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Ferreira, Milene; Aguiar, Cecília; Correia, Nadine; Fialho, Margarida; Pimentel, Júlia Serpa – Journal of Early Intervention, 2017
Based on peer sociometric reports, we examined how number of friendships, social acceptance, and characteristics of social networks vary as a function of disability profile. We also investigated teachers' awareness of the sociometric status of young children with disabilities. Participants were 86 children with disabilities (63 boys) enrolled in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Experience, Preschool Children, Disabilities
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Gao, Xuesong – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2017
Research has confirmed that supportive social networks and associated resources play a critical role in the adaptation of migrating international students to host communities. Access to such social networks and resources requires migrating students to invest in and make efforts at academic socialisation, as mediated by various social processes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Socialization, Social Networks
Morrison, Carley Calico – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Volunteer leaders are an underutilized resource in nonprofit organizations. However, as volunteer directors are stretched to their capacity, others in the organization must provide leadership to volunteers. One way for nonprofit organizations to increase their capacity is to develop the leadership skills of identified volunteer leaders. Because…
Descriptors: Volunteers, Leaders, Nonprofit Organizations, Leadership
Zell, Ana Liza V. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences, successful career strategies, challenges and barriers, and effective leadership qualities of women of color college and university presidents in their ascension to the presidency. Methodology: For this qualitative, phenomenological research…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Phenomenology, Females, Minority Groups
Genandt, James D. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The traditional role of workforce training by community colleges in support of regional economic development is insufficient to help rural areas survive in a global economy. Rural community colleges are uniquely positioned to provide enhanced economic development support through entrepreneurship and small business development programs. Using…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Rural Areas, Interviews, Entrepreneurship
Londhe, Nikhil – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The ubiquitous hashtag has disruptively transformed how news stories are reported and shared across social media networks. Often, such text streams are massively multilingual with 50 different languages on an average and contain a combination of subjective user opinion, objective evolving information about the story and unrelated spam. This is in…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Social Media, Social Networks, Grammar
De Iulio, Edward B. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
As funding for institutions of higher education becomes tighter, state and federal entities have turned to student retention and graduation rates as measures of success to determine levels of financial support. A concept, supported by student development theories, used to increase retention and graduation rates is creating living learning…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Business Administration Education, Communities of Practice, Cooperative Learning
Gunduz, Semseddin – Online Submission, 2017
The purpose of this study was to set forth the relationship between the individuals' states to adopt social networks and social intelligence and analyze both concepts according to various variables. Research data were collected from 1145 social network users in the online media by using the Adoption of Social Network Scale and Social Intelligence…
Descriptors: Correlation, Social Networks, Interpersonal Competence, College Graduates
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Laci Watkins; Mark O'Reilly; Katherine Ledbetter-Cho; Russell Lang; Jeff Sigafoos; Michelle Kuhn; Nataly Lim; Cindy Gevarter; Nicolette Caldwell – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
The purpose of this meta-analysis was to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of school-based social interaction interventions for adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). All 27 studies meeting predetermined inclusion criteria utilized single-case designs. Peer-mediated interventions, peer networks, behavioral skills training, and the…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Meta Analysis, Adolescents, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Peeters, Ward; Mynard, Jo – Language Awareness, 2023
To assist second language learners in becoming effective, aware, and reflective participants in higher education, support can be provided by integrating structured awareness raising approaches in the language curriculum. Drawing on self-regulation principles, such a structured awareness raising curriculum is most notably sustained by reflective…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Learning Strategies
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Claros, Iván; Cobos, Ruth; Collazos, César A. – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2016
The Social Network Analysis (SNA) techniques allow modelling and analysing the interaction among individuals based on their attributes and relationships. This approach has been used by several researchers in order to measure the social processes in collaborative learning experiences. But oftentimes such measures were calculated at the final state…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Cooperative Learning, Learning Experience
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Tarasjuk, Olga V.; Fedulova, Ksenia A.; Fedulova, Marina A.; Kryukova, Polina S.; Yadretsov, Vyacheslav ?. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Relevance of the problem being investigated is conditioned by the necessity to arrange network cooperation between educational institutions during labor force preparation in the conditions of informatization of educational and technological processes. The aim of the article is to prove the necessity of including basics of network cooperation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Cooperation, Academic Standards, Models
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Zhang, Mingyu; Ma, Jian; Liu, Zhiying; Sun, Jianshan; Silva, Thushari – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
Identifying a suitable supervisor for a new research student is vitally important for his or her academic career. Current information overload and information disorientation have posed significant challenges for new students. Existing research for supervisor identification focuses on quality assessment of candidates, but ignores indirect relevance…
Descriptors: Supervisors, Supervisor Supervisee Relationship, Supervisory Methods, Social Networks
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Kio, Su Iong – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2016
Secondary schools do not have the same technical resources and capabilities as universities. They usually need to rely on ready-to-use tools to fulfill their information and communication technology (ICT) structure. Social networking site (SNS) has emerged as a practical solution to this need. However, few have collected empirical data on the…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Secondary School Students, Information Technology, Access to Information
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Arriaza, Gilberto; Rocha, Christie – Issues in Teacher Education, 2016
Sharing school supplies appears, indeed, a simple, even an irrelevant routine activity, but upon closer examination one realizes that deeper and complex issues are at stake. This article aims at explaining how seemingly uneventful classroom activities contain the potential to building social capital in the classroom, which occurs when and if…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Competence, Trust (Psychology)
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