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Makbule Duran Mucuk; Ekrem Sedat Sahin – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
The aim of this study was to determine the mediating role of relative deprivation in the relationship between social exclusion and depression in adolescents. A total of 437 (269 female, 168 male) adolescents (78 9th, 106 10th, 192 11th, and 61 12th-grade students) from four different high schools in Turkey participated in the study. Latent…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Isolation, Depression (Psychology), High School Students
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Suwimon Kritkharuehart; Uncharee Vimolsilp; Pimchanok Photipussa – Cogent Education, 2024
Competency-based assessment plays an important role in the development of learners' education as it enables them to demonstrate their expertise and readiness for professional life. The competencies of 'KRU RAK THIN' scholarship recipients in remote and underprivileged areas reflect the learning outcomes that teacher education institutions should…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Competency Based Teacher Education
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Calamlam, Josephine M.; Mokshein, Siti Eshah – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2020
Literature has identified varied internship models yet preparing early childhood pre-service teachers (ECPSTs) to confront the realities and challenges of learning-to-teach during internship remain scarcely examined. The qualitative single-case study sought to uncover ways to optimize ECPSTs' latent knowledge and skills given a limited time for…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Internship Programs, Skill Development
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Brown, Aaron; Bauer, Michael – Athens Journal of Education, 2021
Engineers provide essential services to society, solving pressing challenges through technological inventiveness. Students new to engineering often cite the lure of creative problem solving as attracting them to the discipline. However, traditional engineering curricula typically focus on a narrow application of fundamentals for solving…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Service Learning, Community Development, Sustainable Development
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Suor, Jennifer H.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.; Davies, Patrick T.; Cicchetti, Dante – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2017
Harsh environments are known to predict deficits in children's cognitive abilities. Life history theory approaches challenge this interpretation, proposing stressed children's cognition becomes specialized to solve problems in fitness-enhancing ways. The goal of this study was to examine associations between early environmental harshness and…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Environment, Path Analysis, Problem Solving, Personality Traits
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Halsall, Jamie P. – Higher Education Studies, 2013
The aim of this paper is to examine how the University of Huddersfield embraced the ethos of community cohesion and made moves into a problematic community. Drawing on qualitative research conducted in Oldham in Greater Manchester the paper presents insights into how higher education is viewed in the area. The research reveals that higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Policy, Delivery Systems, Context Effect
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Olexa, David F.; Forman, Susan G. – Journal of School Psychology, 1984
Assigned 64 urban disadvantaged fourth- and fifth-grade students to either a social problem-solving training, response cost, social problem-solving training plus response cost, or control group. Those exposed to problem-solving training improved on measures of alternative thinking and consequential thinking skills. Training did not affect teacher…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Disadvantaged Environment, Elementary School Students, Intermediate Grades