Performance In Higher Education Research Articles

Teamwork and academic performance of Accounting School students at the National University of Cañete, 2022 [Trabajo en equipo y rendimiento académico de los estudiantes en la Escuela Profesional de Contabilidad de la Universidad Nacional de Cañete, 2022

The objective of the study was to determine if there is a significant correlation between teamwork and academic performance. For this reason, research on teamwork to improve academic performance in higher education was carried out. The type of research is applied, being the level of descriptive and correlational research. The research was cross-sectional; since the survey was carried out only once using the questionnaire technique, the Likert Scale and notes. The sample is simple random 41 students enrolled in the 2022-1 semester, which constitute the study of the Professional School of Accounting-UNDC. It is shown that of the total number of respondents (the medium level predominates, that is, represented by 39.0% (16) perceives that the application of teamwork occupies 61.0% (25) at the highest level More than 50% of those surveyed are above 2.61, that is, they have a favorable attitude.The average of those surveyed is located at 2.61 (favorable).In addition, they deviate from the average by 0.494 units on the scale Finally, it is concluded that there is an adequate significant relationship between the variables, due to a moderate correlation of 0.738, that is, it is favorable.

Dampak Good University Governance terhadap Kinerja Perguruan Tinggi

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of good university governance on university performance. This research method uses quantitative with an associative approach. The samples used in this study were 199 respondents who were on the campuses of the Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta and the Ahmad Dahlan Institute of Technology and Business Jakarta. The sampling method used is purposive sampling. The data collection method uses primary data by distributing questionnaires to stakeholders. The results of the study show that Good University Govenance has an effect on the performance of Higher Education.

Why are students with a higher level of grit more engaging in learning? The mediation effect of negotiable fate on the grit-student engagement relationship in higher education during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered learning and teaching approaches in higher education. Research concerning COVID-19 revealed inconsistent results on student engagement, which is a robust predictor of academic performance in higher education. This exploratory study examines the relationship between grit and student engagement in the pandemic through the mediating role of negotiable fate. Although previous research demonstrated that grit could positively predict student engagement, there have been inconsistent findings between the two sub-factors of grit: consistency of interest (grit-CI) and perseverance of effort (grit-PE). Besides, there is a lack of theoretical explanation of the mechanism between grit and engagement. The adaptation of negotiable fate seeks to provide one of the pathways of how grit would be associated with student engagement. To examine these hypotheses, the present study recruited 339 undergraduate students from two universities in Hong Kong to participate in an online survey. The results showed that grit, grit-PE, and negotiable fate positively correlate with student engagement, but the path of grit-CI did not reveal any significant results. After accounting for the mediating effect of negotiable fate, grit-PE still positively correlates with student engagement, suggesting a partial mediation model. This study provides empirical evidence that grit positively predicts student engagement with the mediation of negotiable fate. However, only grit-PE was positively associated with other variables, while grit-CI did not reveal any significant predictions. The present study (1) extends the understanding of the mechanism between grit and student engagement and (2) explores the mediating role of negotiable fate in this relationship in the higher education context. Theoretical and practical implications of this mediation model among grit, negotiable fate, and student engagement were discussed.

Teaching performance in higher education: facilities, difficulties, and perspectives in face of covid-19

RESUMO Este estudo objetivou investigar as implicações da pandemia da covid-19 na atuação dos professores de um programa de pós-graduação stricto sensu de uma universidade pública do estado de Santa Catarina. Participaram do estudo nove professores, com os quais realizamos entrevistas online. Caracteriza-se como um estudo de campo, descritivo e exploratório, com abordagem qualitativa dos dados. Os dados foram analisados a partir de elementos da técnica de análise de conteúdo. Os resultados apresentam os recursos e as estratégias utilizadas por esses professores durante o período pandêmico, bem como aspectos positivos e negativos do ensino remoto. Foi identificado que os recursos e as ferramentas mudaram, mas o formato das aulas não, com exceção das disciplinas que têm componentes práticos. Além disso, constatou-se que as capacitações e oportunidades de formação nesse período foram insuficientes ou insatisfatórias, o que culminou em uma sobrecarga dos docentes. Apesar disso, detectou-se uma perspectiva positiva para a atuação docente em um período pós-pandemia.

Is motivation the key? Factors impacting performance in first year service mathematics modules

Taught to non-mathematics undergraduates (business, science, engineering, and other technical programs), service mathematics is commonly associated with poor exam performance and low skill/knowledge attainment. The primary objective of the present study was to examine the range of factors thought to impact mathematics performance in higher education and establish which of the variables (i.e., motivation, mathematical background, growth mindset, preference for understanding, and time invested in independent learning) are of value in explaining the differences in students’ performance in service mathematics modules. A survey of first year business and engineering students who sat service mathematics modules was conducted. A multivariable proportional odds regression model was applied to detect and evaluate the association of each explanatory variable with mathematics performance. Motivation was found to be an important contributor to mathematics performance<i> </i>in first year service modules (p£0.05), second only to mathematical background (p<0.001). The work also investigated trends in motivation for studying mathematics across different student cohorts, where a significant difference in motivation was found between business and engineering students (p<0.001). The findings are discussed in terms of implications for learners and educators and should be of interest to fellow academics, those tasked with improving retention rates and policy makers.

Early Predicting of Students Performance in Higher Education

Students learning performance is one of the core components for assessing any educational systems. Students performance is very crucial in tackling issues of learning process and one of the important matters to measure learning outcomes. The ability to use data knowledge to improve education systems has led to the development of the field of research known as educational data mining (EDM). EDM is the creation of techniques to investigate data gathered from educational settings, allowing for a more thorough and accurate understanding of students and the improvement of educational outcomes for them. The use of machine learning (ML) technology has increased significantly in recent years. Researchers and teachers can use the measurements of success, failure, dropout, and more provided by the discipline of data mining in education to predict and simulate education processes. Therefore, this work presents an analysis of students performance using data mining methods. The paper presents both clustering and classification techniques to identify the impact of students performance at early stage with on the GPA. For the clustering technique, the paper uses dimensionality reduction mechanism by T-SNE algorithm with various factors at early stage such as admission scores and first level courses, academic achievement tests (AAT) and general aptitude tests (GAT) in order to explore the relationship between these factors and GPA’s. For the classification technique, the paper presents experiments on different machine learning models on predicting student performance at early stages using different features including courses’ grades and admission tests’ scores. We use different assessment metrics to evaluate the quality of the models. The results suggest that educational systems can mitigate the risks of students failures at the early stages.

SUSTAINABLE MARKETING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

SUSTAINABLE MARKETING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The Influence of WFH Policies and It Facilities on Higher Education Performance That Impact on Public Trust in The Bandung Area

This study aims to determine the effect of WFH policies and IT facilities on university performance which has an impact on public trust in the Bandung area. The method used is explanatory research with a sample of 96 respondents. The analysis technique uses statistical analysis with regression testing, correlation, determination and hypothesis testing. The results of this study WFH policy has a significant effect on university performance by 36.2%, hypothesis testing obtained a significance of 0.000 <0.05. IT facilities have a significant effect on university performance by 43.2%, hypothesis testing obtained a significance of 0.000 <0.05. WFH policy and IT facilities simultaneously have a significant effect on university performance by 50.2%, hypothesis testing obtained a significance of 0.000 <0.05. Higher education performance has a significant effect on public trust by 28.2%, hypothesis testing obtained a significance of 0.000 <0 ,05.

GRIT: A Non-Cognitive Attribute of University Students

Individuals with the passion and perseverance to work and study extensively despite obstacles and hardship to attain a set of objectives are more likely to succeed than others who lack comparable characteristics. Grit is a personality attribute that predicts success and performance in higher education. The purpose of this study was to examine university students' grit and demographic differences. The study was quantitative, and data from 1,230 randomly chosen university respondents were gathered using a survey method. Duckworth's Grit scale was used to assess the degree of grit and its demographic variables. Descriptive statistics (frequencies, percentages, means, and Standard Deviation) and inferential statistics (independent sample-test t-test, one-way ANOVA, and Post Hoc Tukey) were used to analyze the data and draw conclusions for the study. Findings demonstrated that grit level was medium and female students were more gritty than male students. Commerce students have more power of grit than science and arts students. Similarly, MPhil students who were more experienced had more control of grit than their juniors.

Interrelationship Among Business Units and Private University Performance: A Conceptual Framework

Knowing the performance of an organization is very important for the organization to know the achievements that have been planned. This also applies to organizations such as universities. The existence of higher education as a producer of intellectual human resources is very important as a benchmark for the progress of a nation. The purpose of this conceptual framework is to determine the relationship between the concept of the interrelationship among business units and the performance of tertiary institutions in the Indonesian context. In this study, the dimensions of tangible assets, intangible assets, and customer contact are used to measure the relationships between business units, while the dimensions of financial performance and non-financial performance are used to measure university performance. The unit of analysis in this research is the leadership at a private university in Pekanbaru City with the Dean, head of the department, Head of the Study Program, and secretary of the study program as respondents. The conceptual framework development is expected to become the next research literature to examine the relationship between units and higher education performance.

Effects of High School Leavers’ Characteristics on the Academic Performance in Higher Education: Empirical Evidence from Rwanda

Effects of High School Leavers’ Characteristics on the Academic Performance in Higher Education: Empirical Evidence from Rwanda

REVISITING CLASSROOM ENVIRONMENT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF THE STUDENTS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

This paper aimed to examine higher education institutions, classroom environment, the role of teacher, and student academic performance using bibliometric analysis from 2001 to 2020. The main aim was to consolidate the published researches on the students’ academic performance in higher education in the Web of Science indexed documents. There was a lack of quantitative measurements on the subject. We used the bibliometric method and a total of 2797 published documents were found. The study findings showed that the topic of ‘higher education institutions’ was on top with a total number of 2210 publications, 1822 articles as a type of published documents, 2447 publications in English, and a considerable increase in publications as per years were found. The top author named Lepori B was found with 202 citations and 13 articles started from 2007. Similarly, the University of Aveiro was on top organizations out of 2609, United States (US) on top out of 126 countries, and higher education as a keyword out of 6497. The Journal of Cleaner Production placed at top of sources out of 1551, and Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology as a top funding agency. Furthermore, the trend of data is described in tables and figures. Keywords: Higher Education Institutions, Classroom Environment, Role of Teacher, Student Academic Performance, Bibliometric Analysis.

A Study of English E-Learning Courses in Improving Student Learning Performance in Higher Education

This study explored the impact of the fully implementing an English e-learning course on students' learning performance. Technology acceptance model was used to examine the factors influencing students' attitudes and learning performance. A sample of 1,949 students was collected. Structural equation modeling was employed for data analysis. The authors found that subjective norm, system accessibility, and e-learning self-efficacy positively affected the students' attitudes and behavioural intentions through perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use. The students' behavioural intention was positively related to learning performance. The students with higher English proficiency would lead to a stronger subjective norm-perceived usefulness relation, while a lower English proficiency would lead to a stronger relationship between perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness.

Lecturer’s View on Higher Education Performance: A Study at Public Universities in Indonesia

This study aims to describe the performance of higher education organizations based on the views or assessments by lecturers. This research design is in the form of a survey, with research samples coming from five universities in Bangka Belitung, Indonesia. Samples were taken randomly with a total of 155 lecturers. The research results are based on five main dimensions, namely; human resources effectiveness and efficiency (mean= 3.2821/ moderate category), focus on process (mean= 3.0527/ moderate category), structural transformation (mean= 3.3206/ moderate category), teamwork (mean= 3.1811/ moderate category), and organizational strategy (mean= 3.3237/ moderate category). The results suggested to improve lecturers’ performance by strengthening aspects such as organizational leadership, organizational commitment, organizational culture, and organizational quality management.

Investigating the impact of IoT-Based smart laboratories on students' academic performance in higher education.

The enormous developments in technology have transformed the way we interact with the world around us. Among the extensive yet advanced technological interventions, one of the sophisticated expansions is the appearance of the Internet of Things, a tool for developing connections of physical objects to the virtual world using small-sized sensors and certain internet protocols to lessen human interventions. The domain of education has also adopted these technological services to move from traditional methods to sophisticated and advanced teaching and learning approaches to cope with learning needs and raise quality. This paper intends to conceptualize the impact of integrating IoT in higher education to increase students' academic performance in the engineering domain through the integration of smart laboratories. Several international studies were selected and thoroughly reviewed using the guidelines of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis to build sophisticated insights regarding the topic in terms of its conceptual as well as practical foundations. The key insights gathered through reviewed studies indicate that the Internet of things-based laboratories have significant advantages in uplifting students' academic performance through interaction, motivation, creativity, and practical learning. The integration of the Internet of things in higher educational institutes improves students' academic performance because it allows them to engage in authentic tasks and experience practical and active learning.

TEACHERS' PERFORMANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDE, MOTIVATION, AND QUALITY WORKING CONDITIONS

TEACHERS' PERFORMANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION: THE IMPACT OF ATTITUDE, MOTIVATION, AND QUALITY WORKING CONDITIONS

Professional Development Effectiveness of E-Learning on Quality of Students’ Performance in Higher Education

Technology has played an important role in education, changing the learning environment’s traditional style. Widespread use of technological devices harnesses the educational process and creates opportunities to make education available everywhere and at any time. E-learning provides a way to manage and overcome challenges faced by traditional higher education institutions by allowing them to be more competitive. This research conducted a case study of Taif University to evaluate the effectiveness of e-learning development in the higher education sector, and examined its impact on student performance quality, aiming to identify the important axes for developing higher education e-learning. The study analysed the requirements for developing e-learning and investigated opportunities to build and develop e-learning capabilities in higher education in general and Taif University in particular. Many external and internal influences contribute to e-learning trends in higher education; external funding, tuition fees, technology costs, and education development all influence internal pressure to reduce institutions’ costs. Thus, higher education is turning to e-learning to relieve these pressures, because it significantly reduces costs and improves both learning effectiveness and learning outcomes compared to traditional methods. Despite the advantages of e-learning, some higher education institutions remain in the experimental stages of developing and benefiting from it. This research study the relationships between e-learning difficulties, providing requirements, supporting e-learning, and providing e-learning services in higher education and quality performance.

Exploring academic staff retention strategies: The case of Ghanaian technical universities

Orientation: The crippling effects of staff turnover on higher education performance and success are disruptive and influence the core of national human capital development and thus call for a swift response using retention strategies.Research purpose: This article sought to explore the nature of academic staff retention strategies of technical universities in Ghana.Motivation for the study: Literature on academic staff retention strategies in the context of Ghanaian technical universities appears to be limited, scattered and lack theoretical underpinning. This exploration is needed especially that institutions in the sector has been upgraded to the status of universities; and thus, attracting and retaining highly skilled academic staffs remains key.Research approach/design and method: Using organisational equilibrium theory, this qualitative research drew primary data from four technical universities through semi-structured interviews and applied the thematic analysis technique.Main findings: Although Ghanaian technical universities are making considerable effort towards the development of feasible retention strategies to retain academic staff, the evidence points to the role of two major sets of factors (work-related and economic factors) that form the crux of managements’ strategic policy response.Practical/managerial implications: Work-related and economic factors were the main factors that encourages retention of academic staff of Ghanaian technical universities. Retention strategies of technical universities should be deepened and correspond with the recognised factors that enhance academic staff retention.Contribution/value-add: This study, with the findings, articulates retention strategies of technical universities which can be adopted to retain highly skilled and talented academic staffs. The body of knowledge on retention strategies is extended from both empirical and theoretical perspective.

A moderated mediation analysis of conscientiousness, time management strategies, effort regulation strategies, and university students' performance

This paper examined the interplay of conscientiousness, two categories of learning strategies (i.e., time management and effort regulation), and academic performance in higher education. Based on data from two samples of first-year students (N1 = 106; N2 = 355), we aimed to validate previous results on a mediation model using a repeated measurement design. Second, we aimed to extend prior research by testing the hypothesis that the mediation process is conditional on the level of conscientiousness. Results of both studies indicate that the effect of conscientiousness on academic performance is mediated by using effort regulation strategies and time management strategies. Furthermore, for effort regulation strategies, the effect is moderated: the effect vanishes when conscientiousness is low (though this effect occurred only in Study 2). This study sheds light on the mechanisms through which both conscientiousness and the use of relevant learning strategies affect academic performance and implies practical applications to assist with greater achievement in higher education.

A practical approach to overcoming biases in comparing student performance in higher education

In times of rankings and performance benchmarks, data on average marks of higher education students are very common internationally and are often used as quality indicators in practice. We discuss the principles behind the distribution of average marks of students. These principles need to be taken into account when calculating the percentile of (the average mark of) a student. An informative percentile is obtained only if the average mark is compared to a distribution of averages that have been calculated based on the same number of credit points obtained by the student. We provide an empirical example from a university in Germany, which shows that percentile information can differ considerably when based upon different samples. Our findings indicate that the approach proposed in this study may not only be the most efficient approach for ranking students to be implemented into university practice, but may also contribute to a much more objective and credible grade reporting system for student performance.