific University over the past several years. Their validated and reliable 35-item Thriving Quotient has been administered to over 15,000 college students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Measures (Individuals)
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Warnock, Emery C. – Contributions to Music Education, 2009
This study was designed to predict middle school sixth graders' group membership in band (n = 81), chorus (n = 45), and as non-participants in music performance ensembles (n = 127), as determined by gender and factors on the Attraction Toward School Performance Ensemble (ATSPE) scale (alpha = 0.88). Students completed the ATSPE as elementary fifth…
Descriptors: Group Membership, Music Education, Music, Discriminant Analysis
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Ciani, Keith D.; Summers, Jessica J.; Easter, Matthew A.; Sheldon, Kennon M. – Educational Psychology, 2008
This study used self-determination theory as a framework to examine the relationship between choice regarding group membership and student motivation within classrooms that use collaborative learning as an instructional tool. Data were collected from over 500 students across seven classrooms from a large university in the Midwestern United States.…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Group Membership, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation
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Murrell, Audrey J.; Dietz-Uhler, Beth L. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 1993
Examines impact of gender identity and adversarial sexual beliefs as predictors of attitudes toward sexual harassment for 52 female and 55 male college students. Adversarial beliefs and experience with sexual harassment predict less tolerant attitudes toward harassment for males, whereas strong gender group identity and experience with harassment…
Descriptors: Beliefs, College Students, Experience, Females
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Gini, Gianluca – Journal of School Psychology, 2006
Bullying is a widespread social phenomenon involving both individual and group variables. The present study was aimed at analyzing how students' perception of a bullying episode might be influenced by group and context variables. A convenience sample of 455 adolescents read a short story, in which the in-group role (bully vs. victim) and level of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Aggression, School Psychology, Punishment
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