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Showing 1 to 20 of 845 for “"Education, Educational Psychology."”.
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Instrument development and validation for use in a health education program
… instrument developed specifically for health education programs geared to expectant mothers and their significant others who smoke; This study's instrument was distributed to 201 randomly chosen college students participating in health education, general education, educational psychology, and …
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THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN INTERCULTURAL SENSITIZER FOR TRAINING NON-NAVAJO PERSONNEL.
… It is an attempt to sensitize non-Navajo educational personnel who have come to work in the Navajo Nation to the attributional system of the Navajo culture. The assimilationist, culturally destructive educational policies of the past have been an objective failure. This effort attempts to …
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Predicting Educational Outcomes For Students Returning From Incarceration
… gender, grade, high school credits, and race), educational placement (e.g., regular or special education), severity of crime and reading and math scores as determined by standardized testing conducted by RETI-WRAP personnel. Eight variables were used to determine the prevalence, relationships, …
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Perceptions of a university-school collaborative partnership
… Development School (PDS) partnerships in teacher education presents a challenge for researchers because of the uniqueness of each program and the lack of a universal definition, outlining a single prototype. PDS partnerships have become a model for school reform by underlining the need for …
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Differences in motivation, self-evaluation, and academic achievement for African American and Caucasian students using structural equation modeling
Structural equation modeling was used to determine if the relationships between motivation, self-evaluation, and academic achievement can be defined by a proposed structural model for a total sample (N=231) and for African American (n=144) and Caucasian (n=78) samples examined separately. The …
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A Comparison of Beliefs and Attitudes Associated With Physical Activity in College Freshmen
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Learning From the Lives of Others: A Social Analysis of Human Exemplarity and Imitation
… matters to debates surrounding ethics education."
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Know Thyself: Misperceptions of Actual Performance Undermine Subjective Well-Being, Future Performance, and Achievement Motivation
… 5). I discuss these results in terms of their educational implications.
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Some Issues in Weak Local Independence in Item Response Theory
A method of Pashley and Reese (in press) for simulating locally dependent data, whose item pair dependencies relate directly to local dependence assessment procedures is discussed. This method is extended to allow for the simulation of local dependence that varies in magnitude across the examinee …
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A Cognitive Flexibility Culture Assimilator: Complexity and Metacognition in Cross-Cultural Attribution Training
Future research should be directed toward enabling trainees to produce attributions that are isomorphic to those of experts, involve members of the target population of managers, and further examine the role of individual differences in the learning and application of complex and abstract material …
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The Impact of a School-Based Intervention Program on the Divorce Adjustment of Latency -Aged Children: An Evaluation of the Rainbows Program
Over one million children experience the divorce of their parents each year in the United States (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992). Concerns about children's well-being led to the development of a multitude of interventions for children coping with divorce. However, only a few of the intervention …
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Designing a New Base for Education and Art Education Curricula From an Islamic Perspective, for Use in Saudi Arabia and Other Muslim Countries
The author makes use of research done by Western scholars that is compatible with Islamic principles and useful for his objectives, in particular that of Jean Piaget and Viktor Lowenfeld.
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Peer Socialization of Achievement -Related Beliefs
Study 2 examined children's classroom discourse as one mechanism through which peers may influence children's beliefs about their academic capabilities. Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students (N = 106) participated in two waves of data collection, approximately one year apart. During …
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...But I Know It When I See It: Experimental Epistemology of Racism
Two studies were conducted to examine whether African American and White university undergraduates perceived racism in similar ways. Participants read and evaluated short narratives describing interpersonal situations adapted from a study of students' experiences with racism (Reid & Rounds, 2001). …
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Getting Ready for School: A Cross -Cultural Comparison of Parent and Child Beliefs About and Preparations for Entry Into First Grade
"This study clearly shows the link between parents' beliefs and actual practices. Furthermore, it shows differences in parental practices and beliefs between locations within China, whose national curriculum should increase similarities across locations. The differences between locations in China …
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Sex Differences in Math Performance Among Early Adolescents: The Role of Children's Approaches to School
Although much attention has been devoted to girls' vulnerabilities, relatively little is known about their strengths. Prior research has shown that girls consistently outperform boys in the classroom, even in stereotypically masculine subject areas such as math and science. The central aim of the …
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Test Discrimination and Test Construction for Cognitive Diagnosis
"While Cognitive Diagnostic Models, CDMs, can be useful in the analysis and interpretation of existing tests, little has been developed to specify how one might construct a good test using aspects of the CDMs. This paper discusses the derivation of a general CDM index and three attribute level CDM …
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Examining the Effects of Post-Training Interventions on Transfer of Training
This study examined the effectiveness of two post-training interventions, goal-setting and self-management training, on improving transfer of training. The interventions provided trainees with cognitive skills and techniques needed to help them transfer their learned skills from the classroom to …
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A Qualitative Study of Student Perspectives and Experiences in an Information Technology Education Program
… showed that students perceived this broad-based education program for IT as an intermediate field that filled a significant niche in college education caused by the recent technological innovations: between technical and social, between school and everyday life, and between formal education and …
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