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Ákos Bocskor – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
The paper investigates gender differences in coolness dynamics among early and middle adolescents in a Hungarian panel dataset, which followed students from grade 5 (age 11-12) to grade 8 (age 14-15). Drawing on Gender Prototypicality Theory, we expected significantly different gendered patterns in the association between coolness and various…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Differences, Early Adolescents, Grade 5
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Chinwe Ihuoma; Krishna Bista – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education, 2025
This study explores the academic transition experiences of African international students at a U.S. community college, with a focus on institutional support and associated challenges. Using a qualitative single case study approach, in-depth interviews with eight students revealed three central themes: supportive academic environments, academic and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Adjustment, Foreign Students, Community College Students
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Zhou, Jiming; Dawson, Phillip; Tai, Joanna Hong-Meng; Bearman, Margaret – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2021
Respect plays a crucial role in maintaining feedback interactions and sustaining student engagement with feedback. However, previous feedback literature has only mentioned respect in anecdotal accounts, and as a unidimensional notion. Drawing upon the philosophical distinctions among kinds of respect, this conceptual paper argues that respect is…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Interpersonal Relationship, Multiple Literacies, Student Evaluation
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Kim, Hwewon; Han, Tae-Im – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
This study examined weight concerns and body dissatisfaction among female kindergarteners and assessed their relationships to body mass index (BMI) and parental, peer, and media influences. A total of 90 girls in South Korea were recruited and two-step cluster analysis was used to examine body image concerns and their association with diverse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Children, Kindergarten, Females
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Ordaz, Arnold Sánchez; Mosqueda, Eduardo – Journal of Leadership, Equity, and Research, 2021
This study examines the effect of race/ethnicity, immigrant status and the role of school belonging on the academic achievement of Mexican, Filipino, and white students. We focus on school belonging and peer influences in concert with immigrant generational status and family income to predict students' academic achievement at the end of 9th grade.…
Descriptors: Sense of Community, Peer Influence, Academic Achievement, High School Students
Christine J. Lam – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this research study is to understand whether the peer mentoring experience benefits the peer mentors as it does those who are being mentored. The research seeks to understand whether traits in the peer mentoring program align with the traits employers are looking for in recent graduates. The study also seeks to understand what…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Mentors, Job Applicants, Futures (of Society)
Brent T. Sielinski – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Public-school choice programs have multiplied over the past decades. Previous researchers have analyzed the significant roles that parents play when deciding what they think is best for their children's futures. Though research has shown the roles and factors over parents' educational choices for their student, there are limited studies on student…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Public Schools, Student Attitudes, High School Freshmen
Rahjaun J. Gordon – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This qualitative study explored the origin of leadership qualities in Black male first generation college student leaders at a Predominately White Institution. The participants were identified as student leaders in various leadership roles on their college campus. The study explores the participants pre-college experience to identify any…
Descriptors: Leadership Qualities, African American Students, First Generation College Students, Predominantly White Institutions
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Downes, Paul; Cefai, Carmel – Journal of School Violence, 2019
While there is growing recognition of the need to distinguish between universal, selected, and indicated prevention levels in school bullying and violence research, this more nuanced focus is far from being systematically applied in key research studies in this area internationally. This article raises concerns about the need for such a…
Descriptors: Prevention, Bullying, Violence, Peer Influence
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McAndrew, Ryan; Drennan, Judy; Russell-Bennett, Rebekah; Rundle-Thiele, Sharyn – Health Education, 2019
Purpose: Collective motives for alcohol consumption represent a nascent field, with individual-level attributes, peer pressure and broad-level environmental elements being at the forefront of research. The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of friendships in the context of alcohol consumption and determine what group-level motives exist…
Descriptors: Drinking, Role, Friendship, Young Adults
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Yang, Shuiqing; Zhou, Shasha; Cheng, Xiaoying – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
Retaining learners and facilitating their continuance are critical for the mobile learning providers and educators. Drawing on stimulus-organism-response framework and self-determination theory, this study examines factors that affect college students' mobile learning continuance by considering the self-determination needs and learning…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Theories, College Students, Electronic Learning
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Dryburgh, Jamieson – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2020
Peers influence each other and learning can be shaped by shared processes. The purpose of this article is to pedagogically explore collective effort in the dance technique studio in a conservatoire setting. This practice-based research flows from the studio and has relevance for all higher arts education contexts. It is developed from the…
Descriptors: Dance Education, Peer Influence, Feminism, Foreign Countries
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Lansford, Jennifer E.; Zietz, Susannah; Bornstein, Marc H.; Deater-Deckard, Kirby; Di Giunta, Laura; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Gurdal, Sevtap; Liu, Qin; Long, Qian; Malone, Patrick S.; Oburu, Paul; Pastorelli, Concetta; Skinner, Ann T.; Sorbring, Emma; Steinberg, Laurence; Tapanya, Sombat; Uribe Tirado, Liliana Maria; Yotanyamaneewong, Saengduean; Alampay, Liane Peña; Al-Hassan, Suha M.; Bacchini, Dario; Chang, Lei – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2020
This study tested culture-general and culture-specific aspects of adolescent developmental processes by focusing on opportunities and peer support for aggressive and delinquent behavior, which could help account for cultural similarities and differences in problem behavior during adolescence. Adolescents from 12 cultural groups in 9 countries…
Descriptors: Aggression, Cultural Influences, Cultural Differences, Adolescent Development
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Sheffler, Pamela C.; Cheung, Cecilia S. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
Background: Research indicates that implicit theories of intelligence, specifically growth mindset, are conducive to students' academic achievement and engagement. While much research has focused on the role of teachers and parents, it is unclear how implicit theories of intelligence operate in the peer context. Aims: This study examined the…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, World Views, Role, Learning Processes
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Pu, Shi; Yan, Yu; Zhang, Liang – Research in Higher Education, 2020
This study provides empirical evidence related to two critical assumptions in the student engagement literature in higher education--namely, the malleability of study effort and the causality of the relationship between study effort and student outcomes. We merged student-level administrative data on dormitory assignments, study effort in a hybrid…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Dormitories, Peer Influence
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