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Roland, Nathalie; Mierop, Adrien; Frenay, Mariane; Corneille, Olivier – Frontline Learning Research, 2018
Ajzen and Dasgupta (2015) recently invited complementing Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) measures with measures borrowed from implicit cognition research. In this study, we examined for the first time such combination, and we did so to predict academic persistence. Specifically, 169 first-year college students answered a TPB questionnaire and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Predictor Variables, Intention, Behavior
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Diesendruck, Gil; Peretz, Shimon – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Visual appearance is one of the main cues children rely on when categorizing novel objects. In 3 studies, testing 128 3-year-olds and 192 5-year-olds, we investigated how various kinds of information may differentially lead children to overlook visual appearance in their categorization decisions across domains. Participants saw novel animals or…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Classification, Perception, Animals
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Cheung, Alan C. K.; Yuen, Timothy W. W. – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2016
The purpose of this paper was to examine the motives, the educational experiences, and the plan after graduation of a particular group of mainland Chinese students pursuing teacher education in Hong Kong by using a modified two-way push-and-pull model as our analytical framework. The study employed both quantitative and qualitative methods.…
Descriptors: Asians, Qualitative Research, Statistical Analysis, Foreign Countries