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Student learning abroad: what our students are learning, what they're not,…

by Stuart, Douglas K., Robinson, Jennifer Meta, Vande Berg, Michael, Paige, R. Michael, Lou, Kris Hemming, Vande Berg, Michael, (ed), Paige, R. Michael, (ed), Lou, Kris Hemming, (ed), Bathurst, Laura, Bennett, Milton J., Bosley, Gabriele Weber, Engle, John, Engle, Lilli, Hammer, Mitchell R., Harvey, Tara A., Kolb, David A., La Brack, Bruce, McCleary, Kate S., Medina-Lopez-Portillo, Adriana, Menyhart, Catherine, Passarelli, Angela M., Quinn, Meghan, Salonen, Riikka, Savicki, Victor, Zull, James E.

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A central purpose of this book is to question the claims commonly made about the educational benefits of study abroad. Traditional metrics of enrollment increases and student self-report, and practices of structural immersion, are being questioned as educators voice growing unce…

Limited research has been completed in the area of resilience and its relationships with religious coping, anxiety, and depression in the university setting. Existent studies have found positive relationships between resilience and religious coping as well as a between religious…

Loneliness is on the rise within the United States, particularly within younger adults ages 18-37 (Bruce et al 2019). Although much is known about the negative dimensions of loneliness, and some about protective factors to help ease loneliness, the potential impact of religious …

The current study is the first known research to investigate the association of the freezing response with PTSD and traumatic stress in the military veteran student population. Current understanding of the freezing response are primarily based in comparative psychology, with som…

Studies have highlighted the prevalence of sedentary behaviours in the university student population and have noted the significant potential for the promotion of physical activity in educational settings for young adults. Following the epidemiological procedure and ecological a…

Nos últimos anos, têm sido vários os estudos que sugerem que bons hábitos de leitura e que a escolha do papel para a leitura são fatores que influenciam o desempenho em leitura e o desempenho académico. Assim, o grande objetivo deste estudo foi o de avaliar a relação entre os há…

This study examined the conceptual learning of assistive technology by occupational therapy graduate students in relation to the profession, technology and design, in accordance with the constructionist theory. The work explored graduate students’ learning when they collaborativ…

The need for innovative research to tackle the deep-seated social dysfunction engendered by corruption and inadequate leadership style in most public institutions, including the university, has become pervasive in Nigeria. Efforts to improve university management and governance …

This study investigated the dynamics of adult Iranians' social interactions in Canada. The purpose was to identify social and cultural factors that improve or block speaking opportunities for adult Iranian immigrants. Eight Iranians, five men and three women, who had spent their…

Günümüzde kitleleri etkileyen en önemli güç olarak görülen sosyal medya, yaşamımızın en önemli parçalarından biri olarak görülmektedir. Her kesimden insanların elinde olan akıllı telefonlar ile kimileri sosyalleşmekte, kimileri eski eş, dost, arkadaşlarını bulmakta, kimileri hay…

Bu araştırma; dünyadaki bütün toplumların hayatlarını farklı farklı etkileyen dindarlık olgusunu, iki toplumdan misal vererek alınan örneklem üzerindeki etkilerini ve durumlarını incelemektedir. Bu araştırmanın ana gayesi, İstanbul Üniversitesi'nin çeşitli fakültelerinden 657 öğ…

The present study examined the impact of cultural background on the epistemic orientation of university students. A sample of undergraduate students drawn from two Canadian universities (N = 540) were compared with a sample drawn from two universities in Lebanon (N = 663). Epist…

Whereas previous studies of the Indonesian student movement have been limited to studies of single episodes of activism of student protests, this work focuses on the narratives, and repertoires that, together with crucial external events of political and economic realignments cr…

The purpose of this study was to explore Egyptian college women's sense of adulthood in Cairo today. The goal was to gain an understanding of what it means to be a privileged, female college student attending a private university with high levels of exposure to Western media and…

Access to higher education for the poor in Bangladesh is a frequent public concern, as noted through press reports, government debate, and even social unrest related to the issue of university affordability. In spite of the public discussion, the only higher education equity ini…

Akıllı telefon sektörünün giderek daha hızlı yeniliklerle gelişmesi ile markaların pazarda farklılaşması adına daha çok çalışma yapması gerekmektedir. Akıllı telefonlar artık sadece teknik özellikleri açısından değil, sundukları deneyime de bakılarak tercih edilmektedir. Dolayıs…

This study focused on investigating the relationship between thinking styles and learning approaches. Two samples of Nigerian university students, one from Federal University of Port-Harcourt (FUPH) and the other from Federal University of Jos (FUJO), participated in the study. …

Scope and method of study . The purpose of this study was to examine the perceived vocabulary learning strategies (VLSs) of Turkish university students and to find out whether certain variables such as studying a foreign language other than English, gender, self-reported English…