Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education: Volume 15 Issue 1

Development and validation of an instrument to assess the level of sustainable competencies in future physical education teachers. PESD-FT questionnaire

Salvador Baena-Morales, Mayra Urrea-Solano, Diego Gavilán-Martin, Alberto Ferriz-Valero

Education for Sustainable Development (EDS) has highlighted the need to generate instruments to assess the sustainability competencies of different populations. In this regard…

Student teachers' professional identity construction through famous education quotes

Chin-Wen Chien

Since a teacher's identity is the result of ongoing discussion, explanation, negotiation and justification, famous education quotes were integrated into a language teacher…

The intersectionality of teacher immediacy, emotioncy and willingness to communicate in higher education context

Asieh Amini, Hiwa Weisi

Given the significance of willingness to communicate and its integral role in the field of foreign/second language acquisition (F/SLA), this quantitative study intends to examine…

Family−school conflict and self-regulation among diverse women in higher education

Jinyoung Koh, Susan P. Farruggia, Nicole Perez, Julienne Palbusa

This study investigated whether family−school conflict, directly and indirectly, predicts behavioral regulatory strategies (via emotion regulation) among women in higher…

The effectiveness of using digital platforms to practice English during the COVID-19 crisis as perceived by Ecuadorian students

Felix Estrella

This mixed-methods research aimed to investigate students’ opinions on the effectiveness of using digital platforms to carry on their learning process.

Employee engagement as a mediating variable on the relationship between employee relation practice and employee performance in a developing economy

Mohammed Sani Abdullahi, Kavitha Raman, Sakiru Adebola Solarin, Adams Adeiza

The aim of this research is to investigate the mediating effect of employee engagement (EE) on the relationship between employee relation practice and employee performance in…

Jordanian university instructors' perspectives on emergency remote teaching during COVID-19: humanities vs sciences

Ahmad S. Haider, Saleh Al-Salman

The study aims to probe into university instructors' reactions to adopting the remote online learning model brought by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. The study…

The mediating effects of student satisfaction on technostress–performance expectancy relationship in university students

Nurul Nadia Abd Aziz, Mohd Amar Aziz, Noor Amira Syazwani Abd Rahman

This study aimed to explore the technostress effects on the students' expectancy in their academic performance. Three main factors were used as predictors, namely…

Are teachers and HE are on the same page? Calling for a research–teaching nexus among Ethiopian and Pakistani academics

Endale Fantahun Tadesse, Sabika Khalid

Integrating research into teaching at higher education institutions (HEIs) has become a current goal of Western countries due to the reliability of this approach in promoting…

Are extracurricular activities stress busters to enhance students’ well-being and academic performance? Evidence from a natural experiment

Hasirumane Venkatesh Mukesh, Vrinda Acharya, Rajasekharan Pillai

The stress-coping model is extensively studied in the academic context. Past studies have primarily focused on different coping strategies adopted by students to overcome academic…

Foreign language anxiety of an Ecuadorian polytechnic university’s English undergraduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic

Felix Estrella

This research aimed to identify the levels of stress students experience, the different sources that generate them and the relationship between the stress levels and the students'…

Changes in students' learning skills through the first-year experience course: a case study over three years at a Japanese university

Ryo Sakurai

This study was conducted to understand students' achievements in learning and to improve the overall curriculum of the first-year experience course.

Economic efficiency of higher education institutions in Vietnam between 2012 and 2016: a DEA analysis

Thien-Vu Tran, Thao Phuong Pham, Mai-Huong Nguyen, Long-Thanh Do, Hiep-Hung Pham

This paper aims to examine the economic efficiency of Vietnamese 172 higher education (HE) institutions within the 2012–2016 inclusive period through the Data Envelopment Analysis…

Lecturers' preparedness for applying service-learning after intensive training

Katharina Resch, Andrea Hoyer-Neuhold, Ilse Schrittesser

This study aims to examine how lecturers in European higher education institutions perceive the service-learning approach as a teaching concept and feel prepared for its…

Determinants of financial stress among university students and its impact on their performance

Md. Kamrul Hossain, Tajmary Mahfuz, Subhenur Latif, Mohamed Emran Hossain

To identify the financial stress and associate factors of tertiary level student.

Challenges confronting e-learning in higher education institutions in Nigeria amid Covid -19

Ngozi Clara Eli-Chukwu, Innocent Chiawa Igbokwe, Barnabas Ifebude, Daniel Nmadu, Wilfred Iguodala, Uzubi Uma, Robert Ugochukwu Onyeneke, Florence Ukamaka Akudo

The shutdown of normal face-to-face educational method of learning caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has made the education stakeholders reconsider and…

The socio-demographic profile of Spanish adult undergraduates: university-level compensatory policies vs life-course (dis)advantages

Alfredo Alfageme, Salvador Seguí-Cosme, Yazmín Monteagudo-Cáceres

To uncover age inequalities in participation in higher education (HE) in Spain, the socio-demographic profile of Spanish adult undergraduates is compared to that of the general…

Benchmarking of academic departments using data envelopment analysis (DEA)

Tasfiq E. Alam, Andrés D. González, Shivakumar Raman

The main objective of the paper is to develop an investment model using data envelopment analysis (DEA) that provides a decision-making framework to allocate resources…