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Understanding the Homesick Experience through the Narratives of First-Year College Residential Students
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Talita Santos Ferrara – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Homesickness is a complex phenomenon that operates on a spectrum and impacts individuals' psychological, cognitive, and physical functioning. Sufferers experience a preoccupation of home and a strong desire to return home. In higher education, homesickness among first-year students has been linked to a higher risk of dropping out of school,…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Adjustment, Student Attitudes, Emotional Response
Discrediting the Notion "Working with 'Crazies' Will Make You"Crazy"": Addressing Stigma and Enhancing Empathy in Medical Student Education
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Cutler, Janis L.; Harding, Kelli J.; Mozian, Sharon A.; Wright, Leslie L.; Pica, Adrienne G.; Masters, Scott R.; Graham, Mark J. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2009
People with mental illness around the world continue to suffer from stigmatization and limited care. Previous studies utilizing self-report questionnaires indicate that many medical students regard clinical work with psychiatric patients as unappealing, while the professionalism literature has documented a general decline in students' capacity for…
Descriptors: Mental Disorders, Empathy, Medical Education, Medical Students
Predictors of Cheating and Cheating Attributions: Does Classroom Context Influence Cheating and Blame for Cheating?
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Murdock, Tamera B.; Beauchamp, Anne S.; Hinton, Amber M. – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2008
The frequency of cheating in today's classrooms undermines educators' efforts and threatens students' learning. Data from 444 high school students in 48 math and science classrooms at two time points were analyzed to examine the classroom and individual influences on students' attributions of blame for cheating and to examine the relationship…
Descriptors: Cheating, Classrooms, High School Students, Classroom Environment
Terrorism and Resilience: Adolescents' and Teachers' Responses to September 11, 2001
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Noppe, Illene C.; Noppe, Lloyd D.; Bartell, Denise – Death Studies, 2006
This study examined the impact of terrorism on adolescents, who may be resolving developmental issues regarding their vulnerability to death. Approximately 4 months after the September 11th attacks, a survey was given to 973 Upper Midwest adolescents and teachers. Quantitative analyses indicated that adolescents (especially girls) were frightened…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Coping, Terrorism, Student Attitudes
Teacher and Student Attitudes toward Teacher Feedback
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Zacharias, Nugrahenny T. – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2007
This study aims to explore students' attitudes toward teacher feedback. The study used a triangulation of participants and methods in which the practice of feedback was seen from the perspectives of students and teachers collected from the quantitative data (questionnaires) and qualitative data (open-ended items in questionnaires and interviews).…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Attitudes, Questionnaires, Teaching Methods
Understanding the Human Volcano: What Teens Can Do about Violence.
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Hipp, Earl – 2000
Anger and violence among children has moved from the streets to the schools, with tragic, and well-documented, results. This book addresses anger and violence among children and is, in essence, an anger-management course for teens, written at about an eighth-grade level. Part 1, "The Problems of Violence in Our World," explores human violence. It…
Descriptors: Anger, Behavioral Objectives, Bullying, Child Safety