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Elizabeth G. Hunter; Jayna Niblock; Samantha M. Barefoot; Jackson Miller; Jason Hughes; Lydia Kite; Edith Scarletto – Journal of Occupational Therapy Education, 2025
Online learning is a growing area in occupational therapy education. It is important for faculty to use the modality of online learning to understand the influence of student personality traits, defined as relatively stable characteristics that influence thinking and behavior, on student satisfaction and success in graduate level programs. By…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Personality Traits, College Students, Student Satisfaction
Tara Nyikos – ProQuest LLC, 2020
Understanding how emotions influence motivation among students is critical to the talent development process. Research shows that certain emotions elicit an approach motive while other emotions elicit an avoidance motive. This study explored emotional disposition and fear of failure among undergraduates enrolled in honors college (n = 63) compared…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Undergraduate Students, Student Motivation, Student Characteristics
Rerke, Viktoriya I.; Belyakova, Natalia V.; Khudyakova, Tatyana L.; Klepach, Yuliya V.; Platonova, Elena V.; Miloradova, Nadezhda G.; Pozdnyakova, Irina R. – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2021
The change in strategic guidelines in Russian education is associated with a revision of the goals of teaching and upbringing. However, the emphasis of reforms has shifted towards the formation of the required professional competences at this stage in the development of the education system of the Russian Federation. We think that it is possible…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Characteristics, Personality Traits
Ling Pan; Shamsheer ul Haq; Xiaohua Shi; Muhammad Nadeem – SAGE Open, 2024
The integration of digitalization in higher education is a key to increasing the number of students getting access to education in the developing world. Inspired by the fast digitalization in higher education institutes and the lack of relevant empirical studies about the impact of this rapid digitalization on the learning behavior of students, we…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Competence, Innovation, Student Behavior
Al-Qirim, Nabeel; Rouibah, Kamel; Serhani, Mohamad Adel; Tarhini, Ali; Maqableh, Mahmoud; Khalil, Ashraf; Gergely, Marton – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
This research develops a model to investigate the influence of different determinants on student's Academic Performance (AP) in UAE University (UAEU). The model consists of Big Five personality traits (BigF) and other learning-orientation strategies. The importance of this research to the UAE's context stems from the fact that determinants of AP…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Personality Traits
Nafiseh Taghizadeh Kerman; Seyyed Kazem Banihashem; Mortaza Karami; Erkan Er; Stan van Ginkel; Omid Noroozi – Education and Information Technologies, 2024
Online peer feedback is an effective instructional strategy to enhance students' learning processes and outcomes. However, the literature lacks a comprehensive understanding of the influential factors that play a key role in the effective implementation of online peer feedback. This systematic review provides an overview of the current state of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Student Characteristics, Personality Traits, Learning Processes
Hadi Rajabbeigi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
A large proportion of students in the United States is international students. Thus, educational leaders need to facilitate the learning process for this population. This study investigated the characteristics of international students that affect their academic performance. The purpose of this study was to determine how individual characteristics…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Interpersonal Competence, Correlation, Metacognition
Leest, Bianca; Wolbers, Maarten H. J. – European Journal of Higher Education, 2021
In this article, we examine how critical thinking and creativity of students, in addition to study results, are related to their chance of being selected for an excellence programme, and whether these student characteristics determine successful completion of their participation in an excellence programme. Between 2016 and 2019, over 1000 students…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Critical Thinking, Creativity, Foreign Countries
Nweke, Winifred C.; Perkins, Tasha P.; Afolabi, Comfort Y. – Georgia Educational Researcher, 2019
Assessing the dispositions of teacher candidates remains a challenge for many Educator Preparation Providers (EPPs). This article details the process and results of establishing the reliability of two complementary instruments, the "Candidate Beliefs Self-Assessment Survey" (SAS) and the "Candidate Dispositions Performance…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Characteristics, Personality Traits, Test Reliability
Bhatt, Shahir; Bhatt, Amola; Thanki, Shashank – International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 2021
Education has undergone a paradigm shift due to the COVID-19 outbreak declared as a pandemic by the WHO in 2020. The current research attempts to identify the key factors which enable students' readiness for online learning (SROL). The Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) approach is used to draw contextual relationships among the enablers of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Online Courses, School Closing
de Boer, Timon; Van Rijnsoever, Frank – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022
Properly selecting students is one of the core responsibilities of higher education institutions, which is done with selection criteria that predict student success. However, student selection literature suffers from a dearth of research on non-cognitive selection criteria which can lead to incorrect admission assessments. Contrarily, personnel…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Selection Criteria, Admission Criteria, College Admission
Campos, Joana; Pinto, Luisa Helena; Hippler, Thomas – Journal of International Students, 2022
This study examines the dimensionality of a new measure of international students' adjustment using a sample of 189 international students. Drawing on earlier conceptualizations of cross-cultural adjustment as a person-environment fit and a previous scale measuring adjustment from the expatriate literature, this study shows that this scale can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Adjustment, Student Attitudes, Factor Analysis
Czepil, Marija; Karpenko, Oresta; Revt, Alla; Istomina, Kateryna – Advanced Education, 2019
Ethnic tolerance is one of key issues of global and national order and is considered to be one of the necessary conditions for effective professional training. The aim of our research was to determine the background factors of students' ethnic tolerance, its components and levels. Using two methods -- Tolerance Index by Soldatova and our own…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Consciousness Raising, Ethnic Groups, Cultural Differences
Yuliana – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2017
Entrepreneurship learning and training are tedious and rising educated unemployment of higher education graduates. For this reason, an alternative solution is done by higher education through Science and Technology Program for Entrepreneurship. This research aims to explore and describe the correlation analysis between entrepreneurial potential…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Personality Traits, College Students, Science Education
Huda, Miftachul; Yusuf, Jibrail Bin; Azmi Jasmi, Kamarul; Zakaria, Gamal Nasir – SAGE Open, 2016
This article examines the requirements for quality learning in Islam from the perspective of al-Zarnuji and according to his book, "Ta'lim al-Muta'allim." This book has been a source of reference for both students and teachers in many educational institutions in Muslim countries, particularly, the Islamic boarding schools in Indonesia.…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Islam, Muslims, Foreign Countries