Technology is constantly changing, and has enabled communication to be readily available everywhere, to everyone, including students in classrooms. Most devices are portable, capable of talking, texting, and surfing the...
Subject:
Text messaging (Cell phone systems) -- North Carolina -- Psychological aspects -- Case studies, College students -- Effect of technological innovations on -- North Carolina -- Case studies, and Recollection (Psychology) -- Case studies
There has been considerable research studying the symptoms related to reading disabilities as well as the tools and training programs that can be used to remediate such symptoms. One such tool being used to increase fluency for...
Keyword:
dyslexia, Dyslexie, font, oral reading fluency, reading disability, and type-face
Subject:
Reading disability -- Alternative treatment -- Evaluation, Type and type-founding -- Therapeutic use -- Evaluation, and Oral reading -- Evaluation
Videogames are rapidly growing in popularity with people from a wide range of ages enjoying them every day. The main types of videogames are: first-person or third-person action games, sports or racing games, games that require...
Subject:
Video games -- Psychological aspects and Cognition
A recent review of the research literature on learning styles (Pashler, McDaniel, Rohrer, & Bjork, 2009) revealed insufficient evidence to support the claim that learning outcomes are improved when instruction matches the...
Keyword:
Learning Styles, Qualitative, Quantitative, Self-Theories, Teacher Beliefs, and Teacher Efficacy
Subject:
Learning, Psychology of, Effective teaching, and Elementary school teachers
This thesis chose to explore Borderline Personality disorder from a dimensional perspective. Adult attachment, emotional dysregulation, and splitting cognitions are identified as key variables on the Borderline Personality...
Keyword:
Adult Attachment, Boderline Personality Disorder, Dimensionalization of disorders, emotional dysregulation, and Splitting cognitons
Maladaptive eating behaviors are prevalent and are typically associated with significant impairment in functioning. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) is a commonly administered psychological assessment of...
In the last several years, the long-held opinion that adolescent pregnancy was generallyaccidental has been challenged by findings that a large number of teens may want to becomepregnant or may be ambivalent about becoming...
Keyword:
Adolescent, Idealization, Parenthood, Pregnancy, Scale, and Teen
Subject:
Teenage pregnancy -- Psychological aspects -- Research -- Methodology -- Evaluation and College students -- United States -- Attitudes
High school dropout, or early school withdrawal, is a complex problem that can result from factors in all life domains. Specific factors commonly cited throughout literature in association with early school withdrawal include...
Keyword:
Dropout, Ethnicity, Gender, High School, Retention, and School Mobility
Subject:
High school dropouts -- North Carolina, Western, African American dropouts -- North Carolina, Western, Hispanic American dropouts -- North Carolina, Western, High school boys -- North Carolina, Western, and High school girls -- North Carolina, Western
Learning to read is challenging for the majority of children today. Current research documents multiple early reading skills that are essential for later literacy development in children. Further, research on early literacy...
Keyword:
Early Intervention, Family Involvement, Literacy, Reading Programs, and Reading Research
Subject:
Reading (Early childhood) -- North Carolina -- Macon County
Though the majority of veterans are able to reintegrate into civilian society without incident, a portion of the population does experience mild to severe stressors such as mental health disorders, suicide risk, incarceration,...
Keyword:
mental health, reintegration, and veteran
Subject:
Veteran reintegration -- United States, Stress (Psychology), Veterans -- Mental health -- United States, Veterans -- Mental health services -- United States, and Stress management
