The widely used Social Interaction Anxiety Scale (SIAS; R. P. Mattick & J. C. Clarke, 1998) possesses favorable psychometric properties, but questions remain concerning its factor structure and item properties. Analyses included 445 people with social anxiety disorder and 1,689 undergraduates. Simple unifactorial models fit poorly, and models that accounted for differences due to item wording (...

During the summer of 2007, I participated in a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at Illinois State University. I was one of eight undergraduates, all of whom were mathematics education majors. During my eight week experience, we worked with four in-service teachers from the Normal-Bloomington area, as well as math and math education professors from Illinois State and surrounding univ...

For the first time, CISAB sponsored the Charles H. Turner Program, an NSFfunded event that brings undergraduate researchers to the annual meetings of the Animal Behavior Society. The Turner program, named after the first African American animal behavior researcher, has been a highly successful recruitment tool for encouraging undergraduates from diverse backgrounds to go into animal behavior. I...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between self-esteem and loneliness, especially whether the discrepancies between explicit and implicit self-esteem was associated with loneliness. In the present study, UCLA Loneliness Scale (UCLA), Rosenberg’s Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) and Implicit Association Test were used to collect data, 113 undergraduates participated in it. Fin...

The current study investigated the labeling of abuse experiences in a sample of 97 Deaf female undergraduate students, exploring the following questions: What is the prevalence of violent behaviors experienced by Deaf female undergraduates in their past-year relationships, what proportion of these relationships are identified as "abuse," and what scripts and strategies do Deaf female undergradu...

Embedded systems have become increasingly widespread in many areas and embedded technology is still in sustainable development. Training undergraduates with research experiences is important in both research and education of embedded system. In this paper, we describe the research training program of embedded system for undergraduate at Zhejiang University. This program can introduce research i...

There is an increasingly growing trend towards integrating scientific research training into undergraduate medical education. The importance and compulsoriness of this trend has been greatly highlighted at the Boyer Commission on Educating Undergraduates in the Research University. Despite the importance and benefits of undergraduate research, attempts of medical schools to encourage undergradu...

This study examined the relationship between self-esteem and procrastination and the mediating role of resistance to peer influence (RPI) on this relationship among undergraduates. One hundred and ninety-nine Chinese undergraduate students completed the measures of procrastination, RPI, and self-esteem. Structural Equation Modeling analyses indicated that self-esteem was negatively related to p...

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The aim of the current study is to examine validity and reliability online examinations through undergraduates’ lecturers’ perceptions identify ways in which can be more focused effective. To this end, a questionnaire including both qualitative quantitative inquiries were administered among forty-five undergraduates fifteen lecturers three state universities Sri Lanka. Thematic Analysis SPSS so...