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Peer reviewedBoldt, Margaret N. – Journal of Education for Business, 2001
Comparisons of students' representations of financial accounting concepts with the knowledge structures of experts were depicted using Pathfinder networks. This structural approach identified the level of students' understanding of concepts and knowledge gaps that need to be addressed. (SK)
Descriptors: Accounting, Cognitive Structures, College Students, Higher Education
Peer reviewedVollmeyer, Regina; Rheinberg, Falko – Learning and Instruction, 2000
Studied the relationships among motivation, persistence, and performance in a sample of 51 German college students. Path analysis showed that initial motivation influenced persistence but that the relationship between persistence and performance was disrupted because learners with more knowledge stopped sooner. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Knowledge Level
Peer reviewedAlreshoud, Abdullah; Koeske, Gary F. – Journal of Social Psychology, 1997
Studies the relationship between attitudes toward Americans and social contact with Americans by Arab students at U.S. universities. Uses causal process-analysis and path analysis to show that desire for contact significantly mediated between attitude and contact, and that social contact was not significantly mediated by understanding of the host…
Descriptors: Arabs, College Students, Familiarity, Foreign Countries
