Motivated students have been shown to persist longer in post-secondary education. As a multidimensional psychological construct, motivation is shaped by within- and between-person perceptions of context. Empirical measures of distinct workplace and trade school subjective task values (STVs) were examined, and their predictions of apprentices'…

Recent research provides evidence that teachers' implicit bias may impact school discipline but has poorly defined discipline. This research examines if implicit bias impacts 7 discrete types of disciplinary decisions, ranging from punitive to rehabilitative. A survey featuring racial priming was administered to teachers (n = 287). Results suggest…

Purpose: The contextual variability of stuttering events makes it difficult to reliably elicit stuttered speech in laboratory settings. As a result, studies that compare stuttered versus fluent speech are difficult to conduct and, thus, are limited in the literature. The purpose of the current study is to describe a novel approach to elicit…

Teacher education programs require effective development for mentors of preservice teachers to increase the likelihood student teaching is reliable and that it produces preferred outcomes. There are few studies, however, that describe development programs for mentors. This study identified characteristics of an effective program for mentors of…

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the results of the authors' questionnaire survey focused on the comparison of study motivation and job expectations of full-time and part-time students of Russian universities and identify main problems of higher education and graduate employment and suggest their possible solutions.…

In this portrait, Maleka Donaldson vividly illustrates how two teachers in real-world, public school settings convey their expectations for kindergarten student performance and set the tone for learning from mistakes and feedback. Research in psychology and education has established the benefits of corrective feedback on learning but has not…

With increasingly mobile and global populations in universities worldwide, it is important that faculty and students share common expectations for student and instructor behaviors. This study focused on international student and faculty perceptions of student language performance and faculty instructional techniques in one U.S. university with…

The present study was aimed to find out the relationship between academic procrastination and locus of control of graduate students. Survey method was conducted on a stratified random sample of 200 graduate students. In order to collect data, Academic Procrastination Scale (APS-GSBL) developed by Dr. Savita Gupta and Liyaqat Bashir (2018) and…

When children of color enter their classrooms each year, many often encounter low expectations, disconnection, and other barriers to their success. In "The Innocent Classroom," Alexs Pate traces the roots of these disparities to pervasive negative stereotypes, which children are made aware of before they even walk through the school…

As the first impressions, introductory courses in college play an influential role in students' decision to persist in science majors. We use students' open-ended explanations to understand how students make persistence decisions at the end of their introductory courses, based on Eccles' Expectancy-Value (E-V) Theory. Participants (N = 2737; 45.6%…

Essentially, supervision is the act of looking over the work of another person who absences full knowledge of what they are doing, or the concept at hand. The problem of developing PhD students research skills in institutes has become one of the most critical issues related to research institutes, where interest in the scientist's personality…

School climate is an intricate and multifaceted construct comprised of many variables. School climate has been connected to student academic outcomes, achievement outcomes and the social emotional development of youth. Research asserts that positive school climate can beneficially influence the academic outcomes of student and reduce achievement…

In recent years, the call to diversity law enforcement departments generated attention to the challenges of recruiting and retaining minorities. Understanding the perspectives of minority law enforcement officers' transitional phases from civilian to front-line enforcement responsibilities has not been fully assessed. The purpose of this study was…

Perceptions and expectations of masculinity in the United States create difficult conditions for men to discuss the pressures they feel around performing masculinity practices. By remaining relatively silent about these pressures, men secure greater access to material and ideological benefits promised through the patriarchal dividend. The…

The United States has invested millions of dollars in STEM program initiatives; however, African Americans in STEM career fields are underrepresented. The purpose of this qualitative hermeneutic phenomenological study aimed to explore the lived experiences of African-American first-year college students from rural communities in a STEM program and…