Building Commitment to Continue Studies among Asian Students

An explanatory model of the intention to continue studying among non-traditional university students.

BACKGROUND Although academic achievement is believed to be an important factor in students' decision to continue studying at university, research on this topic is limited. METHOD The current study analyzed the relationship between academic achievement and the intention of 327 non-traditional students to continue studying at university, using a path model. RESULTS The central hypothesis of t...

Motivation and Education: Performance, Commitment, and Satisfaction among Pharmacy Students

British Male students continue to fall behind in secondary education

It is common knowledge that boys fall behind in school performance, and UK policy makers have addressed this issue in the past decade. In fact, they seem committed to narrowing gender gaps of any kind. This paper asks whether actual progress has been made in reducing the degree to which boys fall behind, and also whether gender differences in subject preference have changed in the period 2001 t...

Case studies continue to illuminate the cognitive neuroscience of memory.

The current ubiquity of functional neuroimaging studies, and the importance they have had in elucidating brain function, obscures the fact that much of what we know about brain-behavior relationships derives largely from the study of single- and multiple-patient cases. A major goal of the present review is to describe how single cases continue to uniquely and critically contribute to cognitive ...

The investigation of STEM Self-Efficacy and Professional Commitment to Engineering among female high school students

This study employed social cognitive theory and social cognitive career theory (SCCT) as foundations to explore the influence of high school students’ beliefs about female gender roles and female engineer role models on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) self-efficacy and professional commitment to engineering. A total of 88 students from a national girls’ high school part...