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Gong, Xue; Huybers, Twan – Higher Education Research and Development, 2022
While being a major source country of international students for western countries, China's position as a destination for international students has risen rapidly in the last decade. However, the reasons behind provincial China's inbound student flows are under-researched. To address this gap in the literature, taking Jiangsu as a case study, this…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Student Motivation, Foreign Countries, Student Characteristics
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Sheehan, Helen; Riddle, Stewart – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2022
This paper examines the utility of Campbell's narrative construction of 'the hero's journey' as a conceptual apparatus to understand how international students from Confucian heritage cultures navigate their experiences in Western schooling systems like Australia. The hero's journey framework was used to investigate the commonalities and…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Secondary Education, Confucianism, Foreign Countries
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Huangfu, Qian; Wei, Nana; Zhang, Ruli; Tang, Yuefan; Luo, Guixu – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2023
Continuing motivation in science can promote science literacy, identity, and lifelong learning, which has received considerable attention. As a crucial part of the science discipline, the study on continuing motivation in chemistry has also become a research hotspot. Yet, we have little knowledge about how to improve students' continuing…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Self Efficacy, Student Motivation, Social Support Groups
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Fu, Dingmeng; Liu, Yue; Zhang, Danhui – Educational Psychology, 2023
According to self-determination theory, teachers' autonomy support is an effective approach to motivate students to learn. Longitudinal studies are necessary to clear up the relation between students' perception of teacher autonomy support and students' achievement in mathematics. The present study investigated the effect of teachers' autonomy…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Longitudinal Studies, Student Motivation, Student Attitudes
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Chili Li – SAGE Open, 2023
This paper reports the findings pertinent to the motivational dynamics in learning English for Academic Purposes (EAP), which are a part of a large-scale mixed-methods study. The study was aimed to explore the adaptation of a cohort of Chinese tertiary students when transiting to an English-as-Medium-of-Instruction (EMI) university from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Student Motivation, Language of Instruction
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Li Gao – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Reading is one of the crucial aspects of the learning process. The learning efficiency depends on the motivation and involvement of students. The paper aims to determine whether the developed online course enhances student motivation and engagement in contemporary American literature. For this purpose, questionnaires were used. The sample…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Online Courses, Learner Engagement
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An, Min; Zhang, Xiao; Ching, Fiona N. Y. – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2021
This study examined the relationships among pre-service teachers' demographics, motivational factors, and career choice satisfaction in the Chinese context. A sample of 503 pre-service teachers at three education universities from East China was investigated. Informed by the Fit-Choice framework, a hierarchical multiple regression analysis was…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Values, Student Motivation, Student Characteristics
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Tran, Ly Thi; Stafford, Glen; Soejatminah, Sri; Gribble, Cate – Higher Education Research and Development, 2021
Student mobility from countries in the Anglosphere to the Indo-Pacific has recently become a significant and growing phenomenon. While there has been a large body of literature on international Asian students' motivations to undertake overseas study, much less has been known about the desires students from English-speaking countries such as…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Student Motivation, Foreign Students, Foreign Countries
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Xin Sun; Shaylene Nancekivell; Susan A. Gelman; Priti Shah – npj Science of Learning, 2021
Chinese students are more likely than US students to hold a malleable view of success in school, yet are more likely to hold fixed mindsets about intelligence. We demonstrate that this apparently contradictory pattern of cross-cultural differences holds true across multiple samples and is related to how students conceptualize intelligence and its…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Cross Cultural Studies
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Zhenlei Huang; Xinjian Hu; Xiaojuan Yu; Jingjing Deng – Metacognition and Learning, 2024
The present study investigated the profiles of motivational regulation strategies for writing (MRSW) and examined the relationship between learners' use of MRSW and their English writing performance across different profiles. L2 Writing Strategies for Motivational Regulation Questionnaire (L2WSMRQ) was administered to examine the potential…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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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
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Ping Deng; Bing Chen; Wei Zeng; Xinhua Fang – SAGE Open, 2024
E-learning platform (ELP) provides economic and efficient channels to share and learn knowledge online without time and location restrictions. Earlier studies have identified determinants that impact students' intention to use new technologies in different learning contexts, yet few have tried to investigate the effect of students' satisfaction of…
Descriptors: Intention, Electronic Learning, Psychological Needs, Educational Technology
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Yujuan Luo; Mike Watts – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2024
This study aimed to understand the nature of learning English in the digital age from students' personal 'learning lives'. Drawing on hermeneutic phenomenology's principles, this study conducted conversational interviews and obtained reflective reports from students over 5 months. The findings reveal that students' English learning experiences are…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Handheld Devices, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yuxi Wang; Jinhong Yang; Lin Wang; Jiang Liu; Tingting Xin; Lunan Gao; Yuxiu Liu – Educational Gerontology, 2024
With the world's population aging, geriatric care is more important than ever before. However, many studies have shown that nursing students are less likely to choose geriatric nursing as career than other nursing fields. Nursing students play a vital role in the development of geriatric nursing. Thus, this study aimed to explore the current…
Descriptors: Nursing Students, Student Motivation, Career Choice, Geriatrics
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Zhang, Yingyuan; Li, Weiguang; Yang, Jianwei; Liu, Zhishuang; Wu, Linna – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Research objectives: specify the framework of using cutting-edge approaches and innovations in the training of rehabilitation physicians; investigate existing innovative technologies; get an insight into the motivation of students majoring in rehabilitation when working with the Gross simulator in sports rehabilitation of patients. The research…
Descriptors: Rehabilitation, Athletics, Training, Educational Technology
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