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This study focused on the academic performance and use of disability support services of students with different types of disabilities who attend a post-secondary education institution. Findings show different patterns of academic...
Youth with juvenile justice (JJ) interactions and/or adjudica-tions face a number of challenges as they transition back into their community, including college and career readiness needs. In addition to the typical concerns of...
Information and communication technology (ICT) has provided unparalleled access to assessments, information, and instruction for individuals seeking to make career decisions. However, problems with the design and use of this technology...
Online question & answer (Q & A) is a distinctive type of online interaction that is impactful on student learning. Prior studies on online interaction in large-scale classes mainly focused on online discussion and were conducted mainly...
The Florida State University Career Center has a long history of providing career services rang-ing from helping individuals make initial career decision making, to managing career transitions, to navigating the job search process. What...
The college experience for many students is marked by challenges and concerns surrounding educational and career choices. These challenges and concerns may be reflected in a student’s career decision state, or the extent that one is...
Briefstaffassisted career counseling services based on Cognitive Information Processing theory were evaluated via 138 dropin clients who completed prepost interventions on selfreport measures of knowledge about next steps, ...
Career assessments are a common resource used by career practitioners internationally to help inform individuals’ career decision-making. Research on the topic of cross-cultural career assessment has been mostly limited to the...
This study examined factors associated with disability disclosure to professors among students with disabilities (n = 289) who either registered or did not register with Disability Support Services (DSS) in postsecondary education from...
Background: Mindfulness meditation (MM) is often readily applied in university settings as a practical means to reduce stress associated with academic and environmental uncertainties. Little is known, however, about the ideal prescribed...
This study is an investigation of students’ reasoning about integer comparisons—a topic that is often counterintuitive for students because negative numbers of smaller absolute value are considered greater (e.g., −5 > − 6). We posed...
This paper focuses on bias in the translation of social, emotional, and behavioral tests. Specifically, the authors address tests developed in the United States (U. S.), but later adapted for use with non-English speakers, and / or...
This paper presents a longitudinal case study of a teacher, over four years, as he participated in a design-based implementation research (DBIR) project aimed at implementing a rigorous project-based learning (PBL) Advanced Placement U.S... This article shows how participation in a larger research project implementing a project-based learning (PBL) approach—presenting students with problems and focusing on solutions–supported one teacher’s learning over four years. This paper evaluates the experiences of one teacher over four years while participating in a design-based implementation research (DBIR) project design to test a project-based learning (PBL) approach for a U.S. Government and Politics...
Clinical supervisors and faculty within counseling programs have ethical, legal, and professional obligations to ensure students possess comprehensive knowledge of core counseling components. This survey research study examined the types...
In Education (as in many other fields) it is common to create complex systems to assess the state of latent properties of individuals - the knowledge, skills, and abilities of the students. Such systems usually consist of several...
The role of social facilitation by way of audience effect in select exercise-related variables during an isometric handgrip task was assessed using a mixed design. Fifty three moderately active participants (M= 21.76 ± 5.27) were...
Card sorts have been a career counseling tool since the 1960s, and have continued to be used to help individuals in the career decision-making process. This article provides an overview of the development and use of card sorts, including...
This study explored how a culturally relevant summer reading program may empower young Black students through social action and opportunities for reading engagement, thus supporting their reading motivation. The North Florida Freedom...
Problem solving is an important yet neglected mathematical skill for students with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability (ASD/ID). In addition, the terminology and vocabulary used in mathematical tasks may be unfamiliar to...
The use of mobile technologies has recently received great attention in language learning. Most research evaluates the effects of employing mobile devices in language learning and explores the design of mobile-learning interventions that...
This study aimed to examine school structural factors (i.e. free/reduced lunch percentage, proportion of minority student enrollment, and student-teacher ratio) that may contribute to employment outcomes for transitioning youth with...
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of olfactory ovulation cues (i.e., female body odors) on a range of psychological, physiological, and behavioral indices in males during an exertive motor task. Eighty-eight male...
Six beginning teachers were compared to an exemplary, experienced teacher. Teacher beliefs, classroom practices, and student engagement data were coded from theory-driven and data-driven perspectives. The strongest teachers demonstrated...
This exploratory study examined the relationship between mindfulness and multicultural counseling competencies(MCC) in counselor trainees. One hundred fifty-seven masters and doctoral students in counseling and therapy-related fields...
The advent of virtual schools opens doors to opportunity for student services to be delivered via the Internet. Through the use of structured interviews with four practicing Florida virtual school counselors (FLVSCs), and a follow up...
This publication is based on the 2016 Society for Vocational Psychology (SVP) Biennial Conference, that was held at the Florida State University on May 16-17, 2016. The conference theme was "Integrating Theory, Research, and Practice in...
Career theories provide a framework for effective career counseling practice. Career development professionals need to be current in their knowledge of established theories and kept abreast of research that further defines existing and...
This study examined whether or not students using a career ePortfolio, including a matrix for identifying and reflecting on transferrable skills, enabled them to rate their skills more confidently and positively after a simulated (mock)...
Mixture models form an important class of models for unsupervised learning, allowing data points to be assigned labels based on their values. However, standard mixture models procedures do not deal well with rare components. For example, ...
This study investigated the relationships among incoming knowledge, persistence, affective states, in-game progress, and consequently learning outcomes for students using the game Physics Playground. We used structural equation modeling...
The authors examined the relationships between career and cultural characteristics among 53 international and 54 domestic students at a large university in the southeastern United States. One-way multivariate analysis of variance results...
Counseling students need to become knowledgeable about existing online career development tools to provide effective career development services today. The authors describe the characteristics of a Web site developed to foster career...
This study examined the efficacy of a computer-based social skills training program, The Social Express. Independent researchers evaluated the program at both a school-wide level (Tier 1) and at a referred-group level (Tier 2). The...
This article identifies and briefly describes the broad range of variables that may influence clients' readiness to benefit from career interventions. The article also discusses consequences of low readiness for effective use of career...
The effectiveness of undergraduate career courses has been demonstrated for multiple variables, including career certainty, maturity, decision-making skills, and reduction of dysfunctional career thoughts. Although such studies used the...
This study explored the knowledge and beliefs held by two secondary undergraduate preservice teachers' (PTs) about implementing content area reading instruction in their practice. In examining the development of these beliefs, the PTs...
This study used a survey design to investigate if computer experience and computer attitudes influence whether economically marginalized individuals desire access to computerized career services in community outreach centers. The...
The purpose of this study is to examine the prevalence of different workplace accommodation request strategies, the effectiveness of different request approaches, and situational and individual factors associated with different request...
284 career-related websites were evaluated by 68 graduate students (54 females, 14 males) enrolled in two sections of a Master’s level Career Development course. Results suggest that overwhelmingly, students rate these websites...
The research on families of the gifted is extremely limited. In the past, families of the gifted have been studied mainly for two reasons: to discover how family life creates or supports giftedness or eminence, or to understand how one... This study found that parents of gifted children in Italy confront unique challenges compared to their peers, including lack of parenting alliance, difficulties managing family routines, challenges handling sibling relationships, and... In this article, the authors address the gap in the literature regarding parenting challenges of gifted children. Based on a risk and resilience model, the authors used semi-structure interviews with 49 Italian parents of gifted children...
The Student Oral Language Observation Matrix (SOLOM) is an assessment of oral language skills. The aim of this study was to examine psychometric properties for the SOLOM for preschoolers through: (1) use of internal consistency methods...
A POMDP is a tool for planning: selecting a policy that will lead to an optimal outcome. Response to intervention (RTI)is an approach to instruction, where teachers craft individual plans for students based on the results of progress...
Prospective elementary teachers learning to reason flexibly with sums and differences: Number sense development viewed through the lens of collective activity
I present a viable learning trajectory for prospective elementary teachers’ number sense development with a focus on whole-number place value, addition, and subtraction. I document a chronology of classroom mathematical practices in a...
Although extant meta-analyses support the notion that exercise results in cognitive performance enhancement, methodology shortcomings are noted among primary evidence. The present study examined relevant randomized controlled trials ...
Career counseling professionals help clients make career decisions and develop an job search. Technology, in the form of websites, social media, and apps, has expanded the resources available to today's counselors. This paper explores...
What is that intangible force that makes some classrooms positively buzz with interest, attention, and excitement about learning? While motivation can't easily be quantified, few would dispute its essential role in promoting academic...
The purpose of this article is to investigate correlates and predictors of school counselors' career satisfaction and commitment. Regression analyses of 1, 280 Florida counselors' survey responses indicated that positive predictors of...
This study examined the self‐reported value of spirituality, types of spiritual practices, and values of 69 counselor education students. It also examined counseling students’ ideas for how to increase their comfort with incorporating...
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