scholarly journals Managing Stakeholder Conflicting Expectations in Higher Education: a Hybrid Approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 627
Author(s):  
Abdul Gabbar Al-Sharafi ◽  
Fatema Al-Rubai’ey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Program Development ◽  
English Language ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Unified Approach ◽  
Sultan Qaboos University ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto

This paper proposes a hybrid approach to the management of stakeholder conflicting expectations in higher education (HE) by combining Stakeholder Theory (ST) and a participatory approach. In this paper, we use an ex post facto approach to retrospectively report Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) experience in managing stakeholder conflicting expectations in developing the BA in English Language and Literature Program as a case study. We show that for an effective management of stakeholder conflicting expectations in HE, the three perspectives of ST (i.e., descriptive, instrumental and normative) have to be taken together as a unified approach with the normative perspective occupying the core. In addition, we argue that this unified approach should be complemented by a participatory approach to add an interactive dimension to stakeholder conflict management and allow stakeholders to become active conflict-solvers. The paper concludes that this hybrid approach is essential to manage stakeholder conflicting expectations in academic program development and to project academic program development in HE as a shared social responsibility.

Transformative Partnerships

2015 ◽  
pp. 74-82
Author(s):  
Sharon Smaldino ◽  
Lara Luetkehans
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Development ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Program Development ◽  
Professional Development School ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Transformative Partnerships

With all higher education educational endeavors there is a transformative element that enhances the progression forward in terms of academic program development. Teacher education is no exception to this aspect of the evolutionary process. The authors' story of that transformation and the impact of creative endeavors in teacher education offer a sense of moving beyond the traditional to the transformative in teacher education. Carter (1993) offers that the story can offer a perspective on our work and inform teacher education on the directions we might take to bring about improvement in our efforts to prepare educators for the future. The authors' story begins with a strong foundation and commitment to understanding the critical elements of successful partnerships. This foundation has served them for 15 years, and two distinct eras of partnership work that delineate the transformation. The authors explore each era: “The Professional Development School (PDS) Story” followed by “10 Years Later.”

scholarly journals Motivational Issues of Faculty in Saudi Arabia

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akram AbdulCader ◽  
Peter John Anthony
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Program Development ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Monetary Incentives ◽  
Education Industry ◽  
Higher Education Industry

<p>This study focused on the factors that affect motivation of faculty in Saudi Arabia. It included two surveys and open-ended queries to a focus group of five academic managers and 25 faculty members of varying nationalities, rank, and institutes in Saudi Arabia. The research showed that the faculties in Saudi Arabia’s higher education industry feel disconnected from the program development. The faculty members did not feel motivated to participate in the development and improvement of the academic program due to: (a) lack of monetary and non-monetary incentives, (b) management not involving faculty in decision-making, and (c) lack of recognition and moral support. However, the faculties were intrinsically motivated to perform their best within the confines of the classroom. The results of the study indicated that there was a greater interest in intrinsic motivation as a personal measure for success inside the classroom, but extrinsic motivation was a factor that needed greater improvement from the management of the universities for faculty to partake in development of the program.</p>

School Plant Security Management and Students’ Academic Achievement in Public Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom State.

2019 ◽  
pp. 122-129
Author(s):  
Nwosu-Kanu, D. ◽  
Oleford Ngozika A. ◽  
Ekanem E.E. ◽  
Akpanudo E.M.
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
English Language ◽  
Security Management ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Multistage Sampling

The study examined school plant security management and students‟ academic achievement in public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State. Two research questions were raised and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The design of the study was ex-post facto. The study population consisted of 48, 840 SSII students and 6755 teachers in 235 public secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State. The sample comprised 977 SSII students and 811 teachers in 118 Secondary Schoolswhich were sampled, using multistage sampling procedure. Two instruments were used for data collection. They are researcher developed checklist and questionnaire respectively titled “School Plant Security Availability Checklist (SPSAC) and School Plant Security Utilization Questionnaire (SPSUQ)”. SPSUQ was responded to by both the teachers and students. The reliability co-efficient of the instrument was determined using the Cronbach Alpha statistic. The Reliability index of 0.82 was obtained. Mean and Standard Deviation were used to answer the research questions while Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. The findings of the study are that lacks of security devices in the school affect negatively students‟ academic achievement in English Language, Mathematics and Biology. The study recommended that there is need to overhaul the existing policy on school plant security as to ensure proper provision and utilization of the devices. It also recommended that government should make available suitable security devices and all the materials needed to make them functional.

scholarly journals Incidence of Gender in the Digital Competence of Higher Education Teachers in Research Work: Analysis with Descriptive and Comparative Methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Francisco D. Guillén-Gámez ◽  
María J. Mayorga-Fernández ◽  
José A. Contreras-Rosado
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Digital Competence ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Digital Skills ◽  
Ex Post Facto

The purpose of this study is to analyse and compare the level of digital competence of higher education teaching staff in research work through the use of ICT resources. For this purpose, an ex post facto design was employed together with an instrument composed of 30 items classified into seven dimensions: digital skills, digital ethics, digital flow, anxiety towards ICT, quality of ICT resources, intention to use ICT, and ICT integration. The sample consisted of a total of 1704 higher education teachers from all over Spain. The results showed that, overall, there were no significant differences in the level of digital competence of teaching staff between the two genders. However, significant differences were found in the following dimensions: digital skills, digital ethics, ICT anxiety, quality of ICT resources, and intention to use ICT. These findings highlight the urgent need for university institutions to propose training plans to improve the digital competences of their teaching and research staff in those dimensions that have been found to be deficient.

scholarly journals ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTS TO IDENTIFY THE CHARACTERISTICS OF VOCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION CURRICULUM

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
Nadia Utari ◽  
Riki Mukhaiyar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Image Processing ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Curriculum Enrichment

Higher education is expected to produce excellent graduates to meet the needs of educated and skilled personnel in the era of industry 4.0. One way of higher education to adjust the development of Science and Technology in the era of industry 4.0 is by enriching the curriculum. Curriculum enrichment can be done by adding a new course, the Image Processing course. Image Processing is a course in Electrical Engineering which discusses data processing and analyze data in the form of images to be used as important information as requested. Image processing courses are widely used in daily life, implementation of image processing courses are found in smartphones, parking systems, medical, television and many others that utilize image processing subjects. The characteristics of this study compared two different groups: the Non-LPTK University (Lembaga Pendidikan Tenaga Kependidikan/ Educaitonal Institutions of Educatinal Staff) with the LPTK University to looking for characteristics in covering different subjects with the characteristics of vocational education, but it is related to the characteristics of vocational education in considering matching subjects with digital characteristics in the field of vocational education studies. Curriculum enrichment aims to improve the quality of higher education learning which leads to improve the quality of graduates. The researcher used a qualitative research with a comparative method ex post facto. This research is expected to be a pattern for other universities in applying curriculum enrichment methods.

scholarly journals Análise da Influência da Cultura Organizacional no Planejamento Estratégico Participativo de uma Universidade Estadual Multicampi na Região Centro-Oeste do Brasil

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-249
Author(s):  
Luís Eduardo Ferreira ◽  
Raphael Monte Carvalho ◽  
Rosalia Aldraci Barbosa Lavarda ◽  
Cibele Barsalini Martins
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
State University ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
Values And Beliefs

Objective: To describe how organizational culture influenced on elaboration process of participatory strategic planning (PEP) of a multicampi state university in Brazil’s Midwest region.Methodology/approach: A qualitative approach was adopted with the Ex-post facto case study method, with semi-structured interviews and participant direct observation. The analysis was based on the pattern-matching technique and narrative analysis, from the perspective of two constitutive elements of analysis: (i) Strategy as a collective process and (ii) PEP as an instrument for strengthening organizational culture.Originality/Relevance: Educational institutions are considered complex, which hinders the applicability of tools and management commonly used in other types of organizations. The gap of this study was the combination of researching organizational culture together with the theme of strategic planning in a higher education institution and thereby expanding research on university management.Main results: It was verified that the interaction provided by the process of discussion and construction of PEP contributed to the strengthening of the organizational culture, enabled individuals to internalize organizational values and beliefs through a process of socialization, acculturation, and social integration among the various actors involved.Theoretical/methodological contributions: It highlight the importance of strategic planning in different organizational cultures, especially in higher education institutions. The methods adopted contributed to confirm the need to use various sources for the necessary deepening of the development of a case study.Social contributions / for management: Strengthening the organizational culture.

scholarly journals Age differentials in calibrated items of WAEC English Language Objective test taken by students in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-54
Author(s):  
Isaac Ofem Ubi ◽  
Esther Chinenye Udemba
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Item Difficulty ◽  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
West African ◽  
Objective Test ◽  
Older Students ◽  
Cross River State ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto

The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of age differentials on item difficulty and discrimination indices of West African School Certificate (WAEC) English Language Objective test for May/June 2014 taken by students in Nigeria. The study area was the southern Education Zone of Cross River State. The design used for the study was ex-post facto, justified by the fact that the variable of the study had occurred before being studied and that no manipulation of subjects of study was involved. The 2014 May/June English objective test items were used as they were. The instrument (made up of all the fifty items of the test) was administered to a sample of 100 students selected through accidental sampling procedure. Results of the study indicate that item response to the test depended, among other things, on the age brackets of the students. The older students seem to respond more correctly to items than their younger counterparts. The study recommends more proactive steps in admission of age compliant candidates for terminal examinations in Secondary Schools.

scholarly journals Impact of English Proficiency on Academic Performance of International Students

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-71
Author(s):  
Nara M. Martirosyan ◽  
Eunjin Hwang ◽  
Reubenson Wanjohi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
International Students ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
The United States ◽  
English Language Proficiency ◽  
Senior Year ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Post Facto ◽  
The Impact

Using an ex-post facto, non-experimental approach, this research examined the impact of English language proficiency and multilingualism on the academic performance of international students enrolled in a four-year university located in north central Louisiana in the United States. Data were collected through a self-reported questionnaire from 59 students who were in their sophomore, junior or senior year of college. Statistical analyses revealed significant differences in language proficiency and multilingualism in relation to academic performance. The highest mean GPA was evident among students who had reported high levels of self-perceived English language proficiency, and among students who spoke at least three languages.

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