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Anthony, Bokolo, Jr.; Kamaludin, Adzhar; Romli, Awanis; Mat Raffei, Anis Farihan; A_L Eh Phon, Danakorn Nincarean; Abdullah, Aziman; Leong Ming, Gan; A. Shukor, Nurbiha; Shukri Nordin, Mohd; Baba, Suria – International Journal of Information and Learning Technology, 2020
Purpose: Blended learning (BL) has been increasing in popularity and demand and has developed as a common practice in institutions of higher learning. Therefore, this study develops a model to evaluate the critical predictors that determine students' acceptance and deployment of BL in institutions of higher education based on the theory of planned…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Predictor Variables, College Students, Student Attitudes
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Eid, Riyad; Badewi, Amgad; Selim, Hassan; El-Gohary, Hatem – Education & Training, 2019
Purpose: The growing interest in the development of entrepreneurial intention (EI) that has increased the importance of theories that explain and anticipate the tendency among individuals to start a new business. However, most of these theories focus on the relationship between entrepreneurs perceptions and their intention and ignore the cognitive…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Entrepreneurship, Intention, Models
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Peijian Paul Sun – Language Teaching Research, 2025
To sustain students' continuous learning in a COVID-19 pandemic context, schools and universities have shifted traditional classroom teaching to synchronous online teaching. However, there is limited understanding of acceptance and adoption of synchronous online teaching by university teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL). This study,…
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Attitude Change, English (Second Language)
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Al-Jubari, Ibrahim – SAGE Open, 2019
The purpose of this study is to test an integrated entrepreneurial motivation and intention model based on self-determination theory (SDT) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Particularly, it aims at testing the direct and indirect effects of the basic psychological needs satisfaction of SDT, that is, autonomy, competence, and relatedness on…
Descriptors: College Students, Entrepreneurship, Intention, Self Determination
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Rahman, Muhammad Sabbir; Mannan, Mahafuz; Rahman, Mohammad Mahboob – Health Education, 2018
Purpose: From the perspective of developing countries, studies regarding the behavioral effects of quitting tobacco consumption on emerging psychological determinants are limited. The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of emotional intelligence (EI), social norms, susceptibility and self-efficacy on the behavioral effects of…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Behavior, Social Behavior, Intention
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Aslan, Nese; Cansever, Belgin Arslan – Higher Education Studies, 2016
This study focused on prospective teachers' leisure behaviors. For this purpose, 47 fourth grade undergraduate students in Faculty of Education in Ege University, Izmir, Turkey participated. A qualitative research design was used in the study. In the process of analysing the data, Greimas' Actant Model as one of the analysing models in Semiology…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Leisure Time, Undergraduate Students
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Armenta, Brian E.; Hautala, Dane S.; Whitbeck, Les B. – Developmental Psychology, 2015
In the present study, we considered the utility of the prototype/willingness model in predicting alcohol use among North-American Indigenous adolescents. Specifically, using longitudinal data, we examined the associations among subjective drinking norms, positive drinker prototypes, drinking expectations (as a proxy of drinking willingness), and…
Descriptors: Drinking, Adolescents, American Indians, Models
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Tarhini, Ali; Hone, Kate; Liu, Xiaohui; Tarhini, Takwa – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
In this study, we examine the effects of individual-level culture on the adoption and acceptance of e-learning tools by students in Lebanon using a theoretical framework based on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). To overcome possible limitations of using TAM in developing countries, we extend TAM to include "subjective norms" (SN)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Adoption (Ideas), Models
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Davidson, Christina – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2012
This article examines ethnomethodology in order to consider its particular yet under-used perspective within literacy research. Initially, the article outlines ethnomethodology, including its theoretical position and central concepts such as indexicality and reflexivity. Then, selected studies are used to illustrate the application of the…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, Sociocultural Patterns
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Choo, Teh Eng (Elaine); Paull, Megan – Issues in Educational Research, 2013
The incidence of plagiarism, according to the literature, is increasing. But why do students plagiarise and why the increase? Is it due to laziness, opportunity, ignorance, fear or ambivalence? Or do they know that there is little chance of any significant penalty? The literature suggests that all of these apply. Given this, are universities and,…
Descriptors: Incidence, Plagiarism, College Students, College Faculty
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Cheng, Pi-Yueh; Hsu, Ping-Kun; Chiou, Wen-Bin – Asia Pacific Education Review, 2012
Previous research on professional certification has primarily focused on graduate certificates in intensive care nursing, writing certificates for practitioners, maintenance of certification in radiation oncology, and the certification of teachers and surgeons. Research on certification in the domain of business and management from an…
Descriptors: Certification, Tests, Foreign Countries, Structural Equation Models
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Watt, Sheila; Higgins, Cassie – Children & Society, 1999
Studied the extent of use and usefulness of "Turn Your School Round," a behavior management package aimed at promoting discipline, learning respect, and responsibility for one's actions. Found that almost half of 83 schools responding used the program or one of its components; success was reported more among schools using entire program…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Behavior Standards, Classroom Techniques
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Sipila, Jorma – Youth and Society, 1985
Presents a model of deviant behavior at three levels: the community, the social network, and the individual. Also presents results of a study, conducted in Finland, of regional differences in deviant adolescent behavior. Reports that although the model proved incompatible with part of the empirical material, it was on the whole viable. (KH)
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Behavior Standards