College Student Journal back issues from March 2002:
First-generation college students at a four-year university: background characteristics, reasons for pursuing higher education, and first-year experiences.(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2002; ... This study examined the background characteristics of first-generation college students at a four-year university, their reasons for pursuing higher education, and their first-year experiences. In comparison to students whose parents had some college experience but no degrees (n = 75) and ...
Decision making styles of young South Indian consumers: an exploratory study.(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2002; ... This exploratory study investigates the decision -making styles of young South Indian consumers. The data for this study were collected from two institutions of higher education in the city of Coimbatore, India in the fall of 1995 utilizing the Consumer Style Inventory (CSI). ...
Do multimedia lesson structure and learning styles influence undergraduate writing performance?
Mar 01, 2002; ... The study investigated the effects of learning styles and multimedia structure on undergraduate writing performance in a prewriting skills lesson. The participants (n = 42) were enrolled in an introductory composition course at a university in the South. The multimedia lesson on ...
Predictive validity of the graduate record examination advanced psychology test for grade performance in graduate psychology courses.(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores are often considered during the admissions process for prospective graduate students and there have been several assessments of the predictive validity of the GRE for graduate students in psychology. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ...
Problems in grading based on testing university students.
Mar 01, 2002; ... Validity and reliability are key terms to emphasize in writing test items. Clarity in writing each test item is important and vital. Multiple procedures of assessing university student achievement should be in the offing. It is salient for instructors/professors to be accountable for fair ...
Income inequality among parents with college aged children: a study of the family as a whole and excluding wives' earnings.(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Some studies have discussed that measuring inequality should be based upon all types of households, not just married families. Other types of inequality include single parent families, families where the male or the female is the head of household, and households where parents live with ...
Student athletes with learning disabilities: a model for effective supports.
Mar 01, 2002; ... The evolution of the intercollegiate student-athlete has made great-changes and progress towards becoming a whole student and complete athlete, not one or the other. The redefinition of intercollegiate athletics has taken on the primary focus of creating stronger academic and personal ...
Prediction of educational psychology course grades by age and learning style scores *.(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2002; ... This study showed how different learning styles are related to objective-type tests used in obtaining undergraduate Educational Psychology course grades. The subjects were 105 university students who responded to four tests which were averaged and used as course grades. The best predictors ...
Advising at-risk students in college and university settings.
Mar 01, 2002; ... The importance of intrusive advising at-risk college and university students (i.e., students who: are ethnic minorities, are academically disadvantaged, have disabilities, are of low socioeconomic status, and are probationary students) has been repeatedly emphasized in the professional ...
College student attitudes toward interreligious marriage.
Mar 01, 2002; ... One hundred-five never married undergraduate university students completed an anonymous 18-item questionnaire designed to assess their attitudes toward interreligious marriage. Among other findings, the data revealed only one in five respondents required that their future spouse be of the ...
Let sleeping students lie?: Using interpersonal activities to engage disengaged students.
Mar 01, 2002; ... Frequently students become disengaged from the material and their teachers. How can disengaged students become more engaged with the material and their professor? What do students mean when they say that they want their professors to care about them? By use of example, the author examines ...
Service delivery for postsecondary students with disabilities: a survey of assistive technology use across disabilities.(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2002; ... As disability service providers become familiar with assistive technology (AT), some devices that were originally designed to meet the needs of a specific disability, are being used with a broader range of individuals (e.g., voice recognition systems for students with learning ...
Role model influence on the career decidedness of college students.
Mar 01, 2002; ... The purpose of this study was to examine role-model influence on the career decidedness of college students within the context of the Social Learning Theory of Career Decision-Making (SLTCDM; Krumboltz, 1981). Participants (N=405) completed questionnaires regarding demographic information, ...
Academic performance among African American and Caucasian college students: is the family still important?(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2002; ... This study assessed the role of the family on academic performance among African American and Caucasian college students. Family functioning, family status, and demographic variables were examined in a questionnaire. Results suggested that although the family continues to be important at ...
Coping resource availability and level of perceived stress as predictors of life satisfaction in a cohort of Turkish college students.(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2002; ... This study investigated the effects of perceived stress and availability of coping resources to predict satisfaction with life among a cohort of college students in Turkey (N=172). Results indicate that both perceived stress and coping resource availability moderately predict level of life ...
The college student as learner: insight gained through metaphor analysis.(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2002; ... Students in a general education cluster course were asked to create metaphors for themselves as learners at four points during an academic year. The metaphors were analyzed and categorized. Results indicate four categories were used: animal, object, human and action. The metaphors ...
Teaching cultural diversity to college students majoring in helping professions: the use of an eco-strengths perspective.
Mar 01, 2002; ... This article illustrates an alternative and exciting perspective for students majoring in the helping professions to learn about cultural diversity. The eco-strengths perspective that is interactive in nature is described along with how it can effectively prepare students to work with ...
Learning styles and approach versus avoidant coping during academic exam preparation.(Statistical Data Included)
Mar 01, 2002; ... This study investigated the association between several styles of learning as measured by the Inventory of Learning Processes - Revised (ILP-R), and approach coping assessed with a revised, 9-item version of the Ways of Coping Questionnaire. From a university student sample, 74 ...