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Direct linkS. S. Prakash; N. Muthuraman – Discover Education, 2024
Introduction: The learning approach of undergraduate medical students can be influenced by motivations toward learning medicine as well as perceived outcomes such as their specialty preference in the future. In this study, we analyze the relationships between learning approach, motivation to study medicine, and factors related to their specialty…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Student Motivation
Isabel Miller; Grisel Lopez-Alvarez; M. Teresa Cardador; Karin J. Jensen – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2024
Biomedical engineering is a broad and interdisciplinary field that prepares graduates for a variety of careers across multiple career sectors. Given this breadth, undergraduate degree programs often have formal or informal opportunities for students to further specialize within the biomedical engineering major to develop skills in subdisciplines…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Biomedicine, Engineering Education
Batuhan Güvemli; Neriman Yalçin – Accounting Education, 2025
This study explores the perspectives of 252 accounting scholars from 128 universities in the Republic of Türkiye on integrating accounting history into accounting education. According to the survey, academics with personal experience in accounting history, such as publishing or teaching the subject, tend to favor its inclusion in the curriculum.…
Descriptors: Accounting, Business Education, History, Educational Benefits
Vargas, Carlos Manuel – ProQuest LLC, 2023
As psychology grows in popularity, most students select professions related to therapy, which constantly deem statistics courses as irrelevant and accentuate negative attitudes. This study explores perspectives of knowledge, also known as epistemological frames, that students enrolled in a psychology-based course in statistics generate and the…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Statistics Education, Psychology, Majors (Students)
Steven L. Gill; Brett S. Kawada – Advances in Accounting Education: Teaching and Curriculum Innovations, 2021
This study addresses the issue of decreasing accounting student interest in the specialized taxation discipline. Using survey responses from accounting students around the United States, the authors find that one of the most important influences on the choice of a taxation specialization over other accounting fields is the fascination and interest…
Descriptors: Accounting, Student Interests, Specialization, Taxes
Nafsika Alexiadou; Zoi Kefala; Linda Rönnberg – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
Debates around internationalisation-at-home (IaH) focus on the benefits accrued to students from the integration of internationalisation dimensions in their studies, curricular developments and interactions with international students, but, with scant attention to how these vary in different subject areas. In this article, we focus on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Global Approach, Higher Education, Undergraduate Students
Belal Nedal Sabbah; Hassan Yousaf Shah; Eman Javed Baqal; Tarek Ziad Arabi; Ismail Mohammed Shakir; Akef Obeidat; Khaled Alkattan; Muhammad Raihan Sajid – Advances in Physiology Education, 2024
Medical education continually adapts to the needs of future health care professionals, with student motivation in research being a pivotal aspect. This study at Alfaisal University aimed to explore the motivations, benefits, and challenges faced by medical students in extracurricular research activities. Using a mixed-method approach, we combined…
Descriptors: Health Services, Medical Education, Barriers, Universities
Fteiha, Mohammad; Al Bustami, Ghanem – Cogent Education, 2023
The study aims to investigate the attitude of students with postgraduate diplomas in teaching towards the teaching profession and its relationship with specialization, cumulative average, school quality, and school grade variables. The study sample consisted of 300 second-semester students enrolled in the educational training program for the…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Educational Attitudes, Teaching (Occupation)
Susanne Engström; Helena Lennholm – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2025
In literature, teaching for an authentic learning experience is seen as rewarding and interesting, promoting better understanding of for example sustainable development and fostering students' independence. Some upper secondary schools emphasise authentic teaching and learning on their websites, showcasing how students engage in authentic tasks.…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Authentic Learning, Student Attitudes, Technology Education
Faidley, Evan W. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This interpretive qualitative study examined how professional socialization experiences shape the student affairs specialty choice of higher education and student affairs (HESA) master's-level students. This research utilized Perez's (2014) conceptual model to comprehend participants' socialization, sensemaking, and self-authorship as they reflect…
Descriptors: Socialization, Student Personnel Services, Graduate Students, Student Attitudes
Hindhede, Anette Lykke – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2020
Drawing on Bourdieu's theory of practice, this paper aims to understand whether and how a reproduction of the status hierarchy of medical specialties and diagnoses occurs within a medical school in a North European context as well as students' educational strategies given the hierarchy. We report data from a cross-sectional survey conducted on a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Medical Students, Medical Education, Student Attitudes
Atkin, JoAnn L.; Bowie, Anthony Alland; Cowley, Scott; Eckert, James A.; Ferrin, Bruce G.; Harrison, Robert L.; Lancendorfer, Karen M.; Luqmani, Mushtaq; Luqmani, Zahida; Leingpibul, Thaweephan; Mumuni, Alhassan G.; O'Reilly, Kelley; Quraeshi, Zahir A.; Samples, Robert G.; Veeck, Ann; Xie, Hu; Zondag, Marcellis M. – Journal of Marketing Education, 2022
Many business colleges offer specialized marketing majors in addition to the general marketing major. Given the extra resources needed to maintain multiple majors, in a time when higher education budgets are being strained, a need exists to understand how students make choices among these majors and what students perceive to be the advantages of…
Descriptors: Marketing, Majors (Students), Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Yilin Hou; Philip Joyce; Kurt Thurmaier; Katherine Willoughby – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2024
The Inter-University Consortium for Doctoral Courses in Public Budgeting, Finance, and Financial Management is the first collaborative project for online doctoral courses in public affairs. This article provides an account of the consortium's initiation, establishment, and operation for the pilot round. The consortium fills a niche in doctoral…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, Doctoral Programs, Consortia, Institutional Cooperation
Stylos, Georgios; Kamtsios, Spiridon; Kotsis, Konstantinos T. – Journal of Science Teacher Education, 2023
International research shows that primary school teachers don't have the necessary level of self-efficacy to provide high quality science learning and teaching opportunities to their students. The aim of the present study is to validate the Science Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (STEBI-B) and to investigate the self-efficacy beliefs of 408…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy
Forsa, Catherine; Hendrickson, Brian; Reynolds, Dahliani – Composition Forum, 2020
In expanding our minor in Professional and Public Writing (PPW), we drew on scholarship exploring tensions inherent in the field's efforts to understand and present itself as a cohesive, yet capacious, discipline. Missing from the scholarship are the voices of students. To fill this gap, we conducted focus group interviews with PPW students at…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Writing Attitudes, Writing (Composition)
