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Moon-Heum Cho; Eunjung Grace Oh; Yunjeong Chang; Seokwon Hwang – Distance Education, 2025
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among MOOC learners' personal goal achievement, instructor goal achievement, learning experiences measured with perceived learning and course satisfaction, and their continuance intention in a MOOC offered by a research university in the United States. A total of 203 MOOC learners…
Descriptors: MOOCs, Goal Orientation, Technology Uses in Education, Intention
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Ludi Wishnu Wardana; Jefry Aulia Martha; Andy Prasetyo Wati; Bagus Shandy Narmaditya; Amelia Setyawati; Farij Ibadil Maula; Angga Martha Mahendra; Suparno – Cogent Education, 2024
Entrepreneurship has emerged a prominent of concern during COVID-19 pandemic, making essential contribution toward unemployment as a result of the pandemic. The purpose of this research is to look at the entrepreneurial intentions of students in Indonesia's East Java Province. The research focuses on how students' entrepreneurial intentions are…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Self Efficacy, Intention, COVID-19
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Ahmet Maslakci; Lütfi Sürücü; Harun Sesen – Journal of International Education in Business, 2024
Purpose: To encourage entrepreneurship, which accelerates economic growth by increasing employment opportunities and competitiveness, stakeholders must conduct studies and develop policies that consider both the current situation and future expectations. This study aims to examine the environmental and personal factors that influence students'…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Intention, Entrepreneurship, College Students
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Soomro, Bahadur Ali; Shah, Naimatullah – Education & Training, 2022
Purpose: The present study undertook an empirical investigation of entrepreneurship education, self-efficacy, need for achievement and entrepreneurial intention among Pakistan's commerce students. Design/methodology/approach: The authors applied quantitative methods based on cross-sectional data. The commerce students of the different public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education, College Students
Gichuru, Eutychus Ngotho – Online Submission, 2023
The purpose of this study was to see if there was a link between university entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intentions among student-teachers at SOED in UDSM. Objectives of the study were:(i) Determine whether university students at SOED who study university entrepreneurship education have higher entrepreneurial tendencies such as…
Descriptors: Universities, Entrepreneurship, Intention, Student Teachers
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Pinto Borges, Ana; Lopes, João M.; Carvalho, Catarina; Vieira, Bruno Miguel Miguel; Lopes, Jorge – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze the entrepreneurial intentions of higher education students in a private higher education institution (HEI), enrolled in the following courses: Business Management, Hospitality Management, Tourism and Business Relations. Design/methodology/approach: A quantitative methodology was used through the…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Intention, Entrepreneurship
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Mashile, D. A.; Munyeka, W.; Ndlovu, W. – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
The study investigated the existing organisational culture and how it affects staff turnover at a selected rural-based university. A quantitative method, using cross-sectional and survey design, was employed. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire from 60 respondents in the two selected faculties (Faculty of Education and…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Faculty Mobility, Intention, College Faculty
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Che Embi, Nor Azizan; Jaiyeoba, Haruna Babatunde; Yussof, Sheila Ainon – Education & Training, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the data collected from Malaysian students to investigate the effects of students' entrepreneurial characteristics (need for achievement, locus of control, propensity to take risk, self-confidence, tolerance of ambiguity and uncertainty, and leadership) on their propensity to become entrepreneurs…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Characteristics, Entrepreneurship, Occupational Aspiration
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Nasip, Sorayah; Amirul, Sharifah Rahama; Sondoh, Stephen Laison, Jr.; Tanakinjal, Geoffrey Harvey – Education & Training, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between individual psychological characteristics (i.e. innovativeness, locus of control, self-confidence, propensity to take risk, need for achievement and tolerance for ambiguity) and entrepreneurial intention. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 676 undergraduate students…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Intention, Individual Characteristics, Innovation
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Tegegn, Tesfahun; Paulos, Mesfin; Desalegn, Yonatan – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study entitled "Determinants of Entrepreneurial Intention among Prospective Graduates of Higher Institutions, Case of Wolaita Sodo University" aimed at profiling entrepreneurship among graduating class students at WSU and identify determinants of their entrepreneurial intentions. The study used survey design and collected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Entrepreneurship, Intention
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Daniels, Lia M.; Radil, Amanda; Wagner, Amanda K. – Journal of Experimental Education, 2016
During their education, preservice teachers begin to assume professional responsibilities and gain pedagogical knowledge. However, the question remains whether preservice teachers intend to use instructional practices that are effective in meeting their assumed responsibilities. Thus, we examined the concordance between preservice teachers'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Responsibility, Educational Practices
Pfeffer-Lachs, Carole F. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to assess the goal intent and achievement of university students, during the Fall 2011 semester, at Blue Wave University, a high research activity public institution in the southeast United States. This study merged theories of motivation to measure goal setting and goal attainment to examine if students who chose to…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Intention, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
Schmitt, Neal; Billington, Abigail; Keeney, Jessica; Reeder, Matthew; Pleskac, Timothy J.; Sinha, Ruchi; Zorzie, Mark – College Board, 2011
Noncognitive attributes as the researchers have measured them do correlate with college GPA, but the incremental validity associated with these measures is relatively small. The noncognitive measures are correlated with other valued dimensions of student performance beyond the achievement reflected in college grades. There were much smaller…
Descriptors: College Students, Gender Differences, Ethnic Groups, Correlation