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Balti, Rihab; Hedhili, Aroua; Chaari, Wided Lejouad; Abed, Mourad – Education and Information Technologies, 2023
Since the COVID pandemic, universities propose online education to ensure learning continuity. However, the insufficient preparation led to a major drop in the learner's performance and his/her dissatisfaction with the learning experience. This may be due to several reasons, including the insensitivity of the virtual learning environment to the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Pandemics, COVID-19, Distance Education
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Korte, Russell – Advances in Engineering Education, 2018
An entrepreneurial mindset helps innovators find, interpret, evaluate, and pursue opportunities for their innovations. It is a concept having multiple definitions and contradictions variously focused on individual traits, behaviors, attitudes, or beliefs. Robinson claimed that across the various definitions of an entrepreneurial mindset there was…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Self Concept, Social Theories, Engineering Education
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Buckley, Jeffrey; O'Connor, Adrian; Seery, Niall; Hyland, Tomás; Canty, Donal – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2019
The educational significance of eliciting students' implicit theories of intelligence is well established with the majority of this work focussing on theories regarding entity and incremental beliefs. However, a second paradigm exists in the prototypical nature of intelligence for which to view implicit theories. This study purports to instigate…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Intelligence, Technology Education, Student Attitudes
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Miller, Shari E.; Topple, Trasie A. – Journal of Social Work Education, 2020
In the 21st-century sociotechnical context where humans are steeped in information, approaches to social work education that foster students' capacities to critically consume and be well poised to reflexively apply information are critical. This article presents findings from a qualitative study designed to deepen understanding of social work…
Descriptors: Social Work, Counselor Training, Empathy, Grounded Theory
Somblingo, Ricardo Amparo; Alieto, Ericson Olario – Online Submission, 2020
Utilizing the Mentalist Theory, this empirical research purposed to determine the language attitude towards English of one thousand fifty-four Filipino Elementary Pre-service Teachers. Data collection was realized with a survey questionnaire. The analysis of the data revealed that the respondents, on the average, are exhibiting positive attitude…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Attitudes, Elementary School Teachers
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Fischbach, Sarah; Guerrero, Veronica – Journal of Advertising Education, 2020
The purpose of the study is to explore how the digital brand story assignment creates a transformative learning experience for students. This study involves assessing the levels of learning according to Mezirow's transformational learning theory through the development of digital brand stories. The authors have tested the Digital Brand…
Descriptors: Advertising, Merchandise Information, Story Telling, Transformative Learning
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Odendaal, Albi – Research Studies in Music Education, 2019
Perceptual Learning Style theory (PLS) claims that the presentation of information in either a visual, auditory or kinaesthetic format will improve the learning of selected individuals due to the dominance of one or more modality in their information gathering. The modality dominance of six Western classical pianists in higher music education was…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Music, Music Education, Musical Instruments
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Milovanovitch, Mihaylo – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2019
In this article we present results from research on how education environments may influence the propensity of education participants to engage in corrupt practices. We approached this task with the help of a conceptual framework that draws on rational choice and routine activity theory, and on economic models of human behaviour. The framework…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Deception, Crime, Behavior Patterns
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Pennaforte, Antoine – Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 2016
On the basis of the role and the social exchange theories, this research investigated the direct and indirect antecedents of three dimensions of team performance (proficiency, adaptivity, proactivity) developed through cooperative education. The theoretical model examined how proactive socialization behaviors led to team socialization and team…
Descriptors: Socialization, Teamwork, Behavior Patterns, Cooperative Education
Diamond, Abigail; Vorley, Tim; Roberts, Jennifer; Jones, Stephen – Higher Education Academy, 2012
The Higher Education Academy (HEA), in partnership with the National Union of Students (NUS), commissioned CFE and The University of Sheffield to undertake research to explore behavioural approaches to understanding student choice. Within the research, the authors' applied insights from behavioural economics to help aid understanding of student…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Case Studies, Student Attitudes, Social Mobility
Chametzky, Barry – ProQuest LLC, 2013
With the Internet, foreign language learners can interact more easily with native speakers from other countries than in previous generations. For learners to develop the ability to function in foreign environments, it is vital to understand their experiences in postsecondary online foreign language classes. If educators and educational theorists…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Grounded Theory, Behavior Patterns, Adult Learning
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Ziegler, Albert; Stoeger, Heidrun – Learning and Individual Differences, 2010
There is ample evidence that labeled gifted students exhibit maladaptive behavior patterns. According to Carol Dweck those students who subscribe to a fixed view of their abilities are particularly at risk. In this contribution we extended Dweck's framework and distinguished two aspects of the implicit theory of one's own abilities. We…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted, At Risk Students
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ter Doest, Laura; Dijkstra, Arie; Gebhardt, Winifred A.; Vitale, Salvatore – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
The theory of planned behavior identifies important proximal determinants of behavior, including attitude toward the behavior, perception of subjective norms exerted by significant others, and perception of perceived control over performance of the behavior. Because research in the planned behavior tradition has focused on desirable target…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Smoking, Adolescents, Schemata (Cognition)
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Schmitt, Neal; Oswald, Frederick L.; Friede, Alyssa; Imus, Anna; Merritt, Stephanie – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2008
Because person-organization fit relates to important outcomes, and because fit is a time-dependent process, there exists a need to model longitudinal data related to fit. In a multi-university sample (N=1174), we tested hypotheses concerning person-organization fit and various behavioral and attitudinal outcomes; correlations between changes in…
Descriptors: Grade Point Average, Academic Achievement, Interests, Educational Environment
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Chen, I. Ju – Journal of College Teaching & Learning, 2007
The main purpose of this study was to investigate and predict the behavioral intention of in-service Taiwanese kindergarten teachers regarding whether they would join a graduate level academic program. The research framework was based on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) in order to identify the most influential component that affected their…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Intention, Kindergarten, Identification
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