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Van Hoye, Aurélie; Heuzé, Jean-Philippe; Meganck, Jeroen; Seghers, Jan; Sarrazin, Philippe – Health Education Journal, 2018
Objectives: To better understand the role sports club coaches can play in health promotion (HP), as well as factors supporting this task, this study compared coaches' and players' perception of coaches' HP activities and tested whether coaches' basic need satisfaction predicted coaches' HP activities mediated by self-determined motivation to…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Clubs, Athletic Coaches, Team Sports
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Labetoulle, Aude – Research-publishing.net, 2017
When trying to analyse a LANSOD (LANguage for Specialists of Other Disciplines) training course, the elements that have to be taken into account are numerous and complex, and many questions are raised. For example, in the case of the English course in the undergraduate programme of musicology at the University of Lille SHS (France), how can high…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Special Purposes, Undergraduate Study, Music Education
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Marra, Wouter A.; van de Grint, Liesbeth; Alberti, Koko; Karssenberg, Derek – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2017
Field courses are essential for subjects like Earth Sciences, Geography and Ecology. In these topics, GIS is used to manage and analyse spatial data, and offers quantitative methods that are beneficial for fieldwork. This paper presents changes made to a first-year Earth Sciences field course in the French Alps, where new GIS methods were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Earth Science, Geographic Information Systems, Statistical Analysis
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Acedo, Sara Osuna; Cano, Lucía Camarero – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
The ECO European Project funded by the European Commission is dedicated to bringing MOOCs to a new dimension by taking advantage of the new possibilities offered by the Social Web (O'Reilly, 2005). This paper focuses on the intercreative aspects of MOOCs. It takes a look at the characteristics of the new ECO MOOCs to see if they are designed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Creativity
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Evain, Christine; De Marco, Chris – English Language Teaching, 2016
What collaborative process can teachers offer in order to stimulate their students' reading of and writing on Shakespeare's plays? How can new technologies contribute to facilitating the classroom experience? The eZoomBook (eZB) template was designed for teachers to create and share multi-level digital books called "eZoomBooks" that…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Classics (Literature), Technology Uses in Education, Shared Resources and Services
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Kim, Hee-Kyung – The EUROCALL Review, 2015
This paper examines the effectiveness of a mobile assisted blended learning scenario for pronunciation in Korean language. In particular, we analyze how asynchronous oral communication between learners of Korean and native speakers via "kakaotalk" (an open source mobile phone application) may be beneficial to the learner in terms of…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Vignettes, Pronunciation, Pronunciation Instruction
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Sisask, Merike; Värnik, Peeter; Värnik, Airi; Apter, Alan; Balazs, Judit; Balint, Maria; Bobes, Julio; Brunner, Romuald; Corcoran, Paul; Cosman, Doina; Feldman, Dana; Haring, Christian; Kahn, Jean-Pierre; Poštuvan, Vita; Tubiana, Alexandra; Sarchiapone, Marco; Wasserman, Camilla; Carli, Vladimir; Hoven, Christina W.; Wasserman, Danuta – Health Education Journal, 2014
Objective: In support of a whole-school approach to mental health promotion, this study was conducted to find out whether and how significantly teachers' satisfaction with school and their subjective psychological well-being are related to the belief that they can help pupils with mental health problems. Design: Cross-sectional data were collected…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Well Being
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Rattaz, Cécile; Ledesert, Bernard; Masson, Olivier; Ouss, Lisa; Ropers, Géraldine; Baghdadli, Amaria – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
This study focused on parents' satisfaction with the special education and care services proposed to their child with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Data were collected in three regions of France, using a questionnaire designed for the purpose of this study. Among the 530 families contacted, 212 filled in the questionnaire (response rate =…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Satisfaction, Special Education, Children
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Boujut, Emile – College Student Journal, 2013
Students is a very specific population according to their manner to cope with stress. A coping questionnaire for students was developed and administered to 1100 French students at the beginning of the term (T1). Principal Component Analysis of responses, followed by varimax rotations, yielded three factors accounting for 50.5% of the total…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Coping, College Students
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Michinov, Estelle; Fouquereau, Evelyne; Fernandez, Anne – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine the structure of retirees' social identity and its impact on satisfaction with retirement. From social identity theory formulations, we assumed that (1) retiree-identity was comprised of three distinct components (cognitive, evaluative, and affective), and (2) only the affective component would play a role…
Descriptors: Retirement, Foreign Countries, Life Satisfaction, Self Concept
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Allen, Heather Willis – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2010
This comparative case study explored the motives and goals of two American students participating in short-term study abroad (SA). Findings, interpreted from an activity theory perspective, demonstrated that despite similar language-learning histories and demographic characteristics, the students were learning French and participating in SA for…
Descriptors: French, Study Abroad, Case Studies, Student Experience
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Ruiz Paiva, Maria Fatima; Neto, Felix; Munoz Sastre, Maria Teresa; Laumond-Salvatore, Nadine; Riviere, Sheila; Mullet, Etienne – Social Indicators Research, 2009
The study was aimed at replicating on a Portuguese sample the seven-factor model of life appraisal (physical autonomy, love life, family life, social life, occupational life, finances, and leisure life) that was suggested by Salvatore and Munoz Sastre ["Social Indicators Research" 53:229-255 (2001)]. A sample of 1,111 Portuguese…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Social Indicators, Social Life, Student Attitudes
Pracana, Clara, Ed. – Online Submission, 2014
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2014, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 4 to 6 of April. Psychology, in our time, offers a large range of scientific fields where it can be applied. The goal of understanding individuals and groups (mental functions and behavioral…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Foreign Countries, Intervention, Prevention
Franco, Elaine A., Ed. – 1983
The eight papers presented in this collection are (1) "Bibliographic Instruction: The Librarian's Responsibility," in which Carol A. Singer discusses the place of librarians versus teaching faculty in library instruction; (2) "Bibliographic Instruction for Undergraduate Students: Development of a One Credit Course" (at Kearney…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Equipment, Foreign Countries, Information Networks