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Mack, Lori C.; Halic, Olivia; Burd, Emma – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2019
The Career-related Programme (CP) is an innovative education programme by the International Baccalaureate (IB). Designed to promote college and career readiness equally in the last two years of high school, the CP combines rigorous university preparatory coursework with targeted career-related studies. This study examines the patterns of higher…
Descriptors: Advanced Placement Programs, College Bound Students, College Readiness, Career Readiness
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Liang, Chaoyun; Ip, Ching Yin; Wu, Shih-Chia; Law, Kris Mo Yin; Wang, Jiun-Hao; Peng, Li-Pei; Liu, Huei-Ching – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
Promoting green socioentrepreneurship is crucial for sustainable economic development in the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in highly urbanised areas such as Taiwan and Hong Kong. However, little research has focused on this topic. Therefore, we conducted two studies to analyse how personality traits, entrepreneurial creativity, and social…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Social Capital, Predictor Variables, Entrepreneurship
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Marschark, Marc; Edwards, Lindsey; Peterson, Candida; Crowe, Kathryn; Walton, Dawn – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2019
Theory of Mind--the understanding that people have thoughts, wants, and beliefs that influence their interpersonal behavior--is an aspect of social cognition that develops with consistent, increasing complexity across age groups, languages, and cultures. Observed delays in theory of mind development among deaf children and others has led to a…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Deafness, Comprehension, Beliefs
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Kahn, Marissa; Solomon, Phyllis; Treglia, Dan – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2019
A correlational design was employed to determine how risk and protective factors relate to first-year college adjustment. In total, 348 students completed an online survey about their experience adjusting to college. Risk factors (i.e., psychiatric medication, fearful-avoidant attachment, and anxious-preoccupied attachment) negatively impacted…
Descriptors: Risk, Predictor Variables, College Freshmen, Student Adjustment
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Bahr, Peter Riley; Fagioli, Loris P.; Hetts, John; Hayward, Craig; Willett, Terrence; Lamoree, Daniel; Newell, Mallory A.; Sorey, Ken; Baker, Rachel B. – Community College Review, 2019
Objective: Standardized placement tests remain the primary means by which new community college students are assessed and placed in the hierarchy of math and English coursework. A growing body of evidence indicates that placement tests tend to underestimate students' likelihood of achieving passing grades in college-level courses, leading to…
Descriptors: Student Placement, Accuracy, Community Colleges, Predictor Variables
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Ang, Karen Qian Ping; Loh, Pek Ru – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Research has supported the notion that gender plays a significant role in coping and mental health outcome among parents of children with ASD. The current study aims to examine gender role in the relationship between mental health outcome and coping in parents of children with ASD in Singapore. This study involved 97 fathers and 106 mothers of…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Coping, Parent Child Relationship, Autism
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Reid, Erin K.; Keller-Margulis, Milena A.; Schanding, G. Thomas; Tolar, Tammy D. – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2019
A concerning number of students fail to achieve writing proficiency, yet little attention has been devoted to examining why this occurs. While robust evidence indicates that behavior impacts reading and math achievement, the relationship between behavior and writing skills is unclear, particularly among young students. The authors examined the…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Predictor Variables, Writing Achievement, Writing Instruction
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Sharma, Amit; Van Hoof, Hubert B.; Ramsay, Crystal – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2019
The study reported here investigated reading among students from the perspective of how students choose to use their time and whether they self-ration it. A survey of undergraduate students found that their self-reported allocation of time to academic activities other than reading was positively correlated to the reading that they did and that…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Time Factors (Learning), Decision Making, Reading Habits
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Juhasz, Barbara J.; Yap, Melvin J.; Raoul, Akila; Kaye, Micaela – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
Word frequency is an important predictor of lexical-decision task performance. The current study further examined the role of this variable by exploring the influence of frequency trajectory. Frequency trajectory is measured by how often a word occurs in childhood relative to adulthood. Past research on the role of this variable in word…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Predictor Variables, Grade 1, College Students
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Reza, Maleki Ali; Zeraatpishe, Mitra; Faravani, Akram – International Journal of Instruction, 2019
One of the most significant issues in the process of teaching and learning is to consider students' individual differences. The aim of this study was to investigate the interrelationships among Iranian EFL Learners' Typical Intellectual Engagement, Learning Style and Preference for Assessment Methods. The sample included 200 English learners…
Descriptors: Path Analysis, Learner Engagement, Intellectual Experience, Cognitive Style
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Cansoy, Ramazan – International Education Studies, 2019
This systematic review aims to investigate the relationship between school principals' leadership behaviours and teachers' job satisfaction. With this purpose, studies that focused on this relationship in the literature were examined. Twenty-seven studies found in different databases (i.e. ERIC, WOS, SCOPUS and ULAKBIM) were included in the…
Descriptors: Principals, Leadership Styles, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction
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Grigal, Meg; Papay, Clare; Smith, Frank; Hart, Debra; Verbeck, Rayna – Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 2019
The Transition and Postsecondary Program for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID) model demonstration program, funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education was implemented initially from 2010 to 2015. During this time, 27 institutions of higher education were awarded grants to develop programs for…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Higher Education, Access to Education
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Pena-Shaff, Judith B.; Bessette-Symons, Brandy; Tate, Michael; Fingerhut, Joelle – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2019
This study examines the relationship between students' perceptions of teacher treatment, school suspensions, and school climate in three high schools in Central New York (N = 1,444). Students completed an anonymous questionnaire about their perceptions of school climate and school disciplinary practices. Results showed racial and ethnic…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Ethnicity, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Hurtado Leon, Monica Y. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study explored the associations among first-generation, Mexican-American, community college students' mental health services, social capital, resiliency, and their levels of reported college satisfaction. One hundred and five self-identified first-generation, Mexican-American or Chicanx, or Latinx with Mexican origins community college…
Descriptors: First Generation College Students, Two Year College Students, Mexican Americans, Student Satisfaction
Teshima, Angela S. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Higher education research overlooks the achievement of Asian community college students, possibly due to the stereotypes of Asian students as naturally excelling in academia, perpetuated by the model minority myth. This is concerning, because in California, many of the academic achievements that are used to assess the effectiveness of initiatives,…
Descriptors: Low Income Students, Asian American Students, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students
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