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Sina Kianersi; Maria Parker; Christina Ludema; Jon Agley; Molly Rosenberg – SAGE Open, 2024
Retrospective alcohol use data are prone to recall bias, a limitation that could be addressed with real-time ecological momentary assessment (EMA) tools. We aimed to (1) introduce a simple (single-click) EMA methodology for collecting real-time alcohol use data, and (2) investigate the EMA methodology's performance relative to established alcohol…
Descriptors: Drinking, Undergraduate Students, Alcohol Abuse, Student Behavior
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Sather, Stephanie; Schumacher, Julie; Lanier, Jacqueline; Fehrenbacher, Julie; Bardwell, Amy – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2021
Purpose/Objectives: Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) participation rates often underserve the number of children in the community needing access to food. Each year, District 87 in Bloomington, Illinois offers children 18 years old and younger a free lunch at six feeding sites throughout the community as part of the SFSP. During the summer of…
Descriptors: Food, Nutrition, Children, Program Descriptions
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Irby, Stefan Mark; Pelaez, Nancy J.; Anderson, Trevor R. – CBE - Life Sciences Education, 2018
Course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) have been described in a range of educational contexts. Although various anticipated learning outcomes (ALOs) have been proposed, processes for identifying them may not be rigorous or well documented, which can lead to inappropriate assessment and speculation about what students actually…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Biochemistry, Outcomes of Education
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Rollins, Jeffrey; Watson, Sunnie Lee – Journal of Extension, 2017
Little information exists regarding intention behind the design and development of Extension outreach and educational exhibits. An evaluation of response to the exhibit "A Salamander Tale" indicates that the methods used to develop the exhibit resulted in an effective way to present information to an adult audience. Survey questions were…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Adult Education, Animals, Wildlife
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Kilcup, Charmayne – Gifted Education International, 2016
Current models of spiritual development suggest that adolescents have limited capacity for spirituality and spiritual experiences. Adolescents are seen to have immature moral and ethical judgment and be incapable of deep spiritual experience due to lack of cognitive development. This mixed-methods study explored the existence of spiritual…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Religious Factors, Spiritual Development, Mixed Methods Research
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Beck, Leslie; Patton, Aaron J. – Journal of Extension, 2015
A weed garden was constructed to quantify and improve identification skills among clientele. The garden was planted with over 100 weed species based on surveys on problematic weeds. The weed garden proved useful for introducing additional hands-on learning activities into traditional lecture-based seminars. Through seminar and field day attendee…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Gardening, Plants (Botany), Experiential Learning
Lueken, Martin F. – EdChoice, 2016
This report follows up on previous work that examined the fiscal effects of private school voucher programs. It estimates the total fiscal effects of tax-credit scholarship programs--another type of private school choice program--on state governments, state and local taxpayers, and school districts combined. Based on a range of assumptions, these…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Tax Credits, Educational Vouchers, Private Schools
Davis, Desiree – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Problem: The purpose of this research study was to examine the coping strategies of nontraditional female students in a private university in Southwest Michigan, and a public university in Northern Indiana. According to Carney-Compton & Tan (2002), nontraditional female students characterize the leading emergent set of students beginning…
Descriptors: Coping, Nontraditional Students, Females, Geographic Regions
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Boyland, Lori; Ellis, John – AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice, 2015
Indiana recently gained status as a national leader in educational reform. At the same time, a record number of superintendents retired, with 62 retirements in 2012 and 2013, representing 21% of superintendents in the state. The purpose of this study was to explore factors influencing superintendents' decisions to retire during this time.…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Retirement, Educational Change, Influences
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Lamb, Annette – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2017
Information workers are not born information fluent. Like other students, incoming library science students enter graduate programs with a broad range of information and technology skills. The aim of this study was to determine if systematically designed online tutorials would be effective in preparing university students with information literacy…
Descriptors: Librarians, Information Literacy, Library Science, Needs Assessment
Kisida, Brian; Wolf, Patrick J.; Rhinesmith, Evan – American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 2015
As school choice programs expand in the United States, it is crucial to consider how the design of these programs shapes the supply and demand of parents' educational offerings. To better understand the school choice landscape from the viewpoint of current and would-be participants in choice programs, the authors administered an extensive survey…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Surveys, Educational Vouchers
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Hill, Barry C.; Black, David R.; Shields, Cleveland G. – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2016
The purpose of this article is to identify characteristics of Black barbershop clients and barbers in an urban Midwestern city participating in a health promotion program called Affecting Cancer Together (ACT) that are associated with client knowledge about prostate cancer. Statistical analyses examined client and barber characteristics for their…
Descriptors: Cancer, Health Education, Cosmetology, Urban Areas
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Bruehler, Bart B. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2014
Both adult and traditional students at Indiana Wesleyan University take an introductory New Testament course in conventional, compressed, and accelerated formats and through online and onsite settings. This wide variety of demographics and modalities raises the issues of if and how the various incarnations of this course facilitate the achievement…
Descriptors: Christianity, Religious Education, Biblical Literature, Introductory Courses
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Lehman, Lynn E.; Boyland, Lori G.; Sriver, Shawn K. – International Journal of Educational Leadership Preparation, 2014
This study investigates the frequency of research-based leadership strategies utilized by newly hired school principals in the workplace. Public school superintendents in Indiana were asked to respond to two open-ended research questions. Through the use of content analysis, their comments were coded for the occurrence of effective leadership…
Descriptors: Principals, Standards, Interpersonal Relationship, Content Analysis
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Huber, Lesa; Watson, Carol – Educational Gerontology, 2014
The impact of the global aging of the population on social, economic, political, and health care institutions is unequaled. Parallel to this, evolving developments in technology promise opportunities for sales and product development to support positive aging. Older adults are excited to utilize technologies that they perceive as practical.…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Technological Advancement, Older Adults, Technological Literacy
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