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Nichole M. Loser – ProQuest LLC, 2012
According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, universities and colleges are required to provide accommodative services for students with disabilities. Many studies have examined the role of malingering mental health symptoms in order to obtain psychotropic medications, but very little research has been done on the role of accommodations as…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Civil Rights Legislation, Disabilities, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities)
Perez-Arce, Francisco – RAND Corporation, 2011
The author examines whether education increases patience. Admission decisions in a public college in Mexico are determined through a lottery. He finds that applicants who were successful in the draw were more likely to study in the following years. He surveyed the applicants to this college almost two years after the admission decision was made…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preferences, Outcomes of Education, College Students
Dicks, Joseph E. – 1995
Questioning the notion of a sensitive period for second language acquisition, this research examined students' interlanguage development in selected classes at two grades in early, middle, and late French immersion. These classes were administered the same verb tense tests: an oral elicited imitation test and written rational cloze test. Analysis…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Data Analysis