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Part-time adult students’ satisfaction with online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2022
Manwel Debono, Anna Borg, Luke Fiorini   +2 more
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The assessment of stress level, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and defense mechanisms among Polish and English medical students

Annals of General Psychiatry, 2020
Introduction Medical education is proven to be associated with a high degree of psychological stress. Different coping strategies used by students have been investigated on their efficacy. So far, studies on medical students have been limited to a single
M. Pawlaczyk, J. Siembida, K. Balaj, A. Rajewska-Rager   +3 more
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Measuring Language Gains in a Foreign Language Context

Colombian Applied Linguistics Journal, 2020
Learning gain can be defined as the difference between students’ language competences demonstrated at two different points in time. In this article, we reported on a small-scale study aimed at measuring learning gains and piloting the methods chosen ...
Ana Muñoz Restrepo, Isabel Valderrama Carvajal, Alejandra Lopez Muñoz, Ricardo Avendaño Franco   +3 more
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“If I were young…”: Increased Dropout Risk of Older University Students

Revista Electrónica de Investigación Educativa, 2023
Dropout from higher education is a worldwide phenomenon with negative consequences for students, families, institutions, and society. As student numbers increase, students become more heterogeneous in terms of academic competencies, motivation, and ...
Joana R. Casanova, Cristiano Assis Gomes, Leandro S., Ellián Tuero, Ana B. Bernardo   +4 more
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Measuring Perseverance and Passion in Distance Education Students: Psychometric Properties of the Grit Questionnaire and Associations With Academic Performance

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
With modern technological advances, distance education has become an increasingly important education delivery medium for, for example, the higher education provided by open universities.
Kate M. Xu, Celeste Meijs, Hieronymus J. M. Gijselaers, Joyce Neroni, Renate H. M. de Groot   +4 more
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From Passing the Exam to Self-Actualisation: Different Ways of Conceptualising Success among Adult Students in Online Higher Education

Вопросы образования, 2022
Knowledge about adult students’ perspectives on success is scarce, with a slim history of research in online higher education. To fill this gap, this article reports on the results of a phenomenographic investigation of alternative perspectives on ...
Olga Rotar
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The Relation Between Cognitively Measured Executive Functions and Reported Self-Regulated Learning Strategy Use in Adult Online Distance Education

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
While executive functions (EFs) and self-regulated learning (SRL) strategy use have been found to be related in several populations, this relationship has not been studied in adult online distance education (ODE).
Celeste Meijs, Hieronymus J. M. Gijselaers, Kate M. Xu, Paul A. Kirschner, Paul A. Kirschner, Renate H. M. De Groot, Renate H. M. De Groot   +6 more
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Sustainable Mountain Development Advocacy Through Student Engaged Learning by Observing International Mountain Day: The Case of Utah Valley University

Mountain Research and Development, 2020
Target 4.7 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development, including through education for sustainable development. To implement this, students at
Baktybek Abdrisaev, R.E. Rusty Butler, Yanko Dzhukev   +2 more
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Life history approaches to access and retention of nontraditional students in higher education: A cross-European approach

European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 2012
Higher education participation has become an important focus for policy debate as well as for scholarly research. Partly this results from ongoing attempts to expand the higher education system in line with wider policies promoting a 'knowledge economy';
John Field, Barbara Merrill, Linden West
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Dietary diversity and associated factors among HIV-positive adults attending the anti-retroviral therapy clinic at Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

Journal of Nutritional Science, 2021
The aim of the study was to assess dietary diversity (DD) and associated factors among human immune deficiency virus (HIV)-positive adults attending the anti-retroviral therapy (ART) clinic at Felege Hiwot Comprehensive Specialized Hospital (FHCSH) in ...
Hiwot Ahmed Said, Gebeyehu Tsega, Tadesse Dagget Tesfaye   +2 more
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