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Dan Xu; Chiawen Lee – SAGE Open, 2025
The current research develops and tests a modified TPB model explaining how restaurant entrepreneurship education (EE) influences graduating hospitality students' intentions (EI) to start a restaurant business. A total of 283 graduating hospitality students in Taiwan responded to the survey, and the structural equation modeling based on partial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Hospitality Occupations, Dining Facilities
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Hodge, Steven – Critical Studies in Education, 2016
Competency-based training (CBT) is a curriculum model employed in educational sectors, professions and industries around the world. A significant feature of the model is its permeability to control by interests outside education. In this article, a "Neoliberal" version of CBT is described and analysed in the context of Australian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Competency Based Education, Neoliberalism
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Buckner, Marjorie M.; Strawser, Michael G. – Communication Education, 2016
As opposed to the "place where you were forced to consider new ideas, to meet new people, to ask new questions, and to learn to think, to socialize, to imagine" (Fitzgerald, 2012, p. 20), millennial students view college as a financial rather than philosophical training ground (Berrett, 2015). Unfortunately, this perspective…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Generational Differences, Student Characteristics, Student Responsibility
Hile, Adam Ray – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this study was to analyze how self-efficacy interacts with technology integration in Algebra 1 classrooms. A case study approach was used to discover how technology was integrated into Algebra 1 classrooms in a comprehensive high school. The findings were analyzed based on the teachers' locus of control to understand how the…
Descriptors: High Schools, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics, Mathematics Teachers
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Arthur, Chris – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2011
Utilizing concepts from Pierre Bourdieu I argue that the implementation of financial literacy education in Ontario public schools will, if uncontested, support a neoliberal consumer habitus (subjectivity) at the expense of the critical citizen. This internalization of the neoliberal ethos assists state efforts to shift responsibility for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Money Management, Knowledge Level, Consumer Education
Bridges, Emily; Hauser, Debra – Advocates for Youth, 2014
As they grow up, young people face important decisions about relationships, sexuality, and sexual behavior. The decisions they make can impact their health and well-being for the rest of their lives. Young people have the right to lead healthy lives, and society has the responsibility to prepare youth by providing them with comprehensive sexual…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Health Promotion, Health Behavior, Decision Making
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Marshall, Kevin; Anderson, John – Computers & Education, 2008
In this paper, we asked whether or not it matters if policy direction for embedding digital technology in education is aligned with the locus of control of curriculum reform and of teachers' professional development. We created a simple "control:choice framework" with which to analyse and compare approaches to education technology policy…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Locus of Control, Educational Change, Foreign Countries
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Steinhardt, Mary A.; And Others – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 1988
This study tested the reliability and factorial validity of the Purposes for Engaging in Physical Activity Scale (PEPAS). The instrument is designed to measure motivational factors for the purpose of curricular decision making and curriculum research. (JD)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Research, Individual Development, Intermediate Grades
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Manning, Brenda H.; Payne, Beverly D. – Journal of Teacher Education, 1989
A literature review of cognitive self-direction (CSD), a description of the preservice CSD curriculum model, and an overview of CSD methodology are provided. Benefits of CSD type instruction for preservice teachers include more internal locus of control orientations, less anxiety, and improved lesson planning, classroom performance, and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Locus of Control, Metacognition
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Farley, John – Theory into Practice, 1981
Classroom climate has often been labeled the "hidden curriculum." The positive or negative interpersonal communication between teacher and student influences student self-concept and academic performance. Teachers should be committed to the enrichment of the curriculum through the tenets of humanism and the creation of a positive classroom…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Curriculum Development, Enrichment
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Benson, Herbert; And Others – Journal of Research and Development in Education, 1994
High school students' self-esteem and locus of control were evaluated before, during, and after exposure to either a health curriculum based on elicitation of the relaxation-response with follow-up or a control health curriculum followed by the relaxation-response. The experimental group significantly increased self-esteem and internal locus of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Grade 10, Health Education, High School Students
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Peterson, Fred L., Jr.; Rubinson, Laurna – Journal of School Health, 1982
A study was done to ascertain the effectiveness of secondary dental health education and to examine the correlations among students' dental knowledge, attitudes, and health locus of control. Conclusions and implications based on the results of the study are discussed. (JN)
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Dental Health, Evaluation Methods, Health Education
McCall, Ava L. – 1986
The relationship of gender to the profession of teaching and curricular decision making is explored from a feminist point of view in this paper. The following questions were considered: (1)What are the experiences of those women who are preparing to teach and have an orientation toward teaching which is empowering for themselves and their students…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Haury, David L. – 1985
A desire to foster enduring, positive attitudes toward science teaching among elementary school teachers led to a study of self-perceptions. On the basis of evidence for strong links between locus of control orientation and attitudes, an attempt was made to enhance internality through instruction. A quasi-experimental research strategy was…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Higher Education
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Apple, Michael W.; Teitelbaum, Kenneth – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 1986
There is more and more external control of classroom content and processes. This external control is being vested in legislative and administrative bodies, which are more apt to turn the school over to managerial and industrial needs. Teachers should take organized action to defend their right to control the classroom. (RM)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational History
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