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Reena, Ismatara; Hebert, Edward; Das, Kumer; Doe, Raymond; Hebert, Shankari; Gope, Nirmal – Education, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted college students worldwide. International students are a significant group of college students in the United States, making up approximately 5% of enrollment. While research has examined the mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on college students, its impact on international students in the U.S. has…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Incidence, Pandemics
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Zamora-Lobato, Teresa; García-Santillán, Arturo; Ramos-Hernández, Jésica Josefina – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
Some basic financial topics such as savings and investment are important and required for a financially educated society. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to identify some characteristics that explain the savings habit of college students, as well as finding if this habit differs in relation to gender. For that purpose 60 students from the…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Case Studies, Statistical Analysis, Money Management
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Chou, Yueh-Ching; Lu, Zxy-yann Jane; Lin, Chwen-Jen – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2018
Background: This study investigates whether parents, professionals, and university students have different sexual attitudes towards men versus women with intellectual disability (ID) and which factors are related to such attitudes among these three groups. Method: A self-administered survey using the ASQ-ID questionnaire was implemented, and 130…
Descriptors: Parents, Professional Personnel, College Students, Attitude Measures
Agbionu, Uchenna Clementina; Anyalor, Maureen; Nwali, Anthony Chukwuma – Online Submission, 2018
The study investigated employee engagement and performance of lecturers in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions. It employed descriptive and correlation research designs. Stratified random sampling was used to select three tertiary institutions in Nigeria and the sample size of 314 lecturers was obtained through Taro Yamane. Questionnaires were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Teacher Effectiveness, Correlation
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Kopnov, Vitaly ?.; Permyakova, ?atiana V.; Kislov, ?lexander G.; Vlasova, Olga I.; Kuimov, Vitaly S.; Dremina, Maria ?.; Blinova, Anastasia N. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The purposes of this paper are to survey Russian trainers to create a social portrait of the professional group and to identify features, which could be arranged as a foothold for transforming this group to a new level given the demands of the modern economy. This study integrates the use of quantitative and qualitative social research strategies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Teacher Characteristics, Questionnaires
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Boitt, Richard Kimuge – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
The main objective of higher institutions of learning in Kenya is to provide education and growth experiences for its students but alcohol abuse has continued to be a problem in the university campuses that is slowing down their progress and the Kenya vision 2030 that envisages a healthy population free from the impact of alcohol abuse through the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Alcohol Abuse, Incidence, Questionnaires
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Karatas, Ozgur – International Education Studies, 2016
The aim of this study is to compare the risk perception levels of Basketball athletes in Turkish League teams according to some variables. In this research the "general screening model," which is one of the descriptive screening methods, was used. While the population of the study consists of athletes actively engaged in the Turkish…
Descriptors: Risk, Team Sports, Athletes, Foreign Countries
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Al Habahbeh, Abdullah Eid – International Education Studies, 2014
This study aimed at knowing the motives of students' joining master program at Princess Alia University College/Al Balqa Applied University by the graduate students and a degree of their importance and succession, and to know whether these motives differed according to the variables of gender, specialization, age, and marital status. To achieve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Motivation, Graduate Students, Masters Programs
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Enke, Kathryn A. E. – Higher Education Research and Development, 2014
This qualitative study engaged women senior administrators at liberal arts colleges in the Upper Midwestern USA to better understand how their intersecting identities mediate their enacted leadership. Data were collected from eight participants via a questionnaire, document review, one-on-one interviews and observations. Positionality theory…
Descriptors: Women Administrators, College Administration, Administrator Attitudes, Qualitative Research
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Abdullah, Nauman; Akhtar, Mahr Muhammad Saeed – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Teachers' job satisfaction leads to job continuity, which in turn affects teacher performance as well as the effectiveness of their institutions. The purpose of this study was to identify if there was a relationship between the Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and Job Satisfaction (JS) of teachers since discretionary behaviours have a…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Correlation, Foreign Countries, Teacher Effectiveness
Precin, Patricia Jean – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The perception of time (the use of temporal categories to conceptualize experiences) affects human behavior. Students' time perspective predicts academic outcomes: those with future orientations tend to have better academic outcomes than those with past or present, according to Zimbardo and Boyd's psychology of time model, and may contribute to…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Doctoral Programs, Emotional Intelligence, Attachment Behavior
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Shafaei, Azadeh; Abd Razak, Nordin; Nejati, Mehran – Journal of Research in International Education, 2016
Based on Berry's seminal work on the acculturation process, this study examines the pattern of acculturation attitude among international postgraduate students in Malaysia, an emerging education hub in Asia. It also investigates the influence of several demographic factors (gender, geographical region, marital status, and education level) and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Graduate Students, Acculturation, Student Attitudes
Keener, Cheryl P. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This research explored online graduate students' preferences using the Constructivist Internet-Based Learning Environment Survey (CILES) and how everyday learner attributes affected their preferences. The purpose of this study was to identify graduate students' preferences for various types of learning in order to aid designers with aligning…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Educational Technology, Preferences, Student Attitudes
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Chibuogwu, Nnaka V. – African Higher Education Review, 2015
In Nigeria, as in most developing countries, there is gender disparity in education access especially at the higher education level. Research reports on this subject link this phenomenon to the prevailing socio-cultural and economic values and practices in Nigeria. Efforts are on ground to widen access to tertiary education for all including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Open Universities, Womens Education, Womens Studies
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Alkhattabi, Mona – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2016
Today, in association with rapid social and economic changes, there is an increasing level of demand for distance and online learning programs. This study will focus on identifying the main motivational factors for choosing a web-based distance-learning program. Moreover, it will investigate how these factors relate to age, gender, marital status…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Learning, Technology Uses in Education, Information Technology
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