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Martínez-Huertas, José Á.; Jorge-Botana, Guillermo; Olmos, Ricardo – Cognitive Science, 2021
We present a longitudinal computational study on the connection between emotional and amodal word representations from a developmental perspective. In this study, children's and adult word representations were generated using the latent semantic analysis (LSA) vector space model and Word Maturity methodology. Some children's word representations…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Psychological Patterns, Children, Adults
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Maltman, Nell; DaWalt, Leann Smith; Hong, Jinkuk; Mailick, Marsha – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
About 30% of adults with autism are minimally verbal. Past research suggested that after age five, few gain verbal fluency, but studies have rarely investigated whether family environmental factors contribute to the acquisition of verbal fluency. The present study utilized data from the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised to compare changes in…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Socioeconomic Influences, Verbal Ability, Autism
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Dorner, Helga; Belic, Jelena – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
This paper explores how conversations among academics in a particular institutional context evolve, starting from the individual development of teachers and shifting in focus to institutional development. Results of our basic survey (N = 55) and semi-structured interviews with teachers (N = 13) who participated in lunch-time conversations on…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), College Faculty, Evolution, Faculty Development
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Hirsch, Kelsey; Odom, Summer F.; Moore, Lori L. – Journal of Leadership Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine how undergraduate peer mentors at Texas A&M University perceive their development of leadership behaviors through their peer mentor experience. Participants were first-generation college students serving as mentors to first-generation college students at Texas A&M University. A qualitative approach…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Mentors, First Generation College Students, Leadership Training
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Kupersmitt, Judy R.; Nicoladis, Elena – First Language, 2021
This study examines the expression of simultaneity in the film-based oral narratives of 100 English monolinguals in the following three age groups: preschoolers (4-6 years), school-aged children (7-10 years), and adults (19-48 years). Participants told a story of what happened in the film, in an off-line task, to an interviewer who had not seen…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Story Telling, Films
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Ross, Monique S.; Huff, James L.; Godwin, Allison – Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Background: Social identity theory has been used to understand student and professional engagement in engineering. Engineering identity development, however, can be disrupted by the barriers and challenges associated with the racialized and gendered perceptions of engineering. Purpose/Hypothesis: This study examined the engineering identity…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Identification (Psychology), Individual Development, African Americans
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Yang, Jing; Wang, Lijuan – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
It has been well documented in adults that compared to verbal learning, learning while the subject performs an action is far more effective. However, the results of previous studies involving children have not reached a consensus. The present study examined the action memory of 4- to 6-year-old children under various encoding conditions (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Memory, Experiential Learning, Age Differences
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Emanuel Sebastian Turda – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2024
Context: Adolescence is the training ground for adult life. In a relatively short period, the adolescent will undergo a metamorphosis. During the high school years, the majority of adolescents move from persistent dependence to true independence, from logical thinking to abstract, complex and hypothetical thinking, from impulsivity to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Career Choice, Decision Making
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Patrick Filipe Conway; Kathy Chau Rohn – Journal of College Student Development, 2024
Colleges and universities have recently focused more attention on incorporating high-impact practices into their curricula, often under the auspices of the potential benefits such practices have for developmental growth and student success (Lange & Stewart, 2019). Outdoor adventure education represents an experiential practice where students…
Descriptors: Individual Development, Outdoor Education, Adventure Education, Experiential Learning
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Cheng Deng; Maureen Legge – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
Health and Physical Education (HPE) has been an important learning area in the "New Zealand Curriculum" (NZC) since the two learning areas were integrated in the 1990s. HPE in the NZC proposed a multi-dimensional education vision, principles and values for students' holistic development founded upon theoretical perspectives such as…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Physical Education
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Martha J. Decker; Abigail Gutmann-Gonzalez; Melissa Saphir; Ngoc Tram Nguyen; Qi Zhi; Claire D. Brindis – Health Education & Behavior, 2024
Background: Most health and developmental issues affecting young people are interrelated. However, few interventions address multiple behavioral domains simultaneously or are based on theories that encompass a holistic perspective of youth development. Aim: The purpose of this scoping review was to identify and describe the range of theory-based,…
Descriptors: Health Education, Intervention, Health Behavior, Sexuality
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Deborah Earnshaw; Natalie Harrison – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2024
Extra-curricular activities, such as playing sport and participating in mentoring programmes, have physical and mental health benefits for individuals. For adolescents particularly, nurturing these interests has the potential for positive outcomes in academic attainment and personal development, an increase to self-esteem, and positive development…
Descriptors: Mentors, At Risk Persons, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Vivian A. Amu – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The real-world problem concerning the question of leadership preparedness of international students attending private, Jesuit Catholic universities was studied using a constructivist narrative inquiry method. From the rich stories of five participants, six experiential themes emerged from the data analysis done by hand coding. The themes were…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Catholic Schools, Religious Colleges, Private Colleges
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Nashid Nigar; Alex Kostogriz – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
This article examines the transformation of Australian EAL/D (English as an additional language/dialect) classrooms, transitioning from a monolingual focus on Standard Australian English (SAE) to embracing plurilingual and intercultural approaches in English language and literacy teaching and learning. Employing hermeneutic phenomenological and…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Multicultural Education, Literacy, Language Arts
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Timothy O'Brien – Journal of Management Education, 2024
Scholars have identified reflexivity, the ability to question what one might be taking for granted, as a critical meta-cognitive skill that management schools should cultivate amongst students. Reflexive learning though is a complex and idiosyncratic process. Little is known about how students experience this process, what they learn, or how a…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Leadership Training, Researchers, Experimenter Characteristics
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