High school dropouts continue to be a documented problem in the United States and more specifically in North Carolina. Nationally, there were over 2.5 million dropouts reported for the 2012 school year. In North Carolina,...
Keyword:
belonging, dropouts, graduation, high school, mentor, and school connectedness
Subject:
High school dropouts -- North Carolina, Motivation in education -- North Carolina, Achievement motivation -- North Carolina, Mentoring in education -- North Carolina, and Dropouts -- North Carolina -- Prevention
It is well documented that the pressures of accountability and standardization have impacted public school teachers and their teaching practices (Imig & Imig, 2006; McCloskey and McMunn, 2000; Sacks, 1999). The pressure to...
Keyword:
Accountability, Case Study, Experiential Education, Inquiry-Based Teaching, Progressive Education, and Teacher Evaluation
Subject:
High school teachers, High school teaching -- Methodology, Experiential learning, Education, Secondary, and Educational accountability
The purpose of this study was to investigate if adding a “personal stories” based component to a knowledge-based teacher training leads to improved pre-service teacher’s attitudes about stuttering and knowledge about...
Subject:
Student teachers, Teachers—Training of, Stutterers, Stuttering, and Speech disorders
Bullying of sexual minority students is an increasingly prevalent topic among school psychologists and educational personnel across the country. This study measured the variables of sex knowledge (as measured through the Sexual...
Keyword:
anti-gay prejudice, bullying, homophobia, sex education, sex knowledge, and sexual minority
Subject:
Bullying in schools, Sex instruction, and Homophobia in schools
The purpose of the current study is to examine the association between the higher-order scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, Second Edition, Restructured Form (MMPI-2-RF) and the DSM-oriented scales of the...
Keyword:
ASEBA, child abuse potential, child maltreatment, depression, internalizing, and MMPI-2-RF
Subject:
Abusive parents -- Psychology and Child abuse -- Psychological aspects
A first-year experience is a collaborative effort of many initiatives, with varying names that have the greatest impact on student success during the first year of college. A first-year experience course, a feature of the...
Keyword:
Academic Performance, College Freshmen, First-Year Experience, First-Year Seminar, Graduation, and Student Retention
Subject:
Community college student development programs -- North Carolina -- Evaluation, Community college students -- North Carolina -- Evaluation, and Community college dropouts -- North Carolina -- Prevention
Research into the predictors of child physical abuse has shown that caregivers that have perpetrated child physical abuse experience internalizing mental health concerns (stress, emotional distress, anxiety, and depression)...
Keyword:
abusive head trauma and shaken baby syndrome
Subject:
Shaken baby syndrome -- Risk factors -- United States, Infants -- Abuse of -- United States, Caregivers -- United States, and Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (U.S.)
Previous research has found various predictors for substance use treatment outcomes, such as relapse and re-entry into treatment. However, there is a distinct gap in the research on treatment outcomes for women. While gender...
Keyword:
addiction, polyvictimization, relapse, revictimization, substance use treatment, and trauma
Subject:
Women -- Substance use, Substance abuse -- Treatment -- Sex differences, Psychic trauma, and Post-traumatic stress disorder
Isotria medeoloides (Pursh) Raf. or small whorled pogonia is one of the rarest orchids in the eastern U.S. and is currently threatened by habitat loss in the southern Appalachians. The purpose of this study was to improve our...
Keyword:
biodiversity conservation, habitat model, Isotria medeoloides, Maxent, southern Appalachians, and threatened and endangered
Subject:
Small whorled pogonia -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Geographical distribution -- Mathematical models and Small whorled pogonia -- Habitat -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Mathematical models
Interpersonal violence is considered a serious health problem given the potential for contributing to negative outcomes among victims. In recent decades, however, findings from studies have suggested that although the...
Subject:
Victims of violent crimes, Interpersonal conflict, Violence -- Psychological aspects, Violence -- Social aspects, Resilience (Personality trait), Positive psychology, and Relationship quality
