Students' cost perceptions have been associated with lower retention and academic performance in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Guided by expectancy-value theory, we examined whether relations between perceived costs and physics outcomes (i.e., engagement and achievement) varied as a function of self-efficacy or task…

Business majors are among the most popular majors in the United States (Hinrichs, 2015), and prior to the economic and health COVID-19 pandemic, Black students received 20% of bachelor's and 30% of master's degrees in business programs in 2015-2016, despite representing only 11% of undergraduate and 14% of master's degree students in total (de…

Chinese international undergraduate student experiences at U.S. higher education institutions are often hidden within the larger monolithic narrative of "international students" as a whole. The existing research on the on-campus involvement experiences of Chinese undergraduate international students is relatively minimal particularly in…

Student carers have significant responsibilities in addition to their studies. This can result in adverse effects on academic achievement and the student experience. It is unclear how many students at Kingston University and nationally have significant caring responsibilities and what impact this has on their studies and overall wellbeing. This…

The purpose of this descriptive research study was to examine collegiate instrumentalists' applications of practice strategies and their motivation orientations to practice. Respondents (N = 128) were music majors who enrolled in concert band or orchestra. Results indicated that pianists spent more time in practice followed by percussionists,…

Engaging students in active learning environments like task-based presentations can be challenging, as several factors influence their motivation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the factors influencing motivation in task-based learning in the English for Presentation course. Thirty undergraduate students who enrolled in the English…

All public-funded Hong Kong universities have explicit practices to promote integrity and prevent students' academic dishonesty. Using the Behaviour Change Wheel as a conceptual framework, three common practices were analysed in the present study, namely, enforcement of policies to penalize dishonest acts, use of plagiarism detection software, and…

The literature has identified a significant dropout of students at the transition from high school to higher education, especially in areas related to mathematics. Therefore, new didactic tools have been identified to help teachers in the process of knowledge transfer, as simulators are an increasingly popular tool in their integration into…

This study examines the determinants of learning strategies employed by undergraduate accounting students in an emerging economy. Specifically, it investigates the impact of institution, teacher, and personal determinants on accounting students' utilisation of a particular learning strategy. In line with Information Process Theory (IPM), a…

Recently, interest in understanding the prospects of virtual environments, specifically virtual reality laboratories (VR Lab) -- those that involve a first-person practica experience via a desktop computer or head-mounted display -- in science education has increased. Seemingly ingrained in the process of implementing a VR Lab is a supposition of…

Learning motivation is essential to online learning success. This study recognizes two aspects of learners' motivation for E-learning and proposed technology acceptance model as cognitive process and stimulus-organism-response as affective process to explain the undergraduates' continuous intention to use E-learning system based on…

Emotions are important contributors to students' motivation, achievement, and persistence toward a goal. A descriptive-correlational study was carried out in order to assess the relationship between student emotions and class performance. A modified version of the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire-Short (AEQ-S) instrument was used with a…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to understand the differences in motivations, advantages, disadvantages and time of multiple-major awareness among students who pursue multiple majors based on a set of defined characteristics. The student characteristics of interest included race, gender, financial aid status, class standing, transfer status,…

The aims explored associations between stress ratings and influences on coping and personality on student course satisfaction and anxiety. Most research construes stress as distress, with little attempt to consider positive 'eustress' experiences. Undergraduate students (N = 162) were surveyed on student and pandemic-related stressors,…

This study used the ARCS approach to investigate the effects of university students' motivation, including attention, relevance, confidence, and satisfaction, to use the Programming Teaching Assistant (PTA) on their Programming Problem-Solving Skills (PPSS). Previous studies have shown that PTA features enhance learners' programming performance,…