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Dan Xu; Chiawen Lee – SAGE Open, 2025
The current research develops and tests a modified TPB model explaining how restaurant entrepreneurship education (EE) influences graduating hospitality students' intentions (EI) to start a restaurant business. A total of 283 graduating hospitality students in Taiwan responded to the survey, and the structural equation modeling based on partial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Hospitality Occupations, Dining Facilities
Klassen, Mike – Teaching in Higher Education, 2022
Suellen Shay's work on higher education curricula foregrounds the importance of professional curricula which face inwards to disciplines and outwards to practice. This paper builds on her framing of professional curricula, distinctive in the differentiated knowledge base and the social relations which legitimate them. I extend Shay's work deeper…
Descriptors: Governance, Locus of Control, Decision Making, College Curriculum
Jennifer Luke; Cristy Bartlett – Journal of Teaching and Learning for Graduate Employability, 2024
This conceptual paper explores the dynamic interplay between university career development and learning support services. A distinct focus on enhancing dispositional employability of both staff and the graduates they support is discussed. Integral to successful career preparedness, the essential attributes of dispositional employability include…
Descriptors: Employment Potential, Career Development, Correlation, Academic Support Services
Sagone, Elisabetta; Indiana, Maria Luisa – Education Sciences, 2021
In this paper decision-making styles, locus of control, and average grades in exams are examined as correlates of procrastination in a sample of 185 university students (mainly female students) recruited from mandatory courses for degrees in psychology and pedagogy at the University of Catania (Italy). Method: We used the Decisional…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Cognitive Style, Locus of Control, Grades (Scholastic)
Kirdök, Oguzhan; Harman, Esranur – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2018
This study intends to elaborate upon difficulties in career decisions of high school students with different locus of control. 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade students aged 14-19, 282 (%55.4) females, 227 (%44.6) males totaling 509 participants involved in research located in the south of Turkey. Career Decision-Making Difficulties Questionnaire…
Descriptors: High School Students, Decision Making, Locus of Control, Foreign Countries
Ulas, Ozlem; Yildirim, Ibrahim – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2019
The variables affecting final-year undergraduate students' career decision-making self-efficacy were explored in a group of 729 students across various departments of an urban university. A structural equation model was used to determine the variables that predicted students' self-efficacy in decision making, with results indicating that perceived…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Barriers, Decision Making, Career Choice
Björklund, Christina; Vaez, Marjan; Jensen, Irene – Studies in Higher Education, 2021
The purpose of this study was to use a longitudinal approach to investigate the association between work-related psychosocial factors and workplace bullying in an academic setting. A questionnaire was sent out three times to about 4500 academic- and non-academic staff in a medical university. Those two group were analyzed together and separately.…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Bullying, Medical Schools, College Faculty
Yates, Mary-Lynn; Hulusi, Halit M. – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2018
This article explores the experiences of eight Educational Psychologists (EPs) in the UK who acted as expert witnesses at Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunals (SENDIST) hearings in the last 12 months on behalf of their employing Local Authority (LA). A thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with all eight EPs indicated two…
Descriptors: Educational Psychology, Psychologists, Foreign Countries, Special Education
Özen, Yener – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
In this study, decision heuristics used by individuals with different responsibility controls were investigated. In the research, 370 final grade university students studying at Erzincan University Faculty of Education were included. In order to collect data, Internally Controlled Responsibility-Externally Controlled Responsibility Scale of Özen…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Heuristics, Correlation, Foreign Countries
Bolhuis, Erik; Schildkamp, Kim; Voogt, Joke – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2016
Data use is becoming more important in higher education. In this case study, a team of teachers from a teacher education college was supported in data-based decision making by means of the data team procedure. This data team studied the reasons why students drop out. A team's success depends in part on whether the team is able to develop and apply…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Decision Making, Case Studies, Teacher Education Programs
Huang, Tracy; Loft, Shayne; Humphreys, Michael S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
"Time-based prospective memory" (PM) refers to performing intended actions at a future time. Participants with time-based PM tasks can be slower to perform ongoing tasks (costs) than participants without PM tasks because internal control is required to maintain the PM intention or to make prospective-timing estimates. However, external…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Memory, Time Perspective, Intention
Greenbank, Paul – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2014
This paper is based on in-depth interviews carried out with students in their first and final years of undergraduate study. The paper examines how students approached career decision-making and the rationale underpinning the approach they adopted. The research found that students were not utilising the type of rational approaches to career…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Interviews, Undergraduate Students, Career Choice
Inan, Mehmet; Karagözoglu, Cengiz; Dervent, Fatih; Arslantas, Bülent – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2015
In this study, the university students who participate in sports have been examined in terms of their socialization relative to the participation in sport activities and the locus of control. Students are thought to be engaged in many activities in addition to their lessons during their student tenure at higher education institutions. Their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Athletics, Socialization
White, Julie; Rae, Tina – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2016
The person-centred review (PCR) is a model for the review of a student's special educational needs (SEN) which places the young person and their family at the centre of the process. This mixed-methods, exploratory study investigated the views of 16 students with SEN aged between 10-11 years (Year 6) and 13-14 years (Year 9), and their…
Descriptors: Special Education, Disabilities, Special Needs Students, Mixed Methods Research
McAlpine, Lynn; Emmioglu, Esma – Studies in Higher Education, 2015
While the doctorate was once perceived as preparation for an academic position, internationally more than half of all graduates leave the higher education sector by choice or lack of opportunity. We know little of how they perceive and navigate the transition from PhD to other career. This longitudinal study of 23 sciences doctoral students,…
Descriptors: Doctoral Programs, Graduate Students, Student Research, Nontenured Faculty