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Direct linkBraithwaite Stuart, Laura; Jones, Catrin Hedd; Windle, Gill – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: Cognitive-communication difficulties are often associated with dementia and can impact a person's ability to participate in meaningful conversations. This can create challenges to families, reflecting the reality that people living with dementia rarely have just one regular conversation partner, but interact with multiple family…
Descriptors: Dementia, Alzheimers Disease, Family Involvement, Family Role
MacQuarrie, Madison; McIsaac, Jessie-Lee D.; Cawley, Jane; Kirk, Sara F. L.; Kolen, Angela M.; Rehman, Laurene; Spencer, Rebecca A.; Stone, Michelle R. – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2022
Outdoor play with its risks is necessary for optimal child development. Increasing attention is being paid to factors influencing children's opportunities for risky outdoor play, with parent/guardian (hereafter parent) perceptions being an important, under-researched topic. This research explored parents' perceptions of preschoolers' risky outdoor…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Preschool Children, Risk, Play
Jaeger, Jordan; Chang, Chia-Lin; Stupnisky, Robert – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
University faculty have many responsibilities, including teaching and research, that call for long periods of work before a significant payoff. Grit, the passion and perseverance towards long term goals, may help explain why some faculty attain their goals more frequently than others. The goal of this study was to examine the role of grit and…
Descriptors: Counseling Psychology, College Faculty, Resilience (Psychology), Persistence
Darius A. Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study assesses the impact of cognitive and noncognitive pre-characteristics on college graduation in Tennessee. The State of Tennessee has applied multiple campus-based interventions at the Tennessee Board of Regents and the University System of Tennessee to increase graduation rates. This study is driven by three concepts and investigated by…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Graduation Rate, Cognitive Processes, Public Colleges
Jocelyn Fletcher Scheuch – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This grounded theory study asks, among teachers who have had transformative professional experiences, what elements emerge to explain their transformational experience? The purpose of this study is to explain the elements which may foster individual teacher professional transformation at a rural New England school district. Participants are…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Rural Areas, School Districts, Secondary School Teachers
Lamberty, Gregory J. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Grit in student learning has emerged as a popular discussion topic related to the academic achievement and performance of students. The non-cognitive features of grit are similar to personality traits such as conscientiousness, perseverance, and self-efficacy. However, grit relies on extended passion and perseverance to achieve long-term goals.…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, High School Students, Teacher Attitudes, Low Achievement
Download full textV. Paul Poteat; Michael D. O'Brien; Megan K. Yang; Sarah B. Rosenbach; Arthur Lipkin – Grantee Submission, 2022
With growing attention to youth's efforts to address sexual and gender diversity issues in Gender-Sexuality Alliances (GSAs), there remains limited research on adult advisors. Do advisor characteristics predict their youth members' advocacy? Among 58 advisors of 38 GSAs, we considered whether advisor attributes predicted greater advocacy by youth…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Gender Issues, Advocacy, Mentors
V. Paul Poteat; Michael D. O'Brien; Megan K. Yang; Sarah B. Rosenbach; Arthur Lipkin – Applied Developmental Science, 2022
With growing attention to youth's efforts to address sexual and gender diversity issues in gender-sexuality alliances (GSAs), there remains limited research on adult advisors. Do advisor characteristics predict their youth members' advocacy? Among 58 advisors of 38 GSAs, we considered whether advisor attributes predicted greater advocacy by youth…
Descriptors: Sexual Identity, Gender Issues, Advocacy, Mentors
Nathan W. Whitmore; Adrianna M. Bassard; Ken A. Paller – npj Science of Learning, 2022
Face memory, including the ability to recall a person's name, is of major importance in social contexts. Like many other memory functions, it may rely on sleep. We investigated whether targeted memory reactivation during sleep could improve associative and perceptual aspects of face memory. Participants studied 80 face-name pairs, and then a…
Descriptors: Memory, Naming, Sleep, Recall (Psychology)
Shurtz, Logan; Schwartz, Chloe; DiStefano, Charlotte; McPartland, James C.; Levin, April R.; Dawson, Geraldine; Kleinhans, Natalia M.; Faja, Susan; Webb, Sara J.; Shic, Frederick; Naples, Adam J.; Seow, Helen; Bernier, Raphael A.; Chawarska, Katarzyna; Sugar, Catherine A.; Dziura, James; Senturk, Damla; Santhosh, Megha; Jeste, Shafali S. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Children with autism spectrum disorder are prescribed various medications to address behavior and mood. In clinical trials, individuals taking concomitant psychotropic medications often are excluded to maintain homogeneity and prevent contamination of clinical endpoints. However, this choice may compromise the representativeness of the sample. In…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Drug Therapy, Incidence, Child Behavior
Guilfoyle, Janna; Winston, Molly; Sideris, John; Martin, Gary E.; Nayar, Kritika; Bush, Lauren; Wassink, Tom; Losh, Molly – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a heritable neurodevelopmental disorder, confers genetic liability that is often expressed among relatives through subclinical, genetically-meaningful traits, or endophenotypes. For instance, relative to controls, parents of individuals with ASD differ in language-related skills, with differences emerging in…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Genetic Disorders, Siblings, Individual Characteristics
Jung, Yunkyung; Choi, Sunha – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Background: Receiving timely health screening is associated with important public health benefits among older adults. By focusing on the role of social relationships, the present study was aimed at examining longitudinal trajectories of health screening use among older adults in Korea, whose universal health care system provides free-of-charge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Older Adults, Interpersonal Relationship, Social Influences
Walstad, William B.; Wagner, Jamie – Journal of Economic Education, 2023
The authors of this study investigate the likely influence of required or voluntary financial education on the saving behaviors of U.S. adults. They compare the results for three groups defined by different life experiences with financial education (required, voluntary, and none). Probit models estimate the effects of financial education on four…
Descriptors: Money Management, Financial Education, Adults, Behavior
Feraco, Tommaso; Casali, Nicole; Meneghetti, Chiara – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
Adaptability (adjustment to new and uncertain situations) and grit (perseverance and passion for long-term goals) both sustain students, but their joint contribution has never been explored, and recent studies propose they could compose a single factor. In this study we aim to test whether (1) they actually belong to a single overarching factor as…
Descriptors: Students, Young Adults, Adolescents, Resilience (Psychology)
Yang, Lixin; Yang, Guang – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2023
Farmer education and learning have traditionally focused on developing practical farming skills and techniques. Meanwhile, studies on farmer learning and education have not adequately considered its social cognitive dimension. Hence, this study empirically examines farmers' perceptions of and interest in distance learning, involving 1284…
Descriptors: Prediction, Disadvantaged, Agricultural Occupations, Intention
