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Cochran, Susan D.; Mays, Vickie M. – Journal of Black Psychology, 1993
Highlights difficulties inherent in applying existing models of attitude-behavior relationships to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) risk behavior of African Americans. The relevant determinants of African-American risk behaviors may not be captured by these social psychological models that may ignore uniquely African-American issues.…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Afrocentrism, Behavior Patterns, Black Attitudes
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Delcourt, Marcia A. B.; Kinzie, Mable B. – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1993
Describes the development of two instruments for use with preservice and practicing teachers: Attitudes toward Computer Technologies and Self-Efficacy for Computer Technologies. Graduate and undergraduate students completed the instruments. Results provide initial instrument validation. The paper presents data on content validity and results of…
Descriptors: Computer Attitudes, Computer Uses in Education, Education Majors, Evaluation Methods
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Corwin, Sara J.; Sargent, Roger G.; Rheaume, Carol E.; Saunders, Ruth P. – American Journal of Health Behavior, 1999
Examined the impact of behavioral, personal, and environmental factors on fourth graders' dietary practices, using a social cognitive theory framework. Survey results highlighted social cognitive variables that significantly influenced dietary behaviors: gender, race, socioeconomic status, fruit and vegetable availability at home, nutrition…
Descriptors: Black Students, Dietetics, Eating Habits, Elementary Education
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Bullock, Kate; Jamieson, Ian – Educational Studies, 1995
Explores the impact of a personal development project on the attitudes, behavior, and understanding of British high school students. The study circulated questionnaires to students from nine different locations in two districts. Responses clearly demonstrated that Personal Development Planning results in more appropriate choices being made at key…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Foreign Countries, Individual Development, Individual Power
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Edmundson, Elizabeth; And Others – American Journal of Health Promotion, 1996
Schools within the Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health intervention were randomized into control, school-based, and school-based plus family intervention conditions. Measures of third graders' psychosocial determinants of risk behavior indicated significant improvements in all psychosocial determinants following the interventions,…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Cardiovascular System, Comprehensive School Health Education, Eating Habits
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Krumboltz, John D.; Worthington, Roger L. – Career Development Quarterly, 1999
Suggests that learning is essential not only for students to develop basic employability skills but also for development of work habits, beliefs, interests, and values. The theory can: (a) be an assessment instrument for stimulating learning, (b) achieve performance and cognitive outcomes, and (c) measure success by the extent to which clients…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Development, Career Guidance
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Garduno, Edna Leticia Hernandez – Gifted Child Quarterly, 2001
Examination of gender differences in self-efficacy, attitudes toward mathematics, and achievement of 48 gifted 7th and 8th grade students after participating in a 2-week course on probability and statistics found no differences in achievement or self-efficacy between cooperative learning mixed gender or single gender groups. Differences in…
Descriptors: Competition, Cooperative Learning, Gifted, Grouping (Instructional Purposes)
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Babor, Thomas F.; Higgins-Biddle, John C.; Higgins, Pamela S.; Gassman, Ruth A.; Gould, Bruce E. – Substance Abuse, 2004
Although progress has been made in developing a scientific basis for alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI), training packages are necessary for its widespread dissemination in primary care settings. This paper evaluates a training package developed for the Cutting Back[R] SBI program. Three groups of medical personnel were compared before…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Physicians, Patients, Medical Education
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Lau, Jasmine Yuet-Han; McBride-Chang, Catherine – Early Education and Development, 2005
Measures of Chinese character recognition, vocabulary, and interest in reading were administered to 92 second grade children in Hong Kong, while questionnaires on parental literacy practices were administered to their parents. In a hierarchical regression equation, maternal education, children's age and vocabulary skill predicted 18% of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 2, Vocabulary Skills, Self Efficacy
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Kelly, Sean – Journal of Experimental Education, 2004
In this event history analysis of the 1990-1991 Schools and Staffing Survey and the 1992 Teacher Follow-up Survey, a retrospective person-year database was constructed to examine teacher attrition over the course of the teaching career. Consistent with prior research, higher teacher salaries reduced attrition, but only slightly so. Teacher…
Descriptors: Faculty Mobility, Disadvantaged Schools, Teacher Salaries, Job Satisfaction
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Van Keer, Hilde; Verhaeghe, Jean Pierre – Journal of Experimental Education, 2005
The authors evaluated the effectiveness of explicit reading comprehension strategies instruction, followed by practice in teacher-led whole-class activities (STRAT), reciprocal same-age (STRAT + SA) peer-tutoring activities, or cross-age peer-tutoring activities (STRAT + CA) on 2nd and 5th graders' reading comprehension and self-efficacy…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Grade 5, Elementary School Students, Reading Instruction
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Kinzie; Jillian; Kuh, George D. – About Campus, 2004
Team members of Project DEEP (Documenting Effective Educational Practice) spent almost two years immersing themselves in the daily work of twenty campuses. The common denominator of these institutions is that they all have participated in the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and have scored better than predicted across some or all of…
Descriptors: Campuses, Educational Quality, Educational Practices, Educational Experience
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Cerezo, Nancy – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2004
The purpose of this study was to examine problem-based learning (pbl) and how students in the middle grades math and science classroom perceived its effectiveness. Analysis of student perceptions of changes in their learning processes and self-efficacy was analyzed through student interviews. Data identified the components of changes in students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Self Efficacy, Problem Based Learning, Group Dynamics
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Chung, Li-Chuan; Marvin, Christine A.; Churchill, Susan L. – Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, 2005
The present study investigated specific teacher factors that potentially influence teacher-child relationships with preschool-age children. One demographic questionnaire and three rating scales were used to survey 152 head teachers of 3-6-year-old children in community-based childcare and preschool centers in one mid-western state. There were 46…
Descriptors: Parent Teacher Cooperation, Rating Scales, Preschool Teachers, Developmental Delays
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Jacobs, Geert; Opdenacker, Liesbeth; Waes, Luuk Van – Business Communication Quarterly, 2005
An online writing center developed at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, called Calliope, provides a modular platform aimed at enhancing learners' professional writing skills in five different languages: Dutch, English, French, German, and Spanish. It supports courses in business and technical communication. The current version includes modules…
Descriptors: Technical Writing, Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, French
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