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Download full textLin Wu; Evi Kurniasari Purwaningrum; Yi Ming Ho; Kususanto Ditto Prihadi; Chen Cheng; Kuang Qian – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2025
This study aimed to explore the factors that contribute to the high level of competitiveness among students in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The expectancy value theory has suggested that the fear of failure (FOF) and a highly perceived value for achievement (expectancy value belief (EVB)) are the key drivers of competitiveness. To examine…
Descriptors: Competition, Foreign Countries, College Students, Fear
Direct linkBharati B. Belwalkar; Matthew Schultz; Christina Curnow; J. Carl Setzer – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2024
There is a growing integration of technology in the workplace (World Economic Forum), and with it, organizations are increasingly relying on advanced technological approaches for improving their human capital processes to stay relevant and competitive in complex environments. All professions must keep up with this transition and begin integrating…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Competition, Work Environment, Technological Advancement
Aalaya Milne; Michael Atkinson; Gretchen Kerr; Ashley Stirling – Journal of Dance Education, 2025
Recently, cases of harm have surfaced in competitive dance. The purpose of this study was to explore experiences of harm in competitive dance, specifically focusing on interactions between dancers and instructors. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 competitive dancers of various gender and racial identities. Data were analyzed using…
Descriptors: Dance, Competition, Teacher Student Relationship, Antisocial Behavior
Joel Manuel Prieto; Higinio González-García – Journal of American College Health, 2024
The study aimed to identify precompetitive anxiety profiles and analyze the impact of those profiles in their reasons to adhere to running. A sample of 473 Spanish Amateur Athletes participated in the study. Results revealed the emergence of three profiles: (a) a high precompetitive anxiety profile characterized by high cognitive and somatic…
Descriptors: Competition, Anxiety, Physical Activities, Athletes
Hande Karadag; Petek Tosun; Büsra Ayan – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2024
The rising competition and social media usage increased the importance of university brand personality and strategic marketing in higher education. This study explores the interrelationships between brand-generated content (BGC) and user-generated content (UGC) on social media and universities' competitive strategy and brand personality. BGC that…
Descriptors: Marketing, Universities, Social Media, Institutional Characteristics
Delaney, Jennifer A.; Kearney, Tyler D. – Research in Higher Education, 2022
University athletics because of its reporting structure, regulation by the NCAA, and relationship to the academic enterprise of institutions, provides a unique look into postsecondary institutional behavior. Using a difference-in-difference design, this study tests the introduction of new television networks dedicated to college sports on…
Descriptors: Television, College Athletics, Competition, Grants
Sebastian Grueneisen; Georgina Török; Anushari Wathiyage Don; Azzurra Ruggeri – Child Development, 2024
Choosing adequate partners is essential for cooperation, but how children calibrate their partner choice to specific social challenges is unknown. In two experiments, 4- to 7-year-olds (N = 189, 49% girls, mostly White, data collection: 03.2021-09.2022) were presented with partners in possession of different positive qualities. Children then…
Descriptors: Young Children, Peer Relationship, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning
Songül Yildiz; Ramazan Sak – Southeast Asia Early Childhood, 2024
The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between preschoolers' competition styles, anxiety levels, and their parents' parental styles. The sample of the study consists of 400 preschool children and their parents. The Demographic Information Form, Parenting Style Scale, Preschool Competition Questionnaire, and Anxiety Scale for…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Competition, Parenting Styles, Anxiety
Kataoka, Yuki; Taito, Shunsuke; Yamamoto, Norio; So, Ryuhei; Tsutsumi, Yusuke; Anan, Keisuke; Banno, Masahiro; Tsujimoto, Yasushi; Wada, Yoshitaka; Sagami, Shintaro; Tsujimoto, Hiraku; Nihashi, Takashi; Takeuchi, Motoki; Terasawa, Teruhiko; Iguchi, Masahiro; Kumasawa, Junji; Ichikawa, Takumi; Furukawa, Ryuki; Yamabe, Jun; Furukawa, Toshi A. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2023
There are currently no abstract classifiers, which can be used for new diagnostic test accuracy (DTA) systematic reviews to select primary DTA study abstracts from database searches. Our goal was to develop machine-learning-based abstract classifiers for new DTA systematic reviews through an open competition. We prepared a dataset of abstracts…
Descriptors: Competition, Classification, Diagnostic Tests, Accuracy
Georg Krücken; Nicolai Götze; Tim Seidenschnur – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
This research addresses two important developments in the academic field: First, universities are transforming into organisational actors, gaining more responsibilities and capacities for strategic action, and second, competition has reached a new level. An important driver of competition and universities' development towards strategic actorhood…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Financial Support, Competition
Kun Wang; Calvin King Lam Chung; Jiang Xu; Alan Chi Keung Cheung – Higher Education Policy, 2024
Emerging studies on university stratification have often attributed the developmental gaps between universities to the popularization of new public management in contexts where market mechanisms prevail in higher education governance. However, less attention has been paid to how state powers continue to mediate university stratification alongside…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Power Structure, Administrative Organization
Longqi Yu; Ralph Buck – Research in Dance Education, 2024
Presently there are approximately 50 million ballroom dancers in China, and over 100 tertiary institutions offering bachelor's degrees majoring in ballroom dance. It was this context and the growth of tertiary ballroom dance education and the prosperity of ballroom dance competition in China that prompted this research question: What are tertiary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Dance, Higher Education
Osório, António; Bornmann, Lutz – Research Evaluation, 2022
Research groups spend time and resources in the process of applying for funding. This issue raises important questions regarding inefficiency and whether the currently used funding mechanisms are adequate. This article aims to identify ways of reducing the inefficiency and the waste of resources when making research funding calls. We look at four…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Efficiency, Productivity, Researchers
Cüneyt Belenkuyu; Engin Karadag – Studies in Higher Education, 2025
Initiatives to build research universities to have world-class universities, the creator and the disseminator of scientific knowledge in knowledge-based economies, are among the most important policy reactions in higher education systems. With an increase in demands on greater accountability, transparency, and efficiency, studies investigating the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Universities, Higher Education, Educational Policy
Xinjian Fu; Yingxiang Li – European Journal of Education, 2025
University student academic competitions can test students' learning outcomes, improve their academic performance and stimulate their interest in learning. Exploring the behavioural mechanisms influencing students' academic competition is quite important, but there is currently little research on this topic. This study aims to fill this gap in the…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Participation, Competition, Structural Equation Models
