Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education
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Future time perspective and group performance among students: Role of student engagement and group cohesion
Manish Gupta, Arnold B. BakkerThe objective of this study is to understand the mediating role of student engagement between future time perspective and group task performance. In addition, the study…
Does quitting social networks change feelings of loneliness among freshmen? An experimental study
Elena R. Agadullina, Andrey Lovakov, Natalia V. KiselnikovaThe first year of college is a stressful life period connected with the experience of loneliness, isolation and depression since the majority of freshmen can no longer…
Language teachers’ perceptions of practitioner research
Sabine Imad Arayssi, Rima Bahous, Rula Diab, Mona NabhaniThe purpose of this paper is to examine language teachers’ perceptions of practitioner research to establish an understanding whether research comprises a fundamental…
“Real-world:” preservice teachers' research competence and research difficulties in action research
Cathy Mae Dabi ToqueroThe purpose of this study is to provide an analysis of the teacher education program focused on the development of the research competence of the preservice teachers…
Multiple choice questions and essay questions in curriculum
Roha Mariam KaipaMultiple-choice questions (MCQs) and essays and short answer questions are the most common assessment protocols instructors use in their classrooms. However, the…
English instructors’ motivation levels in Islamic higher education
Muhammad Fauzan Ansyari, Fabio Oliveira Coelho, Kalayo Hasibuan, Dodi Settiawan, Masni KamalliaThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the motivation levels of non-permanent English instructors (lecturers) in a university language centre (LC) and the factors…
The necessity of teaching Intercultural Communication in higher education
Bassmah B. AlTaherThe purpose of this paper is to analyze how Intercultural Communication is a necessary course for students to learn how to communicate in a healthy, tolerant and…
Teaching sustainability: complexity and compromises
Stephanos Anastasiadis, Stephanie Perkiss, Bonnie A. Dean, Leopold Bayerlein, Maria Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez, Alec Wersun, Pilar Acosta, Hannah Jun, Belinda GibbonsSustainability is one of the leading challenges of our age, and higher education plays a vital role in supporting the implementation of sustainability initiatives. There…
The experience of project training on classes for foreign language by students of nonlinguistic specialties
Irina Shcherbakova, Marina IlinaThe purpose of this paper is to reveal the essence of project education in the classroom in the foreign (English) language of students of nonlinguistic specialties of the…
Learning environment, students' attitude and intention to enhance current knowledge in the context of choosing accounting career
Saarce Elsye Hatane, Felicia Jesslyn Setiono, Fannie Felita Setiawan, Hatane Semuel, Yenni MangotingThis research examines the influence of the learning environment and students' attitudes towards choosing an accounting career mediated by intention to enhance the current…
Model-based teaching of physics in higher education: a review of educational strategies and cognitive improvements
Esther Cascarosa, Carlos Sánchez-Azqueta, Cecilia Gimeno, Concepción AldeaUntil relatively recently, science teaching was based on conveying theoretical concepts. Nevertheless, in the last few years we have gradually understood the importance of…
Intra‐ASEAN student mobility: overview, challenges and opportunities
Roger Yap ChaoThis paper explores the issue of developing and enhancing intra-ASEAN international student mobility given the context of ASEAN integration, regionalization of ASEAN…
Life story as a tool for teaching sociological imagination
Beltran Roca, Eva Bermúdez-Figueroa, Francisco Estepa-MaestreThe purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of life story for the teaching of sociology to Social Work students. It contains the results of a teaching experiment…
Relationship between work motivation scale and TPACK
Semila Fernandes, Pooja Gupta, V.V. Ajith KumarThe purpose of this paper is to measure the academic motives of faculty in higher education to understand the pattern of relationships between work motivation scale (WMS…
Digitally proficient but disconnected from the outdoor world? A reflection on pedagogies used in an Early Years degree in higher education
Pavla BoultonThe purpose of this case study is to reflect on the blended pedagogies applied with a second year cohort of Early Years (EY) undergraduate students. It focusses on the…
Examining the impact of case-based learning on student engagement, learning motivation and learning performance among university students
Syed Ali Raza, Wasim Qazi, Bushra UmerThe purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of case study-based learning on student’s engagement, learning motivation and learning performance among university…
A case for folletian interventions in public universities
Robert Duncan M. Pelly, David BojeThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate the ideological impasses between educationally minded faculty and neoliberal oriented university administrators. To bridge and…
A systematic review of educator interventions in facilitating simulation based learning
Frances Scholtz, Suzaan HughesThe purpose of this paper is to review published research to discern the trends in instructional practices and interventions that educators employ to augment simulation…
What drives research in higher education? An Indian context
Damini Saini, Narendra Singh ChaudharyThe purpose of this paper to explore the factors that act as motivators or demotivators from the perspective of academics in higher educational institutes, especially in…
Motivating factors in a teacher’s research and developmental activities and their impact on effective quality teaching in higher education institutions
Debarun Chakraborty, Wendrila BiswasResearch and development pursuits have always been an integral part of a teacher’s professional development. Today, the higher educational institutes (HEIs) are chiefly…
Stress and work motivation of primary and secondary school teachers
Jinda Kongcharoen, Nutthajit Onmek, Panaya Jandang, Sukanya WangyisenThe purpose of this paper is to explore the levels of stress and work motivation of primary and secondary school teachers, investigate factors affecting stress of teachers…
Teacher vs student responsibility for course outcomes
Robert Williams, Monica WallaceThe purpose of this paper is primarily to identify factors that accounted for the differences in course evaluation and course performance in two sections of the same…
Human capital in public research laboratories: a method proposal for assessing actual and target scores
Driss El Kadiri BoutchichThis work aims to propose an alternative method of human capital calculation for research laboratories of public university, taking into account some drawbacks of the…
Supporting wellbeing through scholarship of teaching and learning
Jenny Lawrence, Tim HerrickThe purpose of this paper is to explore the impact and value of a scholarship of teaching and learning-led (SoTL) professional development in higher education (HE), with a…
Mindfulness, mindful consumption, and life satisfaction: An experiment with higher education students
Sharad Gupta, Harsh V. VermaThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of mindfulness meditation sessions on students of higher education in terms of their mindfulness, mindful…
Factors influencing teaching as a career choice in both public and private universities in Ghana
George Kofi Amoako, Kwasi Dartey-Baah, Evans SokroThe purpose of this paper is to explore how lecturers in both public and private universities in Ghana are motivated to take up teaching as a career using Herzberg’s…
Doctoral student persistence and progression: a program assessment
Shawn C. Boone, Linda De Charon, Marcia (Marty) Hill, Amy Preiss, Debbie Ritter-Williams, Elizabeth YoungGlobally, traditional and online doctoral programs face difficulties with student persistence and progression. An online doctoral school implemented a first-year program…
Student perceptions of virtual reality use in higher education
Gavin Baxter, Thomas HaineyThis paper provides an analysis and insight into undergraduate student views concerning the use of virtual reality technology towards whether it has the potential to…
Bibliographic measures of top-tier finance and information systems journals
Thomas Krueger, Jack ShorterPay, tenure and promotion decisions are frequently based upon inferences regarding the value of faculty research. Meanwhile, departmental, college and university…
The reverse gender divide in the United Arab Emirates: Factors driving ‘him’ away from higher education
Sanaa AshourMany studies have discussed the pre-eminence of females in higher education in terms of numbers as well as academic performance. This global phenomenon has appeared in…
An evaluation of the introduction of games-based construction learning in upper primary education using a developed game codification scheme for scratch
Thomas Hainey, Gavin Baxter, Amanda FordRudimentary programming is an essential, transferrable, problem solving skill in many higher education (HE) programmes in academic institutions including Software…
The role of executive functions in academic performance and behaviour of university students
Carlos Ramos-Galarza, Pamela Acosta-Rodas, Mónica Bolaños-Pasquel, Nancy Lepe-MartínezThe purpose of this paper is fourfold: first, to analyse the relationship between executive functions and academic performance; second, to identify the level of prediction…
Computer science students' perceived needs for support and their academic performance by gender and residency: An exploratory study
Muhsin Menekse, Xintong Zheng, Saira AnwarThis study investigates computer science (CS) students' perceived needs for support in an array of academic and nonacademic areas prior to entering college and relates…
What sustains the novice Malaysian teacher of English: a case study
Ida Fatimawati Adi BadiozamanThe study explores how a novice English teacher’s motivation is sustained as she navigates a range of complex educational contexts in her teaching career. Through the lens…
Teacher education of statistics from theory to practice
Samah Gamal Ahmed ElbeharyTo prepare pre-service mathematics teachers (PSMTs) in Egypt, learning statistics as a subject takes place at the faculty of science, apart from what is going on at the…
Between despair and joy – emotions in learning
Maria Christina Ekström, Eija Raatikainen, Annica IsacssonThe aim of the study was to research higher education students' meaningful emotions when studying and develop a model for understanding and verbalising the role of…
Expectation as a key determinant of international students’ satisfaction: A case study of business school MSc students
Ahmed Beloucif, Messaoud Mehafdi, Naa Ayeley KomeyThe purpose of this paper is to explore international postgraduate students’ expectations of UK university education, covering various aspects of student expectation at a…
Digital marketing for Saudi Arabian university student recruitment
Abdulelah Al-Thagafi, Mike Mannion, Noreen SiddiquiThe purpose of this paper is to develop a digital marketing capability maturity model (CMM) as a guiding framework in support of increasing international student…
Empowering tertiary level students to solve their own study-related problems to improve study performance
Nazia Nishat, Yusuf Mahbubul Islam, Khalid Been Md. Badruzzaman Biplob, Umam Mustain, Md Kamrul HossainStudents’ progressing to tertiary (undergrad or higher) level education often faces problems due to the change in the educational settings that may directly or indirectly…
Gratitude and leadership in higher education institutions: Exploring the mediating role of social intelligence among teachers
Naval Garg, Shilpika GeraThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between gratitude and transformational leadership among university teachers. The study also intended to…
Why ostracized full-time faculty should not be labeled as “low performer”? A qualitative insight from higher education in Pakistan
Ahmad Raza Bilal, Tehreem Fatima, Muhammad Kashif ImranThe purpose of this paper is to explore how the exclusionary work environment characterized by ostracism impacts full-time faculty experiences and responses in higher…
Analyzing the living and learning experience of foreign students at Jinan University
Shabir Mohsin Hashmi, Yongzhong Deng, Zainab AlhaykiThe main objective of this research is to analyze the living and learning experience of foreign students at Jinan University (JNU). The study aims to elicit two basic…
Design and evaluation of the project and program crashing games
David Rumeser, Margaret EmsleyThe purpose of this paper is to help project management (PM) game designers and educators in simulating complexity in PM games and in assessing the effect of simulated…
Are Kenyan lecturers motivated to teach?
Harry Kipkemoi BettThe purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion on the overlooked side of motivation among Kenyan lecturers: the motivation to teach.
Affective events theory as a theoretical lens for improving the working environment of academics in developing economies
Majid Ghasemy, Mahdiyeh Erfanian, James Eric GaskinThe rapid pace of progress in academic institutions in developing economies has created stressful and relatively toxic workplaces, resulting in different negative…
Moonlighting in Ghana's higher education institutions: exploring lecturers' experiences at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA)
Emmanuel Kojo Sakyi, Kingsley Senyo AgomorThis paper aims to examine lecturers' experiences of moonlighting in the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).
Exploring process recording in behavioural ethics education
Sheldene SimolaThe purpose of this paper is to introduce, illustrate and explore the use of process recording as a pedagogical tool in behavioural ethics education.
A qualitative study of students' perspective on e-learning adoption in India
Nidhi Phutela, Sunita DwivediThis paper will try to uncover how e-learning is giving a new shape to the education industry. Also, it will encompass the students' perspective and experience of e-learning.
The relationships between student engagement and learning outcome in the undergraduate sports science program in Ethiopia
Tefera Tadesse, Beshir EdoWhereas the influence of engagement on learning outcomes has been extensively investigated, this has not been studied for undergraduate students of sports science major…
Commitment among adjunct faculty
Heidi ReederWithout the stability of tenure, adjunct faculty have few barriers to leave their position. The purpose of this article is to understand the variables that predict…
A significant impact: a grassroots community of practice
Robin O’Callaghan, Hunter King, Carrie Lewis MillerTo determine the effectiveness of the Instructional Technologies and Learning Spaces Special Interest Group (SIG), a study was planned for the 2016–2017 academic year. An…
Health implications of job-related stress, motivation and satisfaction in higher education faculty and administrators
Denelle Mohammed, Edrea Chan, Rezwan Ahmad, Aleksandar Dusic, Cheryl Boglarsky, Patrick Blessinger, Rana ZeineThe purpose of this paper is to analyze job-related stress, motivation and satisfaction in higher education institutions, and assesses their implications on health in…
Construction and validation of a knowledge, attitudes and practices scale related to sustainability in university students
Walter Salas-Zapata, Jaiberth Antonio Cardona-AriasThe objective of this study was to build and validate a scale to analyze the knowledge, attitudes and practices on the sustainability of university students.
Lecturers' commitment to teaching entrepreneurship: do transformational leadership, mindfulness and readiness for change matter?
Sock Beei Yeap, Abdul Ghani Kanesan Abdullah, Lei Mee ThienThis study aims to examine the influence of transformational leadership and mindfulness on lecturers' commitment to teaching entrepreneurship with mediating effect of…
Interaction Facilitation and Task Facilitation need optimization in higher education institutions
Edward Daly, Denelle Mohammed, Cheryl Boglarsky, Patrick Blessinger, Rana ZeineFacilitation and Task Facilitation are important components of healthy supervisory/managerial relationships among higher education professionals. Juniors are guided by…
A design template for transforming games into twenty-first century skills assessments
Claire ScoularThe resources needed to develop assessments of the twenty-first century skills, such as problem solving and collaboration, are huge, and require the introduction of…
Factors affecting assignment completion in higher education
Wuttiporn Suamuang, Surachai Suksakulchai, Elizabeth MurphyThe purpose of this paper is to simultaneously investigate a variety of factors related to assignment completion (AC) (i.e. task orientation, cooperation, teacher…
Teachers’ motivation to adopt technology in higher education
Lavina Sharma, Mallika SrivastavaThe higher education, universities and institutions across the world have increasingly adopted information and communication technology (ICT) as a tool for curriculum…
Measuring the performance of private higher education institutions in Malaysia
Muhammad Hafiz Yaakub, Zainal Abidin MohamedThe purpose of this paper is to propose a comprehensive model using balanced scorecard (BSC) approach instead of the current ranking system to measure the performance of…
Workplace spirituality, work-family conflict and intention to stay: An intrinsic motivational perspective among teachers
Nimitha Aboobaker, Manoj Edward, K.A. ZakkariyaTeaching is generally seen as a calling, rather than just a formal profession. In the context of commercialization of higher education, with increased workloads and lack…
The relationship between organizational democracy and political behaviors in universities
Tuğba Turabik, Gülsün Atanur BaskanThe purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational democracy and political behaviors in universities.
A new model of practical spiritual intelligence for the leadership development of human capital in Indian Universities
Chetan Jayant Prabhu, Mita Mehta, Anugamini Priya SrivastavaThe purpose of this paper is to make a case for linking spiritual intelligence to the Indian university curriculum for creating sustainable leaders and change agents. The…
Student teachers’ development as teacher leaders during the practicum experience
Youmen Chaaban, Rania SawalhiThe purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of student teachers’ development as teacher leaders during a 12-week practicum experience at Qatari government schools.
Exploring students perspectives on learning by teaching
Bianca Bergande, Erica Weilemann, Philipp BruneThe perception of the learning-by-teaching method has been investigated in an Information Systems Engineering course to explore the critical factors for its perception and…
Does PhD qualification improve pedagogical competence? A study on teaching and training in higher education
Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie, Paul Agu Igwe, Chinyere Augusta Nwajiuba, Sunday Mlanga, Michael Olayinka Binuomote, Hyginus Emeka Nwosu, Charles O. OgbaekirigweThere has been much debate in recent times about the factors that improve the quality of teaching in higher education (HE) institutions. This has been especially fueled by…
Determinants of digital learning acceptance behavior: A systematic review of applied theories and implications for higher education
Mohit Kant Kaushik, Deepak VermaThe purpose of this paper is to review existing literature on users’ digital learning acceptance behavior and to identify gaps in the current body of knowledge and suggest…
Self-efficacy, performance and the role of blended learning
Liz Warren, Dawn Reilly, Agnieszka Herdan, Yong LinThis paper aims to investigate the mathematics self-efficacy of students who are non-maths specialists. The project explores the student experience in the context of a…
Proposal of a guide for talent evaluation and management based on a qualitative and three-staged approach: A case of the higher education sector
Atheer Abdullah Mohammed, Abdul Hafeez Baig, Raj GururajanThe key objective of the study is to understand the best processes that are currently used in managing talent in Australian higher education (AHE) and design a…
Self-esteem, organizational citizenship behavior and commitment among university students
Edem Maxwell Azila-Gbettor, Eli Ayawo Atatsi, Christopher Mensah, Martin K. AbiemoThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between self-esteem (SE), university commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) within a…
SMEs project: a method to encourage interpersonal skills among pre-service accountant
Gaffar Hafiz Sagala, Tri EffiyantiAccounting Education Change Commission reveals that accounting professionals are required to have interpersonal skills. For this reason, higher education requires the…
Psychometric examination of the Connor–Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC-10) among Vietnamese students
Vu Thi Minh-Uyen, Seongah ImThis study examined psychometric properties of the ten-item Connor–Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC-10) among university undergraduate students in Vietnam.
Let's ask our students what really matters to them
Magdalena CladeraStudents' feedback is of great importance to the development of knowledge about teaching in higher education. One of the main purposes for which this feedback is collected…
Professionalism and professionalization of early stage teachers in higher education
Cipto Wardoyo, Aulia Herdiani, Nurdian Susilowati, Muhammad Syahril HarahapThe aim of the study is to test whether an increase in professionalism has a reciprocal relationship with the professionalization of early-stage lecturers.
Factors influencing committee effectiveness in public higher education institutions: evidence from Ghana
Daniel Okofo - Darteh, Emmanuel AsamoahWith the spate of growth in public and private institutions, higher education systems are also getting more complex, so the task of managing and monitoring the sector is…
Grasha–Riechmann student learning style scales: an Argentinian version
Agustín Freiberg Hoffmann, Mercedes Fernández LiporaceThe study analyses psychometric features of the Grasha–Riechmann student learning style scale. It measures the instructional preferences of students attending different…
Statistically, Does peer assisted learning make a difference on a UK engineering degree programme? HETL Scotland 2017
Anne Louise Nortcliffe, Sajhda Parveen, Cathy Pink-KeechBlack British minority ethnics (BME) students are nationally underachieving in comparison to their Ethnic Chinese and White peers, showing typically a 16 per cent graduate…
Supporting the digital professor: information, training and support
Shanna Coles, Florence Martin, Drew Polly, Chuang WangThe purpose of this paper is to provide insight into institutions of higher education (IHE) on how to support faculty in the integration of digital technologies. The…
Are we ready for Education 4.0 within ASEAN higher education institutions? Thriving for knowledge, industry and humanity in a dynamic higher education ecosystem?
Rozinah Jamaludin, Elspeth McKAY, Susan LedgerThe purpose of this paper is to explore the perception, readiness and change involved in the implementation of Education 4.0 within the region of Association of Southeast…
Measuring the degree of difficulty and translation competence: The two intertwining variables in modern translation multiple-choice items testing
Alireza AkbariThe purpose of this paper is to measure the degree of item difficulty in translation multiple-choice items in terms of 1-parameter logistic (1-PL) model of the item…
Encouraging student independence: Perspectives on scaffolding in higher education supervision
Maria ZackariassonThe purpose of this paper is to examine if and how supervisors’ use of two kinds of potential scaffolding means – asking questions and giving instructions – could…
A multi-theoretical framework to better understand the college major choice in arts and design
Pranakusuma Sudhana, Ali Ameen, Osama IsaacThis paper aims to identify career development theories that explain the intention to choose college majors in arts and design, to integrate the identified theories and to…
Assessing the university student perceived learning gains in generic skills: A longitudinal study using Rasch modelling
Joseph Chow, Ada Tse, Christine ArmatasThe purpose of this paper is to report undergraduate students’ learning gains in six areas of generic skills. The paper reports on students’ responses to the First Year…
Perceptions of MOOCs among Indian State University students and teachers
Arnab Kundu, Tripti BejThis study was inspired by the emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (henceforth MOOCs) as an e-learning trend of recent times, attracting huge enrollment across the…
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