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Hayashi, Hajimu – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2017
This study examined young children's deception in a conflict situation. A puppet show was prepared involving a protagonist who went into hiding, an enemy who wanted to catch the protagonist, and a friend who was looking for the protagonist. In the no-conflict condition, the enemy asked the children about the location of the protagonist. In the…
Descriptors: Young Children, Deception, Conflict, Experiments
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Acet, Mehmet; Karademir, Tamer; Gökçiçek, Sercan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study was conducted to find out how the empathic tendency levels of adolescent high school students were shaped in terms of sport activities and some variables. The study group includes a total of 1868 students, 866 females and 1002 males, between the ages 14 and 18 who were studying in different high schools (science high school, vocational…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Foreign Countries, Athletics
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Yaman, Çetin – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
The purpose of the present study was to explore the relationship among social physique anxiety, physical measures such as body fat and physical self-concept. 367 (226 male and 141 female) college students ranging in age from 21 to 33 participated in the study. Participants were randomly chosen among the healthy students without any metabolic and…
Descriptors: College Students, Anxiety, Correlation, Physical Characteristics
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Fryer, Luke K. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2017
During the past decade, quantitative researchers have examined the first-year university experience from both variable-centred and person-centred perspectives. These studies have, however, generally been cross-sectional and therefore often failed to address how student learning changes during this transition. Furthermore, research has been…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Freshmen, Longitudinal Studies, Student Surveys
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Henman, Paul; Brown, Scott D.; Dennis, Simon – Australian Universities' Review, 2017
In 2015, the Australian Government's Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) assessment of research quality declined to rate 1.5 per cent of submissions from universities. The public debate focused on practices of gaming or "coding errors" within university submissions as the reason for this outcome. The issue was about the…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Foreign Countries, Universities, Achievement Rating
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Toosi, Seyyed Ali Doustdar; Emadian, Seyedeh Olia; Soleymani, Marjan; Mohammadi, Leila; Doustdar, Maryam Sadat – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2017
In the current research, we investigated how significantly the second grade high school female students' educational, emotional, and spiritual intelligence were associated with their religious orientation. This research is descriptive (non-experimental) with a correlation design. The research population includes all of the second grade high school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Females, Emotional Intelligence
Alpaydin, Sabri – Online Submission, 2017
This study was carried out to determine the level of understanding and misconceptions of science teacher candidates about some concepts related to material and its properties. This research was carried out with 260 science teacher candidates in Science Teaching Education Program of Education Faculty of Necmettin Erbakan University in 2015-2016…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Science Teachers, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts
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Wuetherick, Brad; Yu, Stan; Greer, Jim – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2016
This paper presents the results of a quantitative study that comprehensively assessed the level and extent to which the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) was being conducted amongst faculty and staff at the University of Saskatchewan, and identifies the barriers and challenges faced by SoTL practitioners.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Scholarship, College Instruction
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Lemez, Srdjan; MacMahon, Clare; Weir, Patricia – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2016
Annual age cohort groupings promote relative age effects (RAEs), which often, inadvertently, create participation and attainment biases between relatively older and younger players within the same age cohort. In a globally evolving sport, women's rugby team selection practices may potentially bypass qualified players as a result of maturational…
Descriptors: Womens Athletics, Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
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Hsu, Min-Wei – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2016
In 2013 China announced the "One Belt and One Road" policy, including the "Silk Road Economic Belt" and the"21st Century Maritime Silk Road." The purpose of the two plans aims to establish a new connection of trade transportation between China, Central Asia and Europe, "this is by far the most massive regional…
Descriptors: Intention, Innovation, Models, Adoption (Ideas)
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Vural, Bilgin Kiray; Körükçü, Özlem; Aral, Neriman; Körükçü, Gökhan – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Objectives: empathy brings people closer and facilitates communication in almost all the fields of daily life. Having been an important dimension of foster care, empathetic skills should be developed in a foster family. In this study, we aimed to determine the empathic level of the foster families. Methods: this cross-sectional study on foster…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empathy, Foster Care, Family Environment
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Hinterecker, Thomas; Knauff, Markus; Johnson-Laird, P. N. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
We report 3 experiments investigating novel sorts of inference, such as: A or B or both. Therefore, possibly (A and B). Where the contents were sensible assertions, for example, "Space tourism will achieve widespread popularity in the next 50 years or advances in material science will lead to the development of antigravity materials in the…
Descriptors: Models, Probability, Inferences, Logical Thinking
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Ay, Alpaslan; Kadi, Aysegul – Higher Education Studies, 2016
Objective of this research is to investigate identity functions and empathetic tendencies of teacher candidates. Sample consists of 232 teacher candidates in social studies teacher education. Survey model is preferred to investigate the difference between identity functions and empathetic tendencies of teacher candidates. And also correlational…
Descriptors: Empathy, Correlation, Preservice Teachers, Statistical Analysis
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Jose, Paul E. – Educational Psychologist, 2016
Many of the mediation analyses reported in the literature are based on concurrent or single-occasion data sets. The 2 overarching themes of the present article are: Results of concurrent mediations are inherently ambiguous, and researchers would be wise to conduct mediations on longitudinal data sets instead. An example included here demonstrates…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Statistical Analysis, Models, Educational Psychology
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Zhou, Ruojing; Mou, Weimin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
Cognitive mapping is assumed to be through hippocampus-dependent place learning rather than striatum-dependent response learning. However, we proposed that either type of spatial learning, as long as it involves encoding metric relations between locations and reference points, could lead to a cognitive map. Furthermore, the fewer reference points…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Learning, Spatial Ability, Accuracy
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