This study investigated the current state of college students’ perceptions toward mobile learning in higher education. Mobile learning is a new form of learning utilizing the unique capabilities of mobile devices. Although mobile devices are ubiquitous on college campuses, student readiness for mobile learning has yet to be fully explored in the United States. The paper describes a conceptual m...

Attitudes towards homosexuality are influenced by several factors: religion, media, family, peers, gender and contact with homosexual individuals (Riaz, 2006; Calzo & Ward, 2009). How these factors intersect to form one’s attitude is not fully understood. The purpose of this study was to identify if there are gender differences determining what influences shape attitudes towards homosexuality. ...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To assess the body, mind and spirit differences between yoga students compared with college students. MATERIALS AND METHODS Mind, body and spirit survey instruments administered to the two groups. RESULTS Five indicators to measure mental wellness were significantly different between yoga practitioners and college students. On three of these five measures, college students r...

Using a time-diary, the authors asked 935 undergraduate college students to report on their multitasking habits while engaged in four main activities: reading for fun, watching TV, reading for school purposes, and using the Internet. The authors examined student data to find out (a) whether their multi-tasking habits vary significantly by college classification and (b) whether they felt the tim...

We explore how dynamic processes related to socioeconomic inequality operate to sort students into, and create stratification among, colleges. We use an agent-based model to simulate a stylized version of this sorting processes in order to explore how factors related to family resources might influence college application choices and college enrollment. We include two types of “agents”—students...

OBJECTIVES Recent violent attacks on college campuses in the United States have sparked discussions regarding the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and the perpetration of violence among college students. While previous studies have examined the potential association between mental health problems and violent behavior, the overall pattern of findings flowing from this literature remain mixed ...

Meckel Y, Galily Y, Nemet D, Eliakim A. Changes in weight indexes and aerobic fitness of physical education students over three years of college. J. Hum. Sport Exerc. Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 112-121, 2011. Data from the national surveys indicate that physical activity and dietary patterns of many college students do not meet the recommendations of health and fitness experts, and that 29.9% of colleg...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to estimate, among college students ages 18-24, the numbers of alcohol-related unintentional injury deaths and other problems over the period from 1998 through 2005. METHOD The analysis integrated data on 18- to 24-year-olds and college students from each of the following data sources: the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Fatality Analysis Rep...

Introduction. As, the importance of learning and study strategies in fostering academic achievement, which has generated a demand for assessing these behavior and because of the lack of information about the strategies use among college students, this study was determined to explore the learning and study strategies of medical, dentistry and pharmaceutics college students of Mashad University o...

This article examines the extent to which indicators of the college-going climate of urban high schools are associated with students’ application to, enrollment in, and choice among four-year colleges. The investigators examine two mechanisms by which high schools may shape college enrollment among low-income students in an urban school system: (1) by ensuring whether seniors who aspire to a fo...