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Reddy, K. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2012
The Consumer Protection Act (CPA) lays the basis for the protection of consumer rights in South Africa and comprehensively sets out obligations for "suppliers". There have been differing views expressed as to whether a student should be seen as a consumer. It is clear, however, that this Act applies to HEIs. This article, firstly,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Consumer Science, Disabilities, Federal Legislation
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Ramesh, P.; Thammi Raju, D.; Reddy, K. M.; Krishnan, P.; Biswas, Amit; Umamaheshwari, T. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2019
Purpose: The study aims at finding out relevance and knowledge levels of selected teaching competencies as perceived by educational administrators, faculty and students, in order to assess the training needs of faculty of agricultural universities. Methodology: Relevance and knowledge levels were tested through a teaching competency questionnaire…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Competencies, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
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Nundulall, R.; Reddy, K. – South African Journal of Higher Education, 2011
The problem explored is the relatively low research output at a merged Higher Education Institution (HEI). The re-landscaping of how HEIs operate, has impacted on merged institutions, especially those of a comprehensive nature, that are facing the challenge of improving research output. This article is based on research conducted for a Master's…
Descriptors: Interviews, Human Resources, College Faculty, Deans
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Ramesh, P.; Reddy, K. M.; Rao, R. V. S.; Dhandapani, A.; Siva, G. Samba; Ramakrishna, A. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2017
Purpose: The present study was undertaken to assess academic achievement, teaching aptitude and research attitude of Indian agricultural universities' faculty, to predict indicators for successful teachers and researchers, and thereby enhancing the quality of higher agricultural education. Methodology: Five hundred faculty members were selected to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Personality Traits, College Faculty, Agricultural Colleges
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Satija, Ambika; Khandpur, Neha; Satija, Shivani; Mathur Gaiha, Shivani; Prabhakaran, Dorairaj; Reddy, K. Srinath; Arora, Monika; Venkat Narayan, K. M. – Health Education & Behavior, 2018
Inadequate physical activity (PA) levels are reported in Indian youth, with lowest levels among adolescents, particularly girls. We aimed to identify barriers to and enablers of PA among school children in New Delhi and examine potential differences by gender and school type (government vs. private). A total of 174 students (private school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Activity Level, Adolescents, Barriers
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Harrell, Melissa B.; Arora, Monika; Bassi, Shalini; Gupta, Vinay K.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Reddy, K. Srinath – Health Education Research, 2016
To test the efficacy of an intervention to reduce tobacco use among youth (10-19 years old) in slum communities in Delhi, India. This community-based cluster-randomized trial included 14 slums composed of purposely built resettlement colonies and adjacent inhabitant-built Jhuggi Jhopris. Youth in the intervention received a 2 year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Smoking
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Mathur, Charu; Stigler, Melissa H.; Erickson, Darin J.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Finnegan, Jonn R., Jr.; Arora, Monika; Reddy, K. Srinath – Health Education & Behavior, 2014
This study investigates socioeconomic differences in patterns and trends of tobacco consumption over time among youth in India. Additionally, the distribution of tobacco use risk factors across social class was examined. The data were derived from a longitudinal study of adolescents, Project Mobilizing Youth for Tobacco Related Initiatives.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Socioeconomic Status, Social Class
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Stigler, Melissa Harrell; Perry, Cheryl L.; Smolenski, Derek; Arora, Monika; Reddy, K. Srinath – Health Education & Behavior, 2011
This article presents the results of a mediation analysis of Project MYTRI (Mobilizing Youth for Tobacco Related Initiatives in India), a randomized, controlled trial of a multiple-component, school-based tobacco prevention program for sixth- to ninth-graders (n = 14,085) in Delhi and Chennai, India. A mediation analysis identifies "how"…
Descriptors: Intervention, Student Attitudes, Smoking, Self Efficacy
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Harrison, Kimberly B.; McCredie, Morgan N.; Reddy, Madhavi K.; Krishnan, Ankita; Engstrom, Allison; Posey, Yana S.; Morey, Leslie C.; Loveland, Katherine A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Differential diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among intellectually-able adults often presents a clinical challenge, particularly when individuals present in crisis without diagnostic history. The Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) is a multiscale personality and psychopathology instrument utilized across clinical settings, but to…
Descriptors: Personality Measures, Psychopathology, Personality Assessment, Autism
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Arora, Monika; Tewari, Abha; Dhavan, Poonam; Nazar, Gaurang P.; Stigler, Melissa H.; Juneja, Neeru S.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Reddy, K. Srinath – Health Education Research, 2013
Project Advancing Cessation of Tobacco in Vulnerable Indian Tobacco Consuming Youth (ACTIVITY) is a community-based group randomized intervention trial focused on disadvantaged youth (aged 10-19 years) residing in 14 low-income communities (slums and resettlement colonies) in Delhi, India. This article discusses the findings of Focus Group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Areas, Adults, Motivation
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Dhavan, Poonam; Stigler, Melissa H.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Arora, Monika; Reddy, K. Srinath – Journal of School Health, 2010
Background: Not much is known about the academic correlates of tobacco use among students in developing countries. This study investigated associations between multiple forms of tobacco use, psychosocial risk factors, and academic failure among 10- to 16-year-old government school students in Delhi and Chennai, India. Methods: This study was a…
Descriptors: Smoking, Self Efficacy, Academic Failure, Health Programs
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Arora, Monika; Reddy, K. Srinath; Stigler, Melissa H.; Perry, Cheryl L. – American Journal of Health Behavior, 2008
Objectives: To study if receptivity and exposure to tobacco marketing are correlated with tobacco use and psychosocial risk factors for tobacco use among a sample of urban Indian youth. Methods: Analysis of cross-sectional survey data from Project MYTRI, a group randomized intervention trial, in Delhi and Chennai, India, collected from sixth and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Smoking, Urban Youth, Grade 6
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Goenka, Shifalika; Tewari, Abha; Arora, Monika; Stigler, Melissa H.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Arnold, J. P. Saulina; Kulathinal, Sangita; Reddy, K. Srinath – Health Education Research, 2010
In India, 57% of men between 15 and 54 years and 10.8% of women between 15 and 49 years use tobacco. A wide variety of tobacco gets used and the poor and the underprivileged are the dominant victims of tobacco and its adverse consequences. Project MYTRI (Mobilizing Youth for Tobacco-Related Initiatives in India) was a tobacco prevention…
Descriptors: Intervention, Smoking, Formative Evaluation, Prevention
Saxena, J. C., Ed.; Sachdeva, J. L., Ed. – 1989
The conference reported in this document was convened by the Indian Adult Education Association in collaboration with the Adult Continuing Education & Extension Centre of Marathwada University. Attended by 230 delegates from throughout India, the conference focussed on ways of developing an all-out attack on the country's huge illiteracy…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Articulation (Education), Community Centers
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Arbisi, Paul A.; Polusny, Melissa A.; Erbes, Christopher R.; Thuras, Paul; Reddy, Madhavi K. – Psychological Assessment, 2011
The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form (MMPI-2 RF) was administered to 251 National Guard soldiers who had recently returned from deployment to Iraq. Soldiers were also administered questionnaires to identify posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI). On the basis of responses to the…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Emotional Disturbances, Injuries, Validity
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