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Jingjing Long; Jiaxin Lin – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
English language learning students in China often feel challenged to learn English due to lack of motivation and confidence, pronunciation and grammar difference, lack of practice and people to communicate with etc., which affects students mental health. Adopting Big data and AI will help in overcoming these limitations as it provides personalized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Language Learners, College Students, Mental Health
Zhu, Pei; Garcia, Ivonne; Alonzo, Erick – MDRC, 2019
The growing awareness of the importance of the first year of high school for future success has prompted schools and districts across the country to develop interventions designed for ninth-graders. "Growth mindset" is an intervention that aims to increase students' desire to take on challenges and to enhance their persistence in school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learning Motivation, Intervention, Grade 9
De Los Reyes, Andres; Cook, Clayton R.; Gresham, Frank M.; Makol, Bridget A.; Wang, Mo – Grantee Submission, 2019
Psychosocial functioning plays a key role in students' wellbeing and performance inside and outside of school. As such, techniques designed to measure and improve psychosocial functioning factor prominently in school-based service delivery and research. Given that the different contexts (e.g., school, home, community) in which students exist vary…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Well Being, Information Sources, Student Adjustment
Kim, Keehyung – ProQuest LLC, 2016
This dissertation, which comprises three independent essays, explores the dynamics of online user behavior and provides IS policy implications across three different applications. The first essay employs an econometric empirical analysis to examine the role of IT interventions on online users' gambling behavior, based on field data collected over…
Descriptors: Online Systems, Behavior Patterns, Use Studies, Users (Information)
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Ocumpaugh, Jaclyn; Baker, Ryan; Gowda, Sujith; Heffernan, Neil; Heffernan, Cristina – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2014
Information and communication technology (ICT)-enhanced research methods such as educational data mining (EDM) have allowed researchers to effectively model a broad range of constructs pertaining to the student, moving from traditional assessments of knowledge to assessment of engagement, meta-cognition, strategy and affect. The automated…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Research, Information Technology, Data Analysis
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Bolt, Daniel M.; Piper, Megan E.; Theobald, Wendy E.; Baker, Timothy B. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2012
Objective: This research examined why smokers receiving combination medication for smoking cessation are more likely to quit smoking than are those who receive either single agent (monotherapy) or placebo. Method: Data were collected from 1,504 current smokers (58.2% women, 83.9% White; mean age = 44.67 years, SD = 11.08) participating in a…
Descriptors: Smoking, Individual Counseling, Data Collection, Medicine
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Tobias, Robert; Inauen, Jennifer – Evaluation Review, 2010
Gathering time-series data of behaviors and psychological variables is important to understand, guide, and evaluate behavior-change campaigns and other change processes. However, repeated measurement can affect the phenomena investigated, particularly frequent face-to-face interviews, which are often the only option in developing countries. This…
Descriptors: Intervention, Diaries, Foreign Countries, Enrollment Trends
Kirkwood, Scott, Ed. – Child Welfare League of America (NJ-L1), 2004
This issue of "Residential Group Care Quarterly" contains the following articles: (1) "National Definitions and Data Collection for Residential Care Facilities' Use of Restraint and Seclusion" (Lloyd Bullard); (2) "CWLA Publishes Best Practices in Behavior Support and Intervention Assessment Instrument" (Nupur Gupta); (3) "Initial Findings of an…
Descriptors: Definitions, Data Collection, Psychological Patterns, Residential Care
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Meehan, Sue-Ann; Broom, Yvonne – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2007
The first national toll free suicide crisis line for South Africa was launched in October 2003 with the aim of providing a service dedicated to the prevention of suicide in this country. The intervention was motivated by South Africa's suicide rate which had risen higher than the global suicide rate, with the majority of attempted suicides…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Suicide, Foreign Countries
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Westefeld, John S.; Homaifar, Beeta; Spotts, Jennifer; Furr, Susan; Range, Lilian; Werth, James L., Jr. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2005
The issue of suicide, including prevention, intervention, and postvention, continues to be a problem on college campuses. For this study, data concerning a variety of issues related to college student suicide were collected from 1,865 students at four different universities. Incidence, risk factors, and potential solutions are described, as well…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, College Students, Suicide, At Risk Persons