Many Physician Assistant (PA) students experience mistreatment including public humiliation, preferential grading, discriminatory statements, physical assault, and sexual harassment. Mistreatment is disruptive to learning and has negative professional and personal impact on students. Mistreatment is most common in clinical settings, most often…

Data indicate that individuals who disclose their disability status to self-advocate for accommodations at the postsecondary level may be as rare as the mythical unicorn. During the 2019-20 school year in the United States, 7.3 million public education students aged 3-21 years received some form of special education services. These students…

In this study, students' perceptions of Title IX were examined before and after a training session on Title IX. Conducted at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in the southeastern region of the United States, the goal of this qualitative study was to explore how Title IX training affected the students' perceptions of sexual assault…

Graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are faced with managing how to respond to student disclosures of grief in the classroom but often lack grief training from their universities when these instances occur. Good and Mad grief, and Critical Grief Pedagogy (CGP) are the frameworks for which this study is positioned. Through interviews with GTAs in…

Business education scholarship has explored cheating behavior as a function of demographics, culture, personality, and other factors. Expanding current knowledge on the topic, the authors provide the first known empirical investigation of two negatively valenced psychosocial conditions--social loneliness and social isolation--in relation to…

Purpose: Persons who stutter (PWS) may be susceptible to discrimination because of negative judgments made by listeners. The current study sought to determine how the cognitive system's explicit (i.e., conscious) and implicit (i.e., nonconscious) biases about PWS are impacted by self-disclosure. Method: A computer mouse-tracking paradigm was used…

In this paper, we examine the educative significance of YouTube as a space of self-expression for transgender and non-binary youth without being hindered by pervasive cisnormative and cisgenderist expectations that are institutionalised and sanctioned in the education system. We employ transgender studies informed epistemological frameworks to…

Even though bullying is a perennial problem, there are still significant gaps in the research. The sensitive nature of the issue prompted us to develop and test a new arts-based method -- a set of incomplete, problem-focused comic strips that were given to the participants for creative completion and were subsequently used as individualised…

The aim of this study was to investigate the risk levels desired by children aged 4-5 years and their perceived status of mother monitoring. One hundred and three children aged 4-5 years were participated in the study. For the purpose of collecting data, a set of 12 drawings based on the interview method set out by the researchers and the…

The present study examined the utilization of Clery Act information by college students. Results from 107 students indicated that awareness of the Clery Act and knowledge of crime log information was lacking. Using an experimental design, study participants demonstrated potential benefits from exposure to information about campus crimes. This…

This paper reports on an exploratory study, which gathered LGBT+ young people's (aged 15--22) experiences and perceptions of hate crime. Two design-led workshops were conducted in the North East of England, with the aim of identifying the reporting needs of LGBT+ young people. Participants in the first workshop were asked what types of 'hate'…

Background: The study explored the use of a robot-mediated therapeutic intervention in persons with visual and intellectual disabilities. Method: Three robot-mediated intervention sessions were developed to teach three coping skills for worrying. Effectiveness was examined using a multiple-baseline case study design (N = 7). Baseline,…

All Texans deserve access to affordable, high-quality learning opportunities that lead to credentials of value--postsecondary credentials that will unlock their potential, help them provide for their families, and pursue their dreams. Helping students understand the financial choices they will make before, during and after their postsecondary…

The popularity of distance learning is increasing at a high rate. In the light of COVID-19, a high number of instructors are being forced to transition to teaching online. While this mode of learning offers convenience and flexibility, it has also increased the difficulty of instructors and students engaging on an emotional level. Teaching is not…

The purpose of this study was to develop the Financial Transparency Scale (FTS) to assess financial transparency, the open and honest disclosure of one's finances, between married partners. A sample of 183 individuals married for less than 5 years, in their first marriage, completed an online survey. Principal components analysis (PCA) was…