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Choi, Soobin – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2023
Purpose: This study examines the direct and indirect effects of distributed leadership on teacher self-efficacy in multicultural classrooms (TSMC) through school capacity building, specifically teacher team innovativeness and a feedback network. Research Design: Using data from the Teaching and Learning International Survey 2018, this study…
Descriptors: Leadership, Participative Decision Making, Self Efficacy, Multicultural Education
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Torres-Coronas, Teresa; Vidal-Blasco, María-Arántzazu – International Journal of Adult Vocational Education and Technology, 2018
The economy needs entrepreneurs to identify market opportunities to offer solutions to social problems. Therefore, understanding the factors that affect entrepreneurial intention has become an important research topic. This article examines perceived behavioral control as a determinant of entrepreneurial intention. It also analyzes how trait…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Entrepreneurship, Self Efficacy, Undergraduate Students
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Chen, Zi; Solberg, Scott; Ye, Ai – Youth & Society, 2020
The present study investigated the mediating role of career adaptability in the relationship between youth-perceived contextual support and positive youth development on the basis of a survey of 1,047 students in 10th to 12th grades. Measurement model analysis revealed that career search self-efficacy (CSSE), goal capacity, academic self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Context Effect, High School Students, Grade 10, Grade 12
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Hoskins, Bryony; Janmaat, Jan Germen; Han, Christine; Muijs, Daniel – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2016
This article performs exploratory research using a mixed-methods approach (structural equation modelling and a thematic analysis of interview data) to analyse the ways in which socioeconomic disparities in voting patterns are reproduced through inequalities in education in different national contexts, and the role of self-efficacy in this process.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Influences, Voting, Self Efficacy
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Khani, Reza; Mirzaee, Alireza – Educational Psychology, 2015
This study was an attempt to investigate the relationships among stressors, contextual variables, self-efficacy and teacher burnout in Iran as an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) context. A battery of questionnaires was administered to 216 English language teachers of private language institutes. Using Amos version 20, structural equation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Teacher Burnout, Stress Variables
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Scholkmann, Antonia – Tertiary Education and Management, 2011
This paper presents an empirical study which explored how deans at German universities accept their new role as manager, and which factors influence the acceptance of this role. Within a framework referring to Locke and Latham's goal setting theory, the acceptance of operative goals implemented in the faculties served as an indicator of how well…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Goal Orientation, Foreign Countries, Deans
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Wang, Xueli – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
This study draws upon social cognitive career theory and higher education literature to test a conceptual framework for understanding the entrance into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) majors by recent high school graduates attending 4-year institutions. Results suggest that choosing a STEM major is directly influenced by…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Social Theories, Social Cognition, Mathematics Achievement
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Demi, Mary Ann; Coleman-Jensen, Alisha; Snyder, Anastasia R. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2010
This study uses an ecological systems framework to examine how indicators of individual, family, and school contexts are associated with post-secondary educational enrollment among a sample of rural youth. Structural equation modeling allows us to examine both direct and indirect effects of these contexts on school enrollment. Unique elements of…
Descriptors: Rural Youth, Structural Equation Models, Self Efficacy, Adolescents