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Academic buoyancy protects achievement against minor academic adversities [PDF]

Learning and Individual Differences, 2020
Academic buoyancy, the ability to respond adaptively to minor academic adversities, is positively related to achievement-related beliefs, emotions, and behaviours. No studies, however, have examined whether academic buoyancy moderates the relations between minor academic adversities and subsequent achievement.
David W. Putwain, Diahann Gallard, Joanna Beaumont   +2 more
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"Minor Setback, Major Comeback": A Multilevel Approach to the Development of Academic Resilience

Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2021
This study examined communicative processes at multiple levels that may influence students’ academic resilience through transitions. Participant interviews (N = 23) revealed that at the individual level, students develop a resilient mindset and effective
Brandi N. Frisby, Jessalyn I. Vallade
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Do memory concerns and self-efficacy predict academic performance in undergraduate students with memorization practice? [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
IntroductionThe main aim of the present study was to examine the extent to which self-reported prospective and retrospective memory concerns and academic self-efficacy predict academic attainment in sophomore and junior undergraduate students ...
Maura Pilotti, Maura Pilotti, Dana Alzahid, Dana Alzahid, Nouf Faisal, Nouf Faisal, Arifi Waked, Arifi Waked, Omar J. El-Moussa, Omar J. El-Moussa   +9 more
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The Case for Minor Gestures

Diseña, 2023
This paper lays out the groundwork for a concept we define as minor gestures within design education. Moving away from a conversation centered around decolonization—a term, we argue, that has been co-opted to become a placeholder for equality, diversity,
Danah Abdulla, Pedro J. S. Vieira de Oliveira   +1 more
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A Review of Academic Use of the Term “Minor Attracted Persons”

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
Although it originated within online pro-pedophile groups, the term “minor attracted person” (MAPs) has been adopted by some academic researchers as a neutral and non-stigmatizing alternative to the term “pedophile.” The transferral of this term from pedophile advocates to academic scholarship has been highly controversial.
Christina Farmer, Michael Salter, Delanie Woodlock   +2 more
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An Interactive Decision Support System for College Degree Planning [PDF]

Athens Journal of Education, 2023
Many students in the Unites States enter college without having decided on a focus for their studies, and thus are faced with choosing from a large number of potential majors and associated very complex sets of degree requirements which can include many ...
Sobitha Samaranayake, Athula D. A. Gunawardena, Robert R. Meyer   +2 more
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Discrepancy rate and clinical impact of preliminary reports from radiology residents

Heliyon, 2023
Background: Residents usually cover night and weekend shifts issuing the preliminary reading of radiological studies in university hospitals. This is essential to strengthening decision-making skills when facing complex cases independently.
Juan Felipe Orejuela-Zapata, Valentina Mejía-Quiñones, Ana María Granados-Sánchez   +2 more
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Minority Faculty and Academic Rank in Medicine [PDF]

JAMA, 1998
Previous studies have found that fewer minority medical school faculty hold senior professorial ranks than do majority faculty and may not be promoted as rapidly.To determine whether minority faculty were as likely as majority faculty to have attained senior rank (associate professor or full professor) after adjusting for other factors that typically ...
Palepu, Anita, Carr, Phyllis L., Friedman, Robert H., Amos, Harold, Ash, Arlene S., Moskowitz, Mark A.   +5 more
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Visual–Spatial Ability Predicts Academic Achievement Through Arithmetic and Reading Abilities

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
This study aimed to investigate how visual–spatial ability predicted academic achievement through arithmetic and reading abilities. Four hundred and ninety-nine Chinese children aged from 10.1 to 11.2 years were recruited and measured visual–spatial ...
Saifang Liu, Wenjun Wei, Yuan Chen, Yuan Chen, Peyre Hugo, Peyre Hugo, Peyre Hugo, Jingjing Zhao   +7 more
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A university-wide survey of caregiving students in the US: Individual differences and associations with emotional and academic adjustment

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022
The United States (US) does not formally count, recognize, or support students in higher education who are caregivers, unlike England and Australia. This mixed-methods study presents results from a new survey of caregiving undergraduate and graduate ...
Emma Armstrong-Carter, A. T. Panter, Bryant Hutson, Elizabeth A. Olson   +3 more
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