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Ferri, Luca; Ginesti, Gianluca; Spano, Rosanna; Zampella, Annamaria – International Journal of Training and Development, 2019
This study aims to identify the factors motivating the intentions of university students to become entrepreneurs. Leveraging data from a survey of 941 Italian students and adopting Ajzen's theory of planned behaviour, this paper employs the structural equation model to identify factors explaining students' entrepreneurial intentions. The findings…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, College Students, Student Motivation, Intention
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Opoku, Maxwell; Cuskelly, Monica; Rayner, Christopher; Pedersen, Scott – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2022
Advocacy for inclusive education has been connected with the United Nations' global poverty alleviation guidelines, the Sustainable Development Goals, which appeal to countries to extend universal access to education, from primary to secondary schooling. In the Ghanaian context, the implementation of inclusive education in secondary schools has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Secondary School Teachers, Students with Disabilities
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Li, Ka Man; Cheung, Rebecca Y. M. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2021
According to the Hong Kong Education Bureau, the number of students with special education needs (SEN) has been on the rise. In order to cope with an increasing demand for inclusive education, professional training programmes aiming for pre-service teachers to educate students with SEN have increased locally. Guided by the theory of planned…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Self Efficacy, Teacher Effectiveness
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Anderson, Steven David; Leyland, Sandra Darkings; Ling, Jonathan – Research in Dance Education, 2017
A key influence on motivation to take part in lifelong physical activity is experience of physical education during the school years. Curriculum-based dance is important for providing a pathway into extra-curricular dance because, for many young people, physical education is their only opportunity to experience dance. A sample of 362 adolescents…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Extracurricular Activities, Dance Education, Physical Education
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Mohammadrezaei, Mohammad; Meredith, David; McNamara, John – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2023
Purpose: Applying the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), this paper distinguishes between three groups, advisors, leading farmers and other farmers, and evaluates the extent that these influence farm advisors' intensions to engage with Farmer Health and Safety (FHS) extension activities. Methodology: A cross-sectional survey was undertaken with…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Agricultural Education, Extension Education, Occupational Safety and Health
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van Gils, Fleur Elisabeth; Verschueren, Karine; Demol, Karlien; ten Bokkel, Isabel Maria; Colpin, Hilde – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Background: Teachers may play a key role in reducing bullying by responding to incidents among students. Inspired by the theory of planned behaviour, several studies have investigated teachers' bullying-related cognitions as predictors of their responses to bullying. Aims: This study investigated whether six teachers' bullying-related cognitions…
Descriptors: Bullying, Teacher Attitudes, Predictor Variables, Teacher Response
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Nyasulu, Chimango; Dominic Chawinga, Winner – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2019
As an instant messaging application accessed through smartphones, WhatsApp is currently used by millions of people across the world to share information in various formats such as audio, photos, videos and text. The higher education is one of the sectors where the hype of WhatsApp has been acknowledged and consequently, students and lecturers…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Social Media
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Girardelli, Davide; Patel, Vijay K.; Martins-Shannon, Janine – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2017
An extended model based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) was used to study Chinese English as a foreign language (EFL) students' in-class participation. The model included the core TPB constructs (behavioural intentions, attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived behavioural control/self-efficacy) and 2 additional constructs (foreign…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Path Analysis
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Maheshwari, Greeni – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to investigate the influence of personality traits, individual factors and theory of planned behaviour (TPB) components (personal attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioural control) on entrepreneurial intentions of university students. The study further aims to determine which factors have a higher…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Intention, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Dündar, Sahin – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
Using the theory of planned behaviour (Ajzen, 1985, 1991), this study examined the intentions of preservice teachers regarding use of the case study method in their social studies classes. The participants were 314 preservice teachers (219 elementary school; 95 social studies) and the study was conducted in the spring term of the 2017-2018…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Intention, Case Method (Teaching Technique), Social Studies
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Ahmad, Noor Hazlina; Ramayah, T.; Mahmud, Imran; Musa, Mohammad; Anika, Johura Jabin – Education & Training, 2019
Purpose: Building upon the theory of planned behaviour and the entrepreneurial event model, the purpose of this paper is to test the effects of the following covariates in predicting entrepreneurial intention among tourism students in Bangladesh, namely, attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control (PBC), perceived desirability and…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Intention, Tourism, Career Choice
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Baloch, Fozia Ahmed; Jogezai, Nazir Ahmed; Mohamad Ismail, Shaik Abul Malik – Health Education, 2020
Purpose: This study aimed at exploring food related cultural norms that influence rural mothers' food selection for their primary school aged children (aged 4-7 years). Design/methodology/approach: This is a qualitative study conducted in northern parts of Balochistan province of Pakistan. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) was applied as the…
Descriptors: Food, Rural Areas, Mothers, Child Health
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Md. Akhir, Noremy; Wei Lun, Ang; Mee Yeang, Chan; Abd Rahman, Norshairani; Halim, Lilia – Cogent Education, 2022
Pro-environmental behaviour is imperative to promote sustainable management and consumption of energy in the fight against climate change. The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) has been widely used to explain and predict behaviour in a multitude of behavioural domains including pro-environmental behaviour. However, the TPB does not prioritise the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Environment, Environmental Education
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Knaeps, Jeroen; Neyens, Inge; van Weeghel, Jaap; Van Audenhove, Chantal – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2016
Although the evidence-based Individual Placement and Support programme highlights the importance of the vocational rehabilitation (VR) counsellors' focus on competitive employment during career counselling, studies have shown that counsellors do not always target such jobs. This study examines which determinants affect the counsellors' intentions…
Descriptors: Vocational Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Counseling, Counseling Techniques, Counselors
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Roland, Nathalie; Frenay, Mariane; Boudrenghien, Gentiane – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2018
High drop-out rates among first-year university students have led many researchers to attempt to gain a better understanding of academic persistence. However, despite this extensive literature, only a few studies have taken normative factors into account. These normative factors may be an essential factor of influence for persistence as it is…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Behavior Theories, College Freshmen, Behavior Standards
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