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Park, Sung Youl; Lee, Hae Deum; Kim, Soo Young – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2018
University educators use mobile learning in their teaching because it is regarded as more beneficial than e-learning. The perceived attributes of the innovation (relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability and observability), system quality, and student resistance to innovation were selected as predictors of university students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Telecommunications, Educational Technology, Handheld Devices
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Yazgan, Yeliz – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
This study investigated the role of each strategy in explaining sixth graders' (12-13 years old students') non-routine problem solving success and discriminating between successful and unsuccessful students. Twelve non-routine problems were given to 123 pupils. Answers were scored between 0 and 10. Bottom and top segments of 27% were then…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 6, Problem Solving
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Willinger, Ulrike; Schmoeger, Michaela; Deckert, Matthias; Eisenwort, Brigitte; Loader, Benjamin; Hofmair, Annemarie; Auff, Eduard – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2017
Specific language impairment (SLI) comprises impairments in receptive and/or expressive language. Aim of this study was to evaluate a screening for SLI. 61 children with SLI (SLI-children, age-range 4-6 years) and 61 matched typically developing controls were tested for receptive language ability (Token Test-TT) and for intelligence (Wechsler…
Descriptors: Screening Tests, Clinical Diagnosis, Language Impairments, Preschool Children
Yazgan, Yeliz – Online Submission, 2016
This study aims to determine the explanatory and discriminative powers of non-routine problem solving strategies used by fourth graders. Six problems were asked to 240 pupils. After scoring answers between 0 and 10, bottom and top segments of 27% were determined based on total scores. Lastly, all scripts of students in these segments were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Primary Education
Pham, Linh Hung – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study was designed to investigate the predictive relationships of creative problem-solving attributes, which comprise divergent thinking, convergent thinking, motivation, general and domain knowledge and skills, and environment, with mathematical creativity of sixth grade students in Thai Nguyen City, Viet Nam. The study also aims to revise…
Descriptors: Creativity, Problem Solving, Creative Thinking, Thinking Skills
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Areepattamannil, Shaljan; Freeman, John G.; Klinger, Don A. – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2011
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationships among intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, and academic achievement for the Indian immigrant adolescents in Canada in comparison to their counterparts in India. Descriptive discriminant analysis indicated that the Indian immigrant adolescents in Canada had higher intrinsic…
Descriptors: Incentives, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Adolescents
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Kuchinke, K. Peter; Ardichvili, Alexandre; Borchert, Margret; Rozanski, Andrzej – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report the results of an empirical study of the meaning of working, individual level work outcomes, and job and career satisfaction, among professional level employees in business organizations in Russia, Poland, and Germany. Design/methodology/approach: The theoretical framework for the study was based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Professional Personnel, Work Attitudes
Friedman, Isaac A. – 1997
Taxing situations that threaten the administrator's sense of self-efficacy meaningfully account for burnout in human-service professionals. This paper presents findings of a study that hypothesized that environmental or role stressors could be classified as task, organization, and relations stressors, each pertaining to a different domain of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Burnout, Coping