College Student Journal articles from December 1999

College Student Journal archives from December 1999

CONTEMPORARY CHILDCARE ISSUES FACING COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
December 1, 1999... Although childcare/child development centers and higher education have a history dating back to the World War II years, current conditions have precipitated a cut back in availability. The authors maintain that such facilities belong on college...

LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION: THEIR MOTIVE AND CONTENT.
December 1, 1999... Letters of recommendation play a vital role in students' ability to secure desired jobs and entrance to graduate schools. Students, however, are frequently uninformed about their responsibilities and needs in the recommendation letter process....

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN RELIGIOUS ORIENTATION, GENDER, AND DRINKING PATTERNS AMONG CATHOLIC COLLEGE STUDENTS.
December 1, 1999... This study examined the relationship between Roman Catholic college students' intrinsic and extrinsic approaches toward religion, and their drinking behavior. The sample consisted of 277 Roman Catholic college students who completed the...

COMPARING THE DEMOCRATIC MATURITY AND SELF-FULFILLMENT ACHIEVEMENT OF COLLEGE JUNIORS AND SENIORS.
December 1, 1999... The study sought to assess the degree and nature of change in relation to democratic maturity and self-fulfillment between juniors and seniors in a teacher education program in a major university in Tennessee. An important aspect of the program...

TRAINING SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS.
December 1, 1999... The rate of growth of technology is accelerating. This has caused a major issue of training end users to keep up with the growing technology. As a result, training managers are challenged to find effective and innovative ways to train end...

CHARACTERISTICS OF COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO COHABIT.
December 1, 1999... Six-hundred-twenty university students completed an anonymous confidential questionnaire designed to identify characteristics of college students who cohabit. While 15 percent of the sample are or have lived together, 86 percent were open to...

SUBJECTIVE GENDER ROLE ASSESSMENT INDEX FOR USE IN THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM.
December 1, 1999... The authors propose an assessment index for use primarily in the classroom, but may also be used in general research. Review Research dealing with sex roles, gender roles and related are numerous.(*) One of the authors has...

ETHICAL JUDGMENT AND ETHICAL REASONING ON BUSINESS ISSUES: A CROSS-LAG MODEL FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN HONG KONG.
December 1, 1999... Introducing topics on business ethics in the course of international business is out of an aim of promoting students' ethical reasoning and ethical judgment regarding business issues. To evaluate if it fulfills the aim, a study surveyed 197...

SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS ON TEACHING UNIVERSITY ECONOMICS.
December 1, 1999... Unfortunately, I do not have anything I am willing to dignify with the appellation "Philosophy of Teaching." Perhaps this is because I never formally studied or even paid much attention to this subject. However, in my more than 20 years of...

HEALTH FAIRS: TIMETABLE, PITFALLS, & BURNOUT.
December 1, 1999... The health fair is a great health promotion tool that can be appropriate for all ages and educational levels. Implementation of a health fair involves a great deal of long term planning and organizing, but is well worth the effort. The steps of...

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND CAUCASIAN STUDENTS ON CRITICAL THINKING AND LEARNING STYLE.
December 1, 1999... The purpose was to investigate whether there were significant differences between African American and Caucasian students on critical thinking and learning style. Fifty-two Caucasian and 51 African American students responded to Watson-Glaser...

COLLEGE AGED STUDENTS WITH DIVORCED PARENTS: FACTS AND FICTION.
December 1, 1999... With only 40% of college age people having parents who are married to each other, educators and counselors need to be able to separate fact from fiction when it comes to the impact of divorce and remarriage on young adult children. In general...

AN ASSESSMENT OF COLLEGE STUDENTS' ATTITUDES AND EMPATHY TOWARD RAPE.
December 1, 1999... The purpose of this study was to assess rape attitudes and empathy levels of a sample of college students (N=387), using the Attitudes Toward Rape questionnaire and the Rape Empathy Scale. Dependent variables were attitudes toward rape and...

AN INVESTIGATION OF STUDENT HABITS IN MATHEMATICS COURSES.
December 1, 1999... The vast majority of students have difficulty in entry level mathematics courses. Anecdotal evidence suggests that students are not spending sufficient time in study, possibly because they have too many additional responsibilities which prevent...

SOME CHIMES FROM THE BELL CURVE: A PSYCHOLOGIST'S PERSPECTIVE.
December 1, 1999... This article covers some important psychological dimensions found in the Bell Curve, a composition that vigorously generated volatile arguments and disagreements related to egalitarianism, evolution and ethnicity a few years ago. Some positive...

AN ASSESSMENT OF EXTRAMURAL ACTIVITIES THAT ENCOURAGE SUPPORT FOR THE LIBERAL ARTS.
December 1, 1999... Using an undergraduate sample from a small liberal arts university in the Southeast, several independent variables (gender, community service, membership in campus organizations, and out-of-class experiences) are analyzed in terms of goals...

COLLEGE STUDENTS' STUDY ACTIVITIES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO STUDY CONTEXT, REFERENCE COURSE, AND ACHIEVEMENT.
December 1, 1999... The Study Activity Questionnaire (SAQ) was administered to 83 college students who were enrolled in either an introductory research methods course or an introductory statistics course in the college of education at one university. At the...

INTERACTION OF RELIGION AND SCIENCE: DEVELOPMENT OF A QUESTIONNAIRE AND THE RESULTS OF IT'S ADMINISTRATION TO UNDERGRADUATES.
December 1, 1999... A questionnaire was developed and administered to undergraduate students to assess the influence of religiosity on their attitudes toward science as a career and their belief in scientific evidence and concepts. The results indicate that...

EXAMINING CODEPENDENCY IN A COLLEGE POPULATION.
December 1, 1999... This paper examines the occurrence of codependency in a college-age population. The association between various measures of codependency is investigated in a sample of 165 college students. Almost 50% of our university subjects were familiar...

ABUSIVE BEHAVIORS OF COLLEGE ATHLETES.
December 1, 1999... Frequent media reports of athletes involved in domestic unrest suggest the need to determine if college athletes are more often involved in abusive behaviors than nonathletes. A questionnaire concerning abusive behaviors was administered to 126...

AN INVESTIGATION OF CAREER DECIDEDNESS IN RELATION TO "BIG FIVE" PERSONALITY CONSTRUCTS AND LIFE SATISFACTION.
December 1, 1999... Drawing on research on careers, career indecision, and personality, this study examined career decidedness in relation to life satisfaction and the "Big Five" personality constructs of neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness, and...