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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Peer Leaders"”.
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An Analysis of Academic Peer Leaders' Perceptions of Academic Skills and Performance
<p>This research study explored academic peer leadership in the context of higher education and student affairs. In this study, a peer leader was considered to be "an undergraduate student who has been selected to serve as a mentor or peer educator to other students through a position with a …
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Stressors and Coping Behaviors of Female Peer Leaders Participating in College Club Sports
Peer leadership positions on collegiate club sport teams can be valuable opportunities for students to develop leadership skills, maintain healthy habits, create friendships, and foster organizational and personal connections across the university setting. Nevertheless, involvement in club sports …
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The experiences of perinatal non-health workers and refugee peer leaders delivering wellbeing interventions
… deliver a wellbeing intervention to their peers. A further set of interviews (n=6) were undertaken with a sample of these refugees. These interviews were analysed using CGT. Further triangulation of the use of the theory was examined through a process evaluation where questionnaires and/or …
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Peer Led Team Learning in Introductory Biology: Effects on Critical Thinking Skills
… study evaluated the potential effects of the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) instructional model on undergraduate, biology peer leaders' critical thinking skills. This investigation also explored peer leaders' perceptions of their critical thinking skills. A quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test …
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Peer-Led Team Learning: The Effect of Peer Leader and Student Interactions on Student Learning Gains and Course Achievement in Introductory Biology
<p>This study sought to connect the literature on Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) to the work on student-teacher interactions as well as STEM role models. Student and peer leader interactions were explored to determine the effect of these interactions on student learning outcomes. Students and their …
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Evaluation of a peer leader eating disorders prevention program for college sororities
… program in this study was adapted from a peer leader intervention similar to Kelly et al.'s (1992) AIDS prevention program. Four sorority houses comprised the sites used to test the effectiveness of the prevention program using a quasi-experimental wait-list control design. Participants in …
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Substance use peer leadership: Lessons learned from the toxic drug crisis and COVID-19 pandemic in British Columbia
This research considers how substance use peer leaders experienced engagement with health care and government agencies during the collision of the toxic drug crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic in BC. Literature reviewed included leadership lessons from health social movements, peers working in …
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“Something to look forward to” - Experiences of Older Adults Taking Part in a Peer Support Group
… to describe the experience of taking part in a peer support group for older adults from the perspective of its participants. Using descriptive phenomenology, the study avoided evaluation and instead gave voice to the older adults who participated in a peer support group taking place in a …
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Formal And Informal Peer Leadership On A High School Varsity Baseball Team: A Qualitative Study Of Peer Leadership Effects On A Varsity Baseball Player’s Motivation And Sense of Team Cohesion
… no academic research has been conducted to study peer leadership with an opportunity to explore how peer leaders affect player motivation and a player’s sense of team cohesion on a varsity baseball team. This study will provide a data analysis based on one-on-one interviews with varsity baseball …
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Constructing Leadership Identities through Participation in a Leadership Living-Learning Community
This case study conceptually illustrated how a leadership living-learning community provided an educational context well suited to enhance development of leaders within changing leadership and educational paradigms. Specifically, it highlighted how both leadership and learning have come to be …
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Educating Nurses on the Use of the Bedside Mobility Assessment Tool (BMAT) to Create a Culture of Safety
… educators, nurse managers, and shift and unit peer leaders was conducted at a 395-bed, acute care, non-profit hospital located in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. The project found an engaging, in-person educational module to be effective in terms of knowledge gain and participant …
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Leadership beliefs and practices among collegiate student-athletes: Development of the athlete peer leader self-efficacy instrument
… was to develop a valid and reliable measure of peer leader self-efficacy in collegiate athletes. The second purpose was to advance the understanding of self-efficacy in peer leaders in order to develop stronger leadership training programs that can enhance weaknesses in peer leader …
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Testing the effectiveness of peer facilitated debriefing following high fidelity simulation
… nursing students to examine the effectiveness of peer facilitated debriefing following simulation. Students were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups, then participated in a stroke simulation scenario followed by either faculty facilitated or peer facilitated debriefing. …
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Factors that impact the development of Black women’s positive STEM identity
… with self-identification with STEM and create peer leaders that then attract and encourage peers to explore STEM disciplines once thought “not for girls like me.” Implications for this study indicate a strong need for the purposefully directed design of learning environments that foster STEM …