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Yilmaz, Yakup – Participatory Educational Research, 2022
Teaching-learning activities carried out face-to-face in physical classrooms in higher education have been moved to the online environment due to the COVID-19 pandemic obligation. It is obvious that students' learning experiences and perceptions need to be researched empirically in order to optimize higher education strategies that have been moved…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Learning Activities, Higher Education, COVID-19
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Aldahdouh, Tahani Z.; Nokelainen, Petri; Korhonen, Vesa – International Journal of Higher Education, 2018
Innovativeness has been believed to be a significant psychological construct underlying individual differences in adopting novel ideas, experiences or approaches. Although few recent studies have contributed to identifying the factors that predict innovativeness, there is a lack of research showing the impacts of implicit theories and goal…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Higher Education, College Faculty, Goal Orientation
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Alnawas, Ibrahim – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2015
This paper argues that student orientation (SO) is a high order construct that should be measured formatively rather than reflectively. Using a discovery-oriented approach, conducted by supplementing educational and marketing literatures with in depth interviews from 23 academic staff in seven different universities, the authors identified three…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Orientation, Formative Evaluation
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Niculescu, Mihai; Xu, Bing; Hampton, Gerald M.; Peterson, Robin T. – Administrative Issues Journal: Education, Practice, and Research, 2013
Historically, the measurement of market orientation has proved to be difficult, due to the low external validity of the concept. Existing scales exhibit acceptable properties in measuring market orientation in business organizations, but are less accurate in the context of higher education institutions. This paper compares the performance of three…
Descriptors: Measurement, Higher Education, Comparative Analysis, Orientation
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Rockenbach, Alyssa Bryant; Hudson, Tara D.; Tuchmayer, Jeremy B. – Journal of Higher Education, 2014
Using longitudinal data collected as part of the 2004/09 Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study, this study employed structural equation modeling to examine how multiple dimensions of college students' service participation shape life goals oriented toward meaning, purpose, and citizenship and subsequent service engagement. The…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Student Surveys, National Surveys, Structural Equation Models
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Wan, Chin-Sheng; Yang, Jen-te; Cheng, Shu-yun; Su, Chiakai – Educational Review, 2013
A cooperative education experience (or internship placement) is an essential component of the curricula of vocational higher education. The efficacy of internship placements has become one of the major concerns facing those who develop education curricula. The purpose of this longitudinal study was to explore the relationships among the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Goal Orientation, Workplace Learning, Cooperative Education
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Quinn, Petrina – Education in Rural Australia, 1999
Surveys of the attitudes and intentions of 155 Australian agricultural students at the beginning and end of their freshman year in college were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Results show that constructs in the model--self-efficacy, future orientation, and generic skills self-estimates--were key predictors of student persistence and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Agricultural Education, Career Planning, College Freshmen