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Ruijuan Li; Yuanchun Zhou; Hua Wang; Qi Wang – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2025
Purpose: Reusable takeaway food containers (RTFCs) are a newly emerging green packaging choice for the takeaway industry that can effectively reduce campus solid waste but are not yet well accepted. Therefore, this study aims to identify the key factors influencing university students' intention to choose RTFCs, seeking to enhance RTFC project…
Descriptors: College Students, Intention, Decision Making, Recycling
Jeffrey J. Richardson – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Background: Previous research has indicated that it is difficult to maintain student motivation in gateway courses when students from multiple majors are taking the same course. Providing students with a choice in assignment is important because it creates a feeling that the students are in charge of their education, that they can tailor their…
Descriptors: Self Determination, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Introductory Courses
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Lu Kehan; Amrita Kaur; Zhou Yu; He Yuzhen; Huang Yuchong; Zhan Yinuo; Mohammad Noman – Teaching & Learning Inquiry, 2024
Students' seating selection is a significant physical variable that has implications for both teachers and students. These seating preferences have been linked to students' personalities, motivation, and academic performance. However, there is limited knowledge regarding the cultural influences on these preferences. In this exploratory qualitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Decision Making, Preferences
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Lieselotte Postmes; Renske de Kleijn; Rianne Bouwmeester; Marieke van der Schaaf – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2025
Students are increasingly expected to take up proactive roles in feedback processes. While most feedback research focuses on asking, receiving, and engaging with feedback, some suggest that students must also proactively shape their feedback environment. This study explored graduate life science master's students' first impressions of a dialogue…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, Feedback (Response), Graduate Students
Carissa Odetta Forde – ProQuest LLC, 2023
This qualitative research study investigates the perceptions of internships by seven students enrolled in a liberal arts program at an urban four-year R1 research institution; the study aims to understand why these students elected to participate in internships for academic credit when they are not required--moreover, it explores how…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Internship Programs, Liberal Arts, Urban Schools
Sarita Reynolds – ProQuest LLC, 2020
An on-going and age-old problem in higher education is colleges' and universities' ability to retain students past their first year of enrollment. Student attrition is detrimental to the universities from both a financial and academic reputation point of view. It also impacts students who are trying to persist in their academic endeavors. To help…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, College Freshmen, Academic Persistence, Decision Making
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Ryan, Cathal; Faherty, Darragh; Spillane, John P.; Bradley, Jim G.; Issa, Mohamed; McMahon, Elma – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2023
Purpose: To examine the perspective of third-level university students in the context of the value proposition of construction apprenticeships in Ireland. Design/methodology/approach: The research uses a qualitative method, conducting semi-structured interviews with 20 third-level university students enrolled on a Bachelor of Science (Honours)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Construction Management, Apprenticeships, Student Attitudes
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Mehra, Anurag; Kant, Pramath – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2022
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become a prominent alternative source of learning for engineering and science students. This rising proclivity for MOOCs among students is based on multiple factors. Several studies have focused on factors that affect MOOCs usage, and most of them have used the Motivation theory. These studies have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, MOOCs, Educational Technology, Student Attitudes
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Gao, Yannan; Dicke, Anna-Lena; Safavian, Nayssan; Eccles, Jacquelynne – Grantee Submission, 2020
As the first impressions, introductory courses in college play an influential role in students' decision to persist in science majors. We use students' open-ended explanations to understand how students make persistence decisions at the end of their introductory courses, based on Eccles' Expectancy-Value (E-V) Theory. Participants (N = 2737; 45.6%…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes, Majors (Students), Science Education
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Dalton D. Marsh; Sheree T. Sharpe; Suzanne E. Graham – Journal for STEM Education Research, 2024
This study aimed to better understand the relationships between U.S. high school students' STEM-related educational experiences, expectancy-value attitudes, achievement, course-taking, and college major choices. Analyses employed data from three waves of the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09) and used structural equation modeling to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Student Attitudes, Course Selection (Students), Majors (Students)
Alyssa Nguyen; Michelle White; Darla Cooper – RP Group, 2023
The California Community Colleges (CCC) Attendance Decisions Survey was designed to understand the factors influencing prospective and previously enrolled community college students' decisions to attend a California community college in fall 2022. This survey was administered in late summer/early fall 2022 and included responses from all 116 CCC…
Descriptors: College Attendance, Community Colleges, Community College Students, Decision Making
Troy Autin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The collective group of resources that are accessible to an individual because of people within his/her social network is known as social capital. Social capital becomes more valuable when an individual sees that it can help with goal achievement. This is especially true with college-aged students who are deciding on academic major, career path…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Influences, Student Attitudes, Social Capital
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Caspi, Avner; Gorsky, Paul; Nitzani-Hendel, Rakefet; Zacharia, Zacharias C.; Rosenfeld, Sherman; Berman, Shmuel; Shildhouse, Bruria – International Journal of Science Education, 2020
Toward the end of 6th grade, some bright and highly motivated science-oriented Israeli students and their parents are required to make a decision: whether or not to enrol in a non-mandatory advanced science programme for 7th graders ([almost equal to] 12 year olds) upon entering middle-school. In other words, for many students, entry into the STEM…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Grade 6, Grade 7, Decision Making
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Cutumisu, Maria – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2017
This paper examines the impact of the informational value of feedback choices on students' performance, their choice to revise, and the time they spend designing posters and reading feedback in an assessment game. Choices to seek confirmatory or critical feedback and to revise posters in a poster design task were collected from a hundred and six…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Value Judgment, Evaluation Methods, Grade 8
UK Department for Education, 2018
The Department for Education (DfE) commissioned Kantar Public and Learning and Work Institute (L&W) to undertake research to understand adults' experiences of, and decisions about, learning. This report presents the findings from in-depth interviews with 70 learners and focus groups with 16 adults not currently learning, and recommendations…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Students, Adult Learning, Value Judgment
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