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Five Perils of the Impact Agenda in Higher Education
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McCowan, Tristan – London Review of Education, 2018
The impact of higher education institutions on society has become the focus of significant policy attention in recent years, most prominently as part of research evaluation. This paper presents a theoretical exploration of the notion, identifying the key dimensions as source, form, trajectory, intensity, timescale and destination. While…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Outcomes of Education, Educational Policy, Educational History
The Temporal Focus Scale: Factor Structure and Association with Alcohol Use in a Sample of Northern Irish School Children
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McKay, Michael T.; Percy, Andrew; Goudie, Andrew J.; Sumnall, Harry R.; Cole, Jon C. – Journal of Adolescence, 2012
The Temporal Focus Scale (TFS) is a 12-item self-report measure of cognitive engagement with the temporal domains of past, present and future. Developed in college student samples, a three-factor structure with adequate reliability and validity was documented in a series of independent studies. We tested the factor structure of the scale in a…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Drinking, College Students, Factor Structure
Exploring Time Perspective in Greek Young Adults: Validation of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory and Relationships with Mental Health Indicators
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Anagnostopoulos, Fotios; Griva, Fay – Social Indicators Research, 2012
In this article we examine the factorial structure of the Greek version of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZTPI; Zimbardo and Boyd in "J Personal Soc Psychol" 77:1271-1288, 1999), in a sample of 337 university students, using principal axis factoring (PAF) with oblique rotation, and its dimensionality using parallel analysis.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mental Health, Test Validity, Factor Structure
Future Time Perspective, Hope, and Ethnic Identity among African American Adolescents
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Adelabu, Detris Honora – Urban Education, 2008
This study examines the relationship of academic achievement to future time perspective (FTP), hope, and ethnic identity among low-income, rural and urban African American adolescents ( N = 661). Findings indicate that adolescents who are oriented toward the future, determined to reach their goals (hope), and interested in and have a strong sense…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Time Perspective
Periodic Components in Communication Data: Models and Hypothesis Testing.
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Watt, James H., Jr. – 1979
A relatively simple procedure for modeling periodic components in time series data is presented in this paper, along with an example of the procedure's use with communication data. Similar to multiple regression analysis, the described procedure has four steps that are based on information about periodic waves and their components, how to create…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Componential Analysis, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods
Implementing Astin's I-E-O Model in the Study of Student Retention: A Multivariate Time Dependent Approach. AIR 1996 Annual Forum Paper.
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Kelly, Leonard J. – 1996
A study used Alexander Astin's (1993) Input-Environment-Output (I-E-O) model to examine persistence at the United States Coast Guard Academy (Connecticut). Because the study was conducted in a controlled social environment, measures of social environmental influence were derived from multiple inputs, including adaptability polls wherein every…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Case Studies, Dropout Characteristics, Higher Education