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Lin, Guan-Yu; Liao, Yi-Wen; Su, Zhi-Yuan; Wang, Yu-Min; Wang, Yi-Shun – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This study attempts to: (a) investigate whether positive and negative emotions mediate the pathways linking self-efficacy for learning programming with effort and persistence in undergraduates' learning Scratch programming combining with a programmable hardware platform (i.e., Arduino), and (b) assess the effect of academic major (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Academic Persistence, Programming, Self Efficacy
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Kural, Ayse I.; Özyurt, Berrin – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2023
Research has demonstrated consistently that personality and perceived stress, independently, are essential factors for university adjustment among university freshmen; however, little is known about the associations between personality, perceived stress, and adjustment together. Our primary goal was to explore the predictive utility of perceived…
Descriptors: Student Adjustment, Personality Traits, Stress Variables, Predictor Variables
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Brown-Smythe, Claudette; Sultana, Shirin – Professional Counselor, 2023
We examined the extent to which anxious attachment and avoidant attachment predicted loneliness and social self-efficacy among 863 college students. Further, we investigated whether social self-efficacy mediated the relationships between the two insecure attachment styles and loneliness. Pearson correlations and regression analysis showed that…
Descriptors: College Students, Predictor Variables, Anxiety, Attachment Behavior
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Ebanks, Gilda; Francois, Samantha – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
Community colleges have been an educational source for individuals to increase capital and social mobility. But the reality of these opportunities is not the same for all. First generation, low income, non-traditional minority students make up a large percentage of students enrolling in community colleges yet retention rates, primarily for African…
Descriptors: Females, African American Students, Community College Students, Academic Persistence
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Ensor, Tyler M.; Surprenant, Aimée M.; Neath, Ian; Hockley, William E. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
In recognition, context effects often manifest as higher hit and false-alarm rates to probes tested in an old context compared with probes tested in a new context; sometimes, this concordant effect is accompanied by a discrimination advantage. According to the cue-overload account of context effects (Rutherford, 2004), context acts like any other…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Cues, Memory, Recognition (Psychology)
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White, Rhianna; Livingston, Lucy A.; Taylor, Emily C.; Close, Scarlett A. D.; Shah, Punit; Callan, Mitchell J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
Autism and anxiety are thought to be related to extreme demand avoidance (EDA), which is characterised by intense avoidance of everyday demands. However, the relative importance of autism and anxiety to EDA has yet to be investigated, and little is known about EDA in adulthood. We conducted two online survey studies (Ns = 267 and 549) with adults…
Descriptors: Adults, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Anxiety, Predictor Variables
Talesha C. Grubbs – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this study was to determine if and when activism is a choice or a responsibility to understand identity-based activism and the impact it has on Black and African American students in higher education. Through a qualitative research approach, this study examined the experiences of six Black and African American students who…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Activism, African American Students, College Students
Kursten Carlson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study is focused on seven states, Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, Minnesota, Washington, Washington D.C., and Wisconsin and the written special education complaints filed from July 1, 2014-June 30th, 2019. The problem addressed by this quantitative, correlational design study was the lack of information on the effects of multiple predictor…
Descriptors: Special Education, Predictor Variables, Compliance (Legal), Socioeconomic Status
Smith, Melton Dale – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study analyzed admission practices at four-year universities in the United States to determine whether a relationship exists between the score of an individual component of the admission practice and completion of radiologic technology programs. Attrition is a major concern for higher education as funding for higher education continues to…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Radiology, College Admission, Admission Criteria
Witmer, Suzanne M. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative correlational-predictive study was to examine Physical Activity and BMI as potential predictors of Academic Performance among community college students at a community college in Southern California. The foundation for this study was provided by physical activity, BMI, social cognitive theory of self-regulation,…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Physical Activity Level, Body Composition, Predictor Variables
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Ormiston, Heather E.; Renshaw, Tyler L. – School Mental Health, 2023
Universal screening for social, emotional, and behavioral risk is an important method for identifying students in need of additional or targeted support (Eklund and Dowdy in School Mental Health 6:40-49, 2014). Research is needed to explore how potential bias may be implicated in universal screening. We investigated student demographics as…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Predictor Variables, At Risk Students, Student Placement
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Lim, May Li; Chue, Kah Loong – School Psychology International, 2023
The present study examined the associations of academic resilience and achievement goals with test anxiety, and the moderating role of achievement goals in the relation between academic resilience and test anxiety among 1632 secondary one students from eight secondary schools in Singapore. Results showed that students who reported lower levels of…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Test Anxiety, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation
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Lopez, Susanna V.; Krems, Jaimie Arona; Dunn, Delaney S.; Warner, Emily; Leffingwell, Thad R. – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: Sexual Strategies Theory suggests people fall on a continuum between having short-term mating orientation (STMO) and long-term mating orientation. One way STMO individuals signal mating goals is via risky drinking. The current study therefore aims to investigate drinks per week (DPW) as a mediator between STMO and risky sexual behavior…
Descriptors: Drinking, Sexuality, Health Behavior, Risk
Bret A. Sikkink – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This study employed quantitative methods to analyze survey results related to the epistemic beliefs and classroom practices of economics educators. Studying economics has positive benefits at the individual, family, and social levels, but analysis of learning outcomes suggests that economics education needs to increase student engagement and…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Economics Education, Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs
Janet L. Randerson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The purpose of this quantitative correlational-predictive study was to study if and to what extent emotional intelligence and race, individually and/or combined, predict self-efficacy among teachers teaching online at US-based colleges and universities. The theoretical foundation for this study was based on Salovey and Mayer's 1990 Theory of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Online Courses, Electronic Learning, Emotional Intelligence
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