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Understanding the Motivational Predictors of Students' Persistence in Work Placement Learning Tasks
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Charles O. Ogbaekirigwe; Ifeoma M.B. Ubah; Amarachi Salome Azubuike; Udodirim Angela Igwe; Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie – Education & Training, 2025
Purpose: This study examines how and whether expectancy for success and task values influence students' persistence in work placement learning tasks (persistence). Also, it examines the mediating role of task values in the expectancy for success and students' persistence nexus. Design/methodology/approach: This is a two-study finding. In Study 1,…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Predictor Variables, Academic Persistence, Job Placement
Thematic Assignments Making Vocational Concepts Visible during Students' Work Placements in Norwegian Vocational Education
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Monika Øgård; Stefanie A. Hillen; Eveline Wuttke – Empirical Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Many students in vocational education and training (VET) programmes in Norway fail to see the connection with the school-based curriculum content they explore and learn and the tasks they perform during work placements. Consequently, the relevance of various vocational concepts remains invisible when conducting tasks at work, hence student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Career and Technical Education, Student Employment, Job Placement
Exploring Academic Staff Engagement in a Time of Crisis and Change through the Lens of a Multilevel Job Demand-Resources Analysis
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Craig Whitsed; Antonia Girardi; Scott Fitzgerald; John Williams – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2025
Using Multilevel Job Demand-Resources theory, this research explores how crisis influenced perceptions about academic work engagement at individual, team, and organisational levels. The COVID-19 crisis led universities to make significant changes in response to health and fiscal impacts. Changes included restructuring, job shedding, and pivoting…
Descriptors: Universities, Crisis Management, COVID-19, Pandemics
Newly Appointed Principals' Professional Identity -- Insights from a Swedish Perspective
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Daniel Erik Nordholm; Maximilian Ritacco Real; Christopher Bezzina – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2025
The aim of the article is to explore newly appointed principals' professional identity formation in Sweden. By addressing five specific aspects of principals' professional identity, the article analyses how principals depict their 'knowledge', 'understandings', 'experiences and wisdom', 'values' and 'beliefs' in forming a professional identity.…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Principals, Beginning Principals, Administrator Attitudes