Learning Engagement in Mathematics: A Test of an Active Learning Model
This experimental study explored the effect of the 4WsHs active learning model on learning engagement in mathematics classes. The research design used for conducting this study was true experimental research design (pre-test post-test equivalent group design). A sample comprising 190 students selected from two public sector schools was divided into experimental and control groups using a matched random sampling technique. The newly developed active learning model was used as treatment for an experimental group while the same contents of mathematics were taught to the control group using a traditional method. After practice of three months, learning engagement of both groups was measured using a classroom observation checklist. The analyzed data revealed a significant superiority of students belonging to the experimental group over their counterparts in learning engagement. Hence, the newly developed active learning model proved to be effective for developing learning engagement among students.
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Learning Engagement, Active Learning, Secondary School Students, Mathematics Class, Teaching Mathematics
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(1) Syed Iftikhar Hussain Shah
Ph.D Scholar, Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Iqbal Majoka
Associate Professor,Department of Education,Hazara University, Mansehra, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Shaista Irshad Khan
Secretary, Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BISE) Abbottabad, KP, Pakistan.
Emotional Intelligence, Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Entrepreneurial Intention
Current study is an attempt to highlight the connection of emotional intelligence with entrepreneurial intention directly as well as indirectly by taking in account entrepreneurial selfefficacy as a mediator. A sample of 352 final year business administration students from different universities (public sector) of KP, Pakistan is taken by the researcher. Questionnaire is used as data collection instrument whereas measures are adopted from previous literature for measuring present study variables. Reliability analysis for scale reliability, correlation analysis for testing relationships of variables and PROCESS macros (model # 4) for mediation analysis is employed by the researcher to get results. Results depicts a significant positive relationship among study variables. Researcher also find out that self-efficacy (entrepreneurial) mediates the association of entrepreneurial intention with emotional intelligence among final year business administration students.
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Emotional Intelligence, Entrepreneurial Intention, Entrepreneurial SelfEfficacy, University Students, Mediation
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(1) Tufail Nawaz
Lecturer, Department of Business Administration, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Aziz Javed
Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Aman Ullah
Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan.
Teaching Context and Students' Learning: A Case Study of a Public Sector University
This is an exploratory research study that aimed at capturing students’ learning experience in a public sector university campus in a remote region in Pakistan. The sample included students in the last semester of their two years Master’s program in Education Data were generated through a questionnaire survey, in-depth interviews, and whole-class discussions with Master’s students of Education. Findings showed that the students saw their learning embedded inrelation to the interaction with the faculty members, availability of resources, and interactive teaching approaches. It surfaced that remoteness of the context and unavailability of the Internet, lack of relative skills, and English language deficiencies, were key challenges.
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Adult learning, Higher Education, Learning Experiences, Managing Learning, University Students
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(1) Muhammad Naeem Butt
Assistant Professor,Institute of Education and Research,University of Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Haji Karim Khan
Assistant Professor,Department of Educational Development, University of Baltistan, Skardu, Pakistan.
(3) Wilayat Bibi
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
Variations in Parental Participation in Curricular and Co-Curricular Activities of University Students
This research was aims to examine the point of view of university students about parental participation in their curricular and co-curricular activities. It explores the comparisons in parental participation level regarding students gender, socio-economic status in public and private universities. This exploration followed the quantitative research method. The sample for this research consisted of the graduation students (boys and girls) of public and private sector universities which were located in Lahore district. A random sampling procedure was used to collect data from boys and girls studying in different universities. The sample size of this survey was 300 students. The researcher has constructed a questionnaire for finding out the opinions of students about their parental participation in their academics. After the collection of data, the data were analyzed. Findings of the research revealed that parental involvement was different due to gender, education and social status of university students.
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Parental Participation, differences, University students, Curricular and Co-curricular Activities.
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(1) Tahira Batool
Assistant Professor,Research and Evaluation DepartmentLahore College for Women University, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Jannat Riaz
Lahore College for Women University, Punjab, Pakistan.Research and Evaluation Department,Lahore College for Women University, Lahore, Pakistan.
Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies for Academic Materials: A Study of Undergraduate Students in Pakistan
Metacognitive awareness of reading strategies measures how readers of a text engage with it and think about their own reading processes. This paper presents the findings of a descriptive study on the metacognitive awareness of reading strategy use on the undergraduate students of Lahore, Pakistan. The study makes use of the Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI), which is a selfreport instrument, and has 30 items on a 5-point Likert scale; it was administered to 500 public and private sector universities students. Descriptive and inferential statistics were computed for analysis through the use of SPSS, version 22. The results reported that problem-solving and support strategies are equally preferred over global strategies. Results of the t-test revealed that students from the public sector demonstrate greater strategy awareness than those from the private sector in all the subscales of MARSI, while no overall significant difference between Humanities and Sciences was found.
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Metacognitive Awareness of Reading Strategies Inventory (MARSI), Non-Native Speakers of English, Reading Strategies, T-Test, Undergraduate Students.
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(1) Asma Shahid Kazi
Assistant Professor, Department of Professional Studies,Lahore College for Women University, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Shagufta Moghal
Lecturer,Department of Professional Studies,Lahore College for Women University, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Zoobia Asad
PhD Scholar,Research and Evaluation Department, Lahore College for Women University, Punjab, Pakistan.
Teachers Humanistic Role Regarding Students Guidance
This study was conducted to explore and compare perceptions of Subject Specialist Teachers about their role as a humanistic student guide. Subject specialists were taken from 28 male and 13 female higher secondary schools situated in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Structured questionnaire was used for data collection. As per the data analysis, it was concluded that most of the teachers did not possess proper awareness f a humanistic approach for the guidance of the student. Student guidance was almost absent due to lack of skills, resources, time specification for the purpose of the school administration and expertise. It was noticed that the situation in female higher secondary schools was almost the same as it was noted in the male schools as no significant difference of perception was found among male and female teachers. There was a need for proper training, and provision of resources for an appropriate guidance of the students.
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Teachers, Guidance, Students, Humanistic Approach
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(1) Azmat Ullah
PhD Scholar,Institute of Education and Research,Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan.
(2) Malik Amer Atta
Assistant Professor, Institute of Education and Research,Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Muhammad Ayaz
Chairman,Department of Education and Research,The University of Lakki Marwat, Lakki Marwat, KP, Pakistan.
Exploring Relationships of Positive and Negative Organizational Behaviors (OB) with the Productivity of Engineering Students
This study explores the relationships between positive and negative Organizational Behaviors and Workaholism; and the relationship of these OBs with productivity and gender of engineering students in Pakistan. Most of the researchers have studied OBs among faculty or administrative staff in universities. The study of these behaviors among students is a new area. An eight-stage innovative qualitative codebook thematic analysis was used to analyze semi-structured interviews from 22 faculty members to explore the relationships of OBs with productivity and gender of engineering students. A comprehensive model of relationships between OCB, DB, WA, and the productivity of engineering students has been built which was previously missing from contemporary literature. Gender has also been found to have a relationship with various behaviors. The findings here are important for practitioners and scholars for a better understanding of the relationship of OBs with the productivity of engineering students, to enhance their productivity through the promotion of desired behaviors.
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Codebook Thematic Analysis, Engineering Students, Organizational Behaviors, Workaholism.
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(1) Humayun Sattar
Ph.D. Scholar,Department of Engineering Management,National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan.
(2) Tasweer Hussain Syed
Assistant Professor,Department of Engineering Management,National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan.
Effect of Cooperative Learning Approach on Students' Academic Achievement and Motivation at Secondary level
This study discovers the effect of cooperative learning (CL) on students’ achievement and motivation toward computer science at secondary level. Nonequivalent control group design of Quasi-Experimental Research method was used. Two intact groups i.e. thirty students each, were selected as the sample of the study. Students Team Achievement Division (STAD) method of CL was applied on the experimental group while traditional method (lecture) of teaching was used for control group. Pre-test and post-test were conducted respectively by using teacher made test in computer science. Students’ Motivation toward Computer Science Learning (SMTSL) scale was adapted to explore student’s motivation toward computer science. This study significantly indicates that the posttest motivation and achievement scores of students were better than the pretest motivation and achievement scores toward computer science learning. The study promotes CL approach for computer science learning, and intervention should be given for a long time period to observe its effectiveness.
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Cooperative Learning, Students’ Achievement, Students’ Motivation, Students Team Achievement Division (STAD)
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(1) Aroona Hashmi
Assistant Professor, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Mubushra Khalid
Assistant Professor, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Tariq Hussain
Assistant Professor, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Impact of Academic Achievement Orientation in the Context of Private and Public Sector University Students
The problem of the study was to explore the impact of academic achievement orientation in the context of private and public sector university students; it further aimed to investigate the impact of demographic variations such as gender, age, semester, birth order, number of siblings, discipline and family income in determining the level of academic achievement orientation of private and public sector university students. The achievement orientation attitude scale developed by Ansari was used to measure achievement orientations, which was consisted of 10 items. Data was collected through a stratified random sampling technique. Data were analyzed with various statistics, which provided an insight that students differ in terms of academic achievement orientations. Results revealed that students of public sector universities have higher academic achievement orientations. It is also recommended that at the university level, students may also learn self-management and ought to work hard in order to achieve their academic goals without an external push.
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Academic Achievement Orientations, Sector, Private Universities, Public Universities, Students
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(1) Wajiha Kanwal
Chairperson/ HOD/ Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Wah, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Tahir Aziz
PhD Scholar, Department of Education, University of Wah, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Saqib Shahzad
Associate Professor, Department of Education, Abdul Wali khan University Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
Empowering Online Methods of Student-Teacher Communication: The Opportunities and Challenges of Web-Based Technologies and Social Media During COVID-19 Lockdown
The use of web-based technologies and social media to enhance student-teacher communication is a growing trend in education in recent times. After the COVID 19 pandemic, the worldwide network has been widely used and the infrastructure for information quickly developed. This study aims to explore the perceptions of teachers and students about the use of web and social media during the COVID-19 pandemic at postgraduate level. Firstly, this study employs a questionnaire to examine student perception about uses of web-based technologies and social media. Data were collected from 500 students from different departments at the universities. Secondly, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 10 teachers. The findings indicate that the social media are revolutionizing communication systems and are helpful in on-line classes, with collaborative work and research coordination during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study recommended extensive use of webs and social media for efficient communication between teachers and students.
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Key Words: Web-based Technologies, Social Media, Enhancing Communication, Students
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(1) Nasrin Akhter
Associate Professor, Department of Science, University of Okara, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Muhammad Naseer Ud Din
Professor, Institute of Education & Research, Kohat University of Science & Technology, Kohat, KP, Pakistan.
(3) Muhammad Imran
Assistant Professor, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan.
