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Darolia, Rajeev; Harper, Casandra – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
A prominent concern is that college students are harming their long-term economic prospects by making student loan decisions without full information about the implications of their choices. We designed an experiment to examine students' responses to a debt letter, an increasingly popular strategy to provide easily accessible information about…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Financial Aid, Debt (Financial), Decision Making
Chambers, Artie Roland – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Academic entitlement is a concern in higher education because of the potential societal and market driven influences on credible scholarship. Most of the research has focused on negative attitudes and behaviors attributed to students. The considerations of tenured professors who interact with academically entitled students and strategies for…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Tenure, Decision Making, Constructivism (Learning)
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Gainforth, Heather L.; Sheals, Kate; Atkins, Lou; Jackson, Richard; Michie, Susan – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2016
The Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF) and the Behavior Change Wheel (BCW) are frameworks that can be used to develop recycling interventions. The aim of this study was to demonstrate the utility of these frameworks for developing recycling interventions. 20 semistructured interviews with university building users were analyzed using the TDF and…
Descriptors: Recycling, Behavior Change, Conservation (Environment), Intention
Rajbhandari, Mani Man Singh – Online Submission, 2016
This paper explores the traits of the leadership dexterity of special students. Leadership in special students is not an expected phenomenon. Cases of special students studying at the University of Tampere, Finland are reported on here. Each case contributes uniqueness and offers qualitative insight into this phenomenon. Interviews were conducted…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Special Needs Students, Special Education
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Gowin, Mary; Cheney, Marshall; Gwin, Shannon; Wann, Taylor Franklin – American Journal of Health Education, 2015
Background: College students experience weight gain that can contribute to serious health issues. Health education efforts with college students are increasingly utilizing new technologies. Smartphone applications (apps) in particular are growing in popularity and use in all young adults. Purpose: Formative research was conducted to describe how…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, College Students, Qualitative Research, Health Promotion
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Lilley, Kathleen; Barker, Michelle; Harris, Neil – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2015
Increasingly, university and employer discourse identify a need for graduates to have an intellectual and global "mind-set" beyond disciplinary competencies and national boundaries. Universities aiming to educate global citizens show limited outcomes. Global citizen research has investigated the mobility experience, yet limited attention…
Descriptors: College Graduates, Cultural Awareness, Global Approach, Student Mobility
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers