An Investigation Of Career Decidedness In Relation To “Big Five” Personality Constructs And Life Satisfaction John W. Lounsbury Drawing on research on careers, career indecision, and personality, this study examined career decidedness in relation to life satisfaction and the “Big Five” personality constructs of neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Both general and work-based Big […]
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Assessing Students In A Graduate Tests And Measurement Course: Changing The Classroom Climate Beverly M. Klecker Four classroom assessment techniques were used in a graduate-level course in tests and measurements as an initial exploration of the relationships between classroom climate and classroom assessment. The subjects in this action research study were forty-three students in two […]
Resident assistant training: a Southwestern perspective Russell K. Elleven The position of resident assistant (RAs) on college campuses is one of great responsibility. RAs are often the first person students will seek out when needing emotional support. Training issues are complex and time consuming. Yet there has been little recently published addressing the issue of […]
Subjective Gender Role Assessment Index For Use In The College Classroom Joel Charles Snell The authors propose an assessment index for use primarily in the classroom, but may also be used in general research. Review Research dealing with sex roles, gender roles and related are numerous.(*) One of the authors has previously utilized sex role […]
Large Class Teaching: Is It A Problem To Students? William Duncan Papo This article tries to answer the question whether students at one of the twenty one South African Universities are experiencing problems with teaching that takes place in their large classes. The closed questionnaire was administered to 246 male and female students of the […]
Optimism and stress: an African-American college student perspective Debora R. Baldwin The purpose of this study was to examine the role of life event stress on African-American college students as a function of optimism. One hundred and six African-American college students attending a Historically Black College participated in this study. After obtaining informed consent, all […]
Black Undergraduate And White Undergraduate Eating Disorders And Related Attitudes Linda Nielsen The author reviews the most recent literature on the differences between white and black females in regard to eating disorders, dieting, and physical self-confidence. The racial differences and similarities from a questionnaire given to almost 400 female undergraduates are then discussed in terms […]
Factors affecting quality of English language teaching and learning in secondary schools in Nigeria S.E. Aduwa-Ogiegbaen This study examined the factors responsible for the poor quality of the teaching of English as a second language in public secondary schools in Nigeria. To guide the study three research questions were posed. The questions examined the following […]
The adoption of electronic benefit transfer card for delivering food stamp benefits in Alabama: perceptions of college students participating in the food stamp program Andrew A. Zekeri The reasons for moving from paper coupons to delivering food stamps electronically include potential reduction in the cost of administering the system and in fraud, theft and abuse […]
Portfolios, Maps and Globes in Geography – elementary education Marlow Ediger Relevant objectives need to be there for learner achievement in geography. These objectives must be selected carefully, using appropriate criteria. Learning opportunities for pupils to attain these ends need to be varied and meet personal needs of pupils individually and collectively. With these learning […]