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Khosravani, Mahmood; Rostamian, Morteza; Ashraf, Hamid; Motallebzade, Khalil – Language Testing in Asia, 2022
Though the emergence of standardized testing promoted classical approaches such as summative achievement tests, it brought about serious criticisms regarding the stakes of these tests and their consequences on different dimensions of education. Exploring these consequences attracted researchers' attention in education. A mass of studies are…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Language Tests, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Riaz, Sheza; Khan, Hadi Hassan; Sarwar, Bilal; Ahmed, Wahab; Muhammad, Noor; Reza, Sajjida; Ul Haq, Sheikh Muhammad Nabeel – SAGE Open, 2022
This study examines the relationship between the financial socialization agents, attitude toward money, and financial literacy with the mediating role of financial self-efficacy and the moderating role of mindfulness. The self-administered questionnaire was used for data collection from higher education institutions using the convenience sampling…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Money Management, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy
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Rahman, Shahedur; Ramakrishnan, Thiagarajan; Ngamassi, Louis – Higher Education Quarterly, 2020
Social media has transformed the communication landscape for institutions of Higher Education by providing improved teaching and learning experience. However, very little is known as to whether the use of social media by Higher Education students improves their satisfaction. Grounded in social media, risk and technology acceptance literature, this…
Descriptors: Social Media, Student Attitudes, College Students, Structural Equation Models
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Shakeri, Shadi; Evangelopoulos, Nicholas; Zavalina, Oksana – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2018
Introduction: This study proposes a theoretical framework for the complex interplay between knowledge gap and perceived risk as motivators of information seeking. Given the shortage of studies that use quantitative research methods to support theory-building in information behaviour research, the survey method is adopted and two models with…
Descriptors: Correlation, Risk, Information Seeking, State Universities
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Belur, Jayanti Mahadevappa; Patil, S. V.; Mahantshetti, Shashidhar; Patil, Sagar – Higher Education for the Future, 2022
The higher education system, particularly management education institutions (MEIs), is recognized as a significant source of creative talent for organizations. Organizations have to carefully select the necessary talent from MEIs. In this light, MEIs would seek to maximize their students' creativity competencies. This exploratory research study…
Descriptors: Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Creativity, Higher Education
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Looi, Kim Hoe – Journal of Education and Work, 2019
Research on new venture creation is often criticised for its deficits of theoretical sophistication and methodological rigour. This paper develops a framework by combining the values theory and the intention theory and validates it by conducting a rigorous structural equation modelling analysis based on responses obtained from 355 Malaysian…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Ethnicity, Intention
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Caffrey, Kathleen S.; Wright, Bruce R.; Maarhuis, Patricia L. – Journal of American College Health, 2018
Objective: To examine the psychometric properties of a measure of cannabis-specific Protective Behavioral Strategies (PBS), which assesses ways in which students may reduce cannabis-related risk. Participants: Respondents to the American College Health Association-National College Health Assessment II (N = 580) during Spring 2015. Methods:…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Risk, Factor Analysis, College Students
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Woolcott, Geoff; Keast, Robyn; Chamberlain, Daniel; Farr-Wharton, Ben – Quality in Higher Education, 2017
Discussions of support and intervention in undergraduate university education are dominated by discussion of attrition. This study quests more broadly in arguing that support and intervention for undergraduate students may also benefit from models of engagement and success as well as conventional risk and failure. Supporting this proposition is a…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Educational Quality, Social Networks, Network Analysis
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Yang, Ningxi; Xu, Yayun; Chen, Xinguang; Yu, Bin; Yan, Hong; Li, Shiyue – Health Education Journal, 2018
Objectives: Engaging in sexual risk behaviour can be a maladaptive strategy for international students to deal with stress. This study examined the role of poor mental health in mediating the relationship between acculturative stress and condom-use intention among international students in Beijing, China. Methods: The study used a cross-sectional…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Anxiety, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Foreign Students
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Hartley, Sigan L.; Hickey, Emily J.; DaWalt, Leann; Rodriguez, Geovanna – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
The broader autism phenotype refers to sub-clinical autism spectrum disorder characteristics involving socially and emotionally aloof and rigid personality traits and social communication difficulties. Relatives of individuals with autism spectrum disorder, including parents, evidence an increased rate of broader autism phenotype. The goal of this…
Descriptors: Genetics, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Personality Traits
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Hopmeyer, Andrea; Troop-Gordon, Wendy; Medovoy, Tal; Fischer, Jesse – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2017
Crowd affiliations are integral to academic functioning and school adjustment during adolescence. However, less is known about crowd structures within institutions of higher education. The current study was designed to validate the College Peer Crowd Questionnaire (CPCQ), an instrument designed to assess college students' self-reported crowd…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, College Students, Identification (Psychology), Peer Groups
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Rahman, Muhammad Sabbir; Osmangani, Aahad M; Daud, Nuraihan Mat; Chowdhury, Abdul Hannan; Hassan, Hasliza – Learning Organization, 2015
Purpose: This empirical research aims to add value in the existing research on knowledge sharing, investigate the antecedents of knowledge-sharing behaviour by embedding trust and workplace spirituality variable on non-academic staff from higher learning institution in Malaysia. The role of trust, perceived risk and workplace spirituality towards…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Knowledge Level, School Personnel, Higher Education
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Rivers, Susan E.; Brackett, Marc A.; Omori, Mika; Sickler, Cole; Bertoli, Michelle C.; Salovey, Peter – Journal of College Student Development, 2013
Involvement in health-endangering behaviors is considered a reflection of college students' psychosocial development; however, not all students participate in these activities. Emotion skills, such as the ability to interpret and manage emotions, may serve as a protective factor against risk-taking behavior among emerging adults. We compared the…
Descriptors: Risk, Individual Development, Emotional Intelligence, Self Esteem
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Goodwin, A. Lin; Low, Ee Ling; Ng, Pak Tee; Yeung, Alexander S.; Cai, Li – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2015
In today's world, teaching and learning processes inevitably involve the application of information and communication technology (ICT). It seems reasonable to expect personal attributes such as cognitive playfulness to be associated with consistent application of ICT. Using survey responses from Singapore students in a teacher education programme…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Teacher Characteristics
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Lewis, Todd F.; Likis-Werle, Elizabeth; Fulton, Cheryl L. – Journal of Black Psychology, 2012
Drinking patterns and rates at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCU) are not well understood. Social norms and perceptions of risk are two explanatory mechanisms that have accounted for a significant amount of variance in college student drinking at predominantly White campuses. However, these models have not been examined among…
Descriptors: College Students, Campuses, Structural Equation Models, Black Colleges
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