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Calhoun, Denise – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
This paper demonstrates the effects of education on cognitive functioning which could serve as an alternative preventive method to halt or delay cognitive decline in older adults. The purpose of this proposal is to discuss and illustrate the benefits of improving cognitive ability through continuing education. As such, taking advantage of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Older Adults, Dementia, Correlation
David Paul Hodge – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in the United States in early 2020, individuals have been motivated to protect themselves against the risk of the virus by the wearing of masks, social-distancing, and receiving vaccinations. This study utilizes Rogers' (1975) Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) to test motivations of collegiate student-athletes to…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Athletes, Motivation, COVID-19
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Goodson, Ivor F.; Schostak, John F. – Prospects, 2021
The coronavirus crisis has appeared like some vast, cruel sociological experiment. It has confined people to their homes, radically disturbed their taken-for-granted knowledge and beliefs, and forced them to alter behaviors once casually, even unthinkingly, employed in their everyday personal, working, and social lives. What has been learned? How…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Curriculum Development, Freedom
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Oommen, Ansel – Art Education, 2021
Ansel Oommen, a medical technologist in New York, at the beginning of the pandemic, was sometimes working alone processing hundreds of samples from all five boroughs, Westchester, and the lower Hudson Valley. After 20 nights of physical and psychological fatigue, he just knew that he had to process his circumstances through art. This would not be…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control, Microbiology
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Nelson, M. I. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
In the past, my mathematics students have frequently complained at any suggestion that they should communicate ideas through the medium of a written report. This article discusses student responses when they were asked to write a short report for the mayor of a (hypothetical) small town in response to the mayor's plan to eliminate a contagious…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control
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Chebli, Perla; McBryde-Redzovic, Aminah; Al-Amin, Nadia; Gutierrez-Kapheim, Melissa; Molina, Yamilé; Mitchell, Uchechi A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Objectives: To determine whether actual community-level risk for COVID-19 in the Black community influenced "individual" perceptions of community-level and personal risk and how self-assessment of personal risk was reflected in the adoption of COVID-19 precautionary behaviors. Methods: Semistructured interviews were conducted with 20…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, At Risk Persons, African Americans
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Munoz-Rubke, Felipe; Almuna, Felipe; Duemler, Jaclyn; Velásquez, Eloísa – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic revealed that many countries have failed to provide the general population with the cognitive tools to thoroughly understand and cope with a global health crisis. While scientists and leaders worldwide have struggled to discover ways to contain the spread of the virus, this difficult task has become overwhelming due to the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Mathematics Instruction, Statistics Education
Alison Hooper; JoonHo Lee; Claire Schweiker – AERA Open, 2023
Family child care (FCC) is uniquely positioned to address challenges with insufficient early care and education supply and access in the United States. FCC programs were steadily declining before COVID-19, and many child care programs, both center- and home-based, were at risk of closure early in the pandemic. This study examines closure among…
Descriptors: Child Care, COVID-19, Pandemics, Predictor Variables
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Aliya Kuzhabekova – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2024
The paper analyses an institutional approach and international faculty responses to implementation of social-distancing measures during COVID-19 on a residential campus of an international university in Kazakhstan. Terror-Management Theory is used to interpret the behavioral responses of the faculty. The theory predicts three types of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, COVID-19, Pandemics, College Faculty
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Robin Griffith; Jennifer M. Smith – Literacy, 2024
This qualitative study highlights how children's literature can serve as a springboard for discussing current events while making connections with a similar historical event. Undergraduate students enrolled in children's literature courses read the graphic novel "Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918" and discussed the parallels between the…
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cartoons, Novels, Current Events
Tanika Jackson-Richmond – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic presented unprecedented challenges particularly among group homes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) given the close interactions and living arrangements of residents. Thus, the purpose of this project was to determine if an educational intervention focused on COVID-19 and COVID-19…
Descriptors: Group Homes, COVID-19, Pandemics, Intellectual Disability
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Minhee Choi; Nicole O'Donnell; Won-Ki Moon – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
This study examines attenuated risk responses among individuals who do not adhere to preventive COVID-19 measures (e.g., antimaskers). Guided by the Social Amplification of Risk Model, a survey (N = 373) of nonabiding populations showed that news media use was positively associated with risk perceptions, information seeking and sharing, and…
Descriptors: Adults, COVID-19, Pandemics, Disease Control
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Anna-Clara Rönner; Anna Jakobsson; Niklas Gericke – Journal of Biological Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic had an immense impact on communities around the world. We know that new epidemic-prone diseases will emerge in the future. Consequently, it is important to investigate what impact the current pandemic had on school children's understanding of infectious diseases in order to develop biology education based on that novel…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Communicable Diseases, Middle School Students
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Herrick, Imogen R.; Sinatra, Gale M.; Lombardi, Doug – Science Teacher, 2023
There has never been a more pressing need for students to learn how to evaluate scientific information online than during the COVID-19 outbreak. Information, misinformation, and disinformation spread quickly across online news and social media platforms. This misleading or incorrect scientific information about infectious diseases could lead to…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Teaching Methods, Decision Making, Information Sources
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Kwon, Soyoung – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Although mask wearing has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become a contentious issue. This is evident in the policy shift regarding mask wearing during the pandemic and the varying mask mandates across different states in the United States. This study investigates the relationship between mask…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Prevention, Disease Incidence
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