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Üztemur, Servet; Dinç, Erkan – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Temporary school lockdowns and physical distancing practices due to the COVID-19 pandemic have led to the risk of problematic social media use (PSU) in students who need to socialize. The effect of PSU on students' academic commitment and the mechanisms that moderate this effect spark interest in researchers. For this reason, the present study…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Self Control, Gender Differences, Social Media
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Zhang, Jian; Qiao, Fangbin; Li, Binbin – Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 2016
In many Chinese universities and colleges, female students outperform male students in social science subjects. This paper presents a case study, which examines gender difference in economic education in a Chinese university. We look at a sample of students from the Chinese university and find that holding constant observed student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Economics Education, Gender Differences
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Wagner, Petra; Schober, Barbara; Spiel, Christiane – Learning and Instruction, 2008
The paper presents three studies which deal with the time students spend working at home for school. In addition, the paper focuses on the distribution of time investment over the course of a week and on the relationship between academic achievement and time spent working at home for school. In sum, 824 students with an average age of 15 years…
Descriptors: Age, Academic Achievement, Diaries, Homework
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Srivastava, Manjulika; Reddy, Venugopal – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2007
The question why some learners successfully study through distance mode and others do not is increasingly becoming important as open and distance learning (ODL) has come to occupy a prominent place in providing higher education to large segments of the population in India. With barely 1112 students studying through distance mode in 1962, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Graduates, Distance Education, Student Experience