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Zubaida Shraim; Assile AlAmili; Shaikha Al Shehhi; Zeina Hojeij – Cogent Education, 2024
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) aims to improve its education sector by recruiting qualified and diverse student teachers. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the factors affecting student motivation to enroll in colleges of education. Using simple random sampling, a total of 199 consenting students were recruited to participate in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Majors, Schools of Education, Student Motivation
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Trnka, Radek; Zahradnik, Martin; Kuška, Martin – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
The role of emotional creativity in practicing creative leisure activities and in the preference of college majors remains unknown. This study aims to explore how emotional creativity measured by the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI; Averill, 1999) is interrelated with the real-life involvement in different types of specific creative leisure…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Creativity, Leisure Time, Recreational Activities
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Auger, Giselle A.; Gee, Charlie – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2016
The purpose of this study was to add to the limited body of knowledge on the effect of the media ethics course, specifically to investigate the effect of the course on the growth in moral judgment reasoning of students through a quasi-experimental pre-test, post-test analysis using the Defining Issues Test 2 (DIT-2). Results demonstrated…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Moral Development, Moral Values, Values
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Segura-Robles, Adrián; Alemany-Arrebola, Inmaculada; Gallardo-Vigil, Miguel Ángel – Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2016
Introduction: The main objective of the research was to analyze the existence of prejudice among university students of Melilla Campus (Spain) towards migrants who cross the border illegally. The role of educators and health professionals has a special interest in this context; they are who will have more contact with them. This requires the…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Correlation, Foreign Countries
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Costa, Alberto J.; Pinheiro, Margarida M.; Ribeiro, Mariana S. – Accounting Education, 2016
Our purpose is to empirically examine whether gender, age, work experience, and attendance of a course on ethics affect the ethical perceptions of Portuguese accounting students and analyze the influence of some individual factors that may affect their ethical decision-making. Additionally, we consider the degree of importance assigned to a list…
Descriptors: Ethics, Accounting, Gender Differences, Entrepreneurship
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Nielsen, Mathias Wullum – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
Academic debates addressing the persistent gender gap in science reveal considerable contestation of the relevance and extent of the problem. Particular attention has been given to the question of whether women's high attrition rates should be ascribed to the structural and cultural barriers inherent to the academic system or instead…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Science Achievement, Achievement Gap, Gender Differences
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Paker, Turan; Erarslan, Ali – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
This study aims to explore the attitudes of Turkish EFL students towards the writing course at university and to investigate the relationship between students' attitudes and their overall proficiency in writing. The participants were 782 students from various departments in the pre-intermediate, intermediate and upper-intermediate levels in a…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing Instruction, Language Proficiency, Writing Skills
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Akay, Emel; Toraman, Çetin – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2015
Learning a language means not only studying four skills of proficiency, but also understanding the system of rules underlying. In this respect, learners' attitudes towards grammar are also of vital importance. The main objective of this descriptive study is to determine English language learners' attitudes towards grammar and to analyze these…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, English (Second Language), Grammar, Second Language Learning
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Elango, Rengasamy; Gudep, Vijaya Kumar; Selvam, M. – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2008
e-Learning, of late, has been witnessing an unprecedented expansion as an opportunity for higher education. This expanding alternative mode calls for ensuring and imparting a sound and qualitative education. The present study made an attempt to investigate the issues related to the quality dimensions of e-learning. Our results revealed the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Electronic Learning, Student Attitudes, College Students