Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education: Volume 13 Issue 1

Analyzing the living and learning experience of foreign students at Jinan University

Shabir Mohsin Hashmi, Yongzhong Deng, Zainab Alhayki

The 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 purposes;…

Multiple choice questions and essay questions in curriculum

Roha Mariam Kaipa

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) and essays and short answer questions are the most common assessment protocols instructors use in their classrooms. However, the reliability and…

Model-based teaching of physics in higher education: a review of educational strategies and cognitive improvements

Esther Cascarosa, Carlos Sánchez-Azqueta, Cecilia Gimeno, Concepción Aldea

Until relatively recently, science teaching was based on conveying theoretical concepts. Nevertheless, in the last few years we have gradually understood the importance of…

The relationships between student engagement and learning outcome in the undergraduate sports science program in Ethiopia

Tefera Tadesse, Beshir Edo

Whereas the influence of engagement on learning outcomes has been extensively investigated, this has not been studied for undergraduate students of sports science major field. The…

Construction and validation of a knowledge, attitudes and practices scale related to sustainability in university students

Walter Salas-Zapata, Jaiberth Antonio Cardona-Arias

The objective of this study was to build and validate a scale to analyze the knowledge, attitudes and practices on the sustainability of university students.

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 Mangoting

This research examines the influence of the learning environment and students' attitudes towards choosing an accounting career mediated by intention to enhance the current…

Self-efficacy, performance and the role of blended learning

Liz Warren, Dawn Reilly, Agnieszka Herdan, Yong Lin

This 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 maths…

Let's ask our students what really matters to them

Magdalena Cladera

Students' 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 is…

“Real-world:” preservice teachers' research competence and research difficulties in action research

Cathy Mae Dabi Toquero

The 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, difficulties…

Does quitting social networks change feelings of loneliness among freshmen? An experimental study

Elena R. Agadullina, Andrey Lovakov, Natalia V. Kiselnikova

The 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 maintain an…

Lecturers' commitment to teaching entrepreneurship: do transformational leadership, mindfulness and readiness for change matter?

Sock Beei Yeap, Abdul Ghani Kanesan Abdullah, Lei Mee Thien

This study aims to examine the influence of transformational leadership and mindfulness on lecturers' commitment to teaching entrepreneurship with mediating effect of readiness…

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 Agomor

This paper aims to examine lecturers' experiences of moonlighting in the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).

Digitally proficient but disconnected from the outdoor world? A reflection on pedagogies used in an Early Years degree in higher education

Pavla Boulton

The 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 experiences…

Factors influencing committee effectiveness in public higher education institutions: evidence from Ghana

Daniel Okofo - Darteh, Emmanuel Asamoah

With 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 becoming…

Between despair and joy – emotions in learning

Maria Christina Ekström, Eija Raatikainen, Annica Isacsson

The 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 emotions. The…

Grasha–Riechmann student learning style scales: an Argentinian version

Agustín Freiberg Hoffmann, Mercedes Fernández Liporace

The study analyses psychometric features of the Grasha–Riechmann student learning style scale. It measures the instructional preferences of students attending different…

Professor Hamlet’s dilemma: to retire or not to retire?

Janet E. McDaniel, Beverlee B. Anderson, Jennifer Jeffries

The purpose of this paper was to explore the experiences of tenured academic retirees and the decision-making process leading to their retirements. The inquiry addressed the…

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 Gibbons

Sustainability is one of the leading challenges of our age, and higher education plays a vital role in supporting the implementation of sustainability initiatives. There has been…

The experience of project training on classes for foreign language by students of nonlinguistic specialties

Irina Shcherbakova, Marina Ilina

The 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…

Affective events theory as a theoretical lens for improving the working environment of academics in developing economies

Majid Ghasemy, Mahdiyeh Erfanian, James Eric Gaskin

The rapid pace of progress in academic institutions in developing economies has created stressful and relatively toxic workplaces, resulting in different negative organizational…

Psychometric examination of the Connor–Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC-10) among Vietnamese students

Vu Thi Minh-Uyen, Seongah Im

This study examined psychometric properties of the ten-item Connor–Davidson resilience scale (CD-RISC-10) among university undergraduate students in Vietnam.

Measuring the effectiveness of PBL through shape parameters and classification

Shilpa Bhaskar Mujumdar, Haridas Acharya, Shailaja Shirwaikar

This paper utilizes data mining to study the effect of Problem Based Learning (PBL), an innovative pedagogical approach that has been implemented in undergraduate education at a…