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Yilmaz, Nihal Yildiz – Journal of Education and Learning, 2018
The purpose of this study is to identify the metaphors that primary, secondary and high school students and classroom teacher candidates and the classroom teachers have regarding their primary school classroom teachers. The phenomenology pattern as one of the qualitative research methods was used in the research. The study group was determined by…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Phenomenology, Qualitative Research, Student Attitudes
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Valle, Antonio; Núñez, José Carlos; Cabanach, Ramón G.; Rodríguez, Susana; Rosário, Pedro; Inglés, Cándido J. – Educational Psychology, 2015
The aim of the current study was to obtain information from students in higher education on different motivational profiles that resulted from the combination of three academic goals (i.e. learning goals (LG), performance-approach goals and performance-avoidance goals). Moreover, information related to the relevance of each goal within each…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, College Students, Foreign Countries, Student Educational Objectives
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Omidian, Faranak; Nedayeh Ali, Farzaneh – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2015
The aim of this study was to investigate the attitudes of students, instructors, and educational principals to electronic administration of final-semester examinations at undergraduate and post- graduate levels in Payame Noor University in Khuzestan. The statistical population of this study consisted of all educational principals, instructors, of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes
Aagaard, Lola; Skidmore, Ronald L.; Conner, Timothy W., II – Online Submission, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between academic self-efficacy and preferences regarding the use of text materials and in-class activities of college students at a university that serves one of the highest-poverty regions in the United States. A convenient cluster sample of 105 students taking summer classes at a…
Descriptors: College Students, Self Efficacy, Textbooks, Preferences
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Ellis, Robert A. – Active Learning in Higher Education, 2016
There is variation in the university student experience of learning. Prior research has shown that factors that shape this include student characteristics, the learning context, student perceptions of that context and approaches to learning and their learning outcomes. In blended contexts, there is a need to identify variables which can explain…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Educational Environment, Inquiry, Higher Education
Rhodes, Albert Lewis – 1968
This study was designed to examine the relationship between an adolescent's educational plans as reported by the adolescent himself and his mother's educational expectations for him as reported by her. The data were obtained in a previous study, a survey including a multistage, cluster sample of some 7,000 cases representing 13,484,000 public and…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Adolescents, Blacks, Cluster Grouping