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Margaret Mangion; Gilmour Camilleri; Melchior Vella – European Journal of Education, 2024
Educators are indispensable assets to society as they support students through the provision of good quality education (SDG4). While they establish working environments where students feel safe and able to contribute to their intellectual capital, an essential consideration arises when educators find themselves facing significant challenges. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Teacher Attitudes, Creativity
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Fatbardha Osmanaga; Kilda Gusha – Athens Journal of Education, 2025
The mental health of women in the perinatal period is the focus of attention around the world. Many studies emphasize the problems that women experience during pregnancy or after childbirth, also focusing on mental health problems. In this context, the attention towards the woman, both during pregnancy and after birth, should be very great,…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Student Attitudes, Pregnancy, Birth
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Sivakorn Malakul; Cheeraporn Sangkawetai – Discover Education, 2024
Evaluating computer science (CS) teacher competencies is crucial for advancing CS education. This study aims to develop and evaluate a self-efficacy assessment tool for CS teaching competence among 1412 CS teachers nationwide in Thailand. Using structural equation modeling, the validity of the tool was examined across four domains: Content…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Secondary School Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Self Efficacy
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Kaarakainen, Meri-Tuulia; Saikkonen, Loretta – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2021
The adoption of technology in teaching has been identified to relate to various factors from attitudes and self-efficacy to subjective norms and digital references. The aim of this study is to broaden the perspective to hierarchical grouping effects. Multilevel modelling of the study utilizes the data of 2355 Finnish basic education teachers. The…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Compulsory Education
Kexin Ren – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Students tend to choose a field of study in which they believe they possess the most skills by comparing their performance across different domains, such as math and English. These intraindividual comparisons between domains are known as dimensional comparisons (Moller & Marsh, 2013). There are individual differences in dimensional…
Descriptors: College Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Student Attitudes
Louise A. McKenzie – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to contribute to the body of research on the factors which influence job satisfaction and retention of business faculty in higher education. This study utilized the National Study of Postsecondary Faculty NSOPF: 2004 which is a nationally representative sample of higher education faculty and was sponsored by the NCES…
Descriptors: Business Education, College Faculty, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Persistence
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Akca, Figen; Ulutas, Emrah; Yabanci, Cemile – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
The purpose of this study is to examine the correlation between Teachers' Self-efficacy beliefs, locus of control and intercultural sensitivities and to analyze these variables based on various demographic variables. The data of the study were collected through teachers' locus of control scale developed by Sadowski, Taylor, Woodward, Peacher,…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Beliefs, Self Efficacy, Individual Differences
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Tarhini, Ali; Elyas, Tariq; Akour, Mohammad Ali; Al-Salti, Zahran – Higher Education Studies, 2016
The main aim of this paper is to develop an amalgamated conceptual model of technology acceptance that explains how individual, social, cultural and organizational factors affect the students' acceptance and usage behaviour of the Web-based learning systems. More specifically, the proposed model extends the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Computer Attitudes, Adoption (Ideas), Web Based Instruction
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Chen, Yu-ching – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015
With continued development of related technologies, Web 2.0 has become an important site of learning innovation. In particular, social networking sites such as Facebook, which have become popular, have the potential to function as an educational tool enabling peer feedback, interaction, and learning in a social context. Preparing appropriate…
Descriptors: Correlation, Cognitive Style, Online Courses, Social Networks
Bagley, Katherine G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Technological devices are ubiquitous in nearly every facet of society. There are substantial investments made in organizations on a daily basis to improve information technology. From a military perspective, the ultimate goal of these highly sophisticated devices is to assist soldiers in achieving mission success across dynamic and often chaotic…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Social Cognition, Social Theories, Guidelines
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Cassidy, Simon – Studies in Higher Education, 2012
The study investigated the association and relative influence of cognitive/motivational and demographic factors on final degree grade point average (GPA) in a single undergraduate cohort. Although academic self-efficacy, approaches to learning, prior achievement and age all produced significant correlations with GPA, regression analysis identified…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Grade Point Average, Self Efficacy
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Massey, Emma K.; Gebhardt, Winifred A.; Garnefski, Nadia – Journal of Adolescence, 2009
In this study the full array of personal goals pursued by adolescents was examined using an idiographic goal-elicitation procedure. The aims of the study were twofold. Firstly, we investigated individual differences in self-generated goals and goal process appraisals based on sociodemographic characteristics. Secondly, we investigated the…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Adolescents, Goal Orientation, Well Being
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Nour, Kareen; Laforest, Sophie; Gignac, Monique; Gauvin, Lise – Canadian Journal on Aging, 2005
This paper draws a socio-demographic, physical, psychosocial, and behavioural profile of housebound older adults with arthritis and compares older adults with rheumatoid arthritis to those with osteoarthritis. Data from 125 housebound older adults with osteoarthritis (65%) or rheumatoid arthritis (35%) were compared to published samples and to…
Descriptors: Social Life, Self Efficacy, Depression (Psychology), Older Adults
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Ford, Nigel; Miller, David; Moss, Nicola – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
This article reports the results of a study of Master's degree students concerning the role of individual differences in Internet searching, including cognitive styles, levels of prior experience, Internet perceptions, study approaches, age, and gender. Discusses retrieval effectiveness and self-efficacy and suggests implications for system…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Style, Computer System Design, Gender Issues