Play, which is both a context and process for children's learning, has become a pivotal pedagogical component in global early childhood education. The uptake of intentional teaching has contributed to the shift in understandings of play, from viewing play as a means of recreation and entertainment to a more socio-cultural perspective that…

Academic cheating is a pervasive issue in tertiary education, with implications for the competency of university graduates and their future ethical workplace behavior. Past research indicates that understanding academic cheating according to its different levels of severity allows for a more nuanced understanding of its aetiological factors, and…

Entrepreneurial intention is a crucial prerequisite for aspiring entrepreneurs looking to establish new ventures, and today's college students represent the potential entrepreneurs of the future. Enhancing students' willingness to engage in entrepreneurship is a vital area of focus for numerous scholars. This study aims to explore how prior…

Background/purpose: Entrepreneurship plays a crucial role in promoting economic growth, job creation, and unemployment reduction. This study aims to investigate how government and institutions influence students' attitudes and intentions toward entrepreneurship. Materials/methods: Between May 01, 2024, and June 30, 2024, a survey was conducted…

Purpose: Knowledge entrepreneurship encourages students to apply their knowledge and skills to societal, digital and ecological challenges -- not only just in business but also in careers and social contribution. This study aimed to validate training that promotes using education-derived knowledge to address real-world issues and build career…

The release of ChatGPT has sparked an immense academic debate regarding its potential advantages and drawbacks for students. Despite its significance, there is a lack of empirical research on students' attitudes and behavioural intentions towards the utilization of ChatGPT. To fill this gap, we employed the integrated AI acceptance-avoidance model…

The adoption of digital learning systems is closely related to user engagement and system relevance. This quantitative research aims to explore the factors influencing students' switching intention from traditional Learning Management Systems (LMS) to a gamified LMS platform, using the Push-Pull-Mooring (PPM) framework. A conceptual model was…

The aim of the present study is to examine the link between proactive personality (PP) and entrepreneurial intention (EI) and to investigate the mediating role of entrepreneurial attitude (EA) and the moderating role of perceived educational support (PES). A total of 764 university students were recruited using a stratified cluster sampling from…

One of the initiatives to strengthen the Indonesian economy is entrepreneurship. Concern has been raised about how little entrepreneurship is being pursued by recent college graduates. Several earlier studies have discovered that an entrepreneur can successfully run his business if there is an interest in entrepreneurship. Therefore, the purpose…

This study aims to examine the impact of students' entrepreneurial self-efficacy on their opportunity recognition capability after their exposure to classroom-based entrepreneurship education, leading to the development of intention to undertake an entrepreneurial activity. A detailed questionnaire was used to collect data from 351 students…

Purpose: Issues on fraudulent excuses have become a common phenomenon at higher educational institutions. Although these misbehaviours can unfavourably impact the quality of graduates, nonetheless, these issues have been largely ignored as the focus of academic debates is placed more on other academic dishonest behaviours such as cheating in exams…

To attract and retain rural teachers, the Chinese government has piloted the Free Teacher Education Programme (FTEP) since 2007. Examining the FTEP participants' intentions and reasons for default helps stakeholders make effective and timely adjustments to existing policies and regulations so that more capable preservice teachers may be retained…

Women are underrepresented in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) workforce. Whilst this is a worldwide phenomenon, there are differences in how this manifests in different countries. In order to understand this more deeply in a particular context, this study investigates the employment intentions of university STEM…

The objective of the study is to evaluate both direct and indirect relationships among organizational culture, attitude, intention, and adoption of the innovation culture in Malaysian ODL higher education institutions. The findings of this study are crucial for ODL institutions to maximize employee performance by adopting an innovation culture for…

This study developed a serial mediation model grounded in social cognitive theory to examine how three types of supervisory support (academic, emotional, and autonomy) influence academic procrastination among doctoral students in China, emphasizing the sequential mediating roles of research self-efficacy and persistence intention. Utilizing data…