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Casakin, Hernan; Gigi, Ariela – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2016
Cognitive style has a strong predictive power in academic and professional success. This study investigated the cognitive profile of candidates studying architecture. Specifically, it explored the relation between visual and verbal cognitive styles, and the performance of candidates in admission procedures. The cognitive styles of candidates who…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Admission, Architectural Education, College Applicants
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Lebedeva, Ekaterina V.; Shchipanova, Dina Ye.; Konovalova, Maria E.; Kutyin, Anton O. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
Topicality of the problem under research is stipulated by the necessity of personal characteristics consideration in the process of organization of educational and vocational activities of the future teachers in the conditions of educational medium, which sets high requirements to the students' time competence. The aim of the article is to study…
Descriptors: Time Management, Professional Identity, Preservice Teachers, College Students
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Vinichenko, Mikhail V.; Kirillov, Andrey V.; Frolova, Elena V.; Kaurova, Olga V.; Makushkin, Sergey A. – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2016
The relevance of the research is conditioned by the need to win the competition struggle by certain organizations and area in general. Education has recently become very popular for the training of highly professional staff. However, achieving this goal is possible by means of creation of favorable working and learning conditions, maintaining…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching Conditions, Educational Environment, Health
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Fallan, Lars; Opstad, Leiv – International Journal of Higher Education, 2016
The present study examines the self-efficacy levels and self-efficacy strength for male and female students in a course in Principle of Economics. The groups of male and female students may be mutually heterogeneous when it comes to personality types in a business school (Fallan & Opstad, 2014). This study does not treat the gender groups as…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Personality Traits, College Students, Gender Differences
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Wilson, Jane Taylor – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2016
A growing body of groundbreaking research shows that gratitude has the power to heal, energize, and transform lives by enhancing people psychologically, spiritually, physically, and cognitively. This study contributes to the study of gratitude by exploring its impact on focus and resilience in learning. Specifically, this study examines the impact…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Learning Processes, Psychological Patterns, Psychology
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Keinonen, Tuula; Palmberg, Irmeli; Kukkonen, Jari; Yli-Panula, Eija; Persson, Christel; Vilkonis, Rytis – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2016
This study aims to find higher education students' perceptions about environmental issues and how the perceptions are related to perceptions of media coverage. This study investigates higher education students' perceptions of the seriousness of environmental issues and their relation to perceptions of media coverage. Higher education students…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Conservation (Environment), Pollution
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Tombak, Busra; Altun, Sertel – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2016
Problem Statement: Motivation is a significant component of success in education, and it is best achieved by constructivist learning methods, especially cooperative Learning (CL). CL is a popular method among primary and secondary schools, but it is rarely used in higher education due to the large numbers of students and time restrictions. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cooperative Learning, College Students, Student Motivation
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Dommeyer, Curt J.; Gross, Barbara L.; Ackerman, David S. – Journal of Education for Business, 2016
The authors explore college students' views of marketing internships. Students who completed a marketing internship (n = 279) were surveyed with a comprehensive questionnaire about their internship experiences, including what they liked and disliked, surprises, problems, and suggestions. Students also responded to 50 belief statements concerning…
Descriptors: College Students, Marketing, Internship Programs, Student Attitudes
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Hakim, Arif Rahman; Yuwono, Ipung; Subanji; Rahardjo, Swasono – Educational Research and Reviews, 2016
The research aims to figure out students' epistemological belief shift about mathematics after having attended a lecture in a Polytechnic. In addition, it also aims to find out the relationship between their beliefs and mathematics performance. The study applied mix method with explanatory sequential design approach by conducting first study…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Beliefs, Mathematics, Mixed Methods Research
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Maralani, Farnaz Mehdipour – Journal of Education and Learning, 2016
This study investigated the mediation role of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in the relationship between creative educational environment and metacognitive self-regulation. Participants were 300 girls, selected randomly from the girl hostel in university of Tehran. Participants completed Akoal's creative educational environment questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Motivation, Educational Environment, Metacognition
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Jakesova, Jitka; Gavora, Peter; Kalenda, Jan – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
The objective of this research is to compare self-regulation of behaviour of two Czech samples. The first one was the representative sample of Czech adults that consisted of 1060 respondents. The second sample was university students and consisted of 1244 respondents. The measuring tool was an adapted Self-Regulation Questionnaire of which two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Behavior, Self Control, Adults
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Ding, Cody – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2016
The purpose of the article is to propose a multidimensional scaling single-ideal point model as a method to evaluate changes in individuals' preferences under the explicit methodological framework of behavioral preference assessment. One example is used to illustrate the approach for a clear idea of what this approach can accomplish.
Descriptors: Multidimensional Scaling, Evaluation Methods, Change, Preferences
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Asimaki, Anna; Koustourakis, Gerasimos; Vergidis, Dimitris – International Studies in Sociology of Education, 2016
The mechanisms of discipline and power within the institution of the school constitute, in part, the relationship between society and childhood. This article traces the relationship between official regulative discourses of control and punishment practices over students in primary school. It focuses on the memories of schooling of first-year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Discipline, Punishment, Questionnaires
Akçaoglu, Mustafa Öztürk – Online Submission, 2016
The current study aimed to identify teacher candidates' learning strategies and academic self-efficacy levels. Furthermore, the correlations between these variables and gender and departments were looked into. The study was mainly descriptive and correlational. The sample of the study consisted of 256 teacher candidates enrolled at a faculty of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Learning Strategies, Self Efficacy, Correlation
Williams, Beverly Tillery – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this qualitative transcendental phenomenological study was to explore and describe the lived experiences of female student veterans with disabilities entering higher education during reintegration in order to improve programs, services, and support available to female student veterans with disabilities. A screening questionnaire,…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Higher Education, Females, Student Experience
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