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An investigation of factors influencing intercultural communication competence of the international students from a higher education institute in Malaysia
Muhammad Umar Nadeem, Rosli Mohammed, Syarizan Dalib, Samavia MumtazThe purpose of this study is to highlight the importance of intercultural communication competence (ICC) of international students living in Malaysia. This study considered the…
Students' perception on learning methods in engineering disciplines
Borja Vidal, M. Loreto Fenollosa Ribera, Francisco Javier Ribal, Pablo Sanchis, Jaime García-Rupérez, M. Amparo Bes-Piá, E. Blasco-Tamarit, Patricia Noguera, María José Muñoz-Portero, Luis A. TortajadaThis study explores the preferences for learning methods among the students of seven engineering disciplines in a Spanish technical university. The purpose of this paper is to…
Do family and peer academic social supports predict academic motivations and achievement of first-year college students?
Scott C Marley, M Jeanne WilcoxThis study examines family and peer academic social supports as correlates of academic motivation and first-semester GPA.
Prediction of student attrition risk using machine learning
Mauricio Barramuño, Claudia Meza-Narváez, Germán Gálvez-GarcíaThe prediction of student attrition is critical to facilitate retention mechanisms. This study aims to focus on implementing a method to predict student attrition in the upper…
Pedagogical transitions experienced by higher education faculty members – “Pre-Covid to Covid”
Bharti Pandya, Louise Patterson, BooYun ChoThis study aimed to analyse if significant pedagogical transitions occurred from Pre-Covid-19 to Covid-19 period concerning applied teaching methods, course content, assessment…
Influence of active methodologies: projects and cases in the development of digital competences with mobile devices
Martha Vanessa Agila-Palacios, Ana García-Valcárcel Muñoz-Repiso, María Soledad Ramírez-MontoyaThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence of two active methodologies on digital competences development using mobile devices. The first methodology is…
Gender gap in STEM education and career choices: what matters?
Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur, Deepa GokulsingThe paper innovates on the existing literature by assessing the gender gap in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) tertiary education enrolment and career choice in a…
Academic motivation as a predictor of the development of critical thinking in students
Anna Berestova, Sergey Kolosov, Milena Tsvetkova, Elena GribThe study deals with the problems of development of critical thinking among university students, its connection with motivation for learning and academic achievements of students…
Graduate students' voice and conceptions on the challenges of undertaking qualitative research within higher education context: a grounded theory approach
Hossein Bakhshi, Hiwa Weisi, Nouroddin YousofiThis paper explores the challenges of conducting qualitative research from ELT (English Language Teaching) Ph.D. candidates' perspectives.
From Industry 4.0 to Education 4.0: acceptance and use of videoconferencing applications in higher education of Oman
Vishal Jain, Parul JainThe present paper is an attempt to study Education 4.0 supported by Industry 4.0 tools and techniques. The main purpose of the study is to examine the acceptance and use of one of…
Cross-cultural study of the qualitative aspects of higher education teachers' emotional intelligence: Kazakhstan and Russia
Anar Algozhina, Raikhan Sabirova, Roza Alimbayeva, Gulzada Kapbasova, Ayan SarmantayevThe emotional intelligence (EI) model is widely used in pedagogy, management and other spheres as a useful concept with great potential for application. At the same time, there…
The effects of leader expectation and coworker pressure on research engagement in higher education: the moderating role of achievement value
Ngoc Lan NguyenWhile being largely studied in organizational research, job engagement has rarely been empirically investigated in the context of higher education. In this study, this paper aim…
Early career teacher educators' dispositions toward sustainability and accountability for sustainability issues: a case from teachers colleges in Turkey
Mustafa Öztürk, Oren Pizmony-LevyThis study aims to investigate the dispositions of early career teacher educators as young academics toward sustainability and accountability for sustainability issues. Through…
Key factors of entrepreneurial university transformation: a model development using ISM method and MICMAC analysis
Selly Novela, Rizal Syarief, Idqan Fahmi, Yandra ArkemanThis study aims to develop a new entrepreneurial university model that will provide a comprehensive picture and explain how universities can become entrepreneurial by considering…
Which governance mechanism influences the relationship between motivation and performance? An investigation on university and industry collaboration in Malaysia
Md Daud Ismail, Imran Ho Abdullah, Mohamat Sabri HassanThis study examined academic motives to enter university-industry collaboration (UIC) and how they affect collaboration performance. Given that UIC performance is…
The effect of attendance on student performance: implications of using virtual learning on overall performance
Randa Diab-Bahman, Abrar Al-Enzi, Wael Sharafeddine, Sapheya AftimosThis paper aims to examine the correlation between academic performance and attendance of e-learning, away from the conventional classroom setting.
Developing graduate employability for a challenging labour market: the validation of the graduate capital scale
Michael Tomlinson, Hazel McCafferty, Andy Port, Nick Maguire, Alexandra E. Zabelski, Andreea Butnaru, Megan Charles, Sarah KirbyThis article provides empirical validation of the Graduate Capital Model, adopted at a UK Russell Group University as a tool to analyse and support the career preparedness of both…
Active learning strategies to develop research competences in engineering education
Denise Luciana Rieg, Rui M.M. Lima, Diana Mesquita, Fernando Cezar Leandro Scramim, Octavio Mattasoglio NetoThe purpose of this paper is to implement and evaluate active learning strategies to support engineering students in the development of research competences, contributing to the…
Student perception of their knowledge of social entrepreneurship: gender gap and disciplinary analysis of an Ashoka Changemaker campus in Latin America
José Carlos Vázquez-Parra, Juan Alberto Amézquita-Zamora, María Soledad Ramírez-MontoyaThe objective of the study was to analyze the perception of knowledge and experience development in social entrepreneurship in students of a university certified by Ashoka as a…
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