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Marchand, Gwen C.; Gutierrez, Antonio P. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations among perceived instructional support (provision of relevance and involvement), subjective task value beliefs (utility, attainment, and intrinsic value), and engagement (behavioral and emotional) over the course of a semester for graduate students enrolled in an introductory research…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Learner Engagement, Student Attitudes, Beliefs
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Cseh, Maria; Manikoth, Nisha N. – Human Resource Development Quarterly, 2011
As the authors of the preceding article (Choi and Jacobs, 2011) have noted, the workplace learning literature shows evidence of the complementary and integrated nature of formal and informal learning in the development of employee competencies. The importance of supportive learning environments in the workplace and of employees' personal learning…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Educational Environment, Workplace Learning, Structural Equation Models
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Lee, In Heok – Career and Technical Education Research, 2012
Researchers in career and technical education often ignore more effective ways of reporting and treating missing data and instead implement traditional, but ineffective, missing data methods (Gemici, Rojewski, & Lee, 2012). The recent methodological, and even the non-methodological, literature has increasingly emphasized the importance of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Data Collection, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Educational Research
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Volkwein, J. Fredericks; Yin, Alexander C. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
This chapter summarizes ten selected issues and common problems that arise in most assessment research projects. These include: (1) the uses of grades in assessment; (2) institutional review boards; (3) research design as a compromise; (4) standardized testing; (5) self-reported measures; (6) missing data; (7) weighting data; (8) conditional…
Descriptors: Research Design, Research Methodology, Standardized Tests, Least Squares Statistics
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Pilati, Ronaldo; Borges-Andrade, Jairo Eduardo – International Journal of Training and Development, 2008
Research in training, development and education (TD&E) in organizations has produced important results in the last two decades. Evaluation of TD&E has been a special focus of this research, which has resulted in the production of relevant predictive models. The present study has the aim of testing a model of effectiveness of training on…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Motivation, Trainees, Training
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Liebermann, Susanne; Hoffmann, Stefan – International Journal of Training and Development, 2008
The management literature provides a variety of recommendations as to how workers' customer orientation might be improved, including through training. Crucial factors in the process of transferring the contents of service quality training programs to practice, however, have not yet been sufficiently analysed. This study proposes and tests a model…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Research Methodology, Motivation, German