scholarly journals "Assessment of Anxiety among Higher Education Students and Its Relationship with Spirituality "

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Daryoush Ghasemian ◽  
Sedigheh Ebrahimi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Anxiety Scale ◽  
Anxiety Reduction ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Reduction Techniques ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
Different Levels

The present study reports assessment of anxiety levels and its relationship with spirituality among postgraduate students of Mysore University. A total of 100 (66 male + 34 female) students studying in management and humanities were randomly selected for the study. They were administered IPAT anxiety scale (Cattel & Scheier, 1963) and Spirituality scale (Piedmont, 1999). Results revealed that an alarming 43% of the students suffer from morbid anxiety and only 4% of them were found to be secure. Demographic variables like gender, age and course did not have influence over anxiety. Further, students with different levels of anxiety did not differ in their spirituality scores. A general discussion on anxiety reduction techniques were also described at the end.

The Ethics of Tax Evasion: Relevant Demographic Variables within the scope of Higher Education Students and Professors.

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
César Ribeiro ◽  
Carlos Santos Pinho
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Tax Evasion ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Older Men ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Input Matrix ◽  
The One ◽  
Official Information

The purpose of our study is to determine the depth of various arguments that have emerged to justify tax evasion as an ethical procedure considering several demographic variables. Data collection was done using a questionnaire addressed to professors and students of higher management and non-management courses. This instrument was based on the 18 statements reflecting the three views of tax evasion ethics used by McGee and Benk [1]. Using a 5-point Likert scale, it is intended to evaluate whether the arguments contained in the statements have an effect on the perception of tax evasion as an ethical procedure and whether the previous effect varies according to age, sex, bachelor degree and income level. A universe of 406,980 individuals was determined using official information (sample: 384 individuals). Principal Component Analysis was used, as well as the Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Statistics in order to measure the adequacy of the input matrix. After the extraction of the components three variables were identified: “Always Ethical”, “Waste, Corruption and Injustice” and “Discrimination and Oppressive Regimes” (Cronbach's Alpha results: 0.887, 0.85 and 0.862). “Discrimination and Oppressive Regimes” is the one that has values ​​closest to “totally agree” that tax evasion is ethical. In general, older men with higher incomes tend to disagree about the ethics of tax evasion. The originality of the study is reflected in the controversial relationship between Ethics and Evasion and the source of the data collected. Interacting with professors and students allows the business and academic components to be combined.

scholarly journals Online learning - Global Challenges and Opportunities for Students in Higher Education amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Libyan Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-164
Author(s):  
Abdelbasit Gadour
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Mode Of Delivery ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
High Level

The spread of COVID-19 has had psychological effects on higher education students globally reflected in high level of anxiety associated with worries of failing to complete their studies (Holmes et al., 2020; Sawahhel, 2020). Due to COVID-19 all universities in Libya were closed for ten months causing a massive impact and leaving about quarter a million students without education. However, during this period some universities took preventive measures and maintained functioning from a distance. An attempt was made in this study to explore higher education students’ attitudes toward online learning and appreciate more the advantages and challenges associated with online learning. Of the 100 questionnaires sent out to university students, 58 responded back of whom 40 undergraduate and the remaining postgraduate students. The results of this study suggested that students are more interested in conventional way of learning in favour of face-to-face communication with tutors and peers as opposed to remote learning. For online learning to be successful in Libya, universities ought to upgrade their educational mode of delivery making the learning contents and assessment more desirable and responsive to the needs of the changing times. Furthermore, students must be technically and financially supported with unlimited access to internet.

Coping strategies in oral academic presentations of international undergraduate students in a Philippine university: a small-case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-113
Author(s):  
Ephraim Viernes Domingo
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Language Socialization ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Academic Socialization ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Academic Task ◽  
Different Levels

Abstract Higher education students are increasingly becoming aware of the importance of being successful in oral academic presentations (OAP) in their academic endeavors. For English as a second language students in English-medium institutions, it also provides them with opportunities for language socialization. However, succeeding in the delivery of an OAP comes with various challenges emerging from linguistic and psychological factors. This small-case study explores OAPs as an oral academic socialization activity by documenting the strategies that 13 international undergraduate students in a large private Philippine university use to cope with the difficulties facing them in preparing and presenting an OAP. Using language socialization as the theoretical framework and semi-structured interviews to gather data, it identifies and explains eight personal strategies (six still employed and two no longer used) and discusses various factors that play a vital role in applying these strategies. The three most commonly used strategies are adopted to ensure a successful and acceptable OAP, typically a graded task. The two least frequently used ones are yet to be employed successfully. In applying these strategies, students not only perform the required academic task but are also engaged in different levels and frequencies of language socialization before and during the delivery of an OAP. Pedagogical implications in the use of OAPs as an academic task for language socialization in higher education are also discussed.

scholarly journals Attitudes of Postgraduate Students Towards Distance Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic: North Cyprus Example

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yeşim Üstün Aksoy
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
North Cyprus

The distance education model has become the most common educational model used around the world due to the COVID-19 pandemic that emerged in China at the end of 2019. In North Cyprus (NC), traditional face-to-face education had been resumed through online channels. The rapid shift to online channels has not only caused distress among students who do not have experience with using in online education systems, but also caused many problems to surface in terms of access to education. This study aims to explore the attitudes and views of higher education students in NC regarding the distance education implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic in the 2020–2021 educational year. In this quantitative study, the survey method was used. A random sampling approach was used for determining the study group, which was formed of 470 volunteer higher education students. According to the analysis of the data collected from the students, it was determined that they received an average score of x̅=82.52±19.50 points from the overall Attitudes Regarding the Use of Distance Education Environments During the Pandemic (ASRUDEEDP) scale, x̅=23.03±7.21 from the competence and education sub-dimension, x̅=26.36±5.81 from the practicality sub-dimension, x̅=18.20±4.83 points from the efficiency sub-dimension, and x̅=14.93±4.12 from the satisfaction sub-dimension. It was identified that there were no differences in the scores according to the age group, grade, or Internet use durations (p>0.05) but the scores of male students were observed to be higher than those of female in the sub-dimensions of competence and motivation as well as practicality within the ASRUDEEDP.

scholarly journals The Challenges of Undergraduate Married Female Students in Higher Education: A case study of Takhar University

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 09-18
Author(s):  
Abdul Qawi Noori ◽  
Sayeed Naqibullah Orfan
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
The University ◽  
Married Female

The study aimed at investigating the challenges of undergraduate married female students in higher education of Afghanistan. It also explored whether the participants’ demographic variables such as class, age and residential areas had any effect on their responses. The study employed a quantitative research design. A survey questionnaire with 29 items was used to collect the data from 100 purposefully selected respondents at Takhar University. The population of the study was undergraduate married female students who were majoring in different fields at Takhar University. 117 copies of questionnaires were administered to the respondents and only 100 useable ones were returned to the researchers. Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 25.0) was used in analyzing the data. The study found that Afghan married female students faced different problems during their studies at the university and the challenges had a significant effect on them. It also revealed that there were statistically significant differences in the responses of the students by their class, age and residential areas. The study suggests that educational leaders should develop counselling programs at the universities to tackle the challenges of married female students and involve various stakeholders to improve their achievement.

scholarly journals Conceptualisation of University Students’ Civic Transversal Competence

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dace Medne ◽  
◽  
Zanda Rubene ◽  
Māra Bernande ◽  
Dzintra Illiško ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Assessment Tools ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Processing Program ◽  
The University ◽  
Fundamental Values ◽  
Different Levels

Education plays a key role in promoting fundamental values, citizens’ rights and responsibilities as well as social inclusion, in particularly so by reducing hostility towards vulnerable social groups. Therefore, all stages of education, including higher education, are important in the development of civic transversal competence. To ensure sustainable, qualitative, modern, and competitive higher education, the education facilitating the productive involvement of students in civil society and, consequently, their competitiveness in the labour market is a topical issue in the context of Latvia too. In keeping with this rationale, in January 2020, the University of Latvia started the implementation of the first round of the research “Assessment of Competences of Higher Education Students and Dynamics of Their Development in the Study Period” with the study of students’ civic transversal competence as its part. The paper aims to conceptualize students’ civic transversal competence, to determine its criteria and their indicators at different levels of higher education. Using the qualitative data processing program NVivo 12.0, there was carried out an analysis of 20 recent studies and higher education documents (2014-2020), as well as examples of good practice. The result is a descriptive matrix for civic transversal competence assessment, which can be used as a basis for the development of assessment tools.

Gender and Self-Selection Among Engineering Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21
Author(s):  
Maci Cook ◽  
Justin Chimka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
College Students ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Graduation Rates ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Self Selection ◽  
Disproportionate Number ◽  
First Time

Gender and graduation rates of first time engineering college students have been analyzed as a function of academic and demographic variables in order to investigate the hypothesis that an advantage to women with respect to student success might be attributed to their socioeconomic advantages as a student population. The authors present descriptive, graphical, and model-based evidence to support their ideas about gender and self-selection driven by other demographic factors that leave a disproportionate number of women out of higher education, but create a group of female students more likely than their male counterparts to succeed.

Attitudes about the Internet: Implications for Use in Education

2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric N. Wiebe ◽  
Eric Shaver ◽  
Michael S. Wogalter
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

This study identified beliefs and attitudes about the Internet in relation to different populations of higher education students. A pair of surveys were used to better understand positive and negative attitudes students harbor concerning the WWW and related Internet technologies. The responses were used to both validate what are the most salient positive and negative aspects of the Internet and to reveal differences in attitude toward these aspects based on demographic variables. The results are discussed with respect to the affective dimensions that shape the use of Internet-related technologies and the need for further research into the impact of the Internet on higher education.

scholarly journals Closure of Educational Institutions due to Covid-19: Study on Higher Education Students

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.N. Yeshaswini
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Voice Quality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Online Classes ◽  
Limited Data ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
The Government

The Covid-19 pandemic is not only distressing the health of people but is also seen hampering various industries and sectors across the world. In India, the government as a part of the nationwide lockdown has closed all educational institutions, as a result, school to postgraduate students are affected. This disruption during the middle of the academic semester for higher education students forced them to adopt online classes to complete their syllabi. This study examined the challenges and constraints faced by higher education students during online classes. The results of the study found that respondents did not find online classes effective, they faced technical issues and constraints, including internet connectivity, voice quality and lack of interaction. Respondents usually have access to limited data plans, many of them sharing the same network with family members working from home. However, online education appears to be need of the hour for educational institutes, to retain their connect with the students and ensure continuous learning though technical challenges may persist for a while.

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