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Robinson, Sally; Howatson-Jones, Lioba – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2014
Worldwide demographic change means that the responsibility for an aging population will fall to younger generations. This narrative literature review comprises an international examination of what has been published about children's views of older people between 1980 and 2011. Sixty-nine academic articles were inductively analyzed, and the…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Older Adults, Literature Reviews, History
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Sutton, Anna; Taylor, David; Johnston, Carol – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
A clear understanding of how students view plagiarism is needed if the extensive efforts devoted to helping them engage in high-quality scholarship are to be worthwhile. There are a variety of views on this topic, but theoretical models to integrate the literature, take account of international differences and guide practitioners are limited.…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Familiarity, Models, Questionnaires
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Cattani, Allegra; Abbot-Smith, Kirsten; Farag, Rafalla; Krott, Andrea; Arreckx, Frédérique; Dennis, Ian; Floccia, Caroline – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2014
Background: Bilingual children are under-referred due to an ostensible expectation that they lag behind their monolingual peers in their English acquisition. The recommendations of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) state that bilingual children should be assessed in both the languages known by the children. However,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Evaluation Methods
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Sharrocks, Louise – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2014
An intervention was carried out with primary school staff to promote well-being with weekly sessions of a project which became known as Chill and Chat. Data were gathered via questionnaires completed before and after the project and from three focus groups (before, during and after the intervention), and were analysed using thematic analysis.…
Descriptors: Well Being, Intervention, Questionnaires, Focus Groups
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Yankouskaya, Alla; Humphreys, Glyn W.; Rotshtein, Pia – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
We examined relations between the processing of facial identity and emotion in own- and other-race faces, using a fully crossed design with participants from 3 different ethnicities. The benefits of redundant identity and emotion signals were evaluated and formally tested in relation to models of independent and coactive feature processing and…
Descriptors: Human Body, Identification (Psychology), Recognition (Psychology), Interaction
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Rigato, Silvia; Menon, Enrica; Farroni, Teresa; Johnson, Mark H. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013
In this study, 4-month-old infants' and adults' spontaneous preferences for emotional and neutral displays with direct and averted gaze are investigated using visual preference paradigms. Specifically, by presenting two approach-oriented emotions (happiness and anger) and two avoidance-oriented emotions (fear and sadness), we asked whether the…
Descriptors: Infants, Eye Movements, Adults, Visual Stimuli
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Liepins, Maureen; Cline, Tony – School Psychology International, 2011
Earlier research has confirmed that loneliness is a universal phenomenon, experienced by children and adults. Few reports have been published of investigations of experiences of loneliness among school children in the United Kingdom. The aim of this study was to investigate how the ideas about loneliness held by British children develop during the…
Descriptors: Interviews, Psychological Patterns, Educational Psychology, Psychologists
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Davis, Geraldine – Management in Education, 2014
Since 2006, UK policy has identified a professionalisation agenda for staff working in early childhood education and care settings. This has included the development of graduate leaders with a specific purpose to lead improvements in these settings by leading change, and hence improving outcomes for children. This article reports on findings from…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Professional Development, Research Projects, Mixed Methods Research
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Page, Kelly L.; Reynolds, Nina – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
There is a growing need to design learning experiences in higher education that develop collaborative and mediated social writing practices. A wiki way of learning addresses these needs. This paper reports findings from a case study involving 58 postgraduate students who in small groups participated over eight weeks in a mediated collaborative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Research Universities, Cooperative Learning
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Kean, Jenny – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2012
The importance of formative assessment has been widely evidenced; but it has also been shown to be under threat in a higher education world of shrinking finances, increasing student numbers and decreasing student/staff ratios. How is all this formative assessment to be carried out and marked? And at the same time, how is the concept of…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Educational Quality, Formative Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
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Pedersen, Sarah – Journal of Youth Studies, 2013
This article reports on a recent research project undertaken in the UK that investigated young adults' perception of potentially risky behaviour online. The research was undertaken through the use of an online survey associated with the UK teen soap opera "Being Victor". The findings of the project suggest that this sample of British…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Young Adults, Foreign Countries, Mass Media Use
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Ribchester, Chris; Wakefield, Kelly; Miller, Gill – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2012
Research has highlighted the importance of social integration and a sense of belonging for facilitating an effective transition into higher education. This paper reports a case study of entrants to two geography-related undergraduate programmes who were given the opportunity to use bespoke social networking sites in the three weeks before formal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Social Integration, Web 2.0 Technologies
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Dove, Jane – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2012
Tropical rainforests are biologically rich ecosystems, which are threatened by a variety of different human activities. This study focuses on students' knowledge and understanding of rainforest locations, their reasons for protecting these environments and their familiarity with selected concepts about rainforest vegetation and soil. These…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Ecology, Climate, Misconceptions
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Tulley Pitchford, Kay – Practitioner Research in Higher Education, 2012
Many students arrive at university accustomed to adopting the internet as their primary source of information, but with no prior experience of referencing. This raises issues of the reliability and validity of digital sources, as well as bringing new opportunities for cheating. The internet has made plagiarism quicker and easier; a student simply…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Cheating, Influence of Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Cooper-Hind, Heidi; Taylor, John – Higher Education Review, 2012
Recent interest in the number of complaints being raised by students in higher education may be attributed both to a general concern about quality and standards in universities and to the emerging role of the student as a "consumer". However, partly because of the highly sensitive nature of this topic, for students, staff and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Attitudes, Participant Satisfaction, Student Characteristics
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