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Diego Boerchi; Stefano Cacciamani; Maria Beatrice Ligorio – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
This study aimed to investigate whether students' Distance Education (DE) acceptance is influenced by the same factors affecting the acceptance of new digital technology. Furthermore, we also study competencies and motivations as factors affecting DE's acceptance. The study was cross-sectional, and linear regressions tested the hypotheses. 165…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychology, College Students, Bachelors Degrees
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Andrea Priulla; Massimo Attanasio – European Journal of Higher Education, 2024
This paper examines gender disparities in university student pathways in Italy, from initial enrolment to completion of a bachelor's degree and enrolment in a subsequent master's programme. While it is established that females generally outperform males in completion rates and final grades, little has been done to analyse retention up to the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Graduate Study, Masters Programs, Decision Making
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Teresa Celestino; Dora Stella Lombardi – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Italian high school students carried out some activities within career guidance actions organized by the Department of Chemistry of Sapienza University (Rome) in order to promote enrollments in a chemistry Bachelor's course, thus remedying the shortage of professional chemists. Novel didactic sequences have been designed to facilitate the…
Descriptors: High School Students, Science Activities, Scientific Concepts, Foreign Countries
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Tatiana Mazza; Stefano Azzali – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2025
Purpose: This study aims to investigate the stakeholders' (employers and students) involvement in economics and management programs quality assurance in Italian universities from the external audit perspective. Design/methodology/approach: The research tests if employers are positively associated with the coherence between program objectives and…
Descriptors: Economics Education, Administrator Education, Universities, Stakeholders
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Giovannina Albano; Samuele Antonini; Annamaria Miranda – International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2024
This paper aims at defining and exploring design principles in a distance technological setting for an educational activity for mathematics undergraduate students, devoted to the construction of basic concepts in general topology, the promotion of problem-solving processes, the development of metacognitive aspects, and, in general, the development…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Education, Topology
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Matteo Bozzi; Roberto Mazzola; Italo Testa; Juliana Elisa Raffaghelli; Susanna Sancassani; Maurizio Zani – Cogent Education, 2024
Research on concerns about Emergency Remote Teaching has focused on teaching and management strategies, with some studies considering learners' satisfaction, reactions, learning and overall acceptance. The present case study, based on a survey on 3,183 undergraduate and postgraduate learners, aimed at investigating engineering students'…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Engineering Education, Distance Education