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An Examination Of How Sleep And Employment Variables Relate To Academic Success Among University Students, Sarah Albertson
An Examination Of How Sleep And Employment Variables Relate To Academic Success Among University Students, Sarah Albertson
Scholar Week 2016 - present
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The goal of this research project is to identify whether or not there is a relationship between sleep, average hours students work, original motivation for employment and GPA. Previous research indicates a relationship between sleep and academic performance as well as a relationship between work habits and academic performance. This involved administering an online-format survey then performed a multiple regression analysis to determine whether average amount of sleep per week, quality of sleep, or original motivation for employment were significant predictors of GPA in students. The result of this study indicated that quality of sleep experienced by the …
Age And Gender Biase: Students' Willingness And Likelihood To Pay Attention In Chapel, Madison Badiac
Age And Gender Biase: Students' Willingness And Likelihood To Pay Attention In Chapel, Madison Badiac
Scholar Week 2016 - present
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Within a chapel service students are able to place age and gender biases on the upcoming speaker for the following week. This allows them to make a predetermined decision as to whether they will give their attention to that speaker. This study looks at how these age and gender biases affect a student’s willingness and likelihood to pat attention to a particular speaker. This study is a 2 (speaker gender: male vs. female) x 2 (participant gender: male vs. female) x 2 (speaker age: older vs. younger) mixed ANCOVA. Expected findings for this study are a two-way interaction …
What's More Important: Design Or Content? An Analysis Of The Impact Of Website Design, Argument Quality, And Need For Cognition On Information Assessment, Luke David Salomone
What's More Important: Design Or Content? An Analysis Of The Impact Of Website Design, Argument Quality, And Need For Cognition On Information Assessment, Luke David Salomone
Scholar Week 2016 - present
Author Abstract:
When evaluating information online or offline, two important aspects are considered by readers: the credibility of the source and the quality of the argument. It is well known that strong arguments are more persuasive than weak arguments of the same length (Petty and Cacioppo, 1984), and recent research has shown that in an online environment source credibility is determined by the reader in part by the design aspects of website (Lowry et al., 2013). Using a 2 (website quality: good vs bad) x 2 (argument quality: strong vs weak) ANCOVA with need for cognition (NFC) and disposition to …