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Anthun, Kirsti Sarheim; Innstrand, Siw Tone – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
This study examines the predictive value of job demands and resources on the meaning of work and organisational commitment across three age groups; young workers (<30 years), a middle age group of workers (30-49 years) and older workers (>50 years). Data were collected from a survey conducted among university employees (N = 3,066).…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Predictor Variables, Job Satisfaction, Work Environment
Wasahua, Tahir; Koesmaryono, Yonny; Sailah, Illah – Journal of Education and e-Learning Research, 2018
One of the governments' policy through Directoral General of Learning and Student Affair, Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education in improving the access for new students namely the bidikmisi program. Program bidikmisi is a tuition fee subsidy program allocated to selected new students who possess excellent academic capability yet…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Higher Education, Tuition
Springer, Sarah I. – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2016
Group counseling is an important treatment modality used to support clients in a variety of therapeutic settings. This article highlights the results of an exploratory study that examined site supervisory factors that predicted group leader self-efficacy for preservice school counselors. Results of multiple regression analyses suggest meaningful…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Counselor Training, Predictor Variables, Self Efficacy
Stoessel, Katharina; Ihme, Toni A.; Barbarino, Maria-Luisa; Fisseler, Björn; Stürmer, Stefan – Research in Higher Education, 2015
Current higher education is characterized by a proliferation of distance education programs and by an increasing inclusion of nontraditional students. In this study we investigated whether and to what extent nontraditional students are particularly at risk for attrition (vs. graduating) from distance education programs. We conducted a secondary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Distance Education, Nontraditional Students
Lehre, Anne-Catherine; Hansen, Arvid; Lehre, Knut Petter; Laake, Petter – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2014
In 2003, the Norwegian higher educational system was reformed. The reform, known as the 2003 Quality Reform, introduced changes in the teaching model and student assessment. The authors wished to study how these changes affected male and female students. Therefore, they addressed student learning outcomes, measured through examination results,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Gender Differences, Educational Change
Hicks, Deborah K. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The researcher investigated three types of factors, academic, commitment, and social on college sophomore's decisions to persist at predominately White institutions. The academic factors (academic integration, academic rigor), commitment (goal commitment and institutional commitment) and social factors (social integration and racial climate) were…
Descriptors: African American Students, Academic Persistence, College Students, Selective Admission
Bhrommalee, Panu – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Online learning provides learners with more convenient and flexible ways of learning than does a traditional learning environment. Many Thai universities have implemented online learning for their students despite a lack of knowledge and understanding about students' attitudes toward and behavioral intention to using the system. The purpose of…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cognitive Style, Student Attitudes, Online Courses
Morton, Lisa; Lamb, Charles – College Quarterly, 2006
This paper reports the responses of 235 tertiary commerce students to a questionnaire in relation to their learning and assessment experiences. Significant correlations between measures were used to identify underlying constructs within the overall set of variable measures. Logistic regression incorporating the factors was then used to further…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Questionnaires, Predictor Variables, Gender Differences

Carrier, Carol A.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1988
Students in a large lecture course were asked to complete the Notetaking Perceptions Survey, an instrument that assesses students' perceptions of the worth or value of notetaking, their perceived level of notetaking activity, and their degree of confidence about their own notetaking skill. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Cognitive Style, College Students

Woodrow, Janice E. J. – Computers and Education, 1991
Describes a study of student teachers that examined determinants of achievement in a computer literacy course. Correlations with measures of computer attitudes, perceived locus of control, gender, age, and prior word processing and computer experience are discussed, and the computer literacy model on which the analysis of data was based is…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Computer Literacy, Correlation

Griswold, Philip A. – AEDS Journal, 1985
This study evaluated the degree to which college major (education or business) and student individual differences (sex, age, mathematics ability, and locus of control) are related to attitudes about computers. Results indicate education majors have less favorable attitudes about computers than business majors even with individual differences taken…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Business Administration Education, Comparative Analysis, Computer Literacy
Gmelch, Walter H.; Gates, Gordon S. – 1995
This study examined the relationship between five stress factors (faculty role, administrative relationship, role ambiguity, perceived expectations, and administrative task) and specific personal, positional, and organizational variables in relation to their effect on the roles of department chairpersons. Using a chair stress index, administrative…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Age Differences, College Faculty
Ross, Craig M.; Lukow, Jennifer E. – Journal of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2004
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between learning styles and students' attitudes towards the use of technology in a leisure study curriculum. All 422 subjects completed the Kolb learning style inventory (LSI) and a computer attitudes survey (CAS) developed by the authors. The LSI is a standardized assessment utilized to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Electronic Mail, Student Attitudes, Computer Attitudes
Woodley, Alan – 1981
A multivariate model to explain student success and failure at the Open University of the United Kingdom is outlined. The model is based on the results of an evaluation study that explored the suitability of this teaching system for young people under 21 years old. Twenty-three characteristics were designated as social and psychological problems,…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Failure, Age Differences, Behavior Problems

Kleiman, Ephraim; Rubenstein, Yona – Journal of Economic Education, 1996
Reports on the replication of Jane Leuthold's experiment concerning consumer choice, investments, and free riding indexes. This experiment, conducted in an Israeli undergraduate economics class, broadened the subjects' characteristics questionnaire to include issues of social consciousness and altruism. Includes four tables of statistical data.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Consumer Economics, Decision Making, Economic Factors