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Title: Digital Mirror: An Examination of Social Media’s Influence on Late Adolescent Black Females’ Global and Academic Self-Concept
Author: Williams, Nakeshia
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational psychology, African Americans--Study and teaching, Ethnicity--Study and teaching
Description: The broad socialization of new media has the ability to cultivate the values, beliefs, interests, and personality characteristics of Black females. Specifically, new media’s digital platform of social media offers individuals immediate access to v...

Title: A Comparison Of Academic Advising Experiences And Satisfaction Of African American Males and Other Students At A Predominately White Institution
Author: Means, Billie
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Education, Educational leadership, Educational psychology
Description: Of all college students, four percent are African American males of which one third graduate within six years. The status of African-American males in higher education serves as an impetus for research to investigate their collegiate experiences a...

Title: Assessing The Impact of Programming to Strengthen Social Emotional Skills in Young School Children: Associations with Academic and Behavioral Outcomes
Author: Simmons, Caitlin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Educational psychology
Description: Considerable research documents the importance of social emotional development for children’s short- and long-term outcomes, including academic outcomes and long-term health and wellbeing. Studies have demonstrated that the development of social e...

Title: Managing conflict in multicultural classes: Examining the relationship between severity of conflict and the use of interventions by university instructors to manage and resolve conflict
Author: Burton, Stephen
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Multicultural education, Educational psychology, Social sciences--Study and teaching
Description: Multicultural class professors are faced with the often difficult task of helping prepare pre-service counselors to meet the mental healthcare needs of an increasingly diverse and pluralistic society. A major factor that has stood in the way of ef...

Title: Effects of Diagnostic Progress Monitroing Feedback on Early Literacy Student Achievement
Author: Lopuch, Jeremy
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Educational psychology, Educational tests and measurements
Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of diagnostic formative assessment feedback on early literacy skills. The participants were 12 first-grade general education teachers and 51 of their students who were assigned to the following ...

Title: DEVELOPING AND VALIDATING A NEW INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE THE SELF-EFFICACY OF ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS
Author: McGee, Jennifer
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Educational psychology, Educational tests and measurements
Description: The purpose of this study was the development and validation of an instrument to measure the self-efficacy of elementary mathematics teachers. Self-efficacy, as defined by Bandura, was the theoretical framework for the development of the instrumen...

Title: Academic self-efficacy among students enrolled in developmental education: The role of social modeling
Author: DeAngelis, Kristin
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Educational psychology, Adult education, Instructional systems--Design
Description: Students in developmental education face three types of barriers: institutional, situational, and affective. Current interventions focus on addressing institutional barriers; however, continuing low success and retention rates indicate a need for ...

Title: The relationship of elementary teachers' years of teaching experience, perceptions of occupational stress, self-acceptance, and challenging student behavior to burnout symptoms in the United States and Germany.
Author: Ullrich, Annette
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Special education, Education, Elementary, Educational psychology
Description: In the United States, stress and burnout have been identified as contributors to the shortage and attrition of both general and special education teachers (Edmonson, 2006). In Germany, intense political debate has been related to premature retirem...

Title: Students' Conceptual Knowledge of Limits in Calculus: A Two-Part Constructivist Case Study
Author: Adams, Margaret
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Mathematics--Study and teaching, Educational psychology, Adult education
Description: This case study investigated students' conceptual knowledge of limits in calculus by implementing semi-structured interviews. The constructivist learning principles of Piaget and Inhelder as well as theories of understanding by Skemp guided the st...

Title: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF EXPERIENCES OF TRAUMA-TRAINED K-12 TEACHERS PRACTICING TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE APPROACHES WITHIN THEIR CLASSROOMS
Author: McCasey, Christine
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Social sciences, Educational psychology, Medical sciences
Description: Trauma-informed care (TIC) has been the subject of numerous scholarly studies in various contexts for nearly four decades. Thus, TIC practices have been shown to reduce educators' stress (Jaycox et al., 2019), increase teacher awareness of student...