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Pachlhofer, Keith A. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This study used the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire in modularized courses at three institutions across the nation (N = 189), and multiple regression was completed to investigate five categories of student motivation that predicted academic success and course completion. The overall multiple regression analysis was significant and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Mathematics Instruction, Learning Strategies, Questionnaires
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Lang, Brent; Rosenberg, Harold; Lauritsen, Kirstin; Davis, Alan K.; Cross, Nicole – Journal of College Student Development, 2017
According to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), "psychological flexibility" refers to an individual's ability to maintain mindful awareness of his or her thoughts and emotions in the present moment while behaving according to his or her personal values. Psychological inflexibility could set the foundation for emotional distress and…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Factor Analysis, Predictive Validity, Undergraduate Students
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Pulford, Briony D.; Woodward, Bethan; Taylor, Eve – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2018
This paper reports the development of an Academic Social Comparison Scale (ASCS) to measure students' tendencies to socially compare themselves with other students in an educational setting. The 27-item ASCS was then measured in relation to academic self-confidence in a sample of University students, using the Individual Learning Profile…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Comparative Analysis, College Students, Test Reliability
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Lee, Young Soo; Chang, Jae Yoon; Choi, Jin Nam – Creativity Research Journal, 2017
Biases against creativity seem to be activated when people are motivated to reduce uncertainty. Drawing on the appraisal model of emotion, this study tested whether and how emotions with varying levels of uncertainty appraisals affect biases against creativity. This experimental study showed that fear, characterized by a high-uncertainty…
Descriptors: Creativity, Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Psychology
Kuroki, Yusuke; Preciado, Henoc – Liberal Education, 2018
Countless mothers and fathers have left behind familiar landscapes, beloved family and friends, and the comfort of certainty to give their children lives better than their own. It is no coincidence that many of these parents chose as their new home the United States of America, a country founded on the promise of public education. The proud home…
Descriptors: Undocumented Immigrants, College Students, State Universities, Academic Achievement
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Huisman, Bart; Saab, Nadira; van Driel, Jan; van den Broek, Paul – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
Within the higher education context, peer feedback is frequently applied as an instructional method. Research on the learning mechanisms involved in the peer feedback process has covered aspects of both providing and receiving feedback. However, a direct comparison of the impact that providing and receiving peer feedback has on students' writing…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Feedback (Response), Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Kucukbayram, Canan; Ottekin Demirbolat, Ayse – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Purpose: Occupational socialization is a process by which individuals internalize occupational culture. The aim of the present study was to ascertain the views and perceptions of classroom teachers regarding the efficiency of occupational socialization periods and the level of their occupational socialization, and to describe the same by sex and…
Descriptors: Socialization, Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Schwarzenberg, Pablo; Navon, Jaime; Nussbaum, Miguel; Pérez-Sanagustín, Mar; Caballero, Daniela – Journal of Computing in Higher Education, 2018
The flipped classroom has shown a positive effect on academic performance and student satisfaction. However, there are relatively few studies that help us understand when or why this method has a positive effect on students, so as to aid the design of a flipped class. In this study, an instrument for assessing the student learning experience in…
Descriptors: Learning Experience, Blended Learning, Academic Achievement, Student Satisfaction
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Yanjie, Bian; Yang, Xiao – Chinese Education & Society, 2017
Rural college students are an important, integral part of the current urban labor force. This article uses a group comparison perspective to study the professional career opportunities and their impacting factors of rural college students and other related groups. Analysis of 2010 Chinese General Social Survey data shows the following: (1) college…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Employment Opportunities, Comparative Analysis
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Blau, Gary; Drennan, Rob B., Jr.; Karnik, Satyajit; Kapanjie, Darin – Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, 2017
Lower teaching evaluations can affect students' willingness to recommend an online course. To maintain online course quality, it is important to keep the "integrity" of a course, that is, offer to the extent possible, the same content and learning outcomes in an online course as the face-to-face (F2F) equivalent. This study explored the…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Online Courses, Value Judgment, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Hou, Feng; Lu, Yuqian – Statistics Canada, 2017
While destination-country education provides many potential advantages for immigrants, empirical studies in Australia, Canada and the United States have produced mixed results on the labour outcomes of immigrants who are former international students. This study uses large national longitudinal datasets to examine cross-cohort trends and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Immigration, Income, Education Work Relationship
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Herman, Emilia; Stefanescu, Daniela – Educational Studies, 2017
This paper approaches the issue of higher entrepreneurship education in motivating young people to start their own business as a viable alternative to the successful integration of university graduates on the labour market. The fundamental question of this research is if, currently, entrepreneurship education influences students' entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Stimulation, Entrepreneurship, Engineering
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Barry, Adam; Madson, Michael; Moorer, Kayla; Christman, Kaila – Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice, 2016
Little research examines protective behavioral strategies (PBS) use among college high-risk drinking sub-groups. A secondary data analysis of the 2011 National College Health Assessment (n = 18,483 drinkers [13% Greek]) revealed fraternity and sorority members used PBS significantly (p < 0.001) less and reported significantly (p < 0.001)…
Descriptors: College Students, Sororities, Fraternities, Drinking
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Schmidt, Laura I.; Sieverding, Monika; Scheiter, Fabian; Obergfell, Julia – Educational Psychology, 2015
University students often report high stress levels, and studies even suggest a recent increase. However, there is a lack of theoretically based research on the structural conditions that influence students' perceived stress. The current study compared the effects of Karasek's demand-control dimensions with the influence of neuroticism to address…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Neurosis, Models, College Students
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Brooker, Abi; Corrin, Linda; de Barba, Paula; Lodge, Jason; Kennedy, Gregor – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
Recent scholarly discussions about massive open online courses (MOOCs) highlight pedagogical and practical issues that separate MOOCs from other learning settings, especially how theories of learning translate to MOOC students' motivation, participation, and performance. What is missing from these discussions is the purpose of the MOOC. We report…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Student Motivation, Student Participation, Predictor Variables
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