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Yukselturk, Erman; Ozekes, Serhat; Turel, Yalin Kilic – European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2014
This study examined the prediction of dropouts through data mining approaches in an online program. The subject of the study was selected from a total of 189 students who registered to the online Information Technologies Certificate Program in 2007-2009. The data was collected through online questionnaires (Demographic Survey, Online Technologies…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Distance Education, Dropout Characteristics, Prediction
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Guan, Yanjun; Wang, Zhen; Dong, Zhilin; Liu, Yukun; Yue, Yumeng; Liu, Haiyang; Zhang, Yuqing; Zhou, Wenxia; Liu, Haihua – Journal of Career Assessment, 2013
The current research aimed to develop a multidimensional measure of career locus of control (LOC) and examine its predictive validity on objective and subjective career success among Chinese employees. Items of career LOC were generated based on literature review of the significant predictors of career success, as well as the open-ended responses…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Multidimensional Scaling, Chinese, Predictive Validity
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Mittendorff, Kariene; Beijaard, Douwe; den Brok, Perry; Koopman, Maaike – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2012
In this article, we examine the relationship between different career guidance styles of vocational education teachers and vocational education students' career competencies (i.e. career reflection, career exploration and networking). Questionnaires on students' perceptions of the career guidance of their teachers during career conversations, and…
Descriptors: Profiles, Self Efficacy, Student Attitudes, Vocational Education
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Zepke, Nick; Leach, Linda; Butler, Philippa – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
Student success, variously understood as engagement, persistence, completion, graduation and entry to employment, has become a central focus for stakeholders in higher education. Theoretical and empirical research exploring these varied conceptions has mushroomed since the 1980s. Much of this literature focuses on what and how higher education…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Influences, Success
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Strauser, David; Zanskas, Stephen; Lustig, Daniel – Rehabilitation Research, Policy, and Education, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of the current study is to investigate the relationship between career readiness, defined as capability and complexity, and vocational identity for individuals with disabilities. Method: Forty-three consumers participating in vocational evaluation services for a state-federal vocational rehabilitation agency completed the…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Rehabilitation Counseling, Vocational Rehabilitation, Vocational Evaluation
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Nuthall, Peter L. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2010
To explore whether Farmers' Locus of Control (LOC) could be useful in agricultural extension programmes to improve managerial ability. This test records a farmer's belief in her/his control over production outcomes. A mail survey of 2300 New Zealand farmers was used to obtain a range of variables, and to measure their LOC using a question set…
Descriptors: Locus of Control, Agricultural Occupations, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Rural Extension
Dorfman, Peter W.; Stephan, Walter G. – 1981
Literature from organizational and social psychology has suggested that three types of factors influence performance, i.e., cognitive, affective and behavioral. A model was developed to test a set of propositions concerning the relationship between the three kinds of factors, and included attributions, expectancies, general emotional responses to…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Attribution Theory, Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes
Mitchell, Terence R.; Kalb, Laura S. – 1980
Past research has suggested that supervisors, when evaluating the poor performance of a subordinate, are influenced by the outcome of the performance. Nurses (N=55) in advanced training assumed the role of a supervisor of a nurse described as having performed poorly. Half of the subjects read an incident without an outcome and half read an…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Evaluation Criteria, Expectation, Feedback
Lefcourt, Herbert M.; And Others – 1978
The development and validation of the Multidimensional-Multiattributional Causality Scales (MMCS) are described. The scales are distinctive because they measure locus of control specific to two goals--achievement and affiliation. Half of the items concern success, and half concern failure experiences. Results of four validity studies with under…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Affiliation Need, Attribution Theory, Females
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Burns, Barbara; Hagerman, Alison – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 1989
Discussion of achievement motivation and children's ideas about themselves as learners focuses on a study of third graders that examined the effects of LOGO programing on performance. Incremental and entity theories of intelligence are explained, and treatment of the experimental group and the control group are described. (26 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Need, Analysis of Variance, Computer Assisted Instruction