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Exploring First-Time Online Undergraduate And Graduate Students’ Growth Mindsets And Flexible Thinking And Their Relations To Online Learning Engagement, Hungwei Tseng, Yu-Chun Kuo, Eamonn Joseph Walsh Jr.
Exploring First-Time Online Undergraduate And Graduate Students’ Growth Mindsets And Flexible Thinking And Their Relations To Online Learning Engagement, Hungwei Tseng, Yu-Chun Kuo, Eamonn Joseph Walsh Jr.
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The present study was an attempt to help us reveal the characteristics and complexity of today’s first-time online students in a higher education setting. Data were collected from undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in fully online courses for the first time during spring semester in the 2016-2017 academic year at a Southern university in the United States. Primarily, path analysis was conducted to investigate the impacts of flexible thinking, mindsets, and self-efficacy on the 254 first-time online students’ online learning engagement. The results of the path analysis supported six out of the eight hypotheses and all standardized path coefficients have …