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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Class standing"”.
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Sedentary Behaviors and Physical Activity in Relation to Class Standing in University Students
… (PA) of university students in relation to class standings. Participants were 294 university students for the Sedentary Behavior Questionnaire (SBQ) and 264 students for the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) selected from the College of Health Sciences. Sedentary Behaviors …
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Acceptance of Negroes by White College Students as a Function of College-Class Standing, Religious Conviction, and Race of Experimenter
<p>The present study essentially had a threefold purpose: to determine what effect the amount of education, or more specifically the year in college, has on the tolerance of white students to Negroes; what effect the strength of religious conviction has on these attitudes; and what effect the race …
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Interactional Diversity and the Role of a Supportive Racial Climate
… used to assess climate and diversity include: class standing, race, gender, institution type, enrollment, location and compositional diversity (i.e., racial composition). Findings indicate that perceptions of the campus racial climate are primarily related to class standing. In addition, it was …
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The Relationship Between Multicultural Competency Training and Self-Efficacy in School Counselors-in-Training: Understanding of Social Class and Classism Competency Training
… increasing the number of children of low social class standing. Counselors for Social Justice (CSJ; 2011) noted that an achievement gap exists between children of low social class standing and their middle and upper social class standing peers. School counselors and school counselor-in-training …
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A descriptive and comparative analysis of peer advisor psychosocial development
… examined peer advisor results by gender, class standing, race/ethnicity, international student status, and number of terms served as a peer advisor. The fourth research question compared peer advisor levels of achievement to a normed, national sample of college students. Results indicated …
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Diversity and Student Engagement in a Small Multi-ethnic Liberal Arts University in California
… to a more pluralistic student body, more understanding is needed about the student engagement patterns of these underrepresented groups. This study looks at the engagement patterns of a small liberal arts research university in Southern California that has experienced, within the last fifteen …
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Factors Affecting Condom Use Among College Students
… subgroups (gender, Greek Status, housing, class standing) and other risk behaviors (alcohol, illicit drug use) will be presented and discussed.</p>
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A Study of Surveillance and Privacy Rights
… research measured variables such as age, gender, class standing political affiliation, and one's residence whether on campus or off campus. This study is focused on how students view security surveillance, and whether they see security surveillance as an important tool for the safety of the public …
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Academic dishonesty: a study in the magnitude of and justifications for academic dishonesty among college undergraduate and graduate students
… a significant difference between the underclassmen, upperclassmen, and graduate students group reporting cheating behaviors. Post hoc tests revealed that underclassmen reported significantly higher levels of cheating than upperclassmen and graduate students. Graduate students were found to …
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Factors influencing selected male college students' condom usage
… consisting of informational items (assessing class standing, marital status, reasons for using condoms, number of recent sexual partners, and intention to use condoms), the Sexual Opinion Survey, and the Attitude Toward Condoms Scale. The scores on the Attitude Toward Condoms Scale ranged from …
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Predicting the Academic Success of Transfer Students During the First Year of College
… credits enrolled in, (g) academic college, (h) class standing, and (i) last prior institution (two-year v. four-year). First semester GPA was included as an additional independent variable in the examination of second semester GPA. The data analyzed in the study were collected in 2002 at a …
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Student Use of Information Sources About Student Activities
… and to test whether these patterns differ by class standing and gender. It is anticipated that findings from this study will be useful to all student groups who plan events for wide-spread participation by students, to advisors of student groups including the Virginia Tech Union, and to …
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Access granted: A study of the factors affecting the development of technology literacy in black males
… male students who have senior or junior level class standing and are enrolled in computer science or information technology (IT) related programs at institutions of higher learning in the United States. Findings indicated a significantly negative relationship between Black males and the …
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Level of satisfaction of resident students based on hall size, hall type, and gender
… such as hall size, organization, gender, or class standing. This study examined residence hall satisfaction levels for students living in the halls at Virginia Tech. The research question was: what are the differences in levels of satisfaction as measured by the Student Residence Environment …
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The relationship between attendance policies and student grades
… point average was determined for all academic classes taught at Shelton State Community College between 2000 and 2008. These grade point averages were compared descriptively and statistically in an effort to document any changes in student grades that occurred before and after 2003. For this …
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The Virginia Military Institute Rat Challenge Evaluation
… and physical conditioning in Fourth Classmen by creating training situations which are stressful enough to show them they are capable of doing tasks which surpass their previously self-imposed mental and physical limits. The program is designed to provide leadership development …
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Impact of membership in black greek letter organizations on student learning outcomes
… variables? campus location, GPA category, class standing, ethnicity, status, gender, Greek affiliation, and type of institution (i.e. historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or predominantly white institutions (PWIs)? (3) For those students who are members of a fraternity or …
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Historicizing performativity: Constructing identities in Victorian England
… the contexts of other social categories such as class, work, sanity, and race. The first chapter locates Victorian antitheatricality within the context of industrial culture. Reading political tracts alongside conduct books, I attribute Victorian antipathies to visibly repetitive or rehearsed …
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A naturalistic investigation of women's decisions to leave school: application of three theories to the problem of community college withdrawal
… were also sub-divided by lower and higher social class standing. Data were collected through four interviews to provide a life history of the educational and occupational experiences, attitudes, aspirations, and beliefs of each participant. Domain analysis, a method recommended for qualitative, …
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A Comparison of Enjoyment Levels between NCAA Division I, Division III, and NJCAA Division I College Football Players
<p>The purpose of this study was to determine if there were differences in enjoyment levels between NCAA Division I, Division III, and NJCAA Division I college football players. A secondary purpose of this study was to examine any differences in enjoyment between college football players receiving …
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