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Nelson, Anders; Sandberg, Mikael – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
This study investigated labour-market orientations of students at a Swedish University with a dual/diverse focus on vocational/academic objectives. The aim was to investigate whether and how levels of students' labour-market orientation vary with social background, change during the study period, and are related to approaches to studying and…
Descriptors: Labor Market, Employment Opportunities, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis
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Öqvist, Anna; Malmström, Malin – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2018
Students' educational motivation is significant for performance and achieving learning, but little is known about what fuels such motivation. Educational motivation is regarded as the drive and inner state that energise educational activities, facilitate learning and channel behaviour towards achieving educational goals. Educational motivation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Student Motivation, Teacher Leadership
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Hellgren, Jenny M.; Lindberg, Stina – Research in Science & Technological Education, 2017
Background: Students' motivation for science declines over the early teenage years, and students often find school science difficult and irrelevant to their everyday lives. This paper asks whether creating opportunities to connect school science to authentic science can have positive effects on student motivation. Purpose: To understand how…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Motivation Techniques, Values, Beliefs
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Olofsson, Anders D.; Lindberg, J. Ola; Fransson, Göran – Education and Information Technologies, 2017
This study investigates what teachers taking part in a longitudinal research project on the use of ICT for teaching and learning in three upper secondary schools in Sweden want to learn more about. At the beginning of the project eighty-four teachers were invited to respond to a questionnaire relating to what teachers wanted to learn more about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Longitudinal Studies, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Travis, Frederick; Lagrosen, Yvonne – Creativity Research Journal, 2014
This study used canonical correlation analysis to explore the relation among scores on the Torrance test of figural and verbal creativity and demographic, psychological and physiological measures in Swedish product-development engineers. The first canonical variate included figural and verbal flexibility and originality as dependent measures and…
Descriptors: Multivariate Analysis, Creativity, Correlation, Engineering
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Melender, Hanna-Leena; Jonsén, Elisabeth; Hilli, Yvonne – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2014
The purpose of this study was to compare the experiences of a group of Swedish and two Finnish groups of student nurses (n = 86) on the quality of clinical education over time. The data was collected using an instrument including four factors. In the comparison of the years 2009, 2010 and 2011/2012 (n = 86), there were no statistically significant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Nursing Students, Undergraduate Students, Clinical Teaching (Health Professions)
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Fägerstam, Emilia; Samuelsson, Joakim – Education 3-13, 2014
This study aims to explore the influence of outdoor teaching among students, aged 13, on arithmetic performance and self-regulation skills as previous research concerning outdoor mathematics learning is limited. This study had a quasi-experimental design. An outdoor and a traditional group answered a test and a self-regulation skills questionnaire…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Skill Development, Arithmetic, Junior High School Students
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Boström, Lena; Coburn, Annette – Scottish Educational Review, 2013
Education systems in Sweden and Scotland are currently undergoing reforms which have shifted curricula from content driven to student focused approaches. In Higher Education, the shift from elite to more accessible mass education may bring direct implications for teaching and learning. Institutions continually seek evidence of the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Student Teachers, Cognitive Style, Learning Strategies