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Improving the Quality of Career Decision-Making of Students in Chinese Higher Vocational Colleges
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Xin-Hai Wang; Hsuan-Po Wang; Laiv WenYa – SAGE Open, 2023
The number of graduates from China's higher vocational colleges and universities is increasing, and making wise career decisions plays a key role in students' career development. This study is based on the conceptual framework of the Career Self-Management Model of the Social Cognitive Career Theory. This study constructed a model that can improve…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Vocational Schools, Higher Education, Foreign Countries
The Role of Cost in Predicting Learning Outcomes in Physical Education: An Expectancy-Value-Cost Model
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Bo Shen; Benzheng Li; Jin Bo – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
Purpose: While the expectancy-value theory recognizes the significance of cost as an essential component, it has garnered minimal attention in physical education. Utilizing two separate datasets, we explored the degree to which the inclusion of cost in an expectancy-value-cost model could augment its predictive capability. Method: Study 1 utilized…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Outcomes of Education, Physical Education, Physical Fitness
Motivating Teachers' Commitment to Change through Distributed Leadership in Chinese Urban Primary Schools
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Liu, Peng – International Journal of Educational Management, 2020
Purpose: Understanding the relationship between distributed leadership and teachers commitment to change in the Chinese urban primary school context was the purpose of this study. Design/methodology/approach: Quantitative research method is used in this study. For ensuring comprehensiveness, this research employed a random sampling method. This…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Urban Schools, Educational Change, Correlation
Students' Reasoning and Decision Making about a Socioscientific Issue: A Cross-Context Comparison
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Lee, Yeung Chung; Grace, Marcus – Science Education, 2012
It has been argued that decision making about socioscientific issue (SSIs) necessitates informal reasoning, which involves multiperspective thinking and moral judgment. This study extends the scope of the literature concerning students' reasoning on SSIs to a cross-contextual study by comparing decisions made on avian flu by 12-13-year-old Chinese…
Descriptors: Evidence, Value Judgment, Decision Making, Comparative Analysis
Religion and Spirituality. International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice
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Dowson, Martin, Ed.; Devenish, Stuart, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
Religion and spirituality make critical contributions to an inclusive vision for the welfare of minorities, the marginalized and other disadvantaged groups in societies and cultures around the globe. Religious movements and spiritual traditions work to improve social outcomes for disenfranchised groups by enriching educational, political, and…
Descriptors: Religion, Religious Factors, Social Justice, Education
END 2015: International Conference on Education and New Developments. Conference Proceedings (Porto, Portugal, June 27-29, 2015)
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2015-END 2015, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 27 to 29 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends