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Proactive Decision-Making: Does It Matter for Academic Motivation and Future Career Calling?
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Yuliya Frolova; Monowar Mahmood – Journal of International Education in Business, 2025
Purpose: This study explores the role of proactive decision-making in enhancing academic motivation and career calling among university students in Central Asia. It aims to investigate how proactive traits and cognitive skills influence career calling and academic persistence while examining the moderating effects of demographic factors.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Student Motivation, Career Choice, College Students
Data Science Career Preference of Nigeria University Students
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Wole Michael Olatokun; Oluyemi Folorunso Ayanbode; Sunday Oluwadare Oladipo – Education and Information Technologies, 2025
This study examined the data science career preference, data science skills, and core competencies of 416 students from fourteen Nigerian universities using a Google Forms-created structured online questionnaire. A convenience sampling technique was adopted to select the participants. Data were analysed using both descriptive and inferential…
Descriptors: Data Science, Preferences, College Students, Foreign Countries
"I Want Kids to Have the Same Feeling as I Do towards Physical Activity": Acculturation of British Preservice Physical Education Teachers
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Matthew D. Curtner-Smith; Andrew Theodoulides; Anne Chappell; Elizabeth Harris; Gary D. Kinchin – European Physical Education Review, 2025
The purpose of this study was to describe the acculturation of six British physical education (PE) preservice teachers (PSTs). The research questions we sought to answer were: (a) What were the PSTs' values, beliefs, and perspectives regarding PE? and (b) What factors shaped the PSTs' values, beliefs, and perspectives during their acculturation?…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, College Students
Profiles of John Henryism and Subjective Task Value in Higher Education: The Motivations and Attributions of Nontraditional Students
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Joseph I. Eisman; Benjamin M. Torsney; Catherine Pressimone Beckowski; Jessica S. Reinhardt – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
School psychology scholars argue that diversifying the profession will advance equity and social justice. Yet, nontraditional and racially and ethnically minoritized students are underrepresented in school psychology programs. These diverse college students bring complex identities that may complicate as well as enrich their paths to achievement.…
Descriptors: School Psychology, Equal Education, Social Justice, Diversity (Institutional)