This study investigates the andragogical and pedagogical teaching philosophies of online instructors at the California State University, Long Beach in the Spring Semester of 2010. Drawing from reflective adult education theory, this article proposes a new model for this reflective adult education theory. It is either the helping relationship (andragogical philosophy) or the directing relationsh...

In the western literature, mathematics achievement and its related student self-concept are important education outcomes reciprocally linked and mutually reinforcing. The reciprocal relation model is examined in this study to assess its generalization in a cross-cultural setting. Hong Kong is the site of choice because of its exposure to influences between British and Chinese cultures. A contex...

Academic motivation is discussed in terms of self-efficacy, an individual's judgments of his or her capabilities to perform given actions. After presenting an overview of self-efficacy theory, I contrast self-efficacy with related constructs (perceived control, outcome expectations, perceived value of outcomes, attributions, and selfconcept) and discuss some efficacy research relevant to academ...

This study compared academically talented students (n = 23) who were not at risk for school failure and resilient at-risk students (n = 27) on risk factors and protective/promotive factors. Participants’ risk status was determined by student assignment. The academically talented students were attending a summer program at a major research university and the at-risk students were graduates of a ...

Once the service satisfaction of medical personnel is reduced and the enthusiasm cannot be acquired from work, the turnover rate would be increased to further affect medical manpower. Not only is the quality of services influenced, but patient safety would also be seriously affected further to harm the operation of a hospital. Aiming at Kaohsiung Municipal Min-Sheng Hospital, the medical person...

A multidimensional and hierarchical model of self-perceptions in the physical domain was evaluated in samples from three nations: Great Britain, Sweden and Turkey. A 30-item instrument developed in North America, the Physical Self-Perception Profile (PSPP), was translated and tested for factorial and construct validity in each national sample. A first-order confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) hy...

Metapercpetion is the process by which people understand what others think of them. Among adults metaperception is more accurate for friends that strangers, and for female friends than male friends. To see if this is also true among adolescents, eighth graders (n = 74) and eleventh graders (n = 86) were paired with same-sex, samegrade friends or nonfriends. They reported their own self-concept,...

This study examined the perceptions of competence of 43 children with visual impairments who were attending a summer sports camp. It found there were meaningful differences in the perceived competence of the girls, but not the boys, after they attended the camp, and no differences in the perceptions of competence with age. The authors thank Paul Ponchillia and the athletes who attended his summ...

A sample of 168 African American undergraduates was surveyed to clarify past findings demonstrating a consistent relationship between endorsing negative attitudes about being African American and experiencing negative affect. Specifically, shame was tested as a mediator between participants' endorsement of preencounter attitudes (i.e., anti-Black attitudes) and both feelings of depression and g...

Different diagnostic tools are used to evaluate the status and performance of organizations. Typical measurement approaches do not take organizational needs and individual differences into account sufficiently. Advanced measurement of performance is not very typical in product development. The purpose of this paper is to describe the use of two parallel measurement approaches performance measur...