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Jyoti Chahal; Muhammad Haroon Shoukat; Rami Ayoubi – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: Underpinned by social cognitive and ecological systems theories, this research explored higher education students' entrepreneurial intentions (EI). It begins by exploring how various factors, including entrepreneurship education (EE), entrepreneurial motivation (EM) and entrepreneurial environment (EENV), contribute to the evolution of EI…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Student Motivation, Systems Approach, College Students
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Ghosh, Paromita – Review of Education, 2021
Achievement motivation of Indian women requires research because widespread gender discrimination obstructs their progress. Studies show that facets of locus of control and professional and family values correlated with the achievement motivation of women in college education in India. But identifying the most important correlates would help…
Descriptors: Correlation, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation, Females
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Fong, Carlton J.; Gonzales, Cassandra; Hill-Troglin Cox, Christie; Shinn, Holly B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Nearly all college students require some academic assistance throughout their learning experiences. Rather than a dependent act, help-seeking is a self-regulated and motivated strategy; however, there are mixed findings regarding the relationship between academic help-seeking and academic achievement. Thus, the current study used meta-analytic…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Academic Achievement, Postsecondary Education, College Students
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Arora, Puneet; Wright, Nicholas – Education Economics, 2022
Academic feedback has a direct impact on students' effort decisions and academic performance. However, the grades that are reported to students are often based on institutional or instructor preferences, with entities adopting a discrete or fine grading scale. In this study, we utilize a field experiment to assess how a Letter (LGS) or Numerical…
Descriptors: Grading, Alphabets, Numbers, Gender Differences
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Mostafa, Heba; Lim, Yongsun – Journal of International Students, 2020
Advancing diversity and inclusion in the U.S. higher education requires a solid understanding of the dynamics of students' mobility. This study investigated the intrinsic and extrinsic motivations that lead different international student groups to study in American universities, in connection with their resilience in overcoming the inevitable…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Resilience (Psychology), Foreign Students, Correlation
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Malini, K.; Rajkumar, R. – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2021
This research investigates how a supportive relationship between teacher behaviour and lexical competence in the English language classroom can improve the learning process. Having a good relationship with students can offer students chances to be motivated and feel engaged in the learning process. The theory behind this study reiterates the…
Descriptors: Correlation, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement
Fernandes, Cyril – ProQuest LLC, 2019
This study was conducted in India, where teachers use the lecture method of communication in the classroom. It is important for the teacher to establish credibility while communicating to motivate the students in the classroom. The study examined the relationship between teacher communication, and teacher credibility, student motivation, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Credibility, Student Motivation, Correlation
Mahajan, Prashant; Golahit, Suresh – Online Submission, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships of service marketing mix (SMM) as service input and service output in terms of students' performance, satisfaction and referral act in context to higher and technical education (HTE) through the application of structural equation modeling. Design/methodology/approach: A…
Descriptors: Correlation, Marketing, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement
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Subrahmanyam, Annamdevula – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2017
Purpose: This paper aims to identify and test four competing models with the interrelationships between students' perceived service quality, students' satisfaction, loyalty and motivation using structural equation modeling (SEM), and to select the best model using chi-square difference (??2) statistic test. Design/methodology/approach: The study…
Descriptors: Correlation, Statistical Analysis, Educational Quality, Student Attitudes
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Sarangi, C. – Journal of Education and Practice, 2015
Achievement motivation is a consistent striving force of an individual to achieve success to a certain standard of excellence in competing situation. In this study an attempt was made to study the effect of achievement motivation on the academic achievement of the high school students of tribal and non tribal communities in relation to their sex…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Academic Achievement, Student Motivation
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Latha, Prema – Journal on Educational Psychology, 2014
Disturbing sounds are often referred to as noise, and if extreme enough in degree, intensity or frequency, it is referred to as noise pollution. Achievement refers to a change in study behavior in relation to their noise sensitivity and learning in the educational sense by achieving results in changed responses to certain types of stimuli like…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Student Motivation, Secondary School Students, Questionnaires
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Cheruvalath, Reena – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2012
This study has been conducted to show that there is a recent trend in engineering colleges in India that students who are considered to be highly intelligent show poor academic performance during their 1st year. This article is proposed to examine the role of motivation factors such as teaching methods and learning material in the academic…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Role, College Freshmen, Academic Failure
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Areepattamannil, Shaljan – Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, 2012
The present study examined the mediational role of academic motivation in the association between school self-concept and school achievement among 355 Indian immigrant adolescents in Canada and 363 Indian adolescents in India. Surveys were administered among Grades 9-12 students in Canada and India to assess their academic self-concepts, academic…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Incentives, Academic Achievement, Motivation
Khan, Zebun Nisa – Online Submission, 2009
Problem statement: Professional education is the principle means of the developing the human resource. Students who do not perform well in professional courses are not in any way better than those who do not have professional knowledge, because their chances of employment and efficient working are bleak. The present study attempted to examine…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Professional Education, Student Characteristics
Khan, Zebun Nisa – Online Submission, 2005
The present study was conducted on 400 students (200 Boys and 200 Girls) selected from Senior Secondary School of A. M. U. Aligarh; India to establish the prognostic value of different measures of cognition, personality and demographic variables for success at Higher Secondary level in Science stream. The score obtained on different variables are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Achievement, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Science