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Pittard, Caroline M.; Pössel, Patrick; Lau, Timothy – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2017
Depressive symptoms affect around half of students at some point during college. According to the hopelessness theory of depression, making negative inferences about stressful events is a vulnerability for developing depression. Negative and socio-emotional teaching behavior can be stressors that are associated with depression in school students.…
Descriptors: College Students, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Depression (Psychology), Inferences
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Atli, Abdullah – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Purpose: This study aims to determine the predictive strength of personality traits based on the five-factor theory on the level of career maturity Research Methods: The sample of the study included a total of 429 high school students, 248 females (57.8%) and 181 males (42.2%). The study utilized the "Career Maturity Scale" to determine…
Descriptors: High School Students, Personality Traits, Measures (Individuals), Neurosis
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Payne, Phillip; Burrack, Frederick – Research and Issues in Music Education, 2017
This exploratory case study, focused on a music teacher preparation program, examined the coursework ePortfolios of pre-service music teachers to determine if any parts of the ePortfolio process predicted teaching effectiveness in the classroom during the student teaching semester. Sixty-five undergraduate pre-service music teachers made up the…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Portfolios (Background Materials), Academic Achievement, Predictive Measurement
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Williams, Joshua T.; Darcy, Isabelle; Newman, Sharlene D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2017
Understanding how language modality (i.e., signed vs. spoken) affects second language outcomes in hearing adults is important both theoretically and pedagogically, as it can determine the specificity of second language (L2) theory and inform how best to teach a language that uses a new modality. The present study investigated which…
Descriptors: Role, Native Language, Second Language Learning, Phonetics
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Chang-Tik, Chan – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2017
This article attempts to explore the extent to which Lecturer e-Training Program (LeP) supports lecturers in their preparation for student-centred teaching. LeP was conducted in a blended mode, that is, it involved an online self-paced learning module followed by an interactive online discussion and ended with a face-to-face action learning. It…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Active Learning, Online Courses, Questionnaires
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Acee, T. W.; Barry, W. J.; Flaggs, D. A.; Holschuh, J. P.; Daniels, S.; Schrauth, M. – Journal of Developmental Education, 2017
Nationally, developmental mathematics courses have some of the highest failure and withdrawal rates of postsecondary courses. A wide range of factors may be contributing to students' struggles in these courses. In order to help identify these factors, we asked students enrolled in developmental mathematics to identify factors interfering with…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Holistic Approach
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Hollister, Brandon A.; Scalora, Mario J.; Hoff, Sarah M.; Hodges, Heath J.; Marquez, Allissa – Journal of School Violence, 2017
Campus violence prevention often includes proactively reducing crime through noticing and resolving concerning situations. Within these efforts, interventions aimed at enhancing reporting have been considered necessary. The current study explored several reporting influences on college students' responses to hypothetical and actual campus safety…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Risk, Violence, School Safety
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Saito, Aya; Stickley, Andrew; Haraguchi, Hideyuki; Takahashi, Hidetoshi; Ishitobi, Makoto; Kamio, Yoko – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
Although children with a greater number of autistic traits are likely to have other mental health problems, research on the association between earlier autistic traits in preschool children and later emotional/behavioral outcomes is scarce. Using data from 189 Japanese community-based children, this study examined whether autistic traits at age 5…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Preschool Children, Correlation
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Amuta, Ann Oyare; Chen, Xuewei; Mkuu, Rahma – American Journal of Health Education, 2017
Background: Information seeking is crucial in the health behavior context. Cancer information seeking may play a key role in individuals' perceptions and subsequent health behaviors. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of cancer information seeking on perceptions of cancer worry, fatalism and risk. Methods: Data from…
Descriptors: Cancer, Risk, Anxiety, Information Seeking
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Ulu, Hacer; Avsar-Tuncay, Aysegül; Bas, Özlem – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2017
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the multimodal literacy of pre-service teachers and their perception of self-efficacy in critical reading. At the same time, it is to what extent their multimodal literacy levels predict their perception of self-efficacy in critical reading. 337 students were chosen via convenience…
Descriptors: Correlation, Multiple Literacies, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Hernesniemi, Elina; Räty, Hannu; Kasanen, Kati; Cheng, Xuejiao; Hong, Jianzhong; Kuittinen, Matti – International Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Earlier research has shown that an excessive workload has a substantial negative effect on students' well being. The present study examines how Finnish and Chinese university students' perceptions of workload are related to their perceptions of the teaching and learning environments (TLE). This is done in order to determine whether the perceived…
Descriptors: Well Being, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Cross Cultural Studies
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Paleczek, Lisa; Seifert, Susanne; Gasteiger-Klicpera, Barbara – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
The present study aims at examining variables (at individual and class level) that influence the accuracy of teacher judgments of second and third graders' reading abilities (decoding and reading comprehension). Data of 1,468 students and 86 teachers were collected. Due to the nested structure of the data, multilevel regression analyses were…
Descriptors: Reading Ability, Teacher Attitudes, Grade 3, Grade 2
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Çevik, Gülsen Büyüksahin – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The current research aims to find out the extent to which high school teachers' life satisfaction, teaching efficacy, and self-esteem predict their job satisfaction. Research participants included a total of 358 teachers (age = 38.82; Ss = 6.73; range, 22-58), 222 males (62%) and 136 females (38%), employed in 21 public high schools in the city…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Teacher Effectiveness, Self Esteem, Job Satisfaction
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Hortz, Brian; Winters, Eric; Grim, Melissa L.; Petosa, R. Lingyak – American Journal of Health Education, 2017
Background: Evidence suggests that health promotion interventions that are based on behavioral theories are more effective than those lacking a theoretical base. Recent studies have begun to look at the relationship between social cognitive variables and physical activity in varied populations. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine…
Descriptors: Social Cognition, Leisure Time, Physical Activities, Health Promotion
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Phillips, Beth M.; Ingrole, Smriti A.; Burris, Pamela W.; Tabulda, Galiya – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
This study describes initial development, feasibility, and fidelity of implementation of a vocabulary and language curriculum supplement that combined explicit instruction and educational television programming to enhance children's vocabulary acquisition. Efficacy of an intervention relies in part on its fidelity of implementation, but little is…
Descriptors: Curriculum Implementation, Fidelity, Predictor Variables, Preschool Curriculum
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