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Direct linkBryan, Melissa S. – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The Families of Merit Program was designed as an adult education course that could build individual self-efficacy and parental self-efficacy to effect outcomes that would benefit their child and the school. Building this self-efficacy in a community where those children served are predominately in poverty presents a compounded challenge. The…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Self Efficacy, Parenting Skills, Poverty
Orozco, Luis Antonio, Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The continual rise of student loan debt seems to show the world that students are willing to do whatever it takes to become successful in life. However, when they have completed the requirement for the degree many question if the whole journey was worth it. The purpose of this quantitative causal-comparative study was to examine the potential…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, High School Students, Postsecondary Education, Statistical Analysis
Candee, Allyson Joelle – ProQuest LLC, 2016
In this paper, the Classroom Learning Activities Checklist (CLAC) is proposed as a classroom observation measure that effectively captures the classroom environments and strategies that support self-regulation via task-oriented learning in young students. The CLAC's dimensionality, reliability, and concurrent and predictive validity evidence are…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Learning Activities, Metacognition, Evidence Based Practice
Akins, Polly J. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Parent education programs have been shown to be effective family-based interventions for preventing child abuse and neglect; however, to ensure their effectiveness, they must be continually evaluated. The purpose of this quantitative study was to provide a comprehensive evaluation of the effectiveness of the Nurturing Parenting Program for…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Program Evaluation, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
Jeffrey Platter, Amanda – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Many family members are adversely affected by their loved ones drinking or drug problem. The aim of the present study was to explore changes in coping and enabling behaviors among family members who attended a community educational and psychosocial group for friends and family of a substance abuser, and to examine the concerns of these family…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Siblings, Substance Abuse, Mental Health
Finn, Symma – ProQuest LLC, 2008
We investigated empowerment in the Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Alpha-1) community, a rare, genetic disease network in the United States. The research was motivated by nine years of observations in the community. After observing what seemed to be a heightened amount of activism among Alpha-1 community members, I had hypothesized that this…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Empowerment, Physicians, Focus Groups
