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Relationship between novice versus experienced EFL teacher’s Big Five personality traits and their ambiguity tolerance and risk taking
Omid Rezaei, Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani, Fatemeh Musaei SejzeheiThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the possible relationship between novice vs experienced EFLs teachers’ Big Five personality traits, ambiguity tolerance and risk…
Identifying essential competencies for medical students
Xiangyun Du, Salah Eldin Kassab, Ayad M. Al-Moslih, Marwan Farouk Abu-Hijleh, Hossam Hamdy, Farhan Sachal CyprianThe purpose of this paper is to identify essential profession-related competencies, clinical knowledge and skills that medical students should develop in the early stages of their…
Assessment of academic stress and coping strategies among built environment undergraduate students in Nigerian higher education
Joshua Oluwasuji Dada, Solomon Olusola Babatunde, Racheal Oluwatoyin AdeleyeStress has become an important topic in the academic environment. However, studies on academic stress among built environment students have received little attention. The purpose…
Revenue diversification in public higher learning institutions: an exploratory Malaysian study
Nik Nazli Nik Ahmad, Siti Alawiah Siraj, Suhaiza IsmailThe purpose of this paper is to explore the extent of revenue diversification of selected Malaysian public higher learning institutions (HLIs) and the perceptions of senior…
Developing numeracy and problem-solving skills by overcoming learning bottlenecks
Anita Lee-PostThe purpose of this paper is to present an educational approach to elevating problem-solving and numeracy competencies of business undergraduates to meet workplace demand. The…
The superstitious scholar: Paranormal belief within a student population and its relationship to academic ability and discipline
Robin A.F. Andrews, Philip TysonThe development and application of critical thinking skills are an important component of success at University. Such skills permit students to evaluate the strengths and…
The internal governance model in Chinese universities: an international comparative analysis
Wei Liu, Weigang YanThe purpose of this paper is to glean a comprehensive picture of the internal governance structure in Chinese universities based on data from 40 university administrators from 33…
Validating a scale for measuring teachers’ expectations about generic competences in higher education: The Ecuadorian case
Rocio Serrano, Washington Macias, Katia Rodriguez, María Isabel AmorThe purpose of this paper is to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess the expectations of university teachers about the importance of generic competences in Higher…
Inequality and imbalance of professional development opportunities: The case of a higher educational institution in Southeast Asia
Preechaya MongkolhutthiThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the professional development opportunities of a group of 16 “English as a foreign language” (EFL) lecturers at a Thai higher…
Understanding governance at university: from management to leadership
Inmaculada Martínez-García, M. Teresa Padilla-Carmona, Enrique AlastorThe higher education system must move closer to society and its requirements, and therefore, the process of transformation in the university context brings new challenges. The…
Statistical assessment of peer opinions in higher education rankings: The case of US engineering graduate programs
Amir Ghiasi, Grigorios Fountas, Panagiotis Anastasopoulos, Fred ManneringUnlike many other quantitative characteristics used to determine higher education rankings, opinion-based peer assessment scores and the factors that may influence them are not…
Adoption, adaptation, and use of mobiles by university students: a Central American example
Juan Aguirre, Sindy Chaves, Karen BurbanThe purpose of this paper is to identify the actual uses of smartphones for university students while they are in the university, whether in the classroom or outside, to…
The impact of teaching specialized terminology on translation performance: A corpus-based inquiry on law texts translation from English into Persian
Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani, Zeinab AmiriIn an effort to bridge the gap between applying translation corpora, specialized terminology teaching and translation performance of undergraduate students, the purpose of this…
Teachers’ use of digital learning tool for teaching in higher education: Exploring teaching practice and sharing culture
Xiang Ying Mei, Endre Aas, Magnhild MedgardThe purpose of this paper is to explore teachers’ use of digital learning tools for teaching in higher education. Moreover, it investigates how the use of digital tools affects…
Teaching metadiscourse features and IELTS writing performance of Iranian EFL learners: A learner corpus-based perspective
Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani, Vahid PahlevansadeghIn spite of the growing interest in using corpora in language teaching and learning, applying computers and software (especially corpora software) is still new in second language…
“Preparing students for what lies ahead”: Teaching dental public health leadership with simulated community partners
Dennis McCunney, C. Ervin Davis, B. Alex White, John HowardDental school curricula increasingly emphasize training in leadership, public health, community engagement and collaboration. Leadership may be defined as a relational process for…
The value of liberal arts education for finding professional employment: Insights from international development studies graduates in Canada
John Cameron, Rebecca Tiessen, Kate Grantham, Taryn Husband-CeperkovicDebates about the role of liberal arts education in finding employment highlight both its benefits and the challenges of finding work after graduation – debates that are now…
Top down, bottom up and classroom reading anxiety and their effect on reading performance of undergraduate engineering students in Pakistan
Ashfaque Hussain Soomro, Imran Khan, Muhammad YounusThe purpose of this paper is to explore EFL reading anxiety of first-year undergraduate engineering students and its effect on their reading performance in a public sector…
The effect of insufficient effort responding on the validity of student evaluation of teaching
Mahmoud AlQuraanThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of insufficient effort responding (IER) on construct validity of student evaluations of teaching (SET) in higher education.
What matters for higher education success of private educational institutions? Senior students’ perceptions in Malaysia
Jayaraman Krishnaswamy, Zarif Hossain, Mohan Kumar Kavigtha, Annamalai NagaletchimeeWithin the higher education structure, students have the desire for both virtual and face-to-face learning and demand for diverse simulations from the higher education…
An investigation of self-efficacy of students enrolled in a mathematics pathway course
Linda Zientek, Jennifer Dorsey, Nancy Stano, Forrest C. LaneThe purpose of this paper is to examine hypothesized links between the Dana Center Mathematics Pathways’ (DCMP) Foundations of Mathematical Reasoning curriculum and the four…
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