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Rebecca Y. P. Kan – Higher Education Research and Development, 2025
The in-between space ignites learning as individuals journey from dependence on the institution to independence from the institution. This space has hitherto been holistically undefined in the context of higher arts education. The study aims to explore such experiences within the lifeworld of student scholars in the fields of arts and design.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Art Education, Interior Design
Gichuru, Eutychus Ngotho – Online Submission, 2023
The purpose of this study was to see if there was a link between university entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial intentions among student-teachers at SOED in UDSM. Objectives of the study were:(i) Determine whether university students at SOED who study university entrepreneurship education have higher entrepreneurial tendencies such as…
Descriptors: Universities, Entrepreneurship, Intention, Student Teachers
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García-Almeida, Desiderio Juan; Cabrera-Nuez, María Teresa – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2020
Cooperative learning techniques in teaching activities are becoming increasingly popular. Many studies have documented the benefits of these techniques, but fewer have analysed the factors affecting students' achievement. One of those factors could be the student's proactivity, since cooperative techniques require active involvement of students.…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Student Motivation, Locus of Control, Creativity
Eutychus Ngotho Gichuru; George Leonard Kahangwa – Online Submission, 2023
The aim of this study was to investigate whether there is a statistically significant mean difference in various entrepreneurial tendencies (including the need for achievement, need for autonomy, creative tendency, calculated risk-taking, and internal locus of control) between student-teachers who have received university entrepreneurship…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Student Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Student Teacher Attitudes
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Anjum, Imran; Fraser, Sharon; Thomas, Sharon – International Journal for Academic Development, 2021
This paper, reporting the findings from a larger, earlier study, aimed to develop an in-depth understanding of the struggles involved in six Pakistani academics' experiences of professional growth. A narrative inquiry approach was used to explore the experiences and the data were analysed using paradigmatic reasoning, an approach to analysing…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Faculty Development, Personal Narratives, Barriers
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Yasin, Naveed; Khansari, Zeinab; Sharif, Taimur – Industry and Higher Education, 2020
This study assesses the enterprising characteristics of first-year undergraduate Omani female chemical engineering students in Muscat, Oman. Pre and post surveys were conducted with 27 respondents from an entrepreneurship boot camp module mandated by the Oman Ministry of Higher Education. The variables, measured on a 10-point Likert scale,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Entrepreneurship
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Goksu, Meral Metin; Demir, Ozden – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2021
Learning is a process of thinking in which the most significant construct is individuals' awareness of their own learning and their own learning process, in other words, of their own metacognition capacity. This prediction study aimed at identifying the relationship between entrepreneurial dispositions and metacognition, and epistemological…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Epistemology, Beliefs, Predictor Variables
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Singh, Reetesh K.; Chaudhary, Priya – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2018
Purpose: Over the past few decades, Indian education system has witnessed a paradigm shift, leading to the replacement of the traditional education system. The traditional education system focused on the holistic development of the student, with a focus on enhancing the student creativity and capability to innovate. This shift leads one to ask…
Descriptors: Organizational Culture, Educational Quality, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Pokrovskaia, Nadezhda N.; Leontyeva, Veronika L.; Ababkova, Marianna Yu.; D'Ascenzo, Fabrizio – Education Sciences, 2021
Research on behavior regulation was carried out after several months of social isolation, provoked by the pandemic, between the months of February and March 2020. In spring 2020, many higher education institutions began to introduce digital tools of education, remote learning, and distance teaching. The reaction during the first weeks and months…
Descriptors: Pandemics, COVID-19, Distance Education, Self Control
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Bulut, Cagri; Eren, Hakan; Halac, Duygu Seckin – Creativity Research Journal, 2013
The term "innovation" has sometimes been used as a synonym for technological innovation until the concept of "social innovation" attracted academic attention. Since then, these two types of innovation have been investigated individually. It can be claimed that, despite the great importance of social innovation studies,…
Descriptors: Innovation, Technological Advancement, Social Change, Influences
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Norvilitis, Jill M.; Reid, Howard M.; Ling, Sun; Chen, Sisi – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2013
Data were analyzed from 178 American and 153 Chinese college students who participated in a study examining motivation to attend college. Students in the two countries reported similar motivations for attending college, with career and personal reasons being most important and helping family least important. Also, the study assessed the influence…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, College Students, Cross Cultural Studies
Eriksson, Gillian I. – Gifted Education International, 1990
The study investigated two levels of learning choice and control with 150 gifted South African students (grades 6-8) exposed to the Cognitive Research Trust (CORT) thinking skills program (prestructured) or the Integrated Education Model program (flexibly structured). Results suggested both programs affected locus of control and creativity but not…
Descriptors: Creativity, Foreign Countries, Gifted, Junior High Schools
Richards, Janet C.; And Others – 1992
This investigation examined students attending U.S. and Canadian visual and performing arts secondary schools for distinguishing personality characteristics, locus of control, acceptance of talents, labeling, family dynamics, anxiety levels, perceived personal and school problems, and views of peers, artists/teachers, and counselors. One hundred…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Creativity, Family Influence, Foreign Countries