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Ekinci, Nurullah Emir – Asian Journal of Education and Training, 2018
This study investigated the important predictors of depression levels of middle school students' according to their recreational sport participation, gender, age and their socioeconomic status. The data of the study was collected from middle schools in the city center of Kutahya, 342 (113 woman, 198 man) students randomly recruited and voluntarily…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Middle School Students, Foreign Countries, Measures (Individuals)
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Uzun, Ahmet; Aydos, Latif; Kaya, Metin; Pekel, H. Ahmet; Kanatli, Ulunay – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2018
The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of playing soccer for a long time in for professional soccer players regarding sole pressure. Despite the increasing prevalence of new methods developed in the footpad pressure measurement in recent years, our knowledge about pressure distribution of the footplate is still insufficient,…
Descriptors: Team Sports, Exercise Physiology, College Athletics, Athletes
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Crociata, Alessandro; Mattoscio, Nicola – Environmental Education Research, 2016
Pro-environmental behaviours associated with reducing, reusing and recycling have become increasingly matters of public policy concern. However, the existing literature on waste management rarely considers the cultural factors associated with predictors and enablers of recycling behaviours, nor has it deeply explored the relation between cultural…
Descriptors: Recycling, Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment), Cultural Influences
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Neroni, Joyce; Meijs, Celeste; Leontjevas, Ruslan; Kirschner, Paul A.; de Groot, Renate H. M. – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2018
Research has shown the importance of goal orientation in predicting academic performance for children, adolescents, and college students in traditional educational settings. Studies on this relationship within adult distance education, however, are lacking. To fill this gap, the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Academic Achievement, Distance Education, Adult Education
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Alperovich, Valeriya – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The images of "enemies" and "friends" remain in the focus of attention due to escalating discriminatory practices towards communication partners from different groups that one tends to ascribe negative features based on various stereotypes, social attitudes and representations. In this paper, the problem of metaphorical and…
Descriptors: Social Discrimination, Speech Communication, Antisocial Behavior, Social Bias
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Golino, Hudson F.; Gomes, Cristiano M. A. – International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 2016
This paper presents a non-parametric imputation technique, named random forest, from the machine learning field. The random forest procedure has two main tuning parameters: the number of trees grown in the prediction and the number of predictors used. Fifty experimental conditions were created in the imputation procedure, with different…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Regression (Statistics), Difficulty Level, Goodness of Fit
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Rahmatullah, Mamat – Higher Education Studies, 2016
In this study, the problem is limited factors relating to the learning effectiveness and teacher competence in improving the teacher performance. Therefore, this study will try to get explanations from some main issues which include the learning effectiveness issue, and teacher competence to increase teacher performance in Madrasah Tsanawiyah at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Statistical Inference, Statistics
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van der Zwet, Renske J. M.; Kolmer, Deirdre M. Beneken genaamd; Schalk, René – Research on Social Work Practice, 2016
Objectives: This study assesses social workers' orientation toward the evidence-based practice (EBP) process and explores which specific variables (e.g. age) are associated. Methods: Data were collected from 341 Dutch social workers through an online survey which included a Dutch translation of the EBP Process Assessment Scale (EBPPAS), along with…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Social Work, Caseworkers, Predictor Variables
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Littlejohn, Allison; Milligan, Colin; Fontana, Rosa Pia; Margaryan, Anoush – Vocations and Learning, 2016
Professional learning is a critical component of ongoing improvement and innovation and the adoption of new practices in the workplace. Professional learning is often achieved through learning embedded in everyday work tasks. However, little is known about how professionals self-regulate their learning through regular work activities. This paper…
Descriptors: Professional Education, Workplace Learning, Self Management, Active Learning
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Biemans, Harm; Mariën, Hans; Fleur, Erik; Tobi, Hilde; Nieuwenhuis, Loek; Runhaar, Piety – Vocations and Learning, 2016
To improve students' transitions between successive educational levels, continuing learning pathways are being designed and implemented in many countries. This study was carried out to examine the effects of the Green Lycea (GL) as critical cases of continuing learning pathways in vocational education in The Netherlands. The GL were compared with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Higher Education, Continuing Education
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Aydin, Oya Tamtekin; Bayir, Firat – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2016
By examining the relevant literature, many factors can be determined as effecting factors on university choice process. However, existing literature does not fully explore the effect of demographic variables on these factors. This research is aimed at identifying the relationship between university selection criteria and demographic variables,…
Descriptors: Demography, College Choice, Predictor Variables, Business Administration Education
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Otacioglu, Sena Gürsen – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The study was conducted to establish which variables cause the interrelations between musical self-esteem and performance-anxiety levels of students receiving professional music education at different institutions to vary. In relation to this framework, "musical self-esteem" and "performance anxiety" scores of students…
Descriptors: Self Esteem, Music Activities, Musical Composition, Anxiety
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Kim, Sung Reul; Kim, Hyun Kyung; Kim, Ji Young; Kim, Hye Young; Ko, Sung Hee; Park, Minyoung – Journal of School Nursing, 2016
The aim of this study was to identify smoking cessation failure subgroups among Korean adolescents. Participants were 379 smoking adolescents who joined a smoking cessation program. A questionnaire and a cotinine urine test were administered before the program began. Three months after the program ended, the cotinine urine test was repeated. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Health Behavior, Failure
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Farajollahi, Mehran; Zandi, Bahman; Sarmadi, Mohamadreza; Keshavarz, Mohsen – Australian Educational Computing, 2015
In a Distance Education (DE) system, students must be equipped with seven skills of computer (ICDL) usage. This paper aims at investigating the effect of a DE system on the computer literacy of Master of Arts students at Tehran University. The design of this study is quasi-experimental. Pre-test and post-test were used in both control and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Computer Literacy, Graduate Students
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Yenice, Nilgün – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2015
This study has been carried out to identify the relationship between the epistemological beliefs of student teachers and their metacognitive perceptions about the nature of science. The participants of the study totaled 336 student teachers enrolled in the elementary science education division of the department of elementary education at the…
Descriptors: Scientific Principles, Beliefs, Student Teachers, Science Instruction
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