Most college students sit 14 hours per week on average, excluding sedentary study time. Researchers observing workplace and elementary school settings with active workstations to combat sedentary behavior have shown enhanced cognition without distraction. Until now, incorporating active workstations in college classroom settings remained relatively unexplored. This study's purpose was to assess...

The purpose of this study is to find what competence determines the employment of college students using data from the K-CESA (Korea Collegiate Essential Skills Assessment) of a Korean university during 2009-2014. This test comprises of 6 categories of competence: self-management, global readiness, interpersonal relationship, resource/information/technology handling, communication and comprehen...

Psychometric analyses o f college students’ responses to the Jenkins Activity Survey, a selfreport measure of the Type A behavior pattern, revealed the presence of two relatively independent factors. Based on these analyses? two scales, labeled Achievement Strivings (AS) and Impatience and Irritability ( 1 1 1 , were developed. In two samples of male and female college students, scores on AS bu...

OBJECTIVE Examine trends in nonmedical use of prescription stimulants (NPS), including motives, routes of administration, sources, cost, and risk factors. PARTICIPANTS 1,253 college students. METHODS Data were collected annually during academic years 2004-2005 through 2008-2009. Generalized estimating equations analyses evaluated longitudinal trends. Logistic regression models evaluated sta...

Hope is the sum of goal thoughts as tapped by pathways and agency. Pathways reflect the perceived capability to produce goal routes; agency reflects the perception that one can initiate action along these pathways. Using trait and state hope scales, studies explored hope in college student athletes. In Study 1, male and female athletes were higher in trait hope than nonathletes; moreover, hope ...

Implementing a technique that is efficient yet accurate for college student placement into the appropriate mathematics course is of significant importance. Universities often assign students to entry-level mathematics courses based on mathematics placement examination scores. In this paper, the authors examine alternative placement strategies. Using multiple regression analysis, the accumulativ...

We report on a three-year project to make data-driven improvements in the mathematics placement process at the University of Northern Colorado. We began by analyzing fall 2007 placement recommendations for a sample of N=1466 first-year students to the university. These recommendations came from brief faculty-student interviews during summer orientation sessions in which math instructors suggest...

Children who have been severely maltreated tend to perform significantly below their non-maltreated peers in standardized tests, earn lower grades and have the most discipline issues in the school setting. There is evidence that self-esteem (SE) may be a protective factor for youth with regard to negative emotional outcomes. The role of self-esteem needs to be explored further in more collectiv...

This paper reveals that the performance and quality enhancement initiatives of Indian Universities based on accreditation scores attained through NAAC assessment process in terms Criteria wise analysis, Region analysis State have been made. It is observed average CGPA for five regions country, Southern region dominant with 3.07, which followed by North Eastern 3.04. Analysis wise, low as per RA...

CHARISMA ATTRIBUTION DURING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: THE IMPORTANCE OF FOLLOWERS’ CONCERN FOR WELL-BEING Abstract Taking a follower-centric perspective, we examined how charisma attribution to a change leader was influenced by the well-being concerns and emotions of organizational members. We conducted three studies to examine how college business students and executive MBA students responded to ...