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Direct linkEconomic Mobility Project, 2012
In March 2011, the Economic Mobility Project updated its 2009 national poll to reassess public perceptions of economic mobility and the American Dream in the wake of the Great Recession. Americans with the least education were the most concerned about their current economic situation and future prospects. This reinforces the 2009 and 2011 polls'…
Descriptors: Social Mobility, Occupational Mobility, Economic Status, Public Opinion
Peer reviewedMcQuillan, Julia; Greil, Arthur L.; Shreffler, Karina M.; Wonch-Hill, Patricia A.; Gentzler, Kari C.; Hathcoat, John D. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012
Does the reason why women have no children matter with regard to level of childlessness concerns? Reasons include biomedical barriers, situational barriers, delaying motherhood, and choosing to be childfree. The concept of "childlessness concerns" captures the idea that holidays and family gatherings are difficult because of not having children or…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Childlessness, Biomedicine, Holidays
Collis, Jessica; Bloch, Steven – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2012
Background: Dysarthria knowledge is predominantly impairment-based. As a result, speech and language therapists (SLTs) have traditionally adopted impairment-focused management practices. However, guidance for best practice suggests that SLTs should consider the client holistically, including the impact of dysarthria beyond the impairment. Aims: To…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Language Pathology, Allied Health Personnel, Therapy
Brozo, William G. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2012
National surveys reveal that graphic novels are perhaps the most popular recreational reading choice for adolescents--especially among boys. Graphic novels cover numerous topics, and this variety, along with their enormous popularity, makes them enticing and useful resources for teaching and learning in virtually any classroom. Since the…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Males, Content Area Reading, National Surveys
Download full textMulvey, Patrick; Shindel, Brandon – Statistical Research Center of the American Institute of Physics, 2011
Each fall the Statistical Research Center conducts its Survey of Enrollments and Degrees, which asks all degree-granting physics and astronomy departments in the US to provide information concerning the numbers of students they have enrolled and counts of recent degree recipients. In connection with this survey, the authors ask for the names and…
Descriptors: Physics, Doctoral Degrees, Enrollment, National Surveys
Nielsen, Steffen Bohni; Lemire, Sebastian; Skov, Majbritt – American Journal of Evaluation, 2011
Evaluation capacity building (ECB) has become an area in the evaluation field that is attracting both scholarly attention and the practical work of evaluators. Despite some recent contributions, differing conceptions still exist concerning what constitutes ECB, let alone the nature of the capacity being built. Responding to an earlier call on the…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Local Government, Models, Measurement
Watts, Michael; Schaur, Georg – Journal of Economic Education, 2011
Surveys in 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010 investigated teaching and assessment methods in different undergraduate courses. In this article, the authors offer basic results from the 2010 survey. "Chalk and talk" remains the dominant teaching style, but there were drops in mean (although not median) values for those pedagogies and some growth in the use…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Undergraduate Study, Teaching Methods, Evaluation Methods
Myers, Carrie B. – Review of Higher Education, 2011
This study tests the association between union status and job satisfaction using 8,000+ U.S. faculty at four-year public institutions surveyed in the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty. The results from hierarchical linear models that included individual and institutional variables found that nonunion faculty reported significantly…
Descriptors: Evidence, Job Satisfaction, Unions, College Faculty
Porter, Stephen R. – Review of Higher Education, 2011
Using standards established for validation research, I review the theory and evidence underlying the validity argument of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). I use the NSSE because it is the preeminent survey of college students, arguing that if it lacks validity, then so do almost all other college student surveys. I find that it…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, College Students, Student Surveys, Student Attitudes
Husain, Zakir; Sarkar, Swagata – Social Indicators Research, 2011
Studies on educational attainments have tended to focus on attainments at a specific level of education. The change in disparities in attainment over the educational life cycle, however, has been neglected in literature--in India, for instance, the only exceptions are Vaid (2004) and Desai and Kulkarni (2008). This paper uses unit level National…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Educational Attainment, Females
Diket, Read M.; Xu, Lihua; Brewer, Thomas M. – Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education, 2014
The aspirational model resulted from the authors' secondary analysis of the Mother/Child (M/C) test block from the 2008 National Assessment of Educational Progress restricted data that examined the responses of the national sample of 8th-grade students (n = 1648). This test block presented no artmaking task and consisted of the same 13 questions…
Descriptors: Group Testing, Art Education, Grade 8, National Surveys
Servoss, Timothy J.; Finn, Jeremy D. – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2014
This study utilized school-level data from several combined national databases to address two questions regarding school security policy: (1) What are the school characteristics related to levels of security? (2) How does security relate to school suspension, dropout, and college attendance rates? Among the predictors of school security, having a…
Descriptors: School Security, School Policy, Institutional Characteristics, College Attendance
Rothman, Emily F.; Xuan, Ziming – Journal of School Violence, 2014
Dating violence is a serious form of violence that places students at risk for injury, death, and negative mental health sequelae. The current analysis presents data on the prevalence of dating violence over a 12-year period among a nationally representative sample of high school-attending youth in the United States, stratified by race and gender.…
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Violence, Dating (Social), Victims
Cook, Traci; Kappeler, Evelyn; Ellis, Renee; Kominski, Robert; Cooper, Alexia; Smith, Erica; Donoghue, Brecht; Whitestone, Yuko; Snyder, Tom; Aud, Susan; Williamson, Lisa; Henderson, Steve; Steffen, Barry; Madans, Jennifer; Lukacs, Susan; Pastor, Patricia; Goldstrom, Ingrid; Han, Beth; Bures, Regina; Chamberlain, Seth; Despain, Jason; Chadwick, Laura; Park, Jennifer – Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2014
The well-being of young adults in the United States today remains an area of key interest to the public and policy-makers alike. This age group faces the well-known challenges of achieving financial and social independence while forming their own households at a time of greater economic uncertainty than in the past. Better understanding of the…
Descriptors: Economic Climate, Individual Needs, Achievement, Well Being
Wedemeyer, Rose Anna – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The objective of this study was to examine how Latina/o students perceive and describe their experiences at a Hispanic-Serving Institution. The following research questions were addressed: 1. What does a large scale study of student experiences reveal about Latina/o experiences in HSIs? 2. How do Latina/o students attending an HSI describe their…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, College Students, Student Experience, Mixed Methods Research
