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Oprean, Celeste Pramik – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In North Carolina (NC) there are a total of 58 community colleges, each of which provides a unique approach to handling support for adjunct faculty. The NC Community College System provided a good setting to explore how one state in particular compares to current research on administrative support of adjunct faculty in the areas of hiring,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Teacher Selection
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Wright, Courtney N. – Communication Education, 2012
The influence of student attitudes toward learning and grades on their communication with instructors about grades has received limited attention despite its potential implications for learning, performance outcomes, and student-teacher interactions. Participants (N = 194) who discussed a disappointing grade with an instructor completed measures…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Relationship, Grades (Scholastic), Student Attitudes, Influences
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Roberts, Katherine L.; Summerfield, A. Quentin; Hall, Deborah A. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
The spatial relevance hypothesis (J. J. McDonald & L. M. Ward, 1999) proposes that covert auditory spatial orienting can only be beneficial to auditory processing when task stimuli are encoded spatially. We present a series of experiments that evaluate 2 key aspects of the hypothesis: (a) that "reflexive activation of location-sensitive neurons is…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Auditory Perception, Cues, Stimuli
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Melinder, Annika; Gredeback, Gustaf; Westerlund, Alissa; Nelson, Charles A. – Developmental Science, 2010
We investigated the neural processing underlying own-age versus other-age faces among 5-year-old children and adults, as well as the effect of orientation on face processing. Upright and inverted faces of 5-year-old children, adults, and elderly adults (greater than 75 years of age) were presented to participants while ERPs and eye tracking…
Descriptors: Young Children, Adults, Older Adults, Brain
Alsford, Sally; Rose, Christine – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2014
This case study gives an analytical account of institutional development in induction provision. Driven by student experience concerns, a London post-1992 University set up an "enhanced induction project" to provide a more integrated, personalised approach through more coordinated processes. In a large, diverse context, university-wide…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Orientation, Action Research
Hollands, Lucinda – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Many researchers have documented the challenges of working with culturally different elementary and high school students and have provided evidence of pedagogical practices that increase student engagement and academic success. However, a gap still exists in the understanding of student engagement and academic success of adult refugee students in…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Learner Engagement, Academic Achievement
Vaill, Amber L.; Testori, Peter A. – Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 2012
In order for faculty to make a successful transition to teaching in the online classroom, they must receive professional development specifically geared toward this challenge. Bay Path College offers a faculty development program that incorporates three distinct components all geared toward aiding faculty to adjust to teaching online and providing…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Mentors, Online Courses, Faculty Development
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Gasser, Courtney E. – College Student Journal, 2013
This study examined the career, social, and academic self-appraisals and educational aspirations of first-year college students of diverse racial/ethnic backgrounds. Participants included 72 first-year students of Black, Asian, and White ethnicities. Career self-appraisals were significantly different for Black and Asian students when compared to…
Descriptors: Self Evaluation (Individuals), College Freshmen, Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration
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Persike, Malte; Olzak, Lynn A.; Meinhardt, Gunter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Association field models of contour integration suggest that local band-pass elements are spatially grouped to global contours within limited bands of spatial frequency (Field, Hayes, & Hess, 1993). While results for local orientation and spacing variation render support for AF models, effects of spatial frequency (SF) have rarely been addressed.…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Classification, Models, Brain
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McGuigan, Nicola – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2009
Previous studies have shown that young preschool children are highly sensitive to mutual engagement and struggle to diagnose the visibility of a figure when their facial area is occluded. The present study aimed to explore the specificity of engagement by varying (a) the orientation of a figure relative to an observer and (b) the visible area of…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Preschool Children, Attention, Orientation
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Lawson, Rebecca – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
A sequential matching task was used to compare how the difficulty of shape discrimination influences the achievement of object constancy for depth rotations across haptic and visual object recognition. Stimuli were nameable, 3-dimensional plastic models of familiar objects (e.g., bed, chair) and morphs midway between these endpoint shapes (e.g., a…
Descriptors: Tactual Perception, Interaction, Depth Perception, Orientation
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Willenbockel, Verena; Fiset, Daniel; Chauvin, Alan; Blais, Caroline; Arguin, Martin; Tanaka, James W.; Bub, Daniel N.; Gosselin, Frederic – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
The authors examined spatial frequency (SF) tuning of upright and inverted face identification using an SF variant of the Bubbles technique (F. Gosselin & P. G. Schyns, 2001). In Experiment 1, they validated the SF Bubbles technique in a plaid detection task. In Experiments 2a-c, the SFs used for identifying upright and inverted inner facial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Body, Orientation, Recognition (Psychology)
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Matthias, Ellen; Bublak, Peter; Muller, Hermann J.; Schneider, Werner X.; Krummenacher, Joseph; Finke, Kathrin – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Three experiments investigated whether spatial and nonspatial components of visual attention would be influenced by changes in (healthy, young) subjects' level of alertness and whether such effects on separable components would occur independently of each other. The experiments used a no-cue/alerting-cue design with varying cue-target stimulus…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Information Processing, Cognitive Processes, Attention
Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2014
Part-time faculty teach approximately 58% of U.S. community college classes and thus manage learning experiences for more than half (53%) of students enrolled in community colleges (JBL Associates, 2008). Often referred to as "contingent faculty," their work is conditional; the college typically has no obligation to them beyond the…
Descriptors: Part Time Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Community Colleges, Focus Groups
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Piper, Jon K.; Krehbiel, Dwight – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2015
To attract and retain more academically qualified students to science and mathematics, we developed a merit-based scholarship program for incoming students with STEM interests. Scholarship recipients participate for the first two years in an interdisciplinary learning community and declare a STEM major by the sophomore year. STEM Learning…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Undergraduate Students, Interdisciplinary Approach, Seminars
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