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Komatsu, Hikaru; Fu, Shin-Pei; Lin, Meng-Hui; Hsieh, Yi-Huan; Rappleye, Jeremy; Silova, Iveta – SAGE Open, 2022
University campus sustainability projects frequently aim to promote ecological behavior of their community members. However, these projects rarely consider the level of students' self-construal, the view of self held by members of the university community (i.e., whether the self is viewed as independent or interdependent with nature). This runs…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Sustainability, Foreign Countries, Conservation (Environment)
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Brian Mumba; Yasmin Sultana-Muchindu – SAGE Open, 2024
The study examined students' attitudes toward online learning classes introduced during the pandemic lockdown among students at the University of Lusaka. The study adopted a quantitative methodology with descriptive and comparative design methods. The study developed an attitude scale toward online learning and administered it to 1,542 students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Online Courses, COVID-19
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Chen, Shukun; Xuan, Winfred Wenhui; Yu, Wei – SAGE Open, 2022
Adopting the framework of projection from Systemic Functional Linguistics, the present study explored the deployment of projection in summary writing by three levels of college EFL learners from a university in mainland China. Data were collected from one summary writing by three classes of different levels' learners in an English program from a…
Descriptors: Verbs, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries
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Costas N. Tsouloupas; Constantinos M. Kokkinos – SAGE Open, 2023
In response to the need for further research on factors influencing university students' well-being during challenging circumstances, this study tests a potential mechanism to unravel the complex relationships between perceived impacts of COVID-19 on psychological health, academic performance, and financial status, subjective well-being, and…
Descriptors: Well Being, College Students, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Kaba, Abdoulaye; Abdullah, Abdulrahman Dheyab – SAGE Open, 2020
The main purpose of this study is to investigate the attitude of students toward Arabic and English textbooks in communication and media. The study used a survey questionnaire to collect data. A total of 157 university students, consisting of 95 females and 62 males, participated in the study. English textbooks received the highest satisfaction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semitic Languages, English, Textbooks
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Santokhie, Stefan; Lipps, Garth E. – SAGE Open, 2020
This study developed and validated a measure of Locus of Control in university students. Tertiary academic locus of control is the general expectancy that university students have regarding their ability to change their academic outcomes. Students who have an internal academic locus of control expect that their own efforts, skill, or luck will…
Descriptors: College Students, Locus of Control, Outcomes of Education, Measures (Individuals)
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Kumcagiz, Hatice – SAGE Open, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine university students' Internet addiction in relation to their parental attachment and sociodemographics. The participants consisted of 402 university students aged 17 to 25 years, 249 (61.9%) of whom were female and 153 (38.1%) of whom were male. The participants completed a questionnaire comprising the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Internet, Addictive Behavior, Attachment Behavior
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Chen, Joseph C. – SAGE Open, 2017
In the discourse on diversity in colleges and universities in the United States, an often-neglected population is nontraditional adult learners. This article explores this invisible aspect of undergraduate diversity, and addresses how competence-based education, which focuses on demonstrating the actual ability "to do," is an innovative…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Adult Students, College Students, College Credits