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Showing 1 to 20 of 59 for “"adult development"”.
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Leadership and Adult Development: A Study of Higher Education Academic Administrators
… to look for interrelationships between leaders' adult development activities and their ratings of leader behaviors. Participants in the study were academic administrators from a large, multicampus state university system. Eighty-six leaders were identified from 1,260 requests for nominations sent …
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CHINESE CLASSIFIER ACQUISITION: COMPARISON OF L1 CHILD AND L2 ADULT DEVELOPMENT
… is the long-debated issue of whether or not adult second language (L2) development is basically similar to child first language (L1) development. The thesis approaches the issue through research dealing with L1 acquisition of Chinese classifiers and a pilot study of L2 adult classifier …
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CHINESE CLASSIFIER ACQUISITION: COMPARISON OF L1 CHILD AND L2 ADULT DEVELOPMENT
… is the long-debated issue of whether or not adult second language (L2) development is basically similar to child first language (L1) development. The thesis approaches the issue through research dealing with L1 acquisition of Chinese classifiers and a pilot study of L2 adult classifier …
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Military veterans in higher education: application of adult development theories to selected Rowan University undergraduate veterans
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences of all undergraduate veterans in college after serving in a military setting, by using Schlossberg's transition theory and mattering study, and Mezirow's theory of transformative learning. Of particular interest was how veterans …
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Coping with parental loss during young adult development: The search for meaning and reconstruction of identity
The aim of the present study is to explore the motivational factors of Hong Kong vocational students in learning English. A qualitative case study approach was employed with a combination of surveys with self-completion questionnaire, semi-structured interviews and diary notes. The research, which …
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A study of the influence of ecological factors and personal teacher characteristics on the implementation of an innovation
… that organizational climate, content area, adult development group, career stage, and conceptual level did have on the implementation of an innovation by junior high school teachers in an urban school system. Formal instrumentation consisted of the Organizational Climate Index (OCI) (Stern, …
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The role of arylphorin, an insect storage hexamer, in tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta.
… a storage protein that provide amino acids for adult protein synthesis was proposed based on its development profile. This study provided experimental evidence supporting this hypothesis. First, preparation of radiolabeled arylphorin of Manduca sexta was compared by in vivo and in vitro …
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Ecological influences on the developmental status of parents of adolescents
… an ecological approach to the examination of developmental status of adults in middle adulthood, with a focus on parents of adolescents, investigating adults' developmental statuses with respect to their children's development. Hypotheses predicted ecological variables would related with …
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Dancing on the Threshold of Time: An Orphic Journey into the Second Half of Life.
… an alternative knowledge about this stage of adult development, in attending to the process of loss, mourning and letting go. Drawing on the conceptual framework of poststructuralism and social constructionism, the thesis is developed by troubling the legitimacy of our social and cultural …
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A Delphi Study of California Community College Counselors' Responsibilities and Competencies for the 1990's as Perceived by Chief Student Services Administrators
… associated competencies for the 1990's, staff development needs of currently employed counselors and professional preparation needs of prospective counselors to effectively meet the challenges of the 1990's. Some of the major findings and conclusions of the study were: (1) Counselors' …
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Characteristics of Mentor Relationships in Male and Female University Professors
… school socialization and mentoring are based on adult development theory as articulated by Jung, Erickson, and Levinson. As adults mature, they go through several stages of detaching from family and learning how to live in the world. During this period (which encompasses undergraduate and …
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Remembering the Cultural Trauma Legacies of Slavery: African American Young Adult Perceptions on Racism, Ethnic Identity, and Racial Socialization
… cultural trauma theory on African American young adult development. Cultural trauma theory asserts the adverse cross-cultural encounter, North American slavery, reproduces intergenerational psychosocial legacies for contemporary African Americans. Accordingly, cultural trauma theory is used to …
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Relationships, Health, and Spirituality among College Students: Factors of College Success
… this study also synthesized several human development, social, and family science theories into a single cross-disciplinary framework. This new framework called the socio-emotional resituational framework (S.E.R.F) provides a developmental roadmap of the home to college transition as well …
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Analyzing Well-being in Late Life: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
… were conducted to examine interview responses of adults in their 70s and 80s participating in the Study of Adult Development at Harvard University. The sample was comprised of 2 sub-groups of participants, differing primarily on socioeconomic status. The first study, “Language Use, Well-being, and …
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The roles of empathy, shame, and guilt in violence decision-making
… longitudinal Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+) in order to explore the role of moral emotion in specific real-life violent events. In addition, quantitative questionnaire indices enable comparison of the violent offender subsample with the remaining PADS+ study …
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A test of situational action theory in Saudi Arabia
… project (the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study in the UK) was adapted to the Saudi context and used to collect data from 588 high school students aged 16–18 years, in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Ordinary Least Squares regression (OLS) and logistic regression were …
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The influence of conflicting role obligations on nontraditional student baccalaureate degree attainment
… degree. This study provides a brief history of adult education in the United States as well as the study context, a continuing studies division of a privately endowed research institution located in the southern United States. The participants in this study were nontraditional students who were …
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Evaluating a mathematics tutor programme for unemployed youth in a rural context
… are aged 15–24, with only one out of three young adults working. Another predicament unemployed youth face is the poor mathematics education they rely on to prepare them for their future careers. This rationale motivated the implementation of a mathematics tutor programme at a rural school in …
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Adult Learning in the Context of Interreligious Dialogue: A Collaborative Research Study Involving Christians, Jews, and Muslims
… undergird this account of how two religious adult educators--a Jew and a Muslim--came to engage in collaborative, dialogic, relational and transformational interreligious learning and research. Emerging out of this collaborative doctoral research project at National-Louis University, this …
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