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Hinchey, Kaitlin Jones – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Though social comparison behaviors have been widely studied in both occupational and academic contexts, no empirical study has investigated how social comparison presents in counselor education programs. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships between social comparison orientation, counseling self-efficacy, sources of…
Descriptors: Counselor Training, Self Concept, Self Efficacy, College Students
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Trent Brown – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Recent research on vocational training in the global South suggests training may have the effect of unrealistically inflating trainee expectations of remunerative employment and upward social mobility. These studies, however, have focused almost exclusively on training for formal sector employment. The present paper, by contrast, explores how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Agricultural Education, Employment Potential
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Karakowsky, Len; Kotlyar, Igor; Good, Jessica – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2021
According to much of the extant research, the conferral of high-status serves as an invaluable muse for creativity. That is, the research has suggested that high-status affords individuals the confidence, freedom, and leeway necessary to bolster creative performance. However, this assertion is premised on the view that status hierarchies are…
Descriptors: Social Status, Creativity, Recognition (Achievement), Social Mobility
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Li, Qiyuan; Sharma, Priya – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
This study examined the relationship between an individual learner's background, social network position, and interaction within a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC). Prior research has largely focused on the effects of background and social network position on quantitative features of interaction. This research considered qualitative features…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Students, Social Networks, Social Status
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Ahl, Helene; Hedegaard, Joel; Golding, Barry – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2023
This paper proposes a new theory of Conditional Social Equality (CSE) which in some ways challenges the theory of cumulative advantage/disadvantage (CAD), which postulates that inequalities and social divisions necessarily increase over time. Using evidence from informal learning groups in Men's Sheds in three countries, we conclude that some…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Homogeneous Grouping, Single Sex Classes, Males
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Noyongoyo, Boniface – Higher Education Politics & Economics, 2023
The current project measures international students' dietary acculturation challenges focusing on sub-Saharan Africans in the U.S. The analysis examines responses from 142 questionnaire respondents. Respondents filled out a self-administered survey that inquired about their eating practices in their country and since they moved to the U.S.…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Foreign Countries, Acculturation, Food
Sr. Bryan Winfred Massey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study is to examine the social and economic impact of two-year and community colleges on minorities particularly African Americans who are earning a certificate, transfer credits to a four-year institution, or an Associate of Arts or Science Degree. The proposed research is a qualitative case study investigating the social and…
Descriptors: African Americans, Two Year College Students, Outcomes of Education, College Outcomes Assessment
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Faisal Mohammad Ali Abdalla – Journal of International Students, 2024
The number of international students worldwide increased from two million in 2000 to more than five million in 2017. International students may experience one or more challenges, such as financial issues, language limitations, academic performance, social and cultural differences, discrimination and racism, and identity reconstruction. Many of…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Foreign Students, Ethnography, Graduate Students
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Vera Braun – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2024
The paper theoretically examines the standing of Ukrainian educational qualifications, especially technical and vocational education and training (TVET). It assumes that the existing low social standing of TVET is related to the meritocratic principle. In this sense, this study does not examine the case of Ukraine as an example to illustrate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, War, Employment Qualifications
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Jakob R. E. Leimgruber; Ahmad Al-Issa; Eliane Lorenz; Peter Siemund – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2024
The United Arab Emirates have long been in contact with English. Its economy requires high rates of migration, resulting in large numbers of migrants who impact the local linguistic ecology. English acts as lingua franca and occurs in several forms, as labour is recruited from nations having experienced British or American influences. Arabic is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, English (Second Language), Arabic
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Maria Goldshtein; Jaclyn Ocumpaugh; Andrew Potter; Rod D. Roscoe – Grantee Submission, 2024
As language technologies have become more sophisticated and prevalent, there have been increasing concerns about bias in natural language processing (NLP). Such work often focuses on the effects of bias instead of sources. In contrast, this paper discusses how normative language assumptions and ideologies influence a range of automated language…
Descriptors: Language Attitudes, Computational Linguistics, Computer Software, Natural Language Processing
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Cassandra Poikela; Ola Lindberg; Ulrika Haake; Oscar Rantatalo; Alva Lindholm – Vocations and Learning, 2025
In this study, we examine the conditions for participation in criminal investigation practices among two professional categories: police officers and civilians. Specifically, we analyse how participation is shaped and conditioned through the use of symbols and symbolic actions in relation to doing gender and professional identity. The Swedish…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Police, Law Enforcement, Gender Issues
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Melissa Whatley; Kristin Labs; Dawn R. Wood – Community College Review, 2025
Objective/Research Question: This study explores the potential for virtual international exchange to serve as a high impact practice that improves academic outcomes, defined credential completion, and GPA among low-income students enrolled at two community colleges in the U.S. Southeast. Specifically, we ask: What is the relationship between…
Descriptors: International Education, Low Income Students, Community College Students, Grants
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Schipper, Neele; Goagoses, Naska; Koglin, Ute – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
Adolescence is a time in which peers gain in importance and more time is spent engaging in social interactions with them. Within these interactions, adolescents will also be confronted with moral dilemmas, in which moral decisions need to be taken. The aim of the current study was to examine two factors that may influence moral decisions, namely…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Self Concept, Goal Orientation, Peer Relationship
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May, Josephine – History of Education Review, 2023
Purpose: This paper presents a descriptive analysis of elite women's biographical sketches in Who's Who-type collections, now out of copyright, published in Australia in the 1930s--Victoria (1934), New South Wales (1936) and Queensland (1939). It concentrates on information given about their schooling. Design/methodology/approach: The biographical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Status, Single Sex Schools, Mothers
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