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Edwards, Tiffany G. – Online Submission, 2020
The number of homeless children and youth in the United States is on the rise (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2016). Between 2016 and 2017 in the Los Angeles County Homeless Count, there was a 41% increase in the number of homeless minors (The Los Angeles Service Authority, 2017). Education is key to bringing people out of…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Educational Attainment, Case Studies, Volunteers
Maadikhah, Elham; Erfani, Nasrollah – Online Submission, 2014
Learned helplessness as a negative motivational state can latently underlie repeated failures and create negative feelings toward the education as well as depression in students and other members of a society. The purpose of this paper is to predict learned helplessness based on students' personality traits. The research is a predictive…
Descriptors: Helplessness, Motivation, Personality Traits, Predictor Variables
Farinde, Abiola A.; Lewis, Chance W. – Online Submission, 2012
African American women are underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields (Catsambis, 1994). The socialization and "under-education" of African American female students engenders ideas of inferiority, while the presence of an inferior race, sex and class, in one body, may produce an ideology of mediocrity.…
Descriptors: STEM Education, African American Students, Females, Disproportionate Representation
Luper, Elizabeth P. S.; Lockley, Jeannie – Online Submission, 2008
This study focused on a population of 36 female patients, aged 25 to 65, who were diagnosed with intellectual disabilities, all of whom had long-standing patterns of inappropriate behaviors. In an attempt to increase more appropriate behaviors in these patients, a set of standardized contingency rules were established. These rules were implemented…
Descriptors: Accidents, Behavior Problems, Helplessness, Action Research
Wiswell, Albert K.; Wells, C. Leanne – Online Submission, 2004
This study describes an action research case study through which the dynamics of identifying and changing strongly held assumptions illustrate the differences between experiences that serve to strengthen beliefs from those that lead to learning. Theoretical considerations are presented linking cognitive schema, action science, attribution theory,…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Helplessness, Attribution Theory, Action Research