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Fu, Xinyuan; Liu, Xiaolan; Yang, Ying; Zhang, Mengyuan; Kou, Yu – Youth & Society, 2018
We examined Chinese adolescents' aspirations and explored the relationship between relative intrinsic aspirations (RIA) and prosocial behaviors and whether adolescents with different levels of RIA have different emphases on self- and other-oriented considerations during prosocial decision making. In Study 1, 236 participants were recruited and…
Descriptors: Role, Prosocial Behavior, Correlation, Questionnaires
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Chapman, Lindsey A.; Calhoon, Mary Beth; Krawec, Jennifer – Middle Grades Research Journal, 2018
Adolescent struggling readers (ASRs) with and without disabilities are often reported uniformly in the literature as disengaged from reading and lacking the motivation required to read. The present study tested, at the beginning of the academic year, reader self-perception of sixth grade ASRs (n = 71) enrolled in remedial reading courses using the…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Student Attitudes, Grade 6, Reading Difficulties
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Emmanuel-Aviña, Glory; Delaney, Harold D. – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2018
In the clinical, therapy context, it has consistently been found that while therapists' value systems are stable, clients' values are less stable and become congruent with their therapists' values over the course of psychotherapy (e.g., Schwehn & Schau, 1999). This phenomenon is termed the Value Assimilation Effect (VAE). This study examined…
Descriptors: Correlation, College Faculty, College Students, Values
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Pelco, Lynn E.; Ball, Christopher T. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2018
Marcia's (1966) identity status paradigm served as the theoretical framework to study the impact of service-learning on clarifying future plans for emerging adults with varying identity statuses. The study participants were 195 undergraduates at a large urban public university in the southeastern United States. The Dimensions of Identity…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Undergraduate Students, Student Surveys, Program Effectiveness
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Abdella, Abdreheman Seid – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2018
The purpose of this study was to examine instructors' willingness to provide instructional accommodations for students with disabilities in universities. Questionnaire was distributed to a total of 252 instructors from four universities and quantitative data were generated. Then appropriate quantitative methods of data analysis were employed. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty, College Students
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Gibbons, Sandra; Ebbeck, Vicki; Gruno, Jennifer; Battey, Glenda – Journal of Experiential Education, 2018
Background: Research has identified enhancement of positive self-concept as an important outcome connected with participation in adventure-based activities in physical education (PE). Purpose: This study compared the effectiveness of Team Building Through Physical Challenges (TBPC) and Adventure Curriculum for Physical Education (ACPE) programs on…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Adventure Education, Self Concept, Middle School Students
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Prihadi, Kususanto; Cheow, Damien Z. Y.; Yong, Jonathan H. E.; Sundrasagran, Megaanesh – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2018
This study aims to evaluate the effect of the frequency of playing a board game that simulates entrepreneurial experience called "Traders" on the university students' resilience and self-esteem. Traders Board Game (TBG) was developed in 2015 with an aim to improve several entrepreneurship skills among young adults, and resilience being…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Games, Teaching Methods, College Students
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Lutes, Lyndell; Davies, Randall – Education Sciences, 2018
This study compared student workload and perceived value of coursework assigned for a matching set of semester and term general education courses at Brigham Young University. Statistically significant differences in workloads were found between most semester and term courses. While term workloads were slightly lighter in general, both could be…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Scheduling, Study Habits
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Bright, Charlotte Lyn; Farrell, Jill; Winters, Andrew M.; Betsinger, Sara; Lee, Bethany R. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Purpose: Responding to social work's grand challenge of smart decarceration, this study investigated whether Family Centered Treatment (FCT), a home-based service for juvenile court-involved youth, is more effective than group care (GC) in reducing recidivism. Outcomes are juvenile readjudication and commitment to placement, and adult conviction…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Juvenile Justice, Recidivism, Intervention
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Sahin Baltaci, Hulya – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2018
Purpose: In the literature, it has been stated that hope and life satisfaction in childhood and adolescence are associated with cultural and social factors. This study aimed to discover whether Turkish and American adolescents differ in their life satisfaction and hope levels, by examining hope and life satisfaction in Turkish and American…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Psychological Patterns, Middle School Students, Cross Cultural Studies
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Mankin, Ariel; von der Embse, Nathaniel; Renshaw, Tyler L.; Ryan, Shannon – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
Previous research demonstrates that there is an association between effective teaching and teachers' positive psychological functioning at work. The current study explores the factor structure of the Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (TSWQ), which is a brief measure of two key dimensions of teachers' positive psychological functioning:…
Descriptors: Wellness, Questionnaires, Well Being, Factor Analysis
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Khattab, Nabil; Modood, Tariq – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2018
This study compares the educational attainment of Muslim and Christian White-British boys and girls at the following junctions: Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, GCSE, getting into universities and achieving a place at a Russell Group university. The study utilises the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England waves 1-6 with linked data from the…
Descriptors: Muslims, Educational Attainment, Gender Differences, Expectation
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Hensley, Lauren C.; Wolters, Christopher A.; Won, Sungjun; Brady, Anna C. – Journal of College Reading and Learning, 2018
Effective time management often undergirds students' success in college, and many postsecondary learning centers offer services to help students assess and improve this aspect of their learning skills. In the context of a college success course, we gathered insights from assignments to consider various facets of students' time-related behaviors…
Descriptors: Time Management, Academic Achievement, Academic Probation, Assignments
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Stenlund, Tova; Lyrén, Per-Erik; Eklöf, Hanna – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2018
To be successful in a high-stakes testing situation is desirable for any test taker. It has been found that, beside content knowledge, test-taking behavior, such as risk-taking strategies, motivation, and test anxiety, is important for test performance. The purposes of the present study were to identify and group test takers with similar patterns…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Testing, Test Anxiety, Risk
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Chow, Peter; Jeffery, Mikayla – Education, 2018
The conventional dichotomization of sex and gender into male and female has been found to be far from adequate in representing the amount of variance that exists within each biological sex. Expressions of gender and sexuality have gone beyond our imagination as more and more countries are beginning to allow a nonbinary/intersexed option on their…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Measures (Individuals), Factor Analysis, Factor Structure
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