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Martin, Andy K. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Americans have experienced declining health for decades (National Center for Health Statistics, 2019) and these poor health outcomes may be the result of increased sedentary behavior at school, work, and home (Keadle, Conroy, Buman, Dunstan, & Matthews, 2017). Intervention to reduce sedentary behavior may be needed in each of these settings,…
Descriptors: Health Behavior, Physical Activity Level, Health Education, Recreational Activities
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Mayer, V. V.; Varaksina, E. I. – Physics Education, 2018
We propose the use of a laptop with a program generator and a transistor power amplifier to control the frequency, duration and amplitude of the LED stroboscope flashes. Examples of the stroboscopic photographs are given.
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Laptop Computers, Lighting
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CohenMiller, Anna; Izekenova, Zhanna – Innovative Higher Education, 2022
Combining motherhood and academic work in higher education has been discussed for decades with the pandemic further exposing the inequalities. This crisis has significantly impacted the daily life of mothers in academia as they devote more time to keep their careers on track, produce papers, and take on other parenting and schooling…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Mothers, Photography
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Reese, Ryan F.; Swank, Jacqueline – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2022
Minimal scholarship has investigated the possible roles counselors might play within environmental education. We piloted a photovoice collaboration between a counselor and an environmental educator with a classroom of secondary students (grades 9-12) in the southeast United States. Adolescents (N = 14) identified connections with outdoor…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counselor Role, Environmental Education, Photography
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Kristen Foley; Heather L. Petcovic; Steven Semken – Journal of Geoscience Education, 2024
Virtual field experiences (VFEs) are augments to traditional fieldwork in the geosciences that are seeing increasing use in college courses. However, VFEs that are not easily located and implemented in courses by geoscience instructors have little to no value. This qualitative, descriptive study engaged five focus groups of U.S. college geoscience…
Descriptors: College Science, Geology, Science Teachers, Field Experience Programs
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Léa Marie Maison – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
Sustainability involves a temporal dimension connecting the past, the present and the future. This article explores the significance of time for sustainability education. It discusses how the understanding of this temporal dimension shapes humans' relationship with the world and affects the political engagement of the educator with sustainability…
Descriptors: Time, Sustainability, Social Change, Early Childhood Teachers
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Judith Essemiah; Rylin Fryz; Reilly Olson; Farrah Timmol; Easton Upton; Babasola Fateye – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: To understand how students are coping one year after campuses were closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: Students at a large state university in Midwestern USA. Method: Sequential mixed method study. A photo-survey of students' experiences was conducted as part of an ethnographic study of "college life." Student…
Descriptors: College Students, Coping, School Closing, COVID-19
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Dalkiç, Abdullah; Kaya, Zöhre – Participatory Educational Research, 2021
This research aims to investigate whether adolescents' body-cathexis predicted general self-efficacy by using Instagram. The study employs correlational research model and was conducted with a total of 790 students, including 503 women and 207 men. Body-Cathexis Scale and General Self-efficacy Scale were used to collect data. Confirmatory Factor…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Self Concept, Human Body, Self Efficacy
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Gettleman, Jessica N.; Grabman, Jesse H.; Dobolyi, David G.; Dodson, Chad S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
When pristine testing conditions are used, an eyewitness's high-confidence identification from a lineup can be a reliable predictor of their identification accuracy (Wixted & Wells, 2017). Further, Grabman, Dobolyi, Berelovich, and Dodson (2019) found that high-confidence identifications are more predictive of accuracy for individuals with…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Human Body, Recognition (Psychology), Accuracy
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Ciplak, Ersun; Atici, Meral – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2021
This study aimed to adapt the Selfitis Behavior Scale (SBS) to measure university students' selfitis behavior in Turkey. Within the scope of the study, the SBS was translated from English to Turkish. Data were collected in the validity and reliability studies from four study groups, including 343 university students. According to the confirmatory…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Photography, Self Esteem, Behavior Rating Scales
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Shepherd, Craig E.; Kilty, Trina Johnson; McCoy, Dan; Bolliger, Doris U. – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2021
Smartphones are increasingly appearing in outdoor recreation settings despite controversy surrounding their appropriateness. This study examined the perceptions of eight instructors of an outdoor leadership development program regarding appropriate and inappropriate smartphone use, tensions and boundaries that arise during outdoor activities, and…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Outdoor Education, Safety
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Cheng, Michelle W. T.; Chan, Cecilia K. Y. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
Past studies revealed that Resident Assistants' (RAs) behavioural patterns are related to experiences and life outcomes of student residents. In this paper, the researchers aimed to investigate the struggles that new RAs encounter in university residential halls in Hong Kong, and to provide practical recommendations based on the findings.…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Experience, Resident Advisers, College Housing
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Kale, Mustafa; Aslan, Durmus – Early Child Development and Care, 2021
Although there are many findings about settled parents' beliefs and practices regarding child safety, little is known about those of nomadic parents. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the child safety beliefs and practice of pastoral nomadic parents. Participants consisted of eight parents who lived as nomads on the Mediterranean…
Descriptors: Child Safety, Migrants, Parent Attitudes, Ethnography
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Ozdemir, Ertugrul; Ustun, Ulas – Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 2021
Virtual experiments are beneficial and effective learning activities providing the opportunity to investigate the relationship between the experimental findings and the theories. There exist several advantages of using virtual experiments, including, among other things: 7/24 availability, opportunity of unlimited iterations, and working with an…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Visual Aids, Science Experiments, Credibility
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Fantozzi, Victoria B. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2021
Although existing literature has established that technologies are utilized in play and can be supportive of learning, utilization of technologies in play-based classrooms is not commonplace. This study is an holistic examination of a successful 2-year process of integrating an iPad into a play-based preschool setting. Each year the use of the…
Descriptors: Play, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Preschool Education
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