Universities

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Do the designated drivers of college students stay sober?

PROBLEM: By numerous accounts, alcohol abuse is considered the number one drug problem facing young people today. Alcohol consumption and its negative consequences, especially those due to drinking and driving, continue to have devastating effects on the ...
Mary Ann Timmerman, E Scott Geller, Kent E Glindemann, Angela K Fournier (J Safety Res, 2003)
designated-drivers-college-students-stay-sober.asp

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Measuring attitudes and behaviors to studying and learning for university students: a Rasch measurement model analysis.

A Studying and Learning Scale was created using a model of Motivation (sets of ordered stem-items based on Striving for Excellence, Desire to Learn and Personal Incentives), with each item answered from three self-reported perspectives (an Ideal ...
Russell F Waugh (J Appl Meas, 2003)
measuring-attitudes-behaviors-studying-learning-university-students.asp

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Task demands, task interest, and task performance: implications for human subjects research and practicing what we preach.

Through the continuous investigation of humans in organizations, we have learned much about motivation, attitudes, and performance. For example, Yukl and others have helped increase our understanding of influence tactics and the effect they have on the ...
Daniel M Eveleth, Arun Pillutla (Ethics Behav, 2003)
task-demands-task-interest-task-performance-implications-human.asp

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The Southern Rural Access Program and Alabamas Rural Health Leaders Pipeline: a partnership to develop needed minority health care professionals.

Rural Health Leaders Pipeline programs are intended to increase the number of youth interested in and pursuing health professions in rural communities. This paper presents 2 complementary approaches to Rural Health Leaders Pipeline programs. Two ...
Benjamin P Rackley, John R Wheat, Cynthia E Moore, Robert G Garner, Barbara W Harrell (J Rural Health, 2003)
southern-rural-access-program-alabama-s-rural-health-leaders-pipeline.asp

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Learning technologies at the service of higher education: global trends and local Israeli opportunities.

This paper provides an overview of global trends in e-Learning and opportunities opened by harnessing learning technologies at the service of the Israeli higher education. The introduction of innovative learning technologies is examined in light of an ...
Michal Beller, Ehud Or (Work, 2003)
learning-technologies-service-higher-education-global-trends-local.asp

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Changing learning with new interactive and media-rich instruction environments: virtual labs case study report.

Technology has created a new dimension for visual teaching and learning with web-delivered interactive media. The Virtual Labs Project has embraced this technology with instructional design and evaluation methodologies behind the simPHYSIO suite of ...
Camillan Huang (Comput Med Imaging Graph, 2003)
changing-learning-new-interactive-media-rich-instruction-environments.asp

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The relationship between college students schema regarding alcohol use, their television viewing patterns, and their previous experience with alcohol.

Two hundred college students participated in an experiment investigating how individuals use television and real world experiences to construct alcohol use schema. Students were asked to write a story about a student who had a difficult day and, on ...
Linda Godbold Kean, Kelly Fudge Albada (Health Commun, 2003)
relationship-college-students-schema-alcohol-television-viewing.asp

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On the value of architecture and facility management in health administration education.

This article discusses the role and function of architecture and facility management in health administration education vis-à-vis an interdisciplinary set of courses taught in a graduate-level health administration program. These courses provide the ...
Stephen F Verderber (J Health Adm Educ, 2002WINTER)
value-architecture-facility-management-health-administration-education.asp

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Exploring college student gambling motivation.

The present research combined qualitative and quantitative approaches in examining gambling motives among college student gamblers. A comprehensive set of 16 gambling motives was identified by categorizing 762 open-ended reasons for gambling, provided by ...
Clayton Neighbors, Ty W Lostutter, Jessica M Cronce, Mary E Larimer (J Gambl Stud, 2002WINTER)
exploring-college-student-gambling-motivation.asp

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Measuring gambling outcomes among college students.

The present research describes the proposal and validation of three gambling outcome measures, the Gambling Quantity and Perceived Norms Scale (GQPN), the Gambling Problem Index (GPI), and the Gambling Readiness to Change Questionnaire (GRTC). The study ...
Clayton Neighbors, Ty W Lostutter, Mary E Larimer, Ruby Y Takushi (J Gambl Stud, 2002WINTER)
measuring-gambling-outcomes-college-students.asp