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Adolescent ego development: relationship to family cohesion and adaptability
(Elsevier, 1989-03)Adolescence has been a focus of research for several decades. Recently, a portion of this body of research has addressed the relationship between adolescent development and family functioning. The intent of much of this ... -
Adults' and children's monitoring of story events in the service of comprehension
(Springer (New York), 2011-08)When reading narratives, adults monitor shifts in time, space, characters, goals, and causation. Shifts in any of these dimensions affect both moment-by-moment reading and memory organization. The extant developmental ... -
Assessing high school student's STEM career interests using a social cognitive framework
(MDPI, 2019-06)This study investigated the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the STEM Career Interest Survey (STEM-CCIS) with data from 590 high-school students in Taiwan. Measurement models based on Social-Cognitive ... -
Attitudes toward seeking professional counseling services among Chinese international students: acculturation, ethnic identity, and English proficiency
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2016-01)The authors examined the help-seeking attitudes of 109 Chinese international students studying in the United States. Results revealed that significant relationships exist among acculturation, ethnic identity, English ... -
Bias in learning disabilities placement
(Ammons Scientific, 1993-06)A nationally representative sample of 20,614 eighth grade students was examined for bias in placement decisions for children said to have learning disabilities. Factors investigated for bias were race, sex, and socioeconomic ... -
Bullying and social status during school transitions
(Routledge, 2009-11-12)The Handbook of Bullying in Schools provides a comprehensive review and analysis of what is known about the worldwide bullying phenomena. It is the first volume to systematically review and integrate what is known about ... -
Chapter 2 -- An emerging conceptualization of epistemological beliefs and their role in learning
(Routledge, 2019-06-06)This chapter introduces an emerging theory of individuals’ beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning, or epistemological beliefs. It reviews research that tests aspects of this theory and highlights the critical ... -
Chapter 2 -- Scholarship of discovery: exploring cross-cultural counseling deep in the heart of counselor education
(Information Age Publishing, 2015-04-01)Exploring cross-cultural counseling deep in the heart of counselor education. -
Chapter 22 -- Emotion during reading and writing
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)For more than a decade, there has been growing interest and research on the pivotal role of emotions in educational settings. This ground-breaking handbook is the first to highlight this emerging field of research and to ... -
Chapter 22 -- Scholar‐Practitioners: Comparing and Contrasting the Role of Scholarship in the Careers of Administrators and Faculty
(Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2017)Those who are identified as scholar-practitioners in student affairs administration are relatively rare, or at least that was my experience over the four decades that I was an administrator and faculty member in higher ... -
Chapter 8 -- Teaching educational psychology in cross-disciplinary courses a case study of teaching engineering graduate students
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Chapter 9 -- 21st Century Learning Initiatives as a Manifestation of Neoliberalism
(SensePublishers, 2015)For the past decade or so, public schools in the US have been critiqued by business organizations, think tanks, and policymakers for their outmoded curriculum and teaching methods, for not embracing advances in technology, ... -
Children's productive use of academic vocabulary
(Taylor & Francis LTD, 2017)Instructional influences on productive use of academic vocabulary were investigated among 460 mostly African American and Latina/o fifth graders from 36 classrooms in eight public schools serving low-income families. ... -
Classroom context influence on pre-service teacher pupil control ideology
(Routledge, 2021-09-24)The purpose of this experimental study is to examine the extent to which changes in a classroom scenario influence participant reports of pupil control ideology (PCI). Pre-service teacher participants (n = 83) completed a ... -
A community college HSI: the effect of an HSI designation on organizational identity
(SAGE Publications, 2019-07-25)Objective: Most community colleges receiving the Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) designation have no specific mission to serve Hispanic students. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore how receiving ... -
Comparing iPadA (R) and paper assessments for children with ASD: an initial study
(SAGE Publications, 2019-05)iPadA (R) and paper versions of a receptive vocabulary assessment were administered to 4- to 6-year olds with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). No differences were found between scores on the two assessments. ... -
Cultural values at the individual level and the malleability of ways of knowing
(Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis LTD, 2/23/2014)This research tested the relationship between individuals cultural values and the malleability in their ways of knowing in two social contexts. Two hundred and ninety-two college students majoring in either business or ... -
Depending on my mood: mood-driven influences on text comprehension
(American Psychological Association, 2011-08)Reading comprehension is a critical component of success in educational settings. To date, research on text processing in educational and cognitive psychological domains has focused predominantly on cognitive influences ... -
Early childhood education: The long-term benefits
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-02-03)This study was designed to substantiate the positive, long-term outcomes demonstrated by children from economically disadvantaged homes who received a high-quality, early education. Children who attended The Opportunity ... -
Editorial: Goodbye: New begining
(Sociedad Interamericana de Psicologia, 2020-03-08)As I am beginning to write this final editorial as the editor of the Interamerican Journal of Psychology (IJP), I can help but to have reflections about these few years. In 2011, when I began this process in where the ...