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Coates, Hamish; Meek, Lynn; Brown, Justin; Friedman, Tim; Noonan, Peter; Mitchell, John – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2013
This paper examines leadership in Australia's vocational education and training (VET) sector. VET leaders make a vital and growing contribution to learners, industry and society, yet research on their work is limited. This has direct implications for ensuring leadership is most effective, and for framing evidence-based capacity development. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Research, Administrators
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Nordberg, Samuel S.; Hayes, Jeffrey A.; McAleavey, Andrew A.; Castonguay, Louis G.; Locke, Benjamin D. – Journal of College Counseling, 2013
The purpose of this study was to develop a better understanding of why college students seek psychological treatment by examining indicators of psychological distress. A secondary goal was to assess the utility of screening for treatment need via a brief self-report measure of distress. Two samples (1 clinical, 1 nonclinical; N= 8,380) were…
Descriptors: College Students, Help Seeking, Stress Management, Stress Variables
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Janssen, Sandra; Kreijns, Karel; Bastiaens, Theo J.; Stijnen, Sjef; Vermeulen, Marjan – International Journal of Training and Development, 2013
Professional development plans (PDPs) have recently been introduced in Dutch schools to support teachers' professional development. However, teachers' beliefs regarding the use of PDPs have not been systematically researched, whereas research on the use of PDPs indicates that the implementation is not always successful and depends on how use is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development
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Pillen, Marieke; Beijaard, Douwe; Brok, Perry den – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2013
This study examined tensions encountered by 182 beginning teachers during their professional identity development, the feelings that accompanied these tensions and the ways they tried to cope with these. Professional identity tensions stem from an unbalanced personal and professional side of (becoming) a teacher. Tensions that are often mentioned…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Professional Identity, Professional Development, Coping
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Dockett, Sue; Perry, Bob – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2013
This paper details and compares the discernible trends observed in a wide-ranging review of the recent starting school literature in Australia and beyond. More than half of the research reviewed considers children's readiness for school. This research is critiqued through a three-way view of readiness: child readiness, school readiness and support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Readiness, Transitional Programs, Early Childhood Education
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Oddi, Kate B.; Murdock, Kyle W.; Vadnais, Sarah; Bridgett, David J.; Gartstein, Maria A. – Infant and Child Development, 2013
Although prominent models emphasize that maternal, child, and situational variables are associated with parenting stress, previous research has often neglected to examine associations between maternal and infant temperament characteristics and stress experienced in the parenting role. Additionally, while predictors of global parenting stress have…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Mothers, Infants, Stress Variables
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Mackinnon, Lachian; Bacon, Liz; Cortellessa, Gabriella; Cesta, Amedeo – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2013
Multi-agency crisis management represents one of the most complex of real-world situations, requiring rapid negotiation and decision-making under extreme pressure. However, the training offered to strategic planners, called Gold Commanders, does not place them under any such pressure. It takes the form of paper-based, table-top exercises, or…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Training Methods, Crisis Management, Leadership Training
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Gray, Jennifer A.; Muramatsu, Naoko – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2013
Background: Previous research indicates that work stress contributes to intentions to quit among direct care workers (DCWs) who provide services to people with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD). Though resources can help DCWs cope and remain in a job, little is known about how various dimensions of work stress and resources (social…
Descriptors: Interaction, Developmental Disabilities, Locus of Control, Caregivers
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Cheung, Chau-kiu; Yue, Xiao Dong – Social Indicators Research, 2013
Resilience is desirable for promotion as a resource for international students to sustain adjustment and withstand stress. A yet uncertain way for the promotion is the student's connectedness with host or local people. To ascertain the benefit of local connectedness, this study surveyed 215 sojourn students originating from Mainland China who…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Resilience (Psychology)
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Gillan, Wynn; Naquin, Millie; Zannis, Marie; Bowers, Ashley; Brewer, Julie; Russell, Sarah – ICHPER-SD Journal of Research, 2013
Employee health promotion programs increase work productivity and effectively reduce employer costs related to health care and absenteeism, and enhance worker productivity. Components of an effective worksite health program include stress management, exercise and nutrition and/or weight management classes or counseling. Few studies have documented…
Descriptors: Correlation, Stress Variables, Nutrition, Physical Activity Level
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Belsky, Jay; Pluess, Michael – Child Development, 2013
Data from 508 Caucasian children in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development shows that the DRD4 (but not 5-HTTLPR) polymorphism moderates the effect of child-care quality (but not quantity or type) on caregiver-reported externalizing problems at 54 months and in kindergarten and teacher-reported social skills at kindergarten and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Personality, Infants, Genetics
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Llamas, Jasmin; Ramos-Sanchez, Lucila – Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 2013
The authors examined 83 Latino undergraduates to determine whether perceived social support of friends mediates the role of intragroup marginalization on acculturative stress and college adjustment. A mediation effect was found for college adjustment but not for acculturative stress. Results highlight the importance of friends for college…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Hispanic American Students, Disadvantaged, Social Support Groups
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Henderson, Lisa M.; Tsogka, Natassa; Snowling, Margaret J. – Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs, 2013
Visual stress (the experience of visual distortions and discomfort during prolonged reading) is frequently identified and alleviated with coloured overlays or lenses. Previous studies have associated visual stress with dyslexia and as a consequence, coloured overlays are widely distributed to children and adults with reading difficulty. However,…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Color, Dyslexia
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Monk, Catherine; Georgieff, Michael K.; Osterholm, Erin A. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: Accumulating data from animal and human studies indicate that the prenatal environment plays a significant role in shaping children's neurocognitive development. Clinical, epidemiologic, and basic science research suggests that two experiences relatively common in pregnancy--an unhealthy maternal diet and psychosocial…
Descriptors: Mothers, Prenatal Influences, Cognitive Development, Pregnancy
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Salmon, Karen; Brown, Deirdre A. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2013
Medical contexts provide a rich opportunity to study important theoretical questions in cognitive development and to investigate the influence of a range of interacting factors relating to the child, the experience, and the broader social context on children's cognition. In the context of examples of research investigating these issues, we…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Child Development, Cognitive Ability, Research Methodology
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