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Vardakosta, Eirini; Priniotakis, Georgios; Papoutsidakis, Michail; Sigala, Marisa; Nikolopoulos, Dimitrios – European Journal of Educational Research, 2022
This paper investigates the viewpoints and perspectives of 179 undergraduate students engaged in a co-creation project regarding their anticipated progress, exploring, simultaneously, the affecting factors. The students attended the physics course in the Department of Industrial Design and Production Engineering at the University of West Attica,…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Student Attitudes, Correlation, Expectation
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Delucchi, Michael – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
College professors have adopted numerous strategies for teaching undergraduates, yet few researchers provide empirical evidence students' learning actually increased because of the instructional innovation. Assessment of pedagogy is frequently subjective and based on comments from students or faculty. Consequently, evaluating the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Multivariate Analysis, Pretests Posttests, Student Evaluation
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Montagni, Ilaria; Cariou, Tanguy; Tzourio, Christophe; González-Caballero, Juan-Luis – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2019
Online surveys are increasingly used to investigate health conditions, especially among young people. However, this methodology presents some limitations including item nonresponse concerning sensitive and knowledge-related questions. This study aimed to suggest latent class analysis as the methodology to statistically deal with item nonresponse…
Descriptors: Online Surveys, Response Style (Tests), Multivariate Analysis, Health
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Zhang, Li-fang; Evans, Carol; Postiglione, Gerard A. – Educational Psychology, 2017
This research investigated the statistical predictive power of organisational commitments for academics' teaching approaches. Participants were 268 academics working in six elite universities in Beijing, mainland China. Results showed that academics' organisational commitments as measured by the Organisational Commitment Inventory significantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Colleges, Teacher Attitudes
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Schripsema, Nienke R.; van Trigt, Anke M.; Borleffs, Jan C. C.; Cohen-Schotanus, Janke – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2017
Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs) are increasingly implemented in medical school admissions. In this paper, we investigate the effects of vocational interests, previous academic experience, gender and age on SJT performance. The SJT was part of the selection process for the Bachelor's degree programme in Medicine at University of Groningen, the…
Descriptors: Situational Tests, Vocational Interests, Gender Differences, Age Differences
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Rush, Christina C.; Curry, John F.; Looney, John G. – Journal of American College Health, 2016
Objective: The authors investigated binge drinking, alcohol expectancies, and risky and protective drinking behaviors in relation to disordered eating behaviors in male and female college students. Participants: The full sample consisted of 7,720 undergraduate students, 18 to 22 years of age. Drinking behaviors were analyzed in 4,592 recent…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Drinking, Student Behavior, Behavior Problems
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Klausen, Trond Beldo – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
This paper investigates whether social origin has an impact on graduation age among university students. A large number of social background factors are applied on a large data set of 4 successive cohorts of Danish university graduates born 1960-1975. These are cohorts for whom university attendance increased steeply. Contrary to recent findings…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Social Differences, Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Background
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Herrera Torres, Lucía; Buitrago Bonilla, Rafael Enrique; Avila Moreno, Aida Karina – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2016
This study analyzes cognitive and emotional empathy in students who started their training at the Education Science Faculty of the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia. The sample was formed by 317 students enrolled in the study programs of Preschool, Plastic Arts, Natural Sciences, Physical Education, Philosophy, Computer Science,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Empathy, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Demirel, Duygu Harmandar – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This study was conducted to examine the differences between the study approach of students studying in Physical Education and Faculties of Education. For the study, Dumlupinar University School of Physical Education and Sports and Faculty of Education students were voluntarily participated to the study. As a data collection tool, conducted with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education, Preservice Teachers, Comparative Analysis
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Thomson, Paula; Jaque, S. Victoria – Roeper Review, 2016
Overexcitability (OE) and optimal flow are variables shared by talented individuals. This study demonstrated that the dancer (n = 86) and opera singer (n = 61) groups shared higher OE profiles compared to the athlete group (n = 50). Two self-report instruments assessed flow (global and subscales) and the five OE dimensions. All groups endorsed…
Descriptors: Talent, Individual Characteristics, Artists, Theater Arts
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Hudson, Chloe C.; Lambe, Laura; Pepler, Debra J.; Craig, Wendy M. – Canadian Journal of School Psychology, 2016
The current study explored online preventive coping (privacy settings) and reactive coping (reporting tools) among youth and how the use of these online safety tools related to the frequency of cybervictimization. Surveys were administered to youth in elementary, secondary, and post-secondary school. Results indicated that the prevalence of…
Descriptors: Coping, Computer Mediated Communication, Victims, Privacy
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Çalik, Muammer; Ültay, Neslihan; Kolomuç, Ali; Aytar, Ayse – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2015
The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of some variables (gender and year of study) on science student teachers' (SSTs) chemistry attitudes. An adapted version of Chemistry Attitudes and Experiences Questionnaire was administered to 983 SSTs drawn from four different universities in the region of Eastern Black Sea, Turkey. Significant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Teacher Attitudes, Scientific Attitudes, Chemistry
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Tekin, Ali Kemal – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
This study investigated the Omani early childhood pre-service teachers' motivation for teaching. Specific attention was given to the levels of their autonomous motivation, including: (1) intrinsic motivation and (2) extrinsic motivation comprised of identified, introjected, and external motivations. In addition, the effects of age, cohort (grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Teachers
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Damnik, Gregor; Proske, Antje; Körndle, Hermann – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
When teachers or instructors create computer-based learning environments, they often solely consider technical aspects of interactivity. As a consequence, learners' main role is to respond to requests of the learning environment (e.g. by answering multiple-choice questions). This aspect of interactivity is, however, not sufficient to understand…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Constructivism (Learning), Interaction, Perspective Taking
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Brändle, Tobias; Häuberer, Julia – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
Social capital is of particular value for the acquisition of education. Not only does it prevent scholars from dropping out but it improves the educational achievement. The paper focuses on access to social resources by traditional and non-traditional students at a German university and asks if there are group differences considering this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Capital, Nontraditional Students, College Students
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