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Richards, Amy Lee; Specker, Bonny – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objective: The objective of this study was to examine associations of sleep quality and quantity, food security, and physical activity with eating behaviors that may be associated with college weight gain. Participants: College students enrolled in multiple sections of a general education class completed an online survey in January 2016 (n = 153;…
Descriptors: College Students, Correlation, Sleep, Hunger
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Jordan, Katy; Howe, Christine – Teaching in Higher Education, 2018
Postgraduate students involved in delivering undergraduate teaching while working toward a research degree are known as graduate teaching assistants (GTAs). This study focused upon the problems and benefits arising from this dual role as researchers and teachers, as perceived by GTAs at the University of Cambridge. To this end, GTAs at Cambridge…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Teaching Assistants, Foreign Countries
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Weiler, Brian; Schuele, C. Melanie – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore whether evidence for a bimodal distribution of tense marking, previously documented in clinically referred samples, exists in a population-based sample of kindergarten children from a rural county in Tennessee. Method: A measure of tense marking, the Test of Early Grammatical Impairment (TEGI)…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Morphemes, Language Impairments
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Bergdahl, Nina; Nouri, Jalal – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2021
This study represents the first research effort to explore the transition from traditional teaching into distance teaching in Swedish schools enforced by COVID-19. Governments made gradual and injudicious decisions to impede the spread of the pandemic (COVID-19) in 2020. The enactment of new measures affected critical societal functions and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Emergency Programs, Distance Education
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Puente-Martínez, Alicia; Prizmic-Larsen, Zvjezdana; Larsen, Randy J.; Ubillos-Landa, Silvia; Páez-Rovira, Darío – Developmental Psychology, 2021
A well-documented finding in aging and emotion research is that older adults reliably report less negative and, often, more positive affect than younger adults. How older people accomplish this is, however, an open question. We propose that this age effect is the result of differential use of emotion regulation strategies, especially when…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Emotional Response, Self Control, Young Adults
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Kotera, Yasuhiro; Ting, Su-Hie; Neary, Siobhan – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Poor mental health of university students is becoming a serious issue in many countries. Malaysia -- a leading country for Asia-Pacific education -- is one of them. Despite the government's effort to raise awareness, Malaysian students' mental health remains challenging, exacerbated by the students' negative attitudes towards mental health (mental…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Altruism, Resilience (Psychology), Daily Living Skills
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Beecher, Constance C.; Van Pay, Craig K. – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2021
Background: Early language input contributes to children's healthy brain development and sets the stage for life-long achievement and wellness. Parents vary in their ability to offer rich language support within the home environment due to social and contextual factors. There is a lack of research on the effectiveness of a universal prevention…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Parent Influence, Young Children, Child Development
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Splett, Joni W.; Garzona, Marlene; Gibson, Nicole; Wojtalewicz, Daniela; Raborn, Anthony; Reinke, Wendy M. – School Mental Health, 2019
Identifying youth with mental health concerns and connecting them to effective intervention is important because poor mental health is related to lower educational achievements, substance abuse, violence, compromised health, and reduced life satisfaction. This study examined the ability of teachers (n = 153) to accurately identify mental health…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Students, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Melissa D. Olfert; Rebecca L. Hagedorn-Hatfield; Bailey Houghtaling; Monica K. Esquivel; Lanae B. Hood; Lillian MacNell; Jessica Soldavini; Maureen Berner; Mateja R. Savoie Roskos; Melanie D. Hingle; Georgianna R. Mann; Julia F. Waity; Linda L. Knol; Jennifer Walsh; Valerie Kern-Lyons; Christopher Paul; Keith Pearson; Jeannine R. Goetz; Marsha Spence; Elizabeth Anderson-Steeves; Elizabeth D. Wall-Bassett; J. Porter Lillis; E. Brooke Kelly; Adam Hege; Mary Catherine Fontenot; Patricia Coleman – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objectives: To quantify the number and type of students failing to secure basic needs. Participants: Students attending 22 postsecondary schools in the United States in Fall 2019. Methods: The Adult Food Security Module and part of the #RealCollege Survey were used to measure food and housing insecurity, respectively. Logistic and linear…
Descriptors: College Students, Hunger, Housing, Homeless People
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Blau, Gary; Miller, Glen – Journal of Education and Learning, 2020
Military veterans (n = 153) completed an on-line survey and were broken down into combat (n = 92) versus non-combat (n = 61) veterans. The combat veterans had higher life satisfaction, perceived occupational alternatives, and education level versus the non-combat veterans. Looking at correlates to life satisfaction, for both samples number of…
Descriptors: Veterans, Military Service, Life Satisfaction, Comparative Analysis
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Veronese, Guido; Pepe, Alessandro; Dagdukee, Jamal; Yaghi, Shaher – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2018
Informed by a perspective centred on psychological health and well-being, the present research investigated whether teachers' overall well-being was influenced by their affect balance, as well as the extent to which both affect and well-being are influenced by social capital, in conflict-ridden areas such as the occupied Palestinian Territories…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Well Being, Foreign Countries, Political Influences
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Lee, Den-Ching A.; Newton, Fiona; Yu, Mong-Lin; Morphet, Julia; Kidman, Gillian; Maloney, Stephen; Grieve, Averil; Shlonsky, Aron; Haines, Terry P. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
The growing number of students who are culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) relative to the host university undertaking fieldwork placements raises questions about how to best support their needs and the needs of their fieldwork supervisors so as to maximize the experience for both parties. This research aims to quantify and compare…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Supervisors, Student Diversity
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Davis, Terra Kimes; Stripling, Christopher T.; Stephens, Carrie A.; Loveday, H. Dwight – Journal of Extension, 2016
The high number of U.S. youth exhibiting at-risk behavior points to a lack of life skills development. We determined the effects of participating in one state's 4-H sheep skillathon on youths' life skills development and the youths' reasons for participating. The target population was 2014 Tennessee 4-H Sheep Skillathon participants (N = 153), and…
Descriptors: Daily Living Skills, Student Participation, Youth Programs, Achievement Gains
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Norton, Stephen – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2020
Australian universities providing mathematics teacher preparation are increasingly offering their courses online or in limited face-to-face mixed mode delivery. There are limited empirical data on why pre-service teachers make delivery mode choices and how these impact on academic standards and student satisfaction ratings. This paper reports on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Dargusch, Joanne; Harris, Lois R.; Reid-Searl, Kerry; Taylor, Benjamin A. – Distance Education, 2017
While online courses provide opportunities for a range of assessment tools and resources, little is known about how lecturers might best provide assessment cues to support diverse cohorts. This study explored how lecturers communicate messages about assessment expectations to first-year students in two courses at an Australian regional university…
Descriptors: Online Courses, College Freshmen, Foreign Countries, Lecture Method
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