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Lupo, Toni; Buscarino, Ester – Education Sciences, 2021
Nowadays, in the higher education sector, the quality measurement process of education-related services is assuming a crucial role to support focused and targeted improvement activities deeply centered on students' needs/necessities. These are considered crucial factors for dealing with the current academic competitive context. Therefore, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Student Satisfaction, College Students
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Barattucci, Massimiliano; Zakariya, Yusuf F.; Ramaci, Tiziana – International Journal of Instruction, 2021
Using the Biggs' 3P learning model and correlational design, this study explores the relationship between students' individual characteristics and course perceptions, approach to study, and academic outcomes, which account for the differences in academic achievement and student delay. 612 Italian students of a master's degree in psychology…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Time to Degree, Graduate Students, Student Motivation
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Nocentini, Annalaura; De Luca, Lisa; Palladino, Benedetta Emanuela; Menesini, Ersilia – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
This study explored the profiles of Longitudinal Life Environmental Satisfaction (LLES) during the COVID-19 pandemic, evaluating their predicting role in social-emotional adjustment in children and early adolescents. 488 children (M[subscript age] = 8.54; SD = 0.63), and 129 early adolescents (M[subscript]age = 11.08, SD = 0.48) completed two…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Santilli, Sara; Marcionetti, Jenny; Rochat, Shékina; Rossier, Jérôme; Nota, Laura – Journal of Career Development, 2017
The consequences of economic crisis are different from one European context to the other. Based on life design (LD) approach, the present study focused on two variables--career adaptability and a positive orientation toward future (hope and optimism)--relevant to coping with the current work context and their role in affecting life satisfaction. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Vocational Adjustment, Psychological Patterns
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Paletta, Angelo; Alivernini, Fabio; Manganelli, Sara – International Journal of Educational Management, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships between the school context, the leadership of the school principal, and a set of process variables related to teachers and the educational climate, which have been shown to mediate the effects of the principal's leadership on schools and students. The authors examined the following…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Principals, Leadership, Hierarchical Linear Modeling
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Sanna, Andrea; Valpreda, Fabrizio – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2017
The purpose of this study was to compare different students' backgrounds and two different didactic methodologies to profitably teach computer animation in Italian schools of design and engineering. Teachers and instructors have long been engaged in discussions to define effective curricula for teaching computer animation. Various…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Animation, Student Characteristics, Design
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Jensen, Matilde Bisballe; Utriainen, Tuuli Maria; Steinert, Martin – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
This paper presents the experienced difficulties of students participating in the multidisciplinary, remote collaborating engineering design course challenge-based innovation at CERN. This is with the aim to identify learning barriers and improve future learning experiences. We statistically analyse the rated differences between distinct design…
Descriptors: Barriers, Concept Mapping, Interdisciplinary Approach, Engineering Education
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Argentin, Gianluca; Barbetta, Gian Paolo; Maci, Francesca – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
It is well-known that socio-economic background matters in determining student performance. Systematic reviews confirm that a key role in shaping this association is played by parental involvement. Not surprisingly, successful interventions in education frequently have parental engagement as a key ingredient of their protocol, and the attention…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Parent Participation, Dropout Prevention, Secondary School Students
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Acedo, Sara Osuna; Cano, Lucía Camarero – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2016
The ECO European Project funded by the European Commission is dedicated to bringing MOOCs to a new dimension by taking advantage of the new possibilities offered by the Social Web (O'Reilly, 2005). This paper focuses on the intercreative aspects of MOOCs. It takes a look at the characteristics of the new ECO MOOCs to see if they are designed and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Creativity
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Capone, Vincenza; Petrillo, Giovanna – International Journal of Educational Management, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the validation of the Organizational Justice Index (OJI) by Hoy and Tarter (2004), a self-report questionnaire for teachers' perceptions of fairness in the operation and administration of schools. Design/methodology/approach: In two studies the authors validated the Italian version of the OJI.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Well Being, Teacher Burnout, Questionnaires
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Terzioglu, Fusun; Tuna, Zahide; Duygulu, Sergul; Boztepe, Handan; Kapucu, Sevgisun; Ozdemir, Leyla; Akdemir, Nuran; Kocoglu, Deniz; Alinier, Guillaume; Festini, Filippo – Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 2013
Aim: The aim of this paper is to share the initial experiences on a European Union (EU) Lifelong Learning Programme Leonardo Da Vinci Transfer of Innovation Project related to the use of simulation-based learning with nursing students from Turkey. The project started at the end of the 2010 involving 7 partners from 3 different countries including…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Simulation, Nursing Students, Program Evaluation
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Morciano, Daniele; Scardigno, Anna Fausta; Manuti, Amelia; Pastore, Serafina – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2014
In this paper an evaluation study of a public programme financing a regional network of 157 youth centres in the South of Italy is presented. A theory-based evaluation model was adopted to explore the causal links between different types of participation experience. Evaluation questions focused on three main issues are: the perception of…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Youth Agencies, Participation, Program Evaluation
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De Rosa, Marcello; Bartoli, Luca; La Rocca, Giuseppe – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2014
Purpose: The aim of the paper is to analyse the attitude of Italian farms in gaining access to agricultural extension services (AES). Design/methodology/approach: The ways Italian farms use AES are described through the AKAP (Awareness, Knowledge, Adoption, Product) sequence. This article investigated the AKAP sequence by submitting a…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Models, Agricultural Education, Questionnaires
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Sisask, Merike; Värnik, Peeter; Värnik, Airi; Apter, Alan; Balazs, Judit; Balint, Maria; Bobes, Julio; Brunner, Romuald; Corcoran, Paul; Cosman, Doina; Feldman, Dana; Haring, Christian; Kahn, Jean-Pierre; Poštuvan, Vita; Tubiana, Alexandra; Sarchiapone, Marco; Wasserman, Camilla; Carli, Vladimir; Hoven, Christina W.; Wasserman, Danuta – Health Education Journal, 2014
Objective: In support of a whole-school approach to mental health promotion, this study was conducted to find out whether and how significantly teachers' satisfaction with school and their subjective psychological well-being are related to the belief that they can help pupils with mental health problems. Design: Cross-sectional data were collected…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Well Being
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Scandola, Michele; Fiorini, Paolo – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2013
Digital Storytelling (DST) is a powerful tool for teaching complex concepts. DSTs are typically used in the humanities but several papers have shown that they are also a wonderful tool for the sciences because they are more involving, contextualized and can easily lead to deeper understanding. In the classical use of DST the story is the content,…
Descriptors: Robotics, Fundamental Concepts, Teaching Methods, Story Telling
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