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Rylee Oram; Maria Rogers – Canadian Journal of Education, 2022
Procrastination is particularly prevalent in the post-secondary student population, with prevalence rates ranging between 70-95%. Students have consistently cited motivation, or a lack thereof, as one of the main sources of their procrastination. One of the most prominent theories explaining motivation is self-determination theory (SDT). Despite…
Descriptors: Time Management, Undergraduate Students, Psychological Needs, Need Gratification
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Liu, Wei; Lin, Xiaobing – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2016
Discussed in this article are the different governance models in international student services in Canadian and Chinese universities. Informing this study were 39 international student service providers from 38 top Chinese universities while interacting with their Canadian counterparts in a professional development program in Canada. The derived…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Need Gratification, Governance, Foreign Students
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Quan-Haase, Anabel; Young, Alyson L. – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2010
Users have adopted a wide range of digital technologies into their communication repertoire. It remains unclear why they adopt multiple forms of communication instead of substituting one medium for another. It also raises the question: What type of need does each of these media fulfill? In the present article, the authors conduct comparative work…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Synchronous Communication, Internet, Web Sites