College Student Journal articles from March 2008

College Student Journal archives from March 2008

Physical activity patterns of young women post-college graduation.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Americans need more physical activity in their daily routines. There are numerous physical as well as psychological benefits that can be credited to regular physical activity. The purpose of this research was to examine the physical activity...

Empowerment of female students for participation in the representative councils in Jordanian Universities.(Report)
March 1, 2008... The current article presents an analytical study of female students' participation in the representative councils in various Jordanian Universities. The data-base applied in the present investigation has indicated a clear weak representation of...

Effects of listening to heavy metal music on college women: a pilot study.(Report)
March 1, 2008... College students are typically very identified with popular music and spend many hours listening to their music of preference. To investigate the effects of heavy metal music, we compared the responses of 18 female undergraduate college...

The impact of a program for the disadvantaged on student retention.(Report)
March 1, 2008... This study compares the freshman to sophomore retention rate for all freshmen at a medium-sized college to the retention rate for freshmen who participated in a program for disadvantaged students. The retention rate (over a three-year period)...

College student retention: instrument validation and value for partnering between academic and counseling services.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Designed to explore the utility of a retention assessment of students within a college of education, and using Pascarella and Terenzini's (1983) academic and social integration scales, this study found several pertinent results: (a) Factor...

A qualitative study of honor students' learning orientations: the rare liberal scholar.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Despite the rhetoric of valuing a liberal education, many institutions are implementing a business model of education as a consequence of increasing costs and decreasing state funding. Honors programs serve as one of the isolated arenas in...

The role of spirituality among African-American college males attending a historically Black university.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Previous research has examined the notion that African-Americans tend to have a strong religious orientation. However, studies have ignored the relationship between spirituality and academic performance among African-Americans. In this...

Student characteristics and expectations of university classes: a free elicitation approach.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Past research has shown that there are subpopulation differences in what students expect from a specific class. These expectation evaluations are usually conducted in the process of when the class is being delivered. Framing the class as a...

Do intervention programs assist students to succeed in college? A multilevel longitudinal study.(Report)
March 1, 2008... This study, using hierarchical linear models, examined effects of the intervention programs on first-time-full-time students' retention and college cumulative GPA, interacting with students' characteristics, e.g., demographics and college...

Some thoughts on the issue of making the liberal science courses more appealing to academics.(Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia)(Report)
March 1, 2008... This paper traces the history of the Liberal Science courses and explores the mechanisms whereby the courses can be made more attractive to academics in the Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). ...

Depression and racial/ethnic variations within a diverse nontraditional college sample.(Report)
March 1, 2008... The study's objective was to ascertain whether rates of depression were significantly higher for Dominican, Puerto Rican, South and Central American and Jamaican/Haitian students than for African American and White students. The sample...

Using DISS-R to compare the dissonance scores of four groups: incarcerated adults, high school, college and university students.(Report)
March 1, 2008... In our day-to-day striving, dissonance litters obstacles along the path of personal development and these obstacles cause pain and hinder growth. An environment that is relatively free from dissonance should foster personal development and...

Parent-child communication to reduce heavy alcohol use among first-year college students.(Report)
March 1, 2008... With extreme rates of binge drinking among young adults, college students continue to be a primary focus for a range of alcohol prevention efforts. Most universities are attempting to change the alcohol environment by implementing a variety of...

Faculty attitudes and behaviors concerning student cheating.(Report)
March 1, 2008... The relationship between university faculty attitudes concerning student cheating and syllabus statements on academic integrity were evaluated to determine the relationship between faculty attitudes and their actual attempts to deter cheating...

Participants in "friends with benefits" relationships.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Analysis of survey data from 1013 undergraduates at a large southeastern university revealed that over half (51%) reported experience in a "friends with benefits" relationship. In comparing the background characteristics of participants with...

University student beliefs about sex: men vs. women.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Analysis of survey data from 326 undergraduates at a large southeastern university revealed significant differences between men and women in their sexual beliefs. Specifically, men were more likely to think that oral sex is not sex; that...

College students' perceived attributes of Internet Websites and online shopping.(Report)
March 1, 2008... The purpose of this study was to examine perceptions of attributes of clothing retailers' Internet websites in relation to previous and intended future purchase from the websites. Survey data from 414 U.S. college students, non-married and aged...

Developing a psychometrically sound measure of collegiate teaching proficiency.(Report)
March 1, 2008... While student evaluation of teaching (SET) has become a common practice on most college campuses, research suggests that weaknesses exist in many of the common instruments employed for this assessment. This study lays the groundwork for the...

Pre-service educator's perceptions of exemplary teachers.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Sweeping educational reform has focused on re-structuring without examining the basic qualities that educators bring to the classroom. The present study sought to identify specific teacher qualities associated with exemplary teachers as...

Traditional and non-traditional college students' descriptions of the "ideal" professor and the "ideal" course and perceived strengths and limitations.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Results of a series of ANOVAs performed on self-report data from a large (N = 1310), diverse sample of Undergraduate students enrolled at an urban 4-year university are presented to address what different groups of students perceive as their...

Gender gaps in college enrollment and degree attainment: an exploratory analysis.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Post-secondary institutions are increasingly interested in the collection of data to support institutional planning. With increase in the proportion of women going to college today than they did a decade ago, our understanding of how gender...

Prevalence of careers in psychology courses at American universities.(Report)
March 1, 2008... The authors assessed the psychology curricula at 251 American universities and colleges to determine whether they offered a career planning course. The majority of institutions (n = 219) did not offer such a course. However, larger universities...