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Kemboi, Rebecca J. Kimongo; Kindiki, Nyaga; Misigo, Benard – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study investigated the relationship between personality types and career choices of undergraduate students of Moi University. In Kenya, students are allowed to revise their career choices at various levels of education before they settle on one course of study in the University. The process of choosing careers begins in form three where…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Personality, Career Choice
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Sarikaya, Nuray; Erdogan, Çetin – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The purpose of the current study is to investigate the relationship between the instructional leadership behaviors of high school principals and teachers' perceptions of organizational commitment and to test the extent to which instructional leadership behaviors predict organizational commitment. The study is designed in relational method. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Principals, High Schools
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Olutola, Adekunle Thomas; Olatoye, Olufunke Omotoke; Olatoye, Rafiu Ademola – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
This study investigated assessment of social media utilization and study habits of students of tertiary institutions in Katsina State. The descriptive survey design was adopted for this study. Three hundred and eighty-one (381) students' of tertiary institutions in Katsina State were randomly selected for the study. Researchers'-designed…
Descriptors: Social Media, Study Habits, Mass Media Use, Questionnaires
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Daniel, Mayra C.; Schumacher, Gail; Stelter, Nicole; Riley, Carolyn – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Current technologies are changing delivery options for post-graduate teacher education. Many practicing teachers who return to school to prepare to educate English learners choose distance learning. This article explores teachers' perceived satisfaction with the quality of online courses, with the collaborative tasks required in these, and the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Questionnaires, Educational Quality, Teaching Methods
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Cree, Viviene E.; Christie, Hazel; Tett, Lyn – Scottish Educational Review, 2016
It is widely acknowledged that higher education in the UK is under pressure. As successive government's policies have reinforced the idea that higher education is a market like any other, with students as consumers of packages of education, so the pedagogical relationships upon which education have been centred are stretched to breaking-point. But…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Longitudinal Studies, Teacher Student Relationship
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Baukal, Charles E.; Ausburn, Lynna J. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Many have argued for increased continuing education for working engineers, but relatively little research has been done on how to most effectively teach that group. Many have also recommended using learner characteristics to enhance learning, but relatively little is known about the learner characteristics of working engineers. In the study…
Descriptors: Engineering, Technical Occupations, Cognitive Style, Learning Modalities
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Pérez-Cruzado, David; Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio I. – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2016
Background: People with intellectual disability have poor levels of physical activity, quality of life, fitness condition and self-efficacy and social support when they want to undertake physical activity so it is very important to improve these parameters in this population. Method: A prospective study was conducted. Data were measured before and…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Self Efficacy, Physical Fitness, Intervention
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Tariq, Rabbia; Latif, Seemab – Educational Technology & Society, 2016
A neurological learning disability, termed as Dyslexia, is characterized by difficulties in various aspects of writing skills making the individuals unable to develop age-appropriate and ability-appropriate functional skills. In Pakistan, lack of dyslexia awareness and remedial education training restrains the remediation of dyslexic children at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Madara, Diana Starovoytova; Namango, Sitati – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
There is overwhelming evidence that females are underrepresented in engineering worldwide, and Kenya is not an exception. Recent study at School of Engineering (SOE), Moi University (MU) established that engineering parity ration was found to be 1.68 %, meaning that for every 59 students admitted to MU there was only one student admitted to SOE.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Females, Student Attitudes, Engineering
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Leontyev, Vyacheslav V.; Rebrina, Fayruza G.; Leontyeva, Irina A.; Gafiyatullina, Elvira A. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Bologna process puts in a high claim for the modern European education in terms of competency building approach. The control is conducted by the agencies which monitor learning activity level in higher education institutions. This paper presents the aspects of higher education within the conduction of competency building approach projects in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Capacity Building, Computation
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Akmese, Pelin Pistav; Kayhan, Nilay – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Communication in the family environment is highly important for every child although their cognitive, emotional, social and language development characteristics differ. The children are able to communicate with the adults who take the most or the caregivers in the mother's role in terms of development in the family environment in most cultures.…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Intellectual Disability, Children, Mothers
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Sabanci, Ali; Sahin, Ahmet; Sönmez, Melek Alev; Yilmaz, Ozan – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to explore the correlation between school administrators' communication skills and school culture. This research was conducted as a survey using a descriptive method in order to ascertain the views of school managers and teachers about the correlation between school managers' communication skills and school culture in…
Descriptors: School Culture, Educational Administration, Administrator Characteristics, Communication Skills
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Yarmakeev, Iskander E.; Pimenova, Tatiana S.; Zamaletdinova, Gulyusa R. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
This paper is dedicated to the up-to-date educational problem, that is, the role of local lore in teaching EFL to University students. Although many educators admit that local lore knowledge plays a great role in the development of a well-bred and well-educated personality and meets students' needs, the problem has not been thoroughly studied.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Teaching Methods, Folk Culture
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Prokhorov, Alexander O.; Chernov, Albert V.; Yusupov, Mark G. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Investigation of the interaction of mental states and cognitive processes in the classroom allows us to solve the problem of increasing the effectiveness of training by activating cognitive processes and management of students' mental states. This article is concerned with the most general patterns of interaction between mental state and…
Descriptors: College Students, Cognitive Processes, Intelligence Tests, Psychometrics
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Yang, Yuqin; van Aalst, Jan; Chan, Carol K. K.; Tian, Wen – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2016
This study investigated whether and how students with low prior achievement can carry out and benefit from reflective assessment supported by the Knowledge Connections Analyzer (KCA) to collaboratively improve their knowledge-building discourse. Participants were a class of 20 Grade 11 students with low achievement taking visual art from an…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Metacognition, Foreign Countries, Grade 11
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