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Melanie Viola Partsch; Monique Landberg – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
In today's world, lifelong learning (LLL) is a key element of individual and societal success. However, despite knowing potential determinants of LLL, we do not yet understand how they interact to facilitate LLL. Therefore, the present study aims to verify the usefulness of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in predicting LLL. We applied a…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Behavior Theories, Nonformal Education, Informal Education
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Chun Lai; Qianshan Chen; Yabing Wang; Xuedan Qi – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2024
Individual interest and self-regulation are two pillars of self-directed learning. Despite empirical evidence on the interaction between the two with respect to academic achievement, few studies have explored how individual interest and self-regulation might interact and relate to self-directed informal learning. This study surveyed 322 university…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Interests, Independent Study, Informal Education
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Alexander Brodsky; Andreas Rausch; Jürgen Seifried – Vocations and Learning, 2024
Internships offer the opportunity to gain experience and skills by working in organisations or to establish a professional network, and there is empirical evidence of the positive effects of practical experience in higher education. However, there are only a few studies on the characteristics of workplace tasks that facilitate learning during…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Internship Programs, Business Education, Pretests Posttests
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Kason Ka Ching Cheung – Research in Science Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to examine the predictive effects of epistemological beliefs about science and informal reading of scientific texts on students' future-oriented optimism on the issue of climate change. Future-oriented climate change optimism is defined as encompassing "hope" and "anticipation" about the climate…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, International Assessment
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Shifeng Li; Wei Zhao; Yingchun Xia – Language and Education, 2025
Within the framework of the home literacy model, this study investigated the relationship between home formal and informal literacy experiences and the development of orthographic skills among Chinese beginning readers. A total of 143 children and their parents participated in the study, with parents completing questionnaires on family background…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Environment, Literacy, Orthographic Symbols
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Adriana Soto-Corominas; Helena Roquet; Marta Segura – Applied Linguistics, 2024
Research on the implementation of CLIL at the onset of primary school is limited and has largely overlooked the role of other sources of individual differences. This study investigated the effects of the CLIL approach to English learning, together with the effects of out-of-school exposure to the language through media and other sources of…
Descriptors: Content and Language Integrated Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction