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The Impact That Change in the Registration Calendar Has on Student Outcomes, and the Reduction of Late Registration
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Fobbs, Timothy J. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Students who register for classes late have always been a challenge for community colleges. The student who registers late creates a burden on the enrollment staff, and they create academic achievement challenges for themselves as well. Late class registration has been linked to lower overall GPA's, and to overall lower academic performance. This…
Descriptors: School Registration, Scheduling, Change, Community Colleges
Attitudes toward Science: Measurement and Psychometric Properties of the Test of Science-Related Attitudes for Its Use in Spanish-Speaking Classrooms
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Navarro, Marianela; Förster, Carla; González, Caterina; González-Pose, Paulina – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
Understanding attitudes toward science and measuring them remain two major challenges for science teaching. This article reviews the concept of attitudes toward science and their measurement. It subsequently analyzes the psychometric properties of the "Test of Science-Related Attitudes" (TOSRA), such as its construct validity, its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific Attitudes, Psychometrics, Science Tests
Gender Differences in Self-Concept, Locus of Control, and Goal Orientation in Mexican High-Achieving Students
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Valdés-Cuervo, Angel Alberto; Sánchez Escobedo, Pedro Antonio; Valadez-Sierra, María Dolores – Gifted and Talented International, 2015
The study compares self-concept, locus of control, and goal orientation characteristics of male and female Mexican high school high-achieving students. Three scales were administered to 220 students; 106 (49%) were males and 114 (51%) females. By means of a discriminant analysis, both groups were compared in relation to the variables such as…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Self Concept, Locus of Control
Exploration of Acoustic Features for Automatic Vowel Discrimination in Spontaneous Speech
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Tyson, Na'im R. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In an attempt to understand what acoustic/auditory feature sets motivated transcribers towards certain labeling decisions, I built machine learning models that were capable of discriminating between canonical and non-canonical vowels excised from the Buckeye Corpus. Specifically, I wanted to model when the dictionary form and the transcribed-form…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Auditory Perception, Auditory Discrimination, Phonetic Transcription
Competence in Coping with Stress in Adolescents from Three Regions of the World
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Persike, Malte; Seiffge-Krenke, Inge – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
The ways adolescents develop and use strategies to cope with stress vary according to cultural scripts and values. This cross-sectional study tested the impact of region and gender on adolescents' stress perceptions and coping styles. A total sample of 10,941 adolescents (51.3% female) from 20 countries completed questionnaires on stress and…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Questionnaires, Adolescents, Coping
The Meaning of Working among Professional Employees in Germany, Poland and Russia
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Kuchinke, K. Peter; Ardichvili, Alexandre; Borchert, Margret; Rozanski, Andrzej – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report the results of an empirical study of the meaning of working, individual level work outcomes, and job and career satisfaction, among professional level employees in business organizations in Russia, Poland, and Germany. Design/methodology/approach: The theoretical framework for the study was based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Professional Personnel, Work Attitudes