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Showing 1 to 20 of 100 for “"Academic Environment"”.
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Examining Student Engagement In The Academic Environment
… of the students’ behavioral and affective academic engagement. Many themes and subtopics were explored. The themes (and subtopics) were traits (conscientiousness, impulse control, extraversion, stress management, happiness, optimism, and self-esteem), engagement (participation, attention, …
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Consciousness of Design: Transforming the Academic Environment
… students with hands-on interactive learning environments. These methods are emphasized through the human body's connection to architecture. Traditionally, higher education puts a focus on cognitive knowledge with a disregard to the bodily experience. The proposed academic design curriculum …
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Applying health psychology in an academic environment
Introduction. With an ageing population, the health and well-being of older adults is one of the most pressing issues facing the world today. Subjective well-being refers to the way people evaluate the objective conditions of their life and is widely thought to consist of both affective and …
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Women's and men's achievement striving in an academic environment : a qualitative study
… way women and men achieved and competed in an academic environment. Because of a lack in the literature of a conceptual framework from which to guide an investigation of achievement in the academic domain, an additional purpose of this study was to develop a grounded or data-derived theory of …
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Examining the academic environment experienced by student-athletes at junior college institutions
… purpose of this dissertation was to explore the academic environment experienced by student-athletes attending junior colleges. Throughout this study, the terms ‘junior college, two-year college, and community college’ will be used interchangeably. The study took place in two parts. As a pilot …
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The Effect of Higher Education on Attitudes and Values: Gender and the Academic Environment
… of exposure to a post-secondary educational environment on attitudes and values was assessed utilizing a cross-sectional research design. Four hundred sixty-two participants completed the Schwartz Value Survey and a social distance scale. Of these, 56 were first and second year …
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Equity, difference and the nature of the academic environment : an investigation into the responses of South African universities to the admission and participation of disabled students
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 312-326).
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The influence of social class on academic outcomes: A structural equation model examining the relationships between student dependency style, student-academic environment fit, and satisfaction on academic outcomes
… between college students' social class and their academic outcomes. A structural equation model was proposed, hypothesizing that a student's socioeconomic status (SES) is related to their motives for attending college, thus influencing their perception of fit at the university, their satisfaction …
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Examining the Effect of Positive Greetings at the Door on Student Academic Engagement and Disruptive Behavior
… to assist students’ transitioning from a non-academic environment (e.g., physical education, lunch, hallway) to an academic environment (e.g., classroom instruction). PGD can prepare students to engage in academic behavior (e.g., sitting in seat, working on-tasks) and avoid engaging in …
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Innovation of the Naval Postgraduate School's student thesis research process through knowledge management
… School (NPS), Monterey, CA. Research in the academic environment by Leavitt (1965), Davenport (1993), and Nissen (1993), makes a case for the integration of information technology (IT) with the process it supports. This thesis examines how the NPS population discovers and shares knowledge in …
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The Relationship Between Self-Concept of Academic Ability and Discrepancy in Perceived Feedback Regarding Achievement
A significant and positive relationship between academic self-concept and school achievement has been cited in the literature (Alvord & Glass, 1974; Brookover, Erickson, & Joiner, 1967; Jones & Grieneeks, 1970). This relationship was found to be mediated by feedback from significant others …
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Reinterpretation of space in a networked community
… a space is because we believe that the physical environment will influence social and interpersonal relationships. Recognizing the limitations in the conventional design paradigms, this project brings the focus on the inhabitants' interactive behavior and communication patterns as the main …
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Searching for the comic book scholar : an autoethnographic study of educators' experiences with comic books
This study presents an in-depth look at academics who identify as comic book scholars. Comic scholars do not travel the same paths as most other scholars, melding fandom with their scholarly pursuits. Through autoethnography and interviews with 21 other self-identify comic scholars, it is found …
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A Study of Selected Perceptions of the Career Education Tasks of Elementary School Counselors
… staff, instruction, and setting the tone for an academic environment. Also, in the Chicago Public Schools, guidance coordinators provide technical assistance to the counselors within the principals' instructional framework.
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An Investigation into the Adoption, Implementation and Utilisation of Campus Portals: A Comparative Case Study of Saudi and U.K. Universities.
… portals (CPs) have found their way into the academic environment and universities are increasingly implementing these technologies. While there are many studies concerning EIPs in organisations, there are few studies that touch this issue in the academic environment. This study investigates …
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Student-Perceived Inclusivity in the FYC Classroom: Embracing Multilingualism
… of how curriculum is being received in a diverse academic environment utilizing blended instructional modalities. While all students did not embrace <em>purposeful</em> means of translanguaging via code-meshing in classroom formative and summative writing opportunities, 100% of students surveyed …
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Integration and interaction : redesign the campus of Wuhan University, China
… should have in order to support a world-class academic performance. As China aims to promote the academic reputation of its higher education, it is necessary to upgrade its campuses according to world standards, especially the U.S. examples that greatly influenced the Chinese campuses at their …
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The Use of Brain-Based Learning to Teach Interpersonal Skills to Adults
… technical skills. Sources in both the business environment and the academic environment are creating a definition of interpersonal skills and identifying the growing need for these skills. Career and technical career programs are looking at the best way to teach these skills.</p> <p>Currently, …
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