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Safar, Ammar H.; Alkhezzi, Fahad A. – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2014
This study aimed to assess the reaction-based satisfaction level of Kuwait University's students regarding the utilization of some PKM tools in their academic studies and its influence on managing their knowledge. A total of 100 undergraduate students from the College of Education participated in this research. Regardless of students being not…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Knowledge Management, Undergraduate Students
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Ivanova, L. Iu. – Russian Education and Society, 2014
Research on the effect of secondary employment on the sense of well-being of students in full-time education shows that the degree of fatigue and emotional stress on the job is affected by gender, the students' assessment of their own health, and their disposition to take care of their health.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Employment, Fatigue (Biology)
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Cheng, Rebecca Wing-yi; McInerney, Dennis M.; Mok, Magdalena Mo Ching – Educational Psychology, 2014
The big-fish-little-pond effect (BFLPE) posits that students with the same ability will have higher academic self-concepts when they are in low-ability classes than in high-ability classes. Our research puts the BFLPE under scrutiny by examining goal orientations as the moderators that may affect the size of the BFLPE. We collected data on…
Descriptors: Goal Orientation, Foreign Countries, Academic Achievement, Self Concept
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Jillapalli, Ravi K.; Jillapalli, Regina – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2014
This research endeavors to understand whether certain professors have customer-based brand equity (CBBE) in the minds of students. Consequently, the purpose of this study is to conceptualize, develop, and empirically test a model of customer-based professor brand equity. Survey data gathered from 465 undergraduate business students were used to…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Student Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Reputation
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Ehala, Martin; Zabrodskaja, Anastassia – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2014
The article discusses the temperatures of the main ethnic groups in the Baltic states: Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, and their three Russian-speaking communities, and the Latgalian and Polish minority groups in Latvia and Lithuania, respectively. The study uses a triangulated methodology that includes a survey questionnaire for quantitative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Russian, Minority Groups, Self Concept
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Keefe-Cooperman, Kathleen; Brady-Amoon, Peggy – Early Education and Development, 2014
Research Findings: Preschoolers' sleep patterns were examined related to cognitive and adaptive functioning. The sample consisted of 874 typically developing preschool children with a mean age of 40.01 months. Parent/caregiver reports of children's sleep pattern factors, Stanford-Binet 5 intelligence scale scores, and Behavior Assessment System…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Sleep, Cognitive Ability, Adjustment (to Environment)
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Benito, Ricard; Alegre, Miquel Àngel; Gonzàlez, Isaac – Journal of Education Policy, 2014
In its advancement towards an education quasi-market, Catalonia has recently been driving the development of "school educational projects" in all schools (both public and private) as a tool to facilitate school autonomy and family choices. A school educational project is a formal document in which schools identify their pedagogical…
Descriptors: School Choice, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Foreign Countries
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Ro, Eunseok; Chen, Cheng-Ling Alice – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2014
The present study replicated the methods and data analysis of Crawford Camiciottoli's (2001) study on second language (L2) reading behavior of academic English-as-a-foreign-language students. Using the original study's questionnaire, we investigated 60 advanced non-academic English-as-a-second-language learners' L2 reading frequency and attitude.…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Recreational Reading, Reading Attitudes, Reading Habits
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Nguyen, Ngan; Mulla, Ali; Nelson, Andrew J.; Wilson, Timothy D. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2014
The present study explored the problem-solving strategies of high- and low-spatial visualization ability learners on a novel spatial anatomy task to determine whether differences in strategies contribute to differences in task performance. The results of this study provide further insights into the processing commonalities and differences among…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Anatomy, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability
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Lingam, Govinda Ishwar; Burnett, Greg; Lilo, Jullian Fenny; Lingam, Narsamma – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This article focuses on school curriculum documents. It specifically investigates teachers' perceptions of curriculum in the Solomon Islands context. Using a questionnaire as a means of gathering data, a sample of 35 teachers were asked to provide their perceptions about the curriculum documents for three subject areas, using criteria developed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Curriculum Development, National Curriculum
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Bai, Rui; Hu, Guangwei; Gu, Peter Yongqi – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
This article reports on a questionnaire-based investigation of writing strategies used by Singapore primary school pupils. A sample of 1,618 pupils from two local primary schools participated in the study. A number of one-way ANOVA analyses were run to measure the relationship between the participants' use of writing strategies and their English…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Strategies, Language Proficiency, English (Second Language)
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Yueh, Hsiu-Ping; Chen, Tzy-Ling; Cheng, Po-Jen – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2014
The purpose of this study was to investigate the department identification, professional identification, and attitude toward agriculture of agriculture students. As the scope of agricultural higher education has been readjusted to focus on a system of content-related innovations instead of primary production, it is also an aim of the study to…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Agricultural Education, Agriculture, College Students
Wulff, Deborah – ProQuest LLC, 2014
Purpose: Among the identified highly effective California community colleges, the purpose of the study was to ascertain the degree of importance for the six competencies of board effectiveness as determined by the Chait et al. (1993, 1996) Board Self-Assessment Questionnaire (BSAQ) as self-reported by board members. Methodology: The design for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Questionnaires, Mixed Methods Research, Competence
Spencer, Mary Louise – ProQuest LLC, 2014
This study was an evaluation of the career services component of TRIO Student Support Services at a Midwestern university. The problem in the local setting was the absence of empirical evidence demonstrating compliance of TRIO career services with the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Professional Standards for College and…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Student Personnel Services, College Students, Qualitative Research
Caolo, Jessica L. – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the chronological age of one's diagnosis and dysfunctional career thoughts among college students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). What is currently known about the timing of ADHD diagnosis and how it could potentially impact or have an effect on one's career…
Descriptors: Diagnostic Tests, Age Differences, Age, Clinical Diagnosis
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