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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 educational…
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 in…
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 reputations are…
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 faculty of…
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 focus…
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 dynamics of…
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 component in…
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 investigate 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.
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…
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 growing…
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 higher…
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 Experience…
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 examine…
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 these…
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 quantitative…
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 many…
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 globe…
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 affect…
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.
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 recruitment to…
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 Asian…
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.
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 methods…
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 commitment…
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 the…
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 feedback, time…
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 examines…
The medical university-governing board: an investigation of critical factors in the board performance in Iran
Haniye Sadat Sajadi, Mohammadreza Maleki, Steve MichaelA university of medical sciences (UMS) is governed by a board that serves analogously as a board of trustees or a governing board in the western countries. In Iran, however, such…
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