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Rosario, Victoria C. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This research study investigated the technological perceptions and expectations of community college students, faculty, administrators, and Information Technology (IT) staff. The theoretical framework is based upon two assumptions on the process of technological innovation: it can be explained by diffusion of adoption theory, and by studying the…
Descriptors: Generational Differences, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Attitudes
Wyn, Johanna – Journal of Educational Administration and History, 2012
This paper reaches into a comprehensive study of a generation of young people in Australia, drawing on a comparison with Canadian longitudinal data. It argues that this is a generation of reluctant change makers who have created new ways of living as a response to economic changes and government policies. These new ways of living, once exposed,…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Generational Differences, Cross Cultural Studies
Mesch, Gustavo S. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2012
Long-term studies monitoring the process of young people adopting new media patterns of social interaction and communication with parents and peers are needed to better understand how young people cope with perpetual peer communication, how parents and adolescents deal with intergenerational conflicts, and the outcomes of these practices and…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Social Change, Mass Media Role, Mass Media Use
Hall, Richard A., Jr. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Literature has warned of an impending leadership crisis for American community colleges (Amey, Vanderlinden, & Brown, 2002; Shults, 2001). At the present time, the majority of community college president positions are held by members of the Boomer generation. These individuals will soon be retiring and members of the Xer generation will be called…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Leadership Styles, Baby Boomers, Leadership Qualities
Zhuoxin, Liang – International Education Studies, 2013
The research has chosen some migrant workers of new generation from different fields in F City to investigate their current situation of vocational education. The research reveals that their education is helpful, mainly in employment, work and the methods of mentorship and further study organized by employers. The research also reveals its…
Descriptors: Migrant Workers, Migrant Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries
Stites, Mallory C.; Federmeier, Kara D.; Stine-Morrow, Elizabeth A. L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2013
Eye tracking was used to investigate how younger and older (60 or more years) adults use syntactic and semantic information to disambiguate noun/verb (NV) homographs (e.g., "park"). In event-related potential (ERP) work using the same materials, Lee and Federmeier (2009, 2011) found that young adults elicited a sustained frontal…
Descriptors: Ambiguity (Semantics), Lexicology, Older Adults, Generational Differences
Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance, 2013
The Advisory Committee's 2010 report, "The Rising Price of Inequality," found that need-based grant aid from all sources was inadequate by examining the enrollment and completion rates of low-income high school graduates who seek to earn a bachelor's degree and are qualified to gain admission to a 4-year college. The major finding was…
Descriptors: Bachelors Degrees, High School Graduates, African American Students, Hispanic American Students
Schechter, Amy; Denmon, Jennifer M. – Voices from the Middle, 2012
Many teachers find it difficult to encourage their students to write in class, yet writing is becoming increasingly important in academic and workplace settings. Students are already writing through cell phone texting, gaming systems, and social networking sites every day, but these resources go largely untapped in many English language arts…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Content Area Writing, Student Motivation, Motivation Techniques
Bland, Helen W.; Melton, Bridget F.; Welle, Paul; Bigham, Lauren – College Student Journal, 2012
Problem: College years have been deemed as one of the most stressful periods of a person's life (Hales, 2009). The millennial generation of college students are unique in characteristics, including the manner in which they handle stressors. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify lifestyle habits and coping strategies that may be…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Student Attitudes, Statistical Analysis, Coping
Ratliff, Gerald Lee – Online Submission, 2011
Residential Freshman Interest Groups (FIGS) have recently become a popular instructional and social model for academic and student affairs colleagues who are concerned that millennial students learn to reflect on life experiences and daily events as part of the learning process. An introductory FIG program recognizes that millennial students are…
Descriptors: Student Development, Student Personnel Services, College Freshmen, Generational Differences
Bowen, Lauren Marshall – College Composition and Communication, 2011
Through an eighty-one-year-old woman's literacy narrative, I argue that literacy researchers should pay greater attention to elder writers, readers, and learners. Particularly as notions of literacy shift in digital times, the perspective of a lifespan can reveal otherwise hidden complexities of literacy, including the motivational impact of…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Computer Literacy, Age Discrimination, Social Bias
Peguero, Anthony A. – Journal of Educational Research, 2011
Extracurricular activity involvement is generally beneficial toward student progress and success. Little is known, however, about immigrant youth involvement in school-based extracurricular activities. The author examined the patterns of Latino and Asian American youth extracurricular involvement by focusing on the pertinent role of immigrant…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Immigrants, Migrant Children, Hispanic American Students
Franklin, Somer L.; Slate, John R.; Joyner, Sheila A. – Journal of Faculty Development, 2014
In this article, we analyzed research studies in the field of graduate education. In particular, we explored the issue of inequity in graduate education through three key lenses of social science analyses. Furthermore, we analyzed selected quantitative research studies that undertook a comparative examination of aggregate trends in enrollment and…
Descriptors: Graduate Study, Ethnic Diversity, Ethnicity, Statistical Analysis
Morin, Rich; Brown, Anna; Fry, Rick – Pew Research Center, 2014
For those who question the value of college in this era of soaring student debt and high unemployment, the attitudes and experiences of today's young adults--members of the so-called Millennial generation--provide a compelling answer. On virtually every measure of economic well-being and career attainment--from personal earnings to job…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, College Attendance, Outcomes of Education
Rosen, Larry D. – Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Look around at today's youth and you can see how technology has changed their lives. They lie on their beds and study while listening to mp3 players, texting and chatting online with friends, and reading and posting Facebook messages. How does the new, charged-up, multitasking generation respond to traditional textbooks and lectures? Are we…
Descriptors: Conventional Instruction, Textbooks, Parents, Generational Differences