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Bohinski, Chesla Ann; Leventhal, Yumei – The EUROCALL Review, 2015
This paper shares the work and observations from a task-based 6-week email exchange project between participants in Spain and the US. Though small in scale, the study offers insights for those interested in telecollaboration but face constraints on multiple fronts. Close examination of the exchanges reveal participants' engagement on multiple…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Mail, Intercultural Communication, Intercultural Programs
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Mitchell, Gwen E.; Locke, Kenneth D. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2015
We conducted a survey of beliefs about autism among the general public in the United States and Canada (n = 823) and among individuals working in childcare facilities in the state of Idaho (n = 176). Results included the following. Almost all respondents correctly believed that autism's primary causes are genetic and neurological (not parenting,…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Public Opinion
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Hagmaier, Tamara; Abele, Andrea E. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
The experience of a calling may be seen as the ultimate form of subjective career success that has many positive consequences for individuals and organizations. We are here concerned with the conceptualization of a new multidimensional measure of calling, the MCM. In the first two studies we employed a qualitative approach and came up with five…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Measures (Individuals), Identification, Personality Theories
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Francis, Leslie J.; Elken, Ahto; Robbins, Mandy – Journal of Research on Christian Education, 2012
A sample of 150 students in Estonia (119 from a secular university and 31 from a Lutheran theological institute) completed the Oxford Happiness Measure and the Francis Scale of Attitude toward Christianity. The data show no significant correlation between these two variables; thus the findings challenge the generalizability to Estonia of the…
Descriptors: Christianity, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns
Presuto, Dax A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Background: The purpose of this cross-system and cross-cultural study was to investigate the current athletic training systems in the US and Japan, to assess US and Japanese athletic trainers' satisfaction with current athletic training ascension pathways in their respective country and to determine their interest in future transnational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Athletics, Trainers, Satisfaction
Savage, Jessica Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study investigated the variance in subjective well-being (SWB) of early adolescents ( n = 54) exposed to a positive psychology intervention aimed at increasing positive affect and life satisfaction as well as decreasing negative affect through intentional activities (e.g., gratitude journals, acts of kindness, use of character strengths,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Opinions, Phenomenology, Well Being
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Myers, Carrie B. – Review of Higher Education, 2011
This study tests the association between union status and job satisfaction using 8,000+ U.S. faculty at four-year public institutions surveyed in the 2004 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty. The results from hierarchical linear models that included individual and institutional variables found that nonunion faculty reported significantly…
Descriptors: Evidence, Job Satisfaction, Unions, College Faculty
Beavers, Gregory S. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Healthcare is the largest industry in the United States and 60 percent of its 14 million workers are in allied health jobs. The need to attract and retain allied health faculty is critical to preparing a competent workforce in healthcare. This study reports the results of a survey of 259 faculty members working in diagnostic radiologic technology,…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Allied Health Occupations Education, Radiology, Faculty
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Willard-Holt, Colleen; Weber, Jessica; Morrison, Kristen L.; Horgan, Julia – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2013
This mixed-methods study investigates the perspectives of twice-exceptional students on learning strategies that have been recommended for them in the literature. Have the strategies recommended in the literature been implemented? Do students perceive the strategies to be beneficial in helping them learn? Participants represented a broad range of…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Exceptional Child Research, Student Attitudes, Participant Satisfaction
Hwang, Seog Joo – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study investigates what are the relationships between different leader behaviors (i.e. supportive, participative, and controlling leader behaviors) and follower creativity, and whether the relationships differ between South Korea and the United States. Although creativity research suggests that supportive leader behaviors tend to enhance…
Descriptors: Administrator Behavior, Cross Cultural Studies, Creativity, Instructional Leadership
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Lee, HaeNim; McNamara, Tay K.; Pitt-Catsouphes, Marcie; Lee, Jungui – International Journal of Training and Development, 2014
Opportunities to improve skills and opportunities to teach or train others may be associated with job satisfaction, work engagement and organizational commitment. The analysis reported in this paper used a subsample of 823 employees within two Japanese and three American worksites. We tested not only the direct relationships of each type of…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Educational Opportunities, Training Methods, Job Training
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Freedman, Brian H.; Kalb, Luther G.; Zablotsky, Benjamin; Stuart, Elizabeth A. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
Despite speculation about an 80% divorce rate among parents of children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), very little empirical and no epidemiological research has addressed the issue of separation and divorce among this population. Data for this study was taken from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health, a population-based,…
Descriptors: Divorce, Parent Attitudes, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Trail, Thomas E.; Karney, Benjamin R. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012
In the United States, low marriage rates and high divorce rates among the poor have led policymakers to target this group for skills- and values-based interventions. The current research evaluated the assumptions underlying these interventions; specifically, the authors examined whether low-income respondents held less traditional values toward…
Descriptors: Divorce, Poverty, Income, Drug Use
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Bowman, Nicholas A. – Journal of College Student Development, 2013
Given the increasing racial diversity among American college students and society, it is critical to promote meaningful interracial interactions during college. Although a burgeoning literature demonstrates the link between interracial interactions and an array of student outcomes, some important issues have been largely overlooked. Most research…
Descriptors: College Students, Racial Differences, Racial Relations, Minority Group Students
Mikulecky, Marga; Christie, Kathy – Education Commission of the States, 2014
Parents and policymakers have long sought to measure the quality of their public schools and to report that publicly in ways that are fair and equitable. In recent years, with a renewed focus on student outcomes, this effort has become a very public and sometimes acrimonious debate. With this project, Education Commission of the States (ECS)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Attitudes
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