A sample of two hundred ninety students from a University was employed. Beck’s Depression Inventory and Heppner’s Problem Solving Scale were utilized. Results suggested that non-depressed student averages were significantly higher on problem-solving scales than the depressed students. General orientation and decision making variables accounted for twenty nine percent of the variance in depression among the college students. Hancock, Bray & Nason, (2002), in a study investigated
ABSTRACT This paper reports about the observations made and knowledge gained through studying and developing an online study material for graduates. Inspired by issues and challenges experienced in developing the online courseware, a model is advanced which has resolved major issues with the older models and online information system (courseware). The benefits of using proposed system for online studying is described in a complete detail in this paper. After going through questionnaire and pilot
academic success. Moreover, research shows that sleep or the lack of it also causes impaired perception, emotional disturbance and a generally lower efficiency of task performance. Sleep deprivation however, is a concept numerous college students are very much familiar with for multiple college students get an inadequate amount of sleep; which in return compromises the very aspects of their lives that they need to be able to perform properly and successfully. This happens because college students believe
writing in college as an international student? College and High school differ in many ways, requiring students to make significant transitions. One of the many thing that differs college graduates from high school graduates is writing. The writing course in college often incorporate challenging writing assignments that require students to think critically. Due to the difficulty that writing brings, many students have negative feelings toward writing assignments. Among these students are international
anthropological study with the following research questions in mind: “What is the current culture at AnyU (my pseudonym for my university) as an example of the American public university? How do contemporary American students understand their education, and what do they want from it? How do they negotiate college life? What does college really teach?” (4). Nathan does this by posing as an undergraduate student as well as initially conducting participant/observer research but quickly changes her method and
both articles and then observed. The participants in both articles are between age 19 and 23 and are college students. The two articles are comparing the political views of liberals and conservative participants and how their views are affected by different situations that the researchers have tested within both of their experiments.
” I do believe, however, that Clark County is on the right track in trying to encourage their teachers to teach with “productive engagement” in mind. The use of interactive whiteboards; encouraging students to produce power point presentations, rather than the standard book report or research paper; the use of computer and iPad software; and hands-on learning manipulatives in classroom centers are all ways that teachers use productive engagement. It is unfortunate that there are still teachers in
is a type of salaried academic employment which involves the student receiving tuition reimbursement for certain tasks and short-term jobs. In other words, it is a unique form of financial assistance for graduate students. Below explains more about assistantships and how to apply for them. Assistantships in Psychology A Psychology Assistantship is typically offered to graduate students in both academic and administrative areas. Students normally work around 15 to 20 hours a week and receive a stipend
answer the same questions, or a selection of questions from common bank of questions, in the same way, and that (2) is scored in a “standard” or consistent manner, which makes it possible to compare the relative performance of individual students or groups of students" (Standardized Test). Standardized testing first had its start in the the early 1900’s during World War I where” Alpha and Beta army tests [were used] to sort incoming soldiers and to determine their ‘mental fitness’” (Au). But modernized
should change how self-esteem is defined, diagnosed, or applied, especially in relation to research in foreign