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Ahmed A. Alsayer; Alan Nong; Stephen Foster – Journal of College Student Development, 2025
This study examined the factors related to student persistence in online education programs. Using a model of persistence, we conducted five confirmatory factor analytic models to evaluate scales that measured the factors of interest: locus of control, self-efficacy, task value, satisfaction, and persistence. We also conducted and compared two…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Electronic Learning, Locus of Control, Self Efficacy
Michelle A. Burnside – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Persistence in distance learning has become problematic. This quantitative nonexperimental study examined whether perceived connectivity, perceived internal locus of control, and age predict persistence in online master's degree programs. Rotter's locus of control theory, Moore's transactional distance theory, and Rovai's composite persistence…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Age, Predictor Variables, Academic Persistence
Dong, Zhi-An; Jiang, Man; Liu, Zi-Ming – Educational Research and Reviews, 2023
This study aims to explore the relationship between locus of control, grit, self-esteem and mental health among college students. A questionnaire survey was used to conduct a study on the mental health of 923 E-learning college students from 10 universities in Guangxi, China. In this study, Pearson correlation analysis was used to test the…
Descriptors: Mental Health, College Students, Self Esteem, Foreign Countries
Matthew Dean Greene – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The aim of this study was to understand the factors that affect returning students' ability to complete their degrees through online degree programs. Logistic regression was used to determine which factors had a significant relationship with persistence to graduation and how they contributed to the odds of students graduating. The findings show…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Locus of Control, Electronic Learning, Reentry Students
Magsayo, Roche Tumlad – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the factors affecting (i.e. determinants) the continuance of mobile learning adoption in an informal setting among higher education learners from a rural region in the Philippines. It assesses the extent of the determinants of mobile learning adoption continuance and their interrelationships and the role of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Adoption (Ideas), Rural Areas, College Students
Huang, Fang; Teo, Timothy; Scherer, Ronny – Interactive Learning Environments, 2022
As a key variable determining technology acceptance and adoption, the perceived ease of technology use (PEU) has been in the focus of a considerable body of research. This research examined the external factors that influence perceived ease of use, such as computer self-efficacy and perceived enjoyment, but yielded inconsistent findings and…
Descriptors: College Students, Internet, Electronic Learning, Usability
Magsayo, Roche Tumlad – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2021
Purpose: The study aims to determine the factor of perceived machine learning adoption (MLA) values that affect learners' intention to continue using (ICU), the extent of their relationships in the learners' ICU and the role of locus of control (LOC) in their relationship. Design/methodology/approach: The study employed a rigorous literature…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Schools, Higher Education, Artificial Intelligence
Andre Crenshaw – ProQuest LLC, 2024
African higher education institutions are experiencing a faculty shortage influenced by globalization, internationalization, and brain drain. Prior literature on immigrant African and diaspora faculty exodus from Africa focuses on the brain drain in African higher education. Still, there is a need for further exploration of faculty teaching…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Teacher Shortage, Blacks, African Culture
Bahçekapili, Ekrem; Karaman, Selçuk – Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2020
This study tests the direct and indirect effects of online learners' personality traits, self-efficacy, and academic locus of control variables on grade point average (GPA) via path analysis. The participants of the study are 525 online learners from two different universities in Turkey. The results of the study reveal a good fit of the proposed…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Self Efficacy, Locus of Control, Academic Achievement
Jameson, Crissie M.; Torres, Kelly – Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2019
Online learning in higher education has become commonplace as more working adults and nontraditional aged students return to pursue advanced degrees. Graduate education, specifically, has grown in recent years (Allen & Seaman, 2014), including doctoral degrees. Pursuing a doctoral degree requires writing a culminating paper (e.g.,…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Student Attitudes, Student Motivation, Electronic Learning
Rippé, Cindy B.; Weisfeld-Spolter, Suri; Yurova, Yuliya; Kemp, April – Journal of Marketing Education, 2021
Before the pandemic, loneliness was already a burden affecting the health and well-being of students. The COVID-19 pandemic, with mandated isolations and closures of campuses, amplifies feelings of isolation and loneliness. Previous work shows that isolated and lonely individuals experience a lack of perceived control, but educators have little…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Crisis Management, Emergency Programs
Bissessar, Charmaine; Black, Debra; Boolaky, Mehraz – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2019
The self-determination of online graduate students was studied in terms of the impact of autonomy, competence and relatedness upon their persistence. Unique to this study was the assessment of the potential influence of socio-cultural factors. As the majority of research into online university students' persistence is generated from the US,…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Graduate Students, Electronic Learning, Academic Persistence
Hartono, Rudi, Ed.; Ozturk, Omer Tayfur, Ed. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
Studies in the fields of education and social sciences have always been important in terms of their impacts on society. These studies have gained even more importance during the COVID-19 pandemic process. The impact of the pandemic period on children, schools and society has been demonstrated through such studies. This book also includes studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Education, COVID-19
Hartono, Rudi, Ed.; Ozturk, Omer Tayfur, Ed. – Online Submission, 2022
Studies in the fields of education and social sciences have always been important in terms of their impacts on society. These studies have gained even more importance during the COVID-19 pandemic process. The impact of the pandemic period on children, schools and society has been demonstrated through such studies. This book also includes studies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Sciences, Education, COVID-19
Sunawan; Xiong, Junmei – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2017
The present study tested the influence of control belief, learning disorientation, and academic emotions on cognitive load in two types of concept-map structures within hypermedia learning environment. Four hundred and eighty-five students were randomly assigned to two groups: 245 students in the hierarchical group and 240 students in the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Beliefs, Psychological Patterns
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