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Dailin, Liu; Fengyan, Chang; Shuangxu, Yin; Fenglong, Zhang – Open Learning, 2008
Timely collection of feedback on the quality of teaching from graduates and their employers is of great significance in distance education, and can help enhance the quality of teaching and improve management and all-round learner support. However, since the graduates left university some years ago, are now widely dispersed and consequently may…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Curriculum Design, Open Education, Distance Education
Avenilla, Frank; Rosenthal, Emily; Tice, Pete – National Center for Education Statistics, 2006
This E.D. TAB presents information about the biological fathers of children born in the United States in the year 2001. It is the first publication of findings using the data collected from fathers during the base year collection of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B). It presents information on the demographic…
Descriptors: Children, Fathers, Longitudinal Studies, Parent Child Relationship
Sperling, Shoshana; Mowder, Barbara A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2006
Using the Parent Development Theory (PDT; B.A. Mowder, 2005) as the conceptual framework, this research explored parenting related to preschoolers' special needs status. Parents of special needs children rated general welfare and protection as well as sensitivity as the most important parenting characteristics during the preschool years. By…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Special Needs Students, Parent Attitudes, Comparative Analysis
Tang, Giang; Barlow, Jessica – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2006
There has been little or no research on Vietnamese phonological development, let alone on phonological disorders of Vietnamese-speaking children. The goal of this study is to evaluate the sound systems of monolingual Vietnamese-speaking children with phonological impairment. Independent and relational analyses of four children (ages 4;4 to 5;5)…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Children, Phonology, Language Impairments
Underhill, Christina M. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2006
Many studies over the last 20--25 years have examined the benefits of mentoring for the protege and the organization. A review of these studies being published revealed that there is not only a lack of studies utilizing or reporting comparison group information but also a general lack of experimental research about mentoring. This quantitative…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Individual Characteristics, Mentors, Meta Analysis
Escott, Phillip – Journal of Beliefs & Values, 2006
Decline in church attendance in England is well documented, though explanations vary. One explanation is that worship services themselves may be unattractive; even when Christian belief (of some kind) continues, there is no perceived need to express this through worship. Religious experiences of former attenders are not easily accessible; here the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Christianity, Churches, Ceremonies
Zuroff, David C.; Blatt, Sidney J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006
Using data from the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment for Depression Collaborative Research Program, the authors examined the impact on treatment outcome of the patient's perception of the quality of the therapeutic relationship and contribution to the therapeutic alliance. Shared variance with early clinical improvement was removed…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Mental Health, Outcomes of Treatment, Patients
Neihart, Maureen – Understanding Our Gifted, 2006
Resilience allows one to achieve emotional health and social competence in spite of a history of adversity. There are three waves of resilience research. The first wave, 40 years ago, examined risk factors in children. The second wave of research asked the question, what do resilient children look like? These studies concluded that while there is…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Gifted, Academic Achievement, Mental Health
Hicks, Madelyn Hsiao-Rei – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
A community probability-sampled survey was done of 181 Chinese American women to investigate the prevalence and nature of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Chinese Americans. Of participants, 42% knew a Chinese woman who had experienced IPV. Also, 14% had experienced IPV themselves in their lifetime (8% severe and 6% minor), 3% in the previous…
Descriptors: Incidence, Family Violence, Chinese Americans, Females
Orsmond, Gael I.; Seltzer, Marsha Mailick; Greenberg, Jan S.; Krauss, Marty Wyngaarden – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2006
The mother-child relationship in families of 202 adolescents and adults with an autism spectrum disorder living at home and its association with maternal caregiving gains and strains were examined. Findings indicate a wide range of variability in the quality of the mother-child relationship, although most were characterized as positive across…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Mothers, Caregivers, Adolescents
Olson, Lynn A.; Evans, James R.; Keckler, Wade T. – Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2006
Precocious readers represent a small portion of children who enter school each year. Researchers have investigated the environmental characteristics, acquisition process, psycholinguistic and neuropsychological characteristics, and academic skills of these children. Despite the research findings in the area, researchers and clinicians are still…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Gifted, Young Children, Emergent Literacy
Barry, Adam E.; Misra, Ranjita; Dennis, Maurice – Journal of Alcohol and Drug Education, 2006
Driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol is a major public health concern. By distinguishing the type of individuals violating driving while intoxicated (DWI) sanctions, intervention programs will be better suited to reduce drinking and driving. The purpose of this study was to examine the personal characteristics of DWI offenders and…
Descriptors: Profiles, Public Health, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse

Martin, June; Romas, Michael; Medford, Marsha; Leffert, Nancy; Hatcher, Sherry L. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2006
Most studies of therapeutic alliance have focused on adult populations and been written from the therapist's perspective. Thus, there is a clear need for studies of therapeutic alliance that focus on adolescent populations from the perspective of the adolescents. The current study is an exploratory process investigation using a focus group…
Descriptors: Therapy, Adolescents, Focus Groups, Counselor Client Relationship
Maciel, Anna G.; And Others – 1992
Features of everyday conceptions of a "wise person" were examined, based on a model of wisdom-related knowledge (Baltes & Smith, 1990). The goal was to examine whether the psychological theory underlying this model is consistent with lay conceptions of wisdom, and whether everyday conceptions contain additional features not contained…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Females, Foreign Countries
Taylor, Laura A.; And Others – 1992
Social psychologists have long been interested in the processes by which perceivers generate their inferences about individuals' and groups' decisions from their behavior. Attitude and preference inferences have been studied at the level of the individual target as well as the group target. This study investigated the effects of the social unit of…
Descriptors: College Students, Decision Making, Groups, Higher Education