College Student Journal articles from September 2003

College Student Journal archives from September 2003

College student attitudes toward transracial adoption *.
September 1, 2003... One hundred and eighty-eight undergraduates at a large southeastern university completed a confidential anonymous questionnaire designed to assess their attitudes toward adopting a child transracially (transracial adoption was defined as the...

Faculty perception on student academic honesty.
September 1, 2003... This study intends to investigate possible differences in student and faculty perception on student academic honesty and also proposes to detect possible differences in student variables such as year level and gender in view of the issue, and...

Constructivism and elementary preservice science teacher preparation: knowledge to application.
September 1, 2003... This investigation examined the impact of the constructivist learning model on elementary preservice teachers' beliefs in reference to their constructivist knowledge and the practical application of this knowledge. During the 2000-2001 academic...

The implications of reading preferences of future educators.
September 1, 2003... A study was initiated to gauge the reading preferences of students enrolled in teacher preparation courses. The purpose of the study was to build a profile of what future educators were reading and to compare those preferences in terms of...

Confluence is a primary measure of test validity and it includes the creditability of test taker.
September 1, 2003... The Confluence Score is comprised of 21 pairs of items of which about half are opposites and the other half simply do not agree with each other to a significant degree. They are a part of the regular 200 test items. The degree to which a Test...

Romantic behaviors of University students: a cross-cultural and gender analysis in Puerto Rico and the United States.
September 1, 2003... This study examined cultural and gender differences in romantic behaviors among university students in Puerto Rico and the United States. The data were collected from a total of N = 395 students using a field-based, self-ranking fifteen-item...

Students with disabilities and higher education.
September 1, 2003... This paper reports the findings of a national survey that collected data describing the selected facilities and services of 137 randomly selected institutions of higher learning. The survey was sent to the Directors of services for disabled...

Understanding the collegiate experience for Asian international students at a Midwestern Research University.
September 1, 2003... The Asian international student population in American universities is presently greater than 10% (Institute for International Education, 1999). As a result, student affairs practitioners and other university personnel must recognize factors...

Homesickness in socially anxious first year college students.
September 1, 2003... First year college students took part in a retrospective study exploring factors that may make individuals susceptible to prolonged homesickness. Students responded to a number of questionnaires asking them to first reflect back on how they...

Assessing student learning outcomes: an investigation of the relationship among feedback measures.
September 1, 2003... The goal of the present study was to examine the relationship among the various measures of feedback on male and female students' perception of the feedback process. The findings indicated that male students perceived their professors as giving...

Credit card attitudes and behaviors of college students.
September 1, 2003... Henry, Weber, and Yarbrough (2001), writing in this Journal, reported that many college students are living on the verge of a financial crisis. The purpose of this study was to further consider this assertion by examining college students'...

Changes over time in college student's family planning knowledge, preference, and behavior and implications for contraceptive education and prevention of sexually transmitted infections (1).
September 1, 2003... College students today face new challenges in family planning. A mail survey with multiple follow-ups was used to assess changes in college students' knowledge, use, and preference about family planning from 1969 to 1996 at the same university....

A model for creating and communicating a shared vision.
September 1, 2003... Often, organizational behavior is concerned with the relationships and learning that occur within an organization such as an institution of higher education. Of importance, is enabling individuals to understand where they fit into a group and...

Effects of terror attacks on employment plans and anxiety levels of college students.
September 1, 2003... Introduction College students will be moving into a workplace that has been hard hit by events that have increased anxiety levels among workers in this past year. Despite increasing instances of workplace violence, no incident remotely...

What you don't know can hurt you: students' perceptions of professors' annoying teaching habits.
September 1, 2003... Faculty members are frequently unaware of their students' perceptions of their teaching. This study was done as an extension of earlier studies to provide this type of feedback to faculty. Data collection consisted of handing out index cards to...

Goal setting and attainment in graduate student training groups.
September 1, 2003... The purpose of this study was to examine goal setting and attainment within an experiential, process-oriented training group. Participants were 56 graduate students who were interested in leading counseling or educational groups. In addition to...

College students' interest in their major.
September 1, 2003... The goal of the present study was to assess college students' interest in their major and to determine whether interest played a role in why they selected that major. The sample included 144 education majors and 151 business majors at a small...

Academic achievement and quality of overseas study among Taiwanese students in the United States.
September 1, 2003... Using a multidimensional model and a longitudinal design, the study examined academic performance and quality of overseas study in a group of 155 Taiwanese graduate students at approximately one year after arriving in the United States. The...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
September 1, 2003... In the article Optimism and Stress: An African-American College Student Perspective which appeared on page 276 of Volume 37, #2 the institutional affiliation of one of the authors was incorrect. It should read: Dr. Lana Chambliss ...