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Stevens, Chad; Schneider, Elizabeth; Bederman-Miller, Patricia; Arcangelo, Karen – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2019
This research explored the relationship between total-trait emotional intelligence and academic stress among college students at a small, private college. Student total-trait emotional intelligence (TTEI) and university stress scores were significantly correlated. Measures of TTEI and USS are useful for student intervention to impact issues such…
Descriptors: Correlation, Stress Variables, Small Colleges, Emotional Intelligence
Pinto, Jo Ann M.; Lohrey, Peter L. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2019
The issue of attendance policies has been studied by higher education professionals for nearly a century. Prior research has shown a strong statistical link between class attendance and student grades. The aim of our research project is to gauge the attitudes and policies of business school professors in an AACSB accredited school on this topic.…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Attitudes, Attendance, Business Schools
Janzen, Michelle – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2019
Through a Disney perspective, this author discusses how students can use creative strategies to cope with learning disabilities in secondary, post-secondary and even graduate levels of academic achievement. In particular, the paper will be presenting how the author, who has an infinity for "everything Disney", chose to use both Disney…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Learning Disabilities, Secondary School Students, College Students
Gutierrez, Daniel; Gutierrez, Andrea – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2019
In many social science college courses, professors cover a wide variety of topics that may act as triggers for victims of trauma in both traditional and online courses. At the same time, we may also encounter students who suffer trauma during their college experience. The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the importance of creating a safe and…
Descriptors: Trauma, Student Empowerment, Interpersonal Relationship, Victims
Morgan, Bobbette M. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2018
A researcher with five years' experience of teaching online classes shares what she has seen and experienced while working with her students. Through the evolution of working with Tegrity, Collaborate, and ZOOM the author shares the lived experience. The work of Max van Manen, a phenomenological researcher, serves as the framework. Descriptions…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Electronic Learning, Online Courses, Teaching Experience
Chao, Ren-Fang; Yen, Jih-Rong – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2018
Mainland China and Taiwan have a homogenous macroculture, but a heterogenous microculture. To understand the acculturation of students from mainland China to Taiwan, the present study applies Berry's (1997) two-dimensional model of acculturation, together with the concept of cultural types as its analytical framework, using focus group interviews…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asians, Foreign Students, Social Integration
Nichols, Linda M. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2018
This study evolved from a previous study that examined the perceptions of the importance of specific traits to success in the accounting profession by both accounting professionals in the United States and internationally. That study found that the international subjects valued some soft skills, such as creativity, as being more important to…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Accounting, Student Attitudes, Success
Cismaru, Magdalena; Cismaru, Romulus – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2018
Students' bullying and harassment have been shown to be a problem and more schools around the world are starting to address them. Although much of the attention and research has focused on middle-school students, addressing bullying and harassment in universities is important and makes the object of the present research. We provide an overview of…
Descriptors: College Students, Bullying, Foreign Countries, College Environment
Buch, George R.; Warren, Carryn B. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2017
August 2016 there was a call (Braun, Bremser, Duval, Lockwood & White, 2017) for post-secondary instructors to use active learning in their classrooms. Once such example of active learning is what is called the "flipped" classroom. This paper presents the need for, and the methodology of the flipped classroom, results of…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Technology Integration, Student Attitudes, Qualitative Research
ALharbi, Bassam H. M.; Mhaidat, Fatin – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2017
The present study aimed to identify the level of owning a field training students majoring in psychological counseling at the Hashemite University of professional and family counseling skills in light of achievement and gender variables. The subjects of the study comprised of (100) subjects of field training students in the second semester of the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Predictor Variables, Academic Achievement, Family Counseling
Abdul-Razzaq, Wathiq; Thakur, Saikat Chakraborty – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2017
We all know that we must improve the quality of teaching in science at all levels. Not only physicists but also many students from other areas of study take the introductory physics courses in college. Physics introductory laboratories (labs) can be one of the best tools to help these students understand applications of scientific principles that…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Laboratory Experiments, Science Instruction, Instructional Improvement
Levy, Dawn – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2017
Community colleges have embraced distance education as a means to provide increased flexibility and access to their large numbers of non-traditional students. Retention rates and student achievement measures alone may not reflect all of the benefits and opportunities that online learning, blended or hybrid learning, and technology enhanced…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Online Courses, Community Colleges, College Students
Kilburn, Brandon; Kilburn, Ashley; Davis, Dexter – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2016
E-service quality of online higher education reflects the student's perception of quality of online exchanges across four dimensions: fulfillment, efficiency, system availability and privacy. This study links e-service quality to intentions to remain loyal as mediated by perceived value in an online higher education environment. AMOS is used to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Online Surveys, Online Systems
Pinto, Jo Ann M.; Lohrey, Peter – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2016
This paper examines two divergent viewpoints about whether or not class attendance should be mandatory in higher education. The authors, both accounting professors at the same institution, delineate their respective viewpoints citing school policy, federal regulations and academic freedom as factors which motivate their attendance policy.
Descriptors: Attendance, College Students, Federal Regulation, Academic Freedom
Lawler, James; Molluzzo, John C. – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2016
Bullying is considered to be omnipresent in business firms and prevalent in entrepreneurial firms in information systems and in departments of information systems in industry. Entrepreneurialism and narcissism of personalities in the information systems profession may be perceived as especially predisposed to bullying. The authors of this paper…
Descriptors: Bullying, Knowledge Level, Information Systems, Computer Science Education
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