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Malti, Tina; Gummerum, Michaela; Ongley, Sophia; Chaparro, Maria; Nola, Marta; Bae, Na Young – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
Previous research has shown that the majority of 8-year-old children share valuable resources equally with others, whereas 4-year-olds are more likely to favor themselves in their sharing allocations. In this study, we examine whether these patterns of sharing behavior are affected by the needs of the recipient or by the recipient's previous moral…
Descriptors: Children, Sharing Behavior, Age Differences, Needs
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Mele, Joseph; Okoth, Pontian; Were, Edmond; Vundi, Silvia – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
Intervention of security agencies is considered key to lasting peace. This is especially crucial to attaining peace in communities where socio-cultural beliefs advocate for revenge. The study sought to examine the efficacy of police interventions towards resolution of conflicts within the Illemi Triangle. The study adopted neo-realism and conflict…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Police, Intervention, Conflict Resolution
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Mas, Joana Maria; Giné, Climent; McWilliam, Robin A. – Infants and Young Children, 2016
The most important adaptation task that all families must undertake is the construction of a sustainable, meaningful, and congruent daily routine of family life (R. Gallimore, T. Weisner, L. Bernheimer, D. Guthrie, & K. Nihira, 1993). The aim of this mixed-method study was to understand, from the perspective of parents, how families adapt…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries, Mixed Methods Research, Developmental Disabilities
Horrigan, John B. – Pew Research Center, 2016
The analysis in this report is based on a Pew Research Center survey conducted March 7-April 4, 2016, among a national sample of 1,601 adults, 16 years of age or older, living in all 50 United States and the District of Columbia. Fully 401 respondents were interviewed on landline telephones, and 1,200 were interviewed on cellphones, including 667…
Descriptors: Public Libraries, National Surveys, Interviews, Public Opinion
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Walker, Brigid; MacBryer, Shona; Jones, Alan; Law, Jim – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
Because of difficulties with neuropsychological assessments for dementia in people with learning disabilities, professionals in clinical practice have relied heavily on carer interviews, one of the most widely used being the "Dementia Questionnaire for People with Learning Disabilities" (DLD-Evenhuis et al. 2006 "Dementia…
Descriptors: Dementia, Questionnaires, Down Syndrome, Neuropsychology
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Shyr, Wen-Jye – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to develop principal technology leadership competency indicators for technical high schools in K-12 in Taiwan in order to improve the effectiveness of school administration and teaching. In the first part of the study, five experts in the technology leadership field are interviewed to explore the technology leadership…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High Schools, Principals, Leadership
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Akçali, Asli Avci – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2017
This study aims to identify the self-efficacy beliefs and motivations of Turkish pre-service history teachers, with respect to "the teaching profession in general", as well as "the history teaching profession specifically". With a descriptive aim, the study will be based on survey research. The research uses an explanatory…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Krettenauer, Tobias; Victor, Rosemary – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Moral identity research to date has largely failed to provide evidence for developmental trends in moral identity, presumably because of restrictions in the age range of studies and the use of moral identity measures that are insensitive to age-related change. The present study investigated moral identity motivation across a broad age range (14-65…
Descriptors: Moral Development, Moral Values, Self Concept, Motivation
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Toohey, Danny; McGill, Tanya; Whitsed, Craig – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2017
Transnational education (TNE) is an important facet of the international education learning and teaching landscape. Ensuring academics are positively engaged in TNE is a challenging but necessary issue for this form of educational provision if the risks inherent in TNE are to be successfully mitigated. This article explores job satisfaction for…
Descriptors: International Education, Job Satisfaction, Mixed Methods Research, Questionnaires
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Zeybek, Zulfiye – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2017
This study aimed at investigating two main issues related to counterexample construction: the appropriateness of counterexamples and the types of arguments that are often used when refuting a false conjecture. Twelve pre-service elementary teachers who demonstrated a wide range of reasoning skills participated in this study. The data revealed…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematical Logic, Validity
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Carmona Marques, P. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
This paper reports the results of a study of engineering students' approaches to an open-ended design problem. To carry out this, sketches and interviews were collected from 9 freshmen (first year) and 10 doctoral engineering students, when they designed solutions for orange squeezers. Sketches and interviews were analysed and mapped with a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, College Freshmen, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students
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Gebril, Atta; Eid, Michael – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2017
Policy makers worldwide are increasingly using high-stakes tests for accountability purposes. This practice has resulted in a considerable rise in test preparation activities in different instructional contexts. The purpose of this study is to investigate teachers' test preparation beliefs and practices in a high-stakes assessment context in…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Test Preparation, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers
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Spencer, Thomas; Scott, James – Research Management Review, 2017
As research administrators look to define their roles as professionals, the need to address perceived administrative burden becomes a valuable next step in improving research administration. A qualitative investigation into the causes of the perceived burden identifies local variability of research administration as regulatory burden for those…
Descriptors: Research Administration, Administrators, Qualitative Research, Researchers
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Kunnath, Joshua P. – American Secondary Education, 2017
This mixed-methods study applied a decision-making theoretical framework to an investigation of teacher grading in a large urban school district in California. A sample of 251 high school teachers of core subjects were surveyed, and 15 teachers participated in four focus group interviews in order provide data on the influences, rationale, and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, High Schools, Grading, Decision Making
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di Pierdomenico, Emily-Ann; Kadziolka, Marta; Miller, Carlin J. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2017
Mindfulness has received significant attention in the empirical literature during the past decade, but few studies have focused on mindfulness in university students and how it may influence problematic behaviours. This study examined the relationships among mindfulness, coping, and physiological reactivity in a sample of university students.…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Coping, Intervention, Physiology
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