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Sherwin, Stephen L. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This dissertation analyzed the influence of the liberal arts on police officers and the quality of police-citizen encounters. Within recent years, several incidents of police-citizen encounters involving African Americans resulted in serious injuries, including death. Although many quantitative studies have investigated if higher education for…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Educational Benefits, Police Community Relationship, Law Enforcement
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Andres, Erin M.; Earnest, Kathleen Kelsey; Smith, Shelley D.; Rice, Mabel L.; Raza, Muhammad Hashim – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2020
Purpose: Specific language impairment (SLI) is characterized by a delay in language acquisition despite a lack of other developmental delays or hearing loss. Genetics of SLI is poorly understood. The purpose of this study is to identify SLI genetic loci through family-based linkage mapping. Method: We performed genome-wide parametric linkage…
Descriptors: Genetics, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays, Hearing Impairments
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Templeton, Robert – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2021
Mature-age postgraduate students are those who are late to higher education or have returned to postgraduate study after an educational hiatus in industry. While some mature-age students seek a postgraduate qualification out of extrinsic motivations such as for vocational reasons, there are older non-traditional students who seek higher status;…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Sustainability, Doctoral Degrees, Educational Attainment
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Pfeiffer, Karin A.; True, Larissa; Martin, Eric; Siegel, Shannon R.; Branta, Crystal F.; Haubenstricker, John; Seefeldt, Vern – Measurement in Physical Education and Exercise Science, 2021
The Michigan State University Motor Performance Study (MPS) was initiated in 1967 and lasted 32 years. Three central components existed: 1) Educational component, in which students experienced applied work with youth; 2) Instructional component, whereby enrolled youth received sport-specific skill instruction; and 3) Research component. The…
Descriptors: Psychomotor Skills, Athletics, Physical Development, Maturity (Individuals)
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Marschark, Marc; Walton, Dawn; Crowe, Kathryn; Borgna, Georgianna; Kronenberger, William G. – Deafness & Education International, 2018
This study explored possible associations of social maturity, executive function (EF), self-efficacy, and communication variables among deaf university students, both cochlear implant (CI) users and nonusers. Previous studies have demonstrated differences between deaf and hearing children and young adults in EF and EF-related social and cognitive…
Descriptors: Maturity (Individuals), Self Efficacy, Executive Function, Deafness
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Benham, Sara; Goffman, Lisa; Schweickert, Richard – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: Network science has been a valuable tool in language research for investigating relationships between complex linguistic elements but has not yet been applied to sound sequencing in production. In the present work, we used standard error-based accuracy and articulatory kinematic approaches as well as novel measures from network science to…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Preschool Children, Accuracy, Phonetics
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Van Praag, Lore; Van Caudenberg, Rut; Orozco, Mariana – British Educational Research Journal, 2018
In many educational systems, age is used as a criterion to organise education. Children's age is used to group students together and indicate entry into particular programmes. The use of age for organisational purposes in education stems from the idea that age provides an indication of the development of children, which is associated with teaching…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Age, Maturity (Individuals), Age Differences
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Yani, Bridgette; Harding, Ansie; Engelbrecht, Johann – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2019
This paper focuses on the students who are registered in the University of Pretoria's academic development programme, named the Four-year Programme (FYP). The programme was introduced as a gateway for students who are underprepared but have the potential to succeed and then continue their studies into the mainstream science programmes. Our…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Academic Ability, Mathematics Skills, Maturity (Individuals)
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Johnston, Elizabeth A.; Lane, James F. – International Journal of Education & the Arts, 2019
Many educational leaders are unfamiliar with learning, teaching, and conveying information through 21st century visual culture and digital products. Insights from individuals who developed skills in a visual environment and experienced technological disruptions throughout their working life might be useful. The six participants in this narrative…
Descriptors: Artists, Personal Narratives, Studio Art, Thinking Skills
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Marc Jackman, W.; Morrain-Webb, Judith – Cogent Education, 2019
The superior performance of females over males at high school and other levels appears to be a growing international phenomenon. This is notwithstanding the fact that a recent and significant comprehensive global meta-analysis that examined male-female performance at all levels revealed that girls have always outperformed boys in school. This…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students
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Kutlay, Emine; Haslofça, Fehime; Haslofça, Ercan – Online Submission, 2020
In order to monitor training effects and physical developments in elite sports, it may be beneficial to perform anthropometric measurements and physical fitness tests regularly. In this study, the relationship between the anthropometric properties and physical fitness values of elite figure skating athletes were investigated. 21 elite athletes in…
Descriptors: Physical Fitness, Athletes, Athletics, Training
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Güven, Naciye – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2017
The aim of this research is to determine the moral maturity levels of the Imam Hatip High School students. It is also to analyze whether the level of moral maturity differs according to gender, class level and place they stayed. The study was carried out on 220 students of the Imam Hatip High School in the district of Ortakoy in Aksaray in the…
Descriptors: Moral Development, High School Students, Gender Differences, Instructional Program Divisions
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Ring, Emer; O'Sullivan, Lisha; Hayes, Michael – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
This paper emerged from a national evaluation of concepts of school readiness, which adopted a mixed-methods approach comprising sixty-two interviews with parents, pre-school and kindergarten teachers, fifty-seven child conferences and an online survey distributed to 1,000 pre-school and kindergartens, eliciting a response rate of 29.6% and 23.8%…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Kindergarten, Preschool Children, Student Centered Learning
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Lemez, Srdjan; MacMahon, Clare; Weir, Patricia – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2016
Annual age cohort groupings promote relative age effects (RAEs), which often, inadvertently, create participation and attainment biases between relatively older and younger players within the same age cohort. In a globally evolving sport, women's rugby team selection practices may potentially bypass qualified players as a result of maturational…
Descriptors: Womens Athletics, Age Differences, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
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Kim, Nayoung; Lambie, Glenn W. – Professional Counselor, 2018
To prevent school counselors from experiencing feelings of burnout, identifying relevant factors is important. The purpose of this article is to review studies investigating the constructs of burnout and occupational stress in school counseling samples. Eighteen published research articles fit the inclusion criteria for this review. The…
Descriptors: Burnout, School Counselors, Stress Variables, Work Environment
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