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Bell, Robin – Education & Training, 2016
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between students' entrepreneurial attitudes and traits and their classification of employment six months after university graduation. It aims to identify what specific attitudes and traits of entrepreneurial graduates are linked to employability in a professional or managerial…
Descriptors: Correlation, Entrepreneurship, Employment Level, Classification
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Jones, Martin H.; McMichael, Stephanie N. – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
Previous work examines the relationships between personality traits and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. We replicate and extend previous work to examine how personality may relate to achievement goals, efficacious beliefs, and mindset about intelligence. Approximately 200 undergraduates responded to the survey with a 150 participants replicating…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Personality Traits, Learning Motivation, Replication (Evaluation)
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Zelenak, Michael S. – Journal of Research in Music Education, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate the four sources of self-efficacy in music performance and examine responses from the Music Performance Self-Efficacy Scale (MPSES). Participants (N = 290) were middle and high school music students from 10 schools in two regions of the United States. Questions included the following: (1) How much…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Secondary School Students, Music Education, Self Concept Measures
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Mujtaba, Tamjid; Reiss, Mujtaba; Hodgson, Ann – London Review of Education, 2014
This paper explores which classroom and teacher factors are associated with post-16 mathematics aspirations, mathematics intrinsic motivation, and mathematics self-concept. Few studies explore all three outcomes among the same set of students or make linkages across the factors that are important to these outcomes. The analysis is based on the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Classroom Techniques, Classroom Environment
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Gibson, Angela M.; Kupczynski, Lori; Ice, Phil – Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
Student success is vitally important. Without academic achievement student self-efficacy is lost, persistence is blocked, and matriculation is unachievable. Exponential growth at online institutions necessitates the inquiry into factors that play a role in student success. In this study, approximately 15,000 cases from the Top 20 enrolled courses…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Success, Achievement Need, Undergraduate Students