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Direct linkShi Pu; Yu Yan; Liang Zhang – Educational Researcher, 2021
In this study, dormitory room and social group assignment data from a college are used to investigate peer effects on college students' decisions to switch majors. Results reveal strong evidence of such peer effects at both the room and the social group level. Most notably, at the room level, the dense concentration of same-major roommates deters…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Peer Groups, Friendship, Dormitories
Download full textShi Pu; Yu Yan; Liang Zhang – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2020
This study used college dormitory room and social group assignment data to investigate the peer effect on the probability of college students switching their major fields of study. The results revealed strong evidence of peer effects on students' decisions to switch majors. In particular, the number of a student's peers who have the same major…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Influence, Peer Groups, Friendship
Geifman, Dorit; Raban, Daphne R. – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2015
Self-efficacy is essential to learning but what happens when learning is done as a result of a collective process? What is the role of individual self-efficacy in collective problem solving? This research examines the manifestation of self-efficacy in prediction markets that are configured as collective problem-solving platforms and whether…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning, Self Efficacy, Skills
Putman, Vicky L.; Paulus, Paul B. – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2009
This study investigated the effect of brainstorming experience on the ability of groups to subsequently select the best ideas for implementation. Participants generated ideas either alone or in interactive groups and with either the regular brainstorming rules or with additional rules designed to further increase the number of ideas generated. All…
Descriptors: Brainstorming, Decision Making, Group Activities, Cooperative Planning
Malott, Krista M.; Magnuson, Sandy – Career Development Quarterly, 2004
This article features the description of a 5-session group experience designed to facilitate exploration of familial influence on career decision making. The authors adapted traditional family genograms to explicate occupational patterns, themes, and values and to examine career choice in relation to influences derived from family experiences. A…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Career Development, Group Experience, Decision Making
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers
