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Veronica Hopner; Stuart Colin Carr – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2024
In this Age of the Anthropocene, the world of work is being radically disrupted by mass precarity, rising wage and income inequality, habitat destruction, and the rise of artificial intelligence. Facing such insecurity, people, we show, are careering toward radical ways of making a living. They range from radical professionals to social media…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Living Standards, Test Construction, Social Indicators
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Alisa Remizova; Maksim Rudnev; Eldad Davidov – Sociological Methods & Research, 2024
Individual religiosity measures are used by researchers to describe and compare individuals and societies. However, the cross-cultural comparability of the measures has often been questioned but rarely empirically tested. In the current study, we examined the cross-national measurement invariance properties of generalized individual religiosity in…
Descriptors: Religious Factors, Surveys, Cross Cultural Studies, Social Values
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Adams Issahaku; Aboko Akudugu; Ibrahim Issahaku; Anamuweh Robert Banayem – International Journal of Training and Development, 2024
Livelihood assets which are considered and recognised for their life-supporting role contribute significantly and basically to the standard of living of people. These contributions as deemed more meaningful are considered necessary to farmers whenever an opportunity exists to diversify their investment. This study looked at how the benefits from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Agricultural Occupations, Training, Social Status
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Lisa Paneth; Loris T. Jeitziner; Oliver Rack; Klaus Opwis; Carmen Zahn – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2024
Successful computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) relies on collaborative group engagement, a complex construct characterized by multifaceted, dynamic, socio-emotional, and socio-cognitive processes. This paper provides a detailed analysis of collaborative group engagement, with a particular focus on nonverbal behaviors as indicators of…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Behavior Patterns, Cooperative Learning, Learner Engagement
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Martin Flegl; Sonia Valeria Avilés-Sacoto; David Güemes-Castorena; Estefanía Caridad Avilés-Sacoto – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2023
Education has been considered a cornerstone for human and economic development. Although there is a national educational strategy in most countries, various implementations are at the state level. This paper studies academic efficiency at the primary and secondary levels and the human development dimensions -- long and healthy life, being…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Practices, Economic Development, Efficiency
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Patricia Clark; Xiaodan Hu – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2024
Community college students' success in required gateway courses plays a key role in their academic progress toward credential completion. Focusing on students who earned a D, F, or W grade in their first attempt at a required gateway course, this study investigated if students' initial attempt course modality is related to their later choice to…
Descriptors: Community College Students, Online Courses, Grades (Scholastic), Reentry Students
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Laosum, Thanyasinee – Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2023
Purpose: This paper aims to develop indicators of happiness in learning of the Thai open university (TOU)'s undergraduate students. Design/methodology/approach: Sampling for the study was comprised of two groups. Group I comprised eight lecturers who are experts in their disciplines and six students who were purposively sampled. The focus group…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Open Universities, Psychological Patterns
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Kaprea F. Johnson; Alexandra Gantt-Howrey; Bisola E. Duyile; Lauren B. Robins; Natese Dockery – Professional Counselor, 2024
Career counselors practicing in rural communities must understand and address social determinants of mental health (SDOMH). This conceptual article details the relationships between SDOMH domains and employment and provides evidence-based recommendations for integrating SDOMH into practice through a rural community health and well-being framework.…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Career Counseling, Counselor Performance, Counselor Qualifications
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Priestley, Mark; Grammenos, Stefanos – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2021
Background: The measurement of equality is often difficult for groups who are weakly defined or poorly represented in official datasets. Social statistics are an essential component in rights recognition and advocacy because they make protected groups of persons visible and reveal the extent of their inequalities in comparison with population…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Advocacy, Civil Rights, Social Indicators
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2023
"America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2023," is a compendium of indicators about the Nation's young people. The report, the 25th produced by the Forum, presents 41 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives. These indicators are drawn from reliable Federal statistics, are easily understood by broad…
Descriptors: Children, Well Being, Family Environment, Social Environment
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Moretti, Angelo; Shlomo, Natalie; Sakshaug, Joseph W. – Sociological Methods & Research, 2021
Small area estimation (SAE) plays a crucial role in the social sciences due to the growing need for reliable and accurate estimates for small domains. In the study of well-being, for example, policy makers need detailed information about the geographical distribution of a range of social indicators. We investigate data dimensionality reduction…
Descriptors: Well Being, Social Indicators, Computation, Social Science Research
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Castelló-Climent, Amparo; Doménech, Rafael – Education Economics, 2021
This paper revisits the relationship between human capital and income inequality, using an updated data set on human capital inequality and a novel database on earnings inequality. We find an inverted U-shaped relationship between these two inequality indicators, but with significant differences across countries regarding the turning point.…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Income, Salary Wage Differentials, Technological Advancement
Gross, Max; Baron, E. Jason – Grantee Submission, 2022
Six percent of children in the United States enter foster care by age 18. We estimate the effects of foster care on children's outcomes by exploiting the quasi-random assignment of child welfare investigators in Michigan. We find that foster care improved children's safety and educational outcomes. Gains emerged after children exited the foster…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Child Welfare, Child Safety, Outcomes of Education
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Kathleen Gallagher; Christine Balt; Nancy Cardwell; Lindsay Valve – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2024
This paper considers the social role of collaborative ethnographic research amid our current intersecting social, political and ecological crises. It investigates how the multi-sited, arts-based, ethnographic study, "Global Youth (Digital) Citizen-Artists and their Publics: Performing for Socio-Ecological Justice (2019-2024)," adopts…
Descriptors: High School Students, Art Education, Social Indicators, Social Problems
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Oluwayemi IbukunOluwa Odularu – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted developing countries, causing educational and economic crises globally. This study explores the necessity of maintaining research in Higher Education (HE) amidst the pandemic's disruptions. It questions whether Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) can sustain research post-COVID-19 while balancing…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Research Opportunities, Research Needs, COVID-19
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