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Dan Xu; Chiawen Lee – SAGE Open, 2025
The current research develops and tests a modified TPB model explaining how restaurant entrepreneurship education (EE) influences graduating hospitality students' intentions (EI) to start a restaurant business. A total of 283 graduating hospitality students in Taiwan responded to the survey, and the structural equation modeling based on partial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Hospitality Occupations, Dining Facilities
Christina Gramatikova – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to estimate the effects of a theoretical model encompassing psychological theories underlying student retention in postsecondary education. New conceptual operationalizations were applied to elaborate Bean and Eaton's theoretical model of student retention. The influences of student entry characteristics,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Decision Making, Coping, Self Efficacy
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White, Julie; Rae, Tina – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2016
The person-centred review (PCR) is a model for the review of a student's special educational needs (SEN) which places the young person and their family at the centre of the process. This mixed-methods, exploratory study investigated the views of 16 students with SEN aged between 10-11 years (Year 6) and 13-14 years (Year 9), and their…
Descriptors: Special Education, Disabilities, Special Needs Students, Mixed Methods Research
Gutierrez, Raymond Joseph – 1982
Previous research has stressed the role of both expectancies and reinforcement in the decision making process. In order to determine if the measure of externality and internality correlates with an association between willingness to risk and external/internal locus of control, and to determine the role of social learning in students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Decision Making, Educational Psychology
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Herrmann, Allan – Distance Education, 1988
Outlines a conceptual framework for investigating distance education students' attitudes toward education and describes the results of a study. Concepts discussed are socialization, including influences of the educational institution, work, family, and friends; professionalization; feelings of power and control over work and career; and reasons…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Distance Education, Education Work Relationship, Family Influence
Harris, Sandra M. – 1998
This paper explains the process used to validate the construct validity of the Factors Influencing Pursuit of Higher Education Questionnaire. This questionnaire is a literature-based, researcher-developed instrument which gathers information on the factors thought to affect a person's decision to pursue higher education. The questionnaire includes…
Descriptors: College Bound Students, College Choice, College Students, Construct Validity