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Sizhuo Wang – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI), due to its extensive capabilities for analyzing incoming information and providing personalized and detailed feedback, has significant potential for use in education. This study aims to investigate an application that analyzes the performance of musical exercises and provides instant AI-based feedback. The main task…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Music Education, Musical Instruments, Technology Uses in Education
Dan Xu; Chiawen Lee – SAGE Open, 2025
The current research develops and tests a modified TPB model explaining how restaurant entrepreneurship education (EE) influences graduating hospitality students' intentions (EI) to start a restaurant business. A total of 283 graduating hospitality students in Taiwan responded to the survey, and the structural equation modeling based on partial…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Hospitality Occupations, Dining Facilities
Christina Gramatikova – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this study was to estimate the effects of a theoretical model encompassing psychological theories underlying student retention in postsecondary education. New conceptual operationalizations were applied to elaborate Bean and Eaton's theoretical model of student retention. The influences of student entry characteristics,…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Decision Making, Coping, Self Efficacy
Jennifer M. Higgs; Amy Stornaiuolo – Reading Research Quarterly, 2024
The recent unveiling of chatbots such as ChatGPT has catalyzed vigorous debates about generative AI's impact on how learners read, write, and communicate. Largely missing from these debates is careful consideration of how young people are experiencing AI in their everyday lives and how they are making sense of the questions that these rapidly…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, English Instruction, Artificial Intelligence
Middleton, Tristan; ahmed Shafi, Adeela; Millican, Richard; Templeton, Sian – Teaching in Higher Education, 2023
This research reports on the second phase of a project exploring the effectiveness of tutor to student assessment feedback. It highlights the dynamic interaction of interpersonal and intrapersonal contexts in effective feedback processes. It proposes a holistic conceptualisation of feedback that considers the academic buoyancy and attributes of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Tutors, Academic Persistence
Zoupidis, Anastasios; Tselfes, Vasilis; Kariotoglou, Petros – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2023
In this study we investigated pre-service early childhood teachers' (referred to as student teachers) beliefs that might influence their intention to use inquiry-based learning methods that have been taught on an inquiry-based science course. During this course, the student teachers (N = 17) participated in a number of classroom experiments…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Beliefs, Intention
Dodourova, Mariana; Clarkin, John E.; Lenkei, Balint – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Brexit, Britain's referendum to leave the European Union (EU), provided the backdrop for this study, although how or even if it will be implemented is uncertain. Most UK voters supported leaving the EU, yet an overwhelming majority of young people voted to remain. In an environment of economic and labor market ambiguity, we sampled 304 UK…
Descriptors: Public Policy, Career Choice, College Students, Student Attitudes
Dolce, Valentina; Emanuel, Federica; Cisi, Maurizio; Ghislieri, Chiara – Accounting Education, 2020
In recent years, changes in business, new technology, and greater competitiveness and dynamism have all resulted in a need for new skills. This study focuses on soft skills in accounting education, exploring the viewpoints of both graduates and employers. Our main question is to better understand if there is a right match between graduates'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Accounting, Business Administration Education
Cincera, Jan; Boeve-de Pauw, Jelle; Goldman, Daphne; Simonova, Petra – Environmental Education Research, 2019
We present findings of a mixed method evaluation study of the EcoSchool program in the Czech Republic. The innovativeness of this study is its specific focus on implementation strategies rather than learning outcomes. Using data from 148 students and 65 teachers from 54 different schools involved in the program, we investigated perceptions about…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Program Implementation, Student Attitudes
Adrienne E. Grayson – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This mixed methods study yielded two explanatory models for better understanding of the association between socioacademic factors and gendered racial identity among African American community college women. The quantitative portion explored the degree to which racial identity attitudes and sense of belonging with faculty were predictors of…
Descriptors: Racial Identification, Intersectionality, Academic Achievement, African American Students
Buzzetto-Hollywood, Nicole A.; Mitchell, Bryant C.; Hill, Austin J. – Interdisciplinary Journal of e-Skills and Lifelong Learning, 2019
Aim/Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to introduce, describe, and document the methods involved in the preparation of a mindset intervention built into a freshmen development course, and established after years of longitudinal research, that is designed to have a positive impact on the outlook, achievement, and persistence of first generation…
Descriptors: Intervention, College Freshmen, First Generation College Students, Academic Achievement
Ashley, Seth; Maksl, Adam; Craft, Stephanie – Journal of Media Literacy Education, 2017
Scholars and educators have long hoped that media education is positively related to pro-social goals such as political and civic engagement. With a focus on measuring news media literacy with emphasis on media knowledge, need for cognition and media locus of control, this study surveyed 537 college students and found positive relationships…
Descriptors: News Media, Media Literacy, Political Attitudes, College Students
Alzubi, Ali Abbas Falah; Singh, Manjet Kaur Mehar; Pandian, Ambigapathy – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2017
This paper explores the current practices of learner autonomy among Saudi undergraduates at Preparatory Year, Najran University. The Short List questionnaire developed by Dixon (2011) was administered to measure the use of autonomous learning in English as a foreign language (EFL) context. Quantitative data were gathered from 208 male students in…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires
ahmed Shafi, Adeela; Hatley, Jenny; Middleton, Tristan; Millican, Richard; Templeton, Sian – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
This research focuses on the everyday challenge in academic learning of assessment, and argues that academic buoyancy is a key factor in academic success. To scaffold students' learning and effectively support academic buoyancy, there is arguably a need for a better understanding of: (i) what students find most and least useful in their assessment…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Academic Achievement, Resilience (Psychology)
Taskiran, Ayse; Aydin, Belgin – Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2018
This study explores the similarities and differences between adult language learners' and their teachers' attributions of perceived success and failure in learning English as a foreign language in an intensive program. It examines attributions along with three dimensions: locus of causality, stability and controllability. 319 students and 81…
Descriptors: Adult Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction