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Download full textBembenutty, Hefer; Karabenick, Stuart A. – 1998
This study examined the relationship between college students' preference for an immediately available option (e.g., go to a favorite concert the day before a test) or a delayed alternative (e.g., stay at home to study for the test). Analysis focused on how much a student would like to engage in a specific activity, the importance of the activity…
Descriptors: College Students, Delay of Gratification, Goal Orientation, Higher Education
Bembenutty, Hefer; Karabenick, Stuart A.; McKeachie, Wilbert J.; Lin, Yi-Guang – 1998
This study examined the relationship between academic delay of gratification (ADOG) and college students' use of action control. College students (n=113) at a large midwestern university completed the academic delay of gratification scale developed by the authors and the motivated strategies for learning questionnaire, which included an adaptation…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Delay of Gratification, Goal Orientation
Association of Research Libraries, Washington, DC. Office of Management Studies. – 1977
At the request of the Pennsylvania State University Library, the Office of Management Studies surveyed Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members requesting information and documentation illustrating the organization, nature, and level of the library instruction function at their institutions. A review of the responses from 64 of the 94 ARL…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Organization, Centralization, Decentralization
Peer reviewedHill, Everett W.; And Others – RE:view, 1992
This article discusses the development of an orientation and mobility screening measure suitable for use with children having severe visual impairments (and possibly additional impairments) from birth through five years of age. Twenty instructors rated the measures as being useful. The two forms of the measure (for either ambulatory or…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Blindness, Infants, Measures (Individuals)
Karabenick, Stuart A.; Bembenutty, Hefer – 1998
This study examined motivational determinants of academic delay of gratification (ADOG) with 196 undergraduate college students at a large midwestern university. Students completed the academic delay of gratification scale, in which students are presented with 10 hypothetical situations and they indicate their preference among options offering…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Delay of Gratification, Expectation
Peterson, Tammy Wiens; Borden, Michael Ray – 1993
This paper reports on the use of qualitative methods to determine first-year student perceptions of the Orientation program delivered by North Carolina State University. One hundred thirty freshmen were interviewed, in groups of 6 to 10, to learn about their orientation experiences, and why they felt some sessions were helpful, and where sessions…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Interviews
