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Direct linkRaymond Leung; Sammy Fung – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2025
Accounting-majored students in their final year of university program understand that they still have a long journey of both work and rigorous studies before earning their professional accounting designation. Even though the literature examines various factors, such as accountants' job status and lifestyle affecting students' self-efficacy, we…
Descriptors: Accounting, Majors (Students), Business Education, Educational Objectives
Cindy Karikari – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The influence of andragogical principles on employee motivation to transfer training was examined in this study. The research problem is whether the principles of andragogy (Need to Know, Self-Concept, Experience, Readiness to Learn, Orientation to Learning, and Motivation to Learn) predict motivation to transfer training among individuals who…
Descriptors: Motivation, Transfer of Training, Correlation, Employees
Download full textGary J. Conti; Rita C. McNeil – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
The purpose of this study was to describe the association between the learning strategy preference of the learners as identified by "Assessing The Learning Strategies of AdultS" (ATLAS) and the individual personality traits as defined by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The sample was 553 adults in Canada and the United States.…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Learning Strategies, Adults, Correlation
Hoffmann, Kristin; Berg, Selinda Adelle; Brancolini, Kristine R.; Kennedy, Marie R. – College & Research Libraries, 2023
Academic librarians face multiple barriers in conducting the research that is expected in their work, yet they still manage to successfully complete it. This study aimed to identify the factors that contribute to their success. Through an online survey sent via email to a random sample of academic librarians in the United States, we gathered and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Librarians, Library Research, Influences
Fei Wang; Katina Pollock; Cameron Hauseman – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
Vice-principals' (VPs) work is intensifying in its complexity and volume but the changing nature of their work is not thoroughly documented. This article focuses on the often-overlooked VP's role and records the factors that evidence the intensifying work conditions for VPs. The data for this article come from a large-scale online survey that has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Assistant Principals, Administrator Role, Work Environment
Bowker, Julie C.; Sette, Stefania; Ooi, Laura L.; Bayram-Ozdemir, Sevgi; Braathu, Nora; Bølstad, Evalill; Castillo, Karen Noel; Dogan, Aysun; Greco, Carolina; Kamble, Shanmukh; Kim, Hyoun K.; Kim, Yunhee; Liu, Junsheng; Oh, Wonjung; Rapee, Ronald M.; Wong, Quincy J. J.; Xiao, Bowen; Zuffianò, Antonio; Coplan, Robert J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
The goal of this study was to evaluate the measurement invariance of an adapted assessment of motivations for social withdrawal ("Social Preference Scale--Revised"; SPS-R) across cultural contexts and explore associations with loneliness. Participants were a large sample of university students (N = 4,397; M[subscript age] = 20.08 years,…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Withdrawal (Psychology), Motivation, Foreign Countries
Patterson-Price, Juanita; Pass, Andrea – Journal of Dance Education, 2023
During the course of a program evaluation for Footprints Dance Project Society of Alberta, we uncovered a discrepancy between children and parents regarding both motivation for program participation and expected outcomes. At Footprints Dance Project, we work with a diverse group of children, primarily from low socioeconomic backgrounds. Despite…
Descriptors: Motivation, Participation, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
Wilkinson, Clare; Milani, Elena; Ridgway, Andy; Weitkamp, Emma – International Journal of Science Education, Part B: Communication and Public Engagement, 2023
As the ecosystem of actors communicating science has become more complex, there is a need to understand the motivations and deterrents of those involved in the communication of science, technology and health topics. This article reports on a survey of 465 communication actors based in seven European countries. The findings suggest strong…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Scientific and Technical Information, Science Education, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Joyla A. Furlano; Anisa Morava; Michelle Y. S. Wong; Nicholas W. Bray; Wuyou Sui; Joseph Munn; Harry Prapavessis – Journal of American College Health, 2023
Objective: Participation in regular exercise among post-secondary students is often low. Our cross-sectional study aimed to assess exercise levels, perceived barriers/motivators to exercise, and knowledge and use of exercise resources in graduate students. Participants: We recruited graduate students across various disciplines at a large Canadian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Behavior, Exercise, Physical Activity Level
Rose Mina Munjee; Seonaigh MacPherson – Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 2025
This research considers the impacts of racism on the experiences of racialized people, and how mindfulness and compassion might serve as resources for their recovery and resistance. Applying ecological theories of mind and critical phenomenology, the study presents the self-reported experiences of 30 adults organized into five focus groups of…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Altruism, Resistance (Psychology), Racism
Leary, Tamara; Pardy, Linda – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2022
"Crossing over to the dark side" is a popular reference to someone's decision to leave the supposed "good, pure, and honest" side of something to go to its "bad, evil, and suspicious" side. This idiom is typically used when an administrator moves into a faculty position or vice versa. While there is a plethora of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Administration, Career Change, Teacher Attitudes
Natalie Simper; Amanda Berry; Katarina Mårtensson; Nicoleta Maynard – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2023
This study follows a network-based Assessment Redesign Project at a Canadian university to investigate engagement and sustained implementation. The following strategies were employed in the project: mini-grants, embedded support, a community of practice, and social networks. Assessment facilitators worked in discipline clusters to achieve mutual…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Critical Thinking
O'Connor, Alison M.; Judges, Rebecca A.; Lee, Kang; Evans, Angela D. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
Self-report research indicates that dishonesty decreases across adulthood; however, behavioral measures of dishonesty have yet to be examined across younger and older adults. The present study examined younger and older adults' cheating behaviors in relation to their self-reported honesty-humility. Younger (N = 112) and older adults (N = 85)…
Descriptors: Cheating, Ethics, Age Differences, Deception
Pascale Dubois; Frédéric Guay; Marie-Catherine St-Pierre – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2023
Background & aims: Youth with developmental language disorder (DLD) are at risk of experiencing challenges during their job search. It is thus crucial to promote efficient job search behaviors in terms of effort, intensity, and self-regulation. Based on self-determination theory (SDT), we verified the role of autonomous and controlled…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Job Search Methods, Motivation
Firzly, Najat; Chamandy, Melodie; Pelletier, Luc; Lagacé, Martine – Journal of Career Development, 2022
Using self-determination theory among a sample of student employees, the present cross-sectional study (N = 358) examines how mentors' interpersonal behaviors relate to both motivation at work and motivation for a mentoring relationship and how these two contexts of motivation can differentially relate to mentees' work outcomes. Results revealed…
Descriptors: Mentors, Self Determination, Interpersonal Relationship, Motivation
