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Carl Crowe – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Academically dishonest behavior, or cheating, has been a continued problem in post-secondary institutions. Research has been varied in terms of understanding the root causes of academically dishonest behaviors and has offered ways in which to mitigate the behaviors by educating students and holding them accountable to institutional expectations.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Cheating, Student Behavior, Behavior Theories
Samantha Jo Peterson – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Professionalism is a required curricular component in accredited medical laboratory science (MLS) programs in the United States and is a critical element for career success and optimal patient care. A standardized definition of professionalism in MLS, however, has yet to be established. This poses a challenge to MLS programs when pertaining to…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Professionalism, Undergraduate Students, Medical Education
Carmen T. Minor; Jeremy C. Bell – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this exploratory quantitative study is to investigate how ethical leadership in principals predicts their inclusion attitudes and social justice attitudes. This study also seeks to investigate how a principal's social justice attitude, social justice subjective norms, and social justice perceived behaviors predict their intentions.…
Descriptors: Ethics, Leadership Styles, Predictor Variables, Principals
Schelling, Natalie R. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Today's schools emphasize the use of student data to make instructional decisions. Standardized tests determine funding and teacher advancement (Datnow, Park, & Wholstetter, 2007; Gullo, 2013; Marchant & Paulson, 2009; Schraw, 2010). To evaluate learning before these tests, teachers must utilize their own assessments and data. Formative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Data, Decision Making, Behavior Theories
Jonathan Paul Denham – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This dissertation extends the work on teacher immediacy (TI) and student persistence by using the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) (Ajzen, 1985) to account for variability in college student persistence. Students provided perceptions of their teachers' immediacy behaviors using modified versions of Gorham's (1988) TI scale. Instruction prompts of…
Descriptors: Teacher Influence, Academic Persistence, College Students, College Faculty
Bonnell, Melissa Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Previous studies on college alcohol use suggest that approximately 65-73 percent of college students drank alcohol within the past 30 days (Johnston, O'Malley, Bachman, & Schulenberg, 2011; Nelson, Xuan, Lee, Weitzman, & Wechsler, 2009). Researchers also suggest that with increasing levels of alcohol consumption, students are more likely…
Descriptors: College Students, Drinking, Alcohol Abuse, Resilience (Psychology)
Howarth, Matthew – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In three experiments I sought to experimentally test a source of emergent relations defined as transitivity by Stimulus Equivalence theory or as combinatorial entailment in Relational Frame Theory. In Experiment I, the participants were 4 children diagnosed with autism who also demonstrated significant cognitive and language delays, who were…
Descriptors: Autism, Auditory Stimuli, Visual Stimuli, Predictor Variables
Knabe, Ann Peru – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study used Icek Ajzen's Theory of Planned Behavior to research public relations faculty intentions of teaching online. All of the main predictor variables (Subjective Norms, Attitude toward the Act and Perceived Behavioral Control) were statistically significant at varying degrees in predicting intent to teach public relations online. Of the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Predictor Variables, Public Relations, Behavior Standards
Cruz, Crystal – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study was conducted to (a) explore high achieving high school students' perceptions of the teaching profession, (b) examine the influence of these perceptions on intentions to teach, and (c) test a recruitment suite of tools to determine the effectiveness of recruitment messaging and strategies. The Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB)…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Intention, Career Choice
Lee, Chung Gun – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study consists of three sub-studies. Sub-study 1 and 2 attempted to incorporate environmental variables as precursor background variables of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to predict quitting-related intentions among Texas adult smokers and university student smokers, respectively. Sub-study 1 and 2 analyzed different data sets and were…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Smoking, Health Behavior, Behavior Change
Sadaf, Ayesha – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this two phase mixed methods sequential explanatory study was to investigate factors that predict preservice teachers' intentions to use Web 2.0 technologies in their future classrooms and their ability to carry out their intentions during student teaching. The first phase explored factors based on the Decomposed Theory of Planned…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mixed Methods Research, Predictor Variables, Intention
Morgan, Jennifer A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The inclusion of students with disabilities in general physical education (GPE) classes has become a concept and practice that is expected if not always understood. A review of inclusion in physical education literature suggested that GPE teachers possess less than favorable feelings towards the inclusion of students with disabilities in their…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Disabilities, Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers
Wang, Yingchun – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The dissertation aims to tackle one of the most pressing questions facing the merit pay system researchers and practitioners: Why do merit pay raises have such a small effect on employees' satisfaction, commitment and job performance? My approach to the study of this question is to develop explanatory frameworks from two perspectives: cognitive…
Descriptors: Merit Pay, Expectation, Employee Attitudes, Job Performance
Barto, Thomas Peter – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Global electronic markets will profoundly impact commerce in the 21 st century. Brick-and-mortar retailers are using technology for electronic marketing purposes where the familiar layout of the physical store becomes a maze of pulldown menus, product indices, and search features creating a new unknown for consumers and concerns for information…
Descriptors: Internet, Vendors, Information Policy, Business Administration
Genovese, Suzanne Kim – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore the lived experiences of women donors who had given a significant gift to a large Midwestern university. In-depth interviews were conducted with 10 women donor participants that were not alumni, not married to alumni and had no children attending the selected university. These participants…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Higher Education, Females, Donors
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