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Wetzel, Kathrin; Mertens, Anne; Röbken, Heinke – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2012
Little is known about differences in the impact of economic stress on students as compared to persons holding secure job positions. Besides the macroeconomic effects, an economic downturn can also affect individual's physical health and psychological well-being (Aytaç & Rankin, 2009). Prior research showed that socio-demographic…
Descriptors: Well Being, Psychological Needs, Economic Impact, College Students
Luciano, David – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study examined the relationship between Acculturation Strategy and Social Supports on Acculturative Stress and Academic Performance Among Hispanic/Latino/a College students. The sample of approximately 522 students was recruited at the City College of The City University of New York. Various statistical methods, including one way ANOVAS,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Hispanic American Students, Social Support Groups, Stress Variables
Schmidt, Hans – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This document presents a dissertation research project that involved studying: (1) faculty perceptions and student media creation competencies, (2) faculty and student perceptions of the extent to which media creation competencies are addressed within higher education, and (3) faculty and student perceptions of the importance of addressing media…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Student Attitudes, Course Content
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Selimovic, Adnan – International Education, 2010
Under the guise of socialization, the child-subject born into the modern society is subjugated by a familial childhood trauma that appropriates the infantile psychosis caused by the incommunicability of early childhood. This appropriation, put to instrumental ends, results in a psychology of commodified object relations. In fact, there is a close…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, War, Violence
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Hamm, Simon; Robertson, Ian – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
This research tests the proposition that the integration of a multimedia assessment activity into a Diploma of Events Management program promotes a deep learning approach. Firstly, learners' preferences for deep or surface learning were evaluated using the revised two-factor Study Process Questionnaire. Secondly, after completion of an assessment…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Multimedia Materials, Evaluation, Cognitive Style
Amador, Paul Vincent – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The arrival of a new generation of students, known as the Net Generation (Junco, 2010), into colleges and universities has demanded changes to the traditional administrative and support services provided on campuses across the nation. In times of ever-changing technological advances, colleges and universities have begun to utilize new and…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Academic Advising, Social Networks, College Students
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Livingston, Michael H.; Stewart, Debra; Rosenbaum, Peter L.; Russell, Dianne J. – Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics, 2011
The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to determine what participation issues are important to adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP). Two hundred and three adolescents with CP (mean age 16.0 [plus or minus] 1.8 years) were assessed using the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM). This was done through semistructured interviews by…
Descriptors: Physical Disabilities, Cerebral Palsy, Questionnaires, Adolescents
Baxter, Linda; Stephens, Carrie; Thayer-Bacon, Barbara J. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2011
The purpose of this descriptive study was to discover the perceptions and barriers of four female agriculture educators across generations in a non-traditional field of agriculture. The United States Department of Labor (2006b) defined a non-traditional job as any occupation where one gender comprises 25% or less of the total employment. Four…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Baby Boomers, Foreign Countries, Agriculture
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Collins, Daniel – Journal of College and Character, 2011
After reading Scott Seider and Howard Gardner's essay "The Fragmented Generation" (2009) in a college freshman writing class, students responded by providing their own labels for their generation. This article includes excerpts from their essays. Following these excerpts is the instructor's theoretical justification for this kind of classroom…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Freshman Composition, Self Evaluation (Groups), Cohort Analysis
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Hollingworth, S.; Mansaray, A.; Allen, K.; Rose, A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2011
Government attention (in England and elsewhere) has been drawn to the role of technology in supporting learning in families. However, sociologists of education highlight that parent's ability to engage with their children's education and learning is not a straightforward issue. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, this paper attempts to open up…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Class, Parent Attitudes, Parent Participation
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Hall, Sioux – Harvard Educational Review, 2011
In this article, Sioux Hall promotes using a strengths-based approach to examine the interruption of the intergenerational cycle of child abuse and explores the strategies that women who were abused by a parent as children used to raise their children without abuse. She documents the mothers' uses of strategies such as vowing to protect and…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Females, Child Rearing, Parenting Styles
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Cole, Jennifer – Review of Research in Education, 2011
Young Africans born in the 1980s and early 1990s enjoy neither the same education nor the same employment opportunities as their fathers and mothers. In the past 20 years economic inequality between Africa and the rest of the world has increased. In the context of the new economic conditions created in part by economic liberalization, national…
Descriptors: Social Status, Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities
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Susanka, Sarah – Educational Gerontology, 2011
In many American communities today, the methods of construction, as well as the almost exclusive orientation to the convenience of the automobile, limit the functioning and independence of the aging population, and offer little opportunity for human interaction. Sarah Susanka's "Not So Big" series of books points toward a new way of…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Characteristics, Community Planning, Ecology
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Span, Christopher; Rivers, Ishwanzya D. – Teachers College Record, 2012
Using data from the Digest of Educational Statistics, this article argues that an intergenerational comparison is a more productive, progressive method to interpret data used to gauge the achievement gap. It applies this method by comparing the academic achievement scores and educational outcomes of African Americans over a nearly 70-year period,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gap, Outcomes of Education, National Competency Tests
Bell, Damon A. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This dissertation explored multiple factors that impact the satisfaction and success of low socioeconomic status students at a California community college. In an effort to illuminate this impact, a quantitative study investigating extant data collected from a campus climate survey was conducted. The researcher was specifically interested in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Satisfaction, Student Attitudes
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