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Yao, Shenghui; Xie, Lifen; Chen, Yiji – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
To explore the effect of active social media use (ASMU) on the mechanisms of flow experience (FE), 433 questionnaires incorporating an active social media use scale, academic self-efficacy (ASE) scale, and flow experience scale were collected from college students. This study is expected to enrich flow experience theory and provide a foundation…
Descriptors: College Students, Social Media, Self Efficacy, Academic Achievement
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Al-Shaikhli, Dhuha – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
This research examines the effect of having a tracking technology in a learning management system (LMS) that reports the effect of perceiving other students' interactions on a learner's intention to keep using LMS in the future. The main underlying theory is herd behaviour theory which argues that crowd behaviour affects the perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Learning Management Systems, Educational Technology, Learning Analytics, Independent Study
Jaime A. Striplin – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Efforts to address the harmful physiological effects of stress and anxiety among nursing students are ongoing. Incorporating stress-reduction techniques into the nursing curriculum is highly beneficial, but there is a lack of research regarding what methods to use and how to implement them. The setting for this research was a small rural community…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Stress Variables, Anxiety, Student Attitudes
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Pérez-Macías, Noemí; Fernández-Fernández, José- Luis; Rúa Vieites, Antonio – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
There is a scarcity of research on the influence of structural -network ties (NT)-, cognitive -shared languages (SL) and shared visions (SV)- social capital (SC) dimensions on online students' entrepreneurial intentions (EI). This paper, drawing on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), examines this influence on a sample of 302 Spanish online…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Social Networks, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Capital
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Celestini, Ann – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2020
Games have been socially entrenched throughout history as a form of entertainment. Current rapidly changing technological advances have permitted an increasingly prominent means of utilizing these entertainment sources in an instructional capacity for educational purposes. As a result, serious games focus on engaging learners in activities which…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Distance Education, Game Based Learning, Educational Games
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Kovac, Velibor Bobo; Cameron, David Lansing; Høigaard, Rune – Educational Psychology, 2016
Understanding the underlying processes influencing college students' academic achievement represents an important goal of educational research. The aim of the present study was to examine the utility of the extended Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and the relative influence of cognitive processes and measures of past behaviour in the prediction…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Grades (Scholastic), College Students, Cognitive Processes
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Pounder, Paul A. – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2016
This article reports on research that took place over two academic years (September 2013-April 2015). It provides a rich understanding of entrepreneurship education based on experiential knowledge and best practices from five entrepreneurship educators who have all worked as consultants to entrepreneurs, advisors to the government on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Entrepreneurship, Business Administration Education
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Goh, See-Kwong; Sandhu, Manjit-Singh – International Education Studies, 2014
The purpose of this research is to examine the influence of affect-based trust and cognition-based trust on knowledge sharing behaviour by adopting the theory of planned behaviour in selected universities in Malaysia. The research adopted survey method and a total of 545 participants from 30 universities. Multiple regression was used to assess the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Trust (Psychology), Cognitive Processes
Wilkens, Eric S. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This quantitative study attempted to understand the factors that influence Minnesota community and technical college students to pursue Information Technology (IT) certification. The study investigated the problem of determining the factors that influence Minnesota community and technical college students to pursue IT certification along with…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Information Technology, Certification
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Barnes-Holmes, Dermot; Regan, Donal; Barnes-Holmes, Yvonne; Commins, Sean; Walsh, Derek; Stewart, Ian; Smeets, Paul M.; Whelan, Robert; Dymond, Simon – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2005
The current study aimed to test a Relational Frame Theory (RFT) model of analogical reasoning based on the relating of derived same and derived difference relations. Experiment 1 recorded reaction time measures of similar-similar (e.g., "apple is to orange as dog is to cat") versus different-different (e.g., "he is to his brother as…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Reaction Time, Accuracy, Brain