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Wahl, Harald; Kaufmann, Christian; Eckkrammer, Florian; Mense, Alexander; Gollner, Helmut; Himmler, Christian; Rogner, Wolf; Baierl, Thomas; Slobodian, Roman – American Journal of Business Education, 2012
The paper measures the soft skills needs of companies and industry to technical oriented academic graduates, especially coming from IT course programs like business informatics, computer science, or information management. Therefore, between March and September 2010, two groups of researchers at the University of Applied Sciences (UAS) Technikum…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Graduates, Industry, Surveys
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Bakker, Arnold B.; Demerouti, Evangelia; ten Brummelhuis, Lieke L. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2012
The present study examines whether the relationship between work engagement and job performance is moderated by the extent to which individuals are inclined to work hard, careful, and goal-oriented. On the basis of the literature, it was hypothesized that conscientiousness strengthens the relationship between work engagement and supervisor ratings…
Descriptors: Job Performance, Work Attitudes, Work Ethic, Achievement Need
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Garrett, Lynda; Moltzen, Roger – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2011
The study reported on here sought to better understand the development of writing talent from the perspectives of a group of gifted adolescent female writers. Recent shifts in how giftedness and talent are conceptualized has led to an increased focus on domain-specific abilities and the importance of understanding how specific talents can be…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Authors, Adolescents, Females
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Daloz, Laurent A. Parks – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 2011
There is both gain and loss in early male formation: men gain a certain clarity, power, and even vision in their separateness, yet may pay the cost in mutuality, responsiveness, and connectedness. Mentors can help men heal their connectivity deficit while retaining the strengths of their distinctiveness by reminding them that they have within…
Descriptors: Males, Masculinity, Mentors, Interpersonal Relationship
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Rakes, Glenda C.; Dunn, Karee E. – Journal of Interactive Online Learning, 2010
With the rapid growth in online programs come concerns about how best to support student learning in this segment of the university population. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of effort regulation, a self-regulatory skill, and intrinsic motivation on online graduate students' levels of academic procrastination, behavior…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Self Motivation, Learning Motivation, Metacognition
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Hurt, Amy A.; Grist, Cathy Lann; Malesky, Lann A., Jr.; McCord, David M. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2013
Background: Applied behaviour analysis (ABA) therapists typically work one-to-one with children with autism for extended periods of time, which often leads to high levels of job-related stress, lower levels of job satisfaction, increased frequency of occupational "burnout" and higher than average job turnover (Journal of Autism…
Descriptors: Allied Health Personnel, Behavior Modification, Children, Autism
Amissah, Kojo – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative descriptive study purposed to explore the perceptions of a purposive sample of20 Black Deaf male students and alumni in postsecondary in Washington, District of Columbia to determine if the self-fulfilling prophecy theory contributed to their pedagogy. A qualitative survey was administered and the data was analyzed with Excel.…
Descriptors: African American Students, Deafness, College Students, Males
Olagbami, Abiola Olabisi – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The need related behavioral dynamics that are revealed in self-determination and academic motivation research control factors which pinpoint and examine settings that facilitate self-motivation and well-being. This study examined differences in motivational and self-determination behaviors among three ethnic groups of Nigerian university students…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Academic Achievement, Self Determination, Statistical Analysis
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Elliot, Andrew J.; Murayama, Kou; Pekrun, Reinhard – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2011
In the present research, a 3 x 2 model of achievement goals is proposed and tested. The model is rooted in the definition and valence components of competence, and encompasses 6 goal constructs: task-approach, task-avoidance, self-approach, self-avoidance, other-approach, and other-avoidance. The results from 2 studies provided strong support for…
Descriptors: Achievement Need, Models, Replication (Evaluation), Competence
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Hughes, Christina – Studies in Higher Education, 2011
This article explores pleasure in terms of the values of independent judgement, writerly authority, originality and singularity associated with doctoral study. It also considers how pleasure can be understood as a mode of experience that acts as a force for change. Here, the article takes a broad Deleuzian approach that is concerned with our…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Self Motivation, Anxiety, Doctoral Programs
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Finke, Michael S.; Huston, Sandra J.; Winchester, Danielle D. – Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning, 2011
Using a cost-benefit framework for financial planning services and proprietary data collected in the summer of 2008, the client characteristics that are associated with the likelihood of paying for professional financial advice, as well as the type of financial services purchased, are identified. Results indicate that respondents who pay for…
Descriptors: Financial Services, Client Characteristics, Identification, Data Collection
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Rantala, Taina; Maatta, Kaarina – Early Child Development and Care, 2012
The aim of this paper is to decipher the essence of the joy of learning and the ways to enhance it at school. In the field of educational psychology, research on feelings is lacking, and the little that does exist has focused more on negative rather than positive feelings. The present paper is based on ethnographic and observational research of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Primary Education, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Saibani, Nizaroyani; Sabtu, Idham; Muhamad, Norhamidi; Wahab, Dzuraidah Abd.; Sahari, Ja'afar – International Education Studies, 2013
The number of students from the under-graduate level who have successfully completed their studies is on the increase every year. In the selection process for the best employee-candidate, employers have to take into consideration several factors other than academic excellence, including values that depict EQ or emotional intelligence. This study…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Engineering Education, College Students, Scores
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Naidoo, Devika – Teaching in Higher Education, 2015
Against the background of vast changes in doctoral education and the emergence of non-traditional doctoral programmes, this paper investigates the habitus of non-traditional PhD students at a South African university. Bourdieu's conceptual tool of habitus informed the study. In-depth and open-ended interviews were conducted with 10 non-traditional…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Students, Graduate Students, Interviews, Social Capital
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Cheng, Li – Excellence in Education Journal, 2014
Self-directed learning has been researched by scholars for many years. However, there is a lack of literature on web-based self-directed Mandarin learning. This research was aimed to investigate how students can learn Mandarin through self-directed study with Internet resources, what the advantages and challenges are, and what strategies students…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Independent Study, Student Attitudes, College Students
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