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Bhansali, Archita H.; Sangani, Darshan S.; Mhatre, Shivani K.; Sansgiry, Sujit S. – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objective: To compare three over-the-counter (OTC) Drug Facts panel versions for information processing optimization among college students.Participants: University of Houston students (N = 210) participated in a cross-sectional survey from January to May 2010.Methods: A current FDA label was compared to two experimental labels developed using the…
Descriptors: Information Processing, College Students, Drug Use, Case Studies
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Song, Yongning; Hakoda, Yuji – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are characterized by early onset qualitative impairments in reciprocal social development. However, whether individuals with ASD exhibit impaired recognition of facial expressions corresponding to basic emotions is debatable. To investigate subtle deficits in facial emotion recognition, we asked 14 children…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Social Development, Nonverbal Communication
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Zhou, Xiaoying – English Language Teaching, 2018
Chomsky put forth his "A-over-A" theory in his book "Language and Mind", which means if a sentence contains (S… (A...) A…) S (A-over-A) structure, then this sentence can only be transformed on the basis of the larger phrase. In this paper the author puts forth the "Psychological Momentum" theory to analyze the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Ambiguity (Semantics), Linguistic Theory, Psychological Patterns
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Bahadir, Ziya – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
This study aimed at exploring emotional intelligence levels and time management skills of students of school of physical education and sports (SPES) and assessing their emotional intelligence levels and time management skills in terms of some variables. 309 students who studied at SPES of Erciyes University during the 2017-2018 academic year…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Time Management, Athletics, Physical Education
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Zhang, Wanqing; Baranek, Grace; Boyd, Brian – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2018
We examined how demographic and clinical characteristics differ between emergency department (ED) visits for epilepsy (EP cohort) and ED visits for other reasons (non-EP cohort) in children with ASD. The data were drawn from the 2009 and 2010 Nationwide Emergency Department Sample. We performed both univariate and multivariate analyses to compare…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Hospitals, Epilepsy
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Hamzaid, N. H.; Flood, V. M.; Prvan, T.; O'Connor, H. T. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2018
Background: Good nutrition knowledge among carers of people with intellectual disability (ID) living in group homes is essential as they have a primary role in food provision for residents. Research on the nutrition knowledge of carers is limited. Method: This cross-sectional study assessed the level of general nutrition knowledge in a convenience…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Caregivers, Group Homes, Intellectual Disability
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Potapova, Irina; Kelly, Sophia; Combiths, Philip N.; Pruitt-Lord, Sonja L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2018
Purpose: This work explores the clinical relevance of three measures of morpheme use for preschool-age Spanish-English bilingual children with varying language skills. The 3 measures reflect accuracy, diversity (the tense marker total), and productivity (the tense and agreement productivity score [TAP score]) of the English tense and agreement…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Spanish, English
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Jones, Pete R.; Dekker, Tessa M. – Developmental Science, 2018
The mature visual system condenses complex scenes into simple summary statistics (e.g., average size, location, orientation, etc.). However, children, often perform poorly on perceptual averaging tasks. Children's difficulties are typically thought to represent the suboptimal implementation of an adult-like strategy. This paper examines another…
Descriptors: Statistics, Task Analysis, Children, Correlation
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MacLennan, Helen; Piña, Anthony; Gibbons, Sean – Journal of Education for Business, 2018
The doctor of business administration (DBA) degree is widely considered as a professional doctorate or professional doctoral degree that is designed to prepare business practitioners. The doctor of philosophy (PhD) in business, by contrast, is thought to prepare research scholars and higher education faculty members. Prior research conducted by…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Doctoral Dissertations, Content Analysis, Comparative Analysis
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Pinar Karacan Dogan; Tingaz, Emre Ozan; Hazar, Muhsin; Zvonar, Martin – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The purpose of this study is to compare the perception concerning game concept of 4th grade students in Turkey and the Czech Republic. 19 fourth grade elementary students in the Czech Republic and 40 fourth grade elementary students in Turkey were selected by criterion and convenience sampling. They responded to a specific question "What is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Games
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Milton, Katherine; Wojcik, Janet R.; Boyd, Joni M.; Bowers, Charles J. – Physical Educator, 2018
Resistance training has become a preferred method for developing muscular strength among various populations. A variety of resistance training modes are available, but there are mixed outcomes regarding strength development among barbells, dumbbells, and weight machines. The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in strength…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Physical Fitness, Exercise
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Justice, Laura M.; Lomax, Richard; O'Connell, Ann; Pentimonti, Jill; Petrill, Stephen A.; Piasta, Shayne B.; Gray, Shelley; Restrepo, Maria Adelaida; Cain, Kate; Catts, Hugh; Bridges, Mindy; Nielsen, Diane; Hogan, Tiffany; Bovaird, Jim; Nelson, J. Ron; Jiang, H.; Farquharson, K. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
We investigated the extent to which working memory and behavioral attention predicted reading and listening comprehension in grades 1 through 3 and, whether their relative contributions differed by modality and grade. Separate grade samples (N = 370; ns = 125, 123, and 122 for grades 1, 2, and 3 respectively) completed multiple measures of word…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Comparative Analysis
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Yang, Jing – Journal of Child Language, 2018
This study compared the temporal measurements of stop consonants in 29 three- to six-year-old Mandarin-speaking children and 12 Mandarin-speaking adults. Each participant produced 18 Mandarin disyllabic words which contained six stop consonants /p, p?, t, t?, k, k?/ each followed by three vowels /a, i, u/ at the word-initial position in the first…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition, Child Language
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Pino-Fan, Luis R.; Font, Vicenç; Gordillo, Wilson; Larios, Víctor; Breda, Adriana – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2018
In this article, we present the results of the administration of a questionnaire designed to evaluate the understanding that civil engineering students have of the "antiderivative." The questionnaire was simultaneously administered to samples of Mexican and Colombian students. For the analysis of the answers, we used some theoretical and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Civil Engineering, College Students, Comparative Analysis
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Farrukh, Irshad Ahmad; Shakoor, Uzma – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2018
The process of education is shaped and made by the teachers who play a pivotal role in web of educational system. Teaching characteristically is a moral enterprise and its function is aimed at guiding and working desirable growth in others. The need to know more about teacher and teaching stems not only from the commonness of the phenomenon, but…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Teacher Attitudes, Gender Differences, Teaching (Occupation)
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