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Chiara Luisa Sirca; Eva Billen – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2024
This study conducted on a sample of 295 Dutch and Italian undergraduate and graduate students aims to investigate how psychopathic personality traits (meanness, boldness and disinhibition) may lead to cheating behavior, and to study whether there are correlations between psychopathic traits, motivation, moral disengagement, the perception of…
Descriptors: Cheating, Ethics, Student Behavior, Psychopathology
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Luca Ferri; Rosanna Spanò; Grigorios Theodosopoulos; Nicholas Tsitsianis – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
Despite its ever-growing volume, research on entrepreneurial intentions remains largely confined within the context of entrepreneurial education and training. To enhance our understanding of the construct within broader layers of context, we evaluate the role of skills developed during general--not specific to entrepreneurship--university…
Descriptors: College Students, Entrepreneurship, Intention, Foreign Countries
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Rossella Bottaro; Palmira Faraci – Journal of American College Health, 2024
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the relationships between emotional experiences and study motivation in a group of nonworking and never-infected university students, during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants: Participants (N = 353; aged M = 21.5; SD = 2.8) were mostly female (76.2%) Italian university students.…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Experience, Emotional Response, COVID-19
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Diego Boerchi; Stefano Cacciamani; Maria Beatrice Ligorio – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2024
This study aimed to investigate whether students' Distance Education (DE) acceptance is influenced by the same factors affecting the acceptance of new digital technology. Furthermore, we also study competencies and motivations as factors affecting DE's acceptance. The study was cross-sectional, and linear regressions tested the hypotheses. 165…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychology, College Students, Bachelors Degrees
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Qiu, Ruoyi; Fedeli, Monica – American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
The transitional and adaptive process of studying abroad for international students is challenging. This study explores the motivation to study abroad (MSA) and the intercultural adaptation (IA) of international Chinese doctoral students (ICDS) at an Italian university by conducting a narrative inquiry approach through semi-structured interviews.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Abroad, Foreign Students, Student Adjustment
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Esposito, Giovanna; Marôco, João; Passeggia, Raffaella; Pepicelli, Giuliana; Freda, Maria Francesca – European Journal of Higher Education, 2022
Student Engagement (SE) refers to the extent to which a student participates in academic and non-academic activities, invests in and commits to learning, belonging and identification with the educational institution. Despite the relevance of SE for students' success, a few valid and reliable instruments have been developed. This study presents the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, College Students, Foreign Countries, Psychology
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Migliorini, Paola; Wezel, Alexander; Veromann, Eve; Strassner, Carola; Srednicka-Tober, Dominika; Kahl, Johannes; Bügel, Susanne; Briz, Teresa; Kazimierczak, Renata; Brives, Hélène; Ploeger, Angelika; Gilles, Ute; Lüder, Vanessa; Schleicher-Deis, Olesa; Rastorgueva, Natalia; Tuccillo, Fabio; Talgre, Liina; Kaart, Tanel; Ismael, Diana; Rembialkowska, Ewa – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: To clarify needs and requests of the young generation to the contemporary and future education on food systems, this paper aims to examine the following issues: students' background knowledge, students' behaviour as consumers and food citizenship, most interesting topics of SFS for students and students' preferences and expectations in…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Expectation, Sustainable Development, Food
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Di Pietro, Giorgio – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2022
Although many studies on international student mobility have examined the impact of individual factors (e.g., gender, age, family background) on students' decisions to study abroad, much less attention has been devoted to the role played by the institutional climate and characteristics of their home university. Using data from an Italian survey…
Descriptors: International Education, Educational Environment, Study Abroad, Foreign Students
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Licciardello, Feliciana; Consoli, Simona; Cirelli, Giuseppe; Castillo, Carlos; Fernández-Ahumada, Elvira; Montejo-Gámez, Jesús; Taguas, Encarnación V. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2021
This paper explains and analyses a virtual gamification experience developed by a teaching group from the University of Catania (Italy) and the University of Cordoba (Spain). A competition based on professional tasks about hydrological planning was implemented in two subjects on Hydrological Sciences. The teaching experience was designed to…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Technological Literacy, Interpersonal Competence, Earth Science
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Casali, Nicole; Ghisi, Marta; Meneghetti, Chiara – Education Sciences, 2022
Little is known about the intraindividual dispositional factors related to cognitive, behavioral, and emotional academic learning outcomes under COVID-19. This study investigated (i) the associations of intraindividual factors, some related to studying (motivation to learn, self-regulated learning, and study resilience), others more general (soft…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Outcomes of Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Ferri, Luca; Ginesti, Gianluca; Spano, Rosanna; Zampella, Annamaria – International Journal of Training and Development, 2019
This study aims to identify the factors motivating the intentions of university students to become entrepreneurs. Leveraging data from a survey of 941 Italian students and adopting Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour, this paper employs the structural equation model to identify factors explaining students' entrepreneurial intentions. The findings…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, College Students, Student Motivation, Intention
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Yilmaz, Ercan; Sahin, Mehmet; Turgut, Mehmet – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
In this study, the variables having impact on the student motivation have been analyzed based on the articles, conference papers, master's theses and doctoral dissertations published in the years 2000-2017. A total of 165 research papers were selected for the research material and the data were collected through qualitative research techniques…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Student Motivation, Literature Reviews
Ennis, Michael Joseph – Online Submission, 2020
This chapter describes the process of developing an English for tourism studies course at a trilingual university across five academic years. The process involved four phases. During the 2011-2012 academic year, I gained a grounded understanding of the needs of the learners from the standpoint of a "reflective practitioner" (see Farrell,…
Descriptors: Language Skills, English for Academic Purposes, Tourism, College Students
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Costa, Marco – Environment and Behavior, 2012
This study provides a novel observational method to observe repetitive seating patterns chosen by students in a classroom. Although prior work that relied on self-reports suggests that students claim the same seats repeatedly, the main hypothesis of the study was that in a repeated use of a public space, people tend to occupy the same position,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Observation, Student Behavior, Classroom Environment
Moliterni, Pasquale; De Stasio, Simona; Carboni, Mauro; Di Chiacchio, Carlo – Online Submission, 2010
This investigation is concerned with the examination of cognitive, motivational and emotional components of learning strategies and with the ways in which combinations of those dimensions, are associated with academic achievement. Recent models of self-regulated learning stress the importance of integrating both motivational and cognitive…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement, Measures (Individuals)
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