The role that the student-teacher relationship has on students’ academic motivation was studied utilizing a phenomenology /hermeneutics technique with four 6 grade participants, three 8 grade participants, four 10 grade participants, and four 12 grade students. Results of the study suggested that student motivation is fostered when teacher support, teacher caring, teacher patience, extrinsic re...

Research has cshown,'s!;udent 'field-independent cognitive stVle (FT),_as opposed to fleld-dependent Eognitiie style (FD), to be correlated moderately witlt success on selected second lanauage tasks..A trait treatment interaCtion approach was utilized in this study to examine the role of F6 /I among 236.collegs Students enrolled in six sections of an tntroductory Spanish course. The _ 'ourObse ...

Research has shown that quality teacher-student interactions far outweigh all other considerations to produce positive learning outcomes. Although this may be inherently obvious, few teacher preparation programs dedicate much time to training teachers how to create positive interactive, constructivist learning environments. Much can be learned about how to develop participatory learning skills ...

Online communities have become quite popular, and both practitioners and researchers have focused on the determinants of and the evaluation of online community success. The success of online community is not only embodied in the usage but also on the members’ intention to stick with the community over time. Based on the updated DeLone and McLean’s IS Success Model, and incorporating the theory ...

IT use is a primary concept that should be clarified carefully since it is a major concept in several existing IS theoretical models such as the Technology Acceptance Model, Task-Technology Fit, and IS Success model. Unfortunately, most studies define this concept too simply. This can constrain our understandings of IT impacts. Therefore, it is necessary to conceptualize IT use and explore its ...

Broadly, telemedicine refers to the use of information and telecommunication technologies to distribute information and/or expertise necessary for healthcare service provision, collaboration and/or delivery among geographically separated participants, including physicians and patients. Evaluation of telemedicine systems success or effectiveness is a fundamental challenge to healthcare organizat...

This study predicts end-user satisfaction on Facebook through two constructs: perceived ease-of-use and perceived usefulness. Usefulness was operationalized to reflect the perception that the site is helpful for friendship maintenance and social surveillance. The results show that Facebook users perceive the site to be both easy-to-use and useful. Perceived ease-of-use and perceived usefulness ...

The purpose of this paper is to compare and evaluate the validity of Information systems (IS) success models such as DeLone and McLean’s (1992), Seddon’s (1997), and DeLone and McLean’s (2003) IS success models for an e-government application called the Online Public Grievance Redressal System (OPGRS) in context of India. The paper also provides an integrated model of IS success based on the co...

Organizational Memory (OM) can be defined as the way an organization applies past knowledge to present activities. This mini-track focuses on how information technology can assist organizations in capturing, structuring, retaining, and retrieving OM. It represents a primary forum for researchers in this domain to exchange ideas and present research results. We are also striving to make it a spr...