scholarly journals Time Management Behavior among Academic Procrastinators in Bangladesh: A Study on Undergraduate Students of Different Private Universities

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-56
Author(s):  
Zannatul Ferdus ◽  
Thawhidul Kabir ◽  
Shirin Akter
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Private University ◽  
Management Behavior ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Academic Results

Procrastination and its impacts on students of various academic levels have been scrutinized for many years, but how the students involved in procrastination are utilizing their hours of a day have not been answered yet. To find out the answer, this study randomly sampled 1000 undergraduate private university students in Bangladesh and found that occasional procrastinators use most of their time for the academic purposes than non academic purposes if were judged against chronic and severe procrastinators. Moreover, it identified that, the academic results of the undergraduate students were negatively associated with their intensity of procrastination. Moreover, the amount of time they used for academic purpose was inversely inclined to their frequency of procrastination. On the contrary, this study also found that, the amount of time used by undergraduate students for non-academic purposes was positively associated with their extent procrastination.Journal of Business and Technology (Dhaka) Vol.10(2) 2015; 37-56

scholarly journals Constructing Sociocultural Awareness from the EFL Classroom

2018 ◽  
pp. 149-172
Author(s):  
Nancy Yolanda Bautista Pérez
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Private University ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Professional Programs ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
Sociocultural Awareness ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
English Classroom

This article reports an action research project carried out with a group of 24 undergraduate students in a private university in Ibagué, Colombia. The study aimed to characterize the development of university students’ sociocultural skills, to analyze their perceptions and to examine the teacher’s procedures and possible implications required to implement the Raising Cultural Consciousness Macrostrategy taken from the Postmethod Pedagogy. To reach these objectives a series of interconnected tasks were designed and implemented in three different stages. To collect the data, five data collection methods were used: the students’ artifacts, teacher’s field notes, questionnaires, video recordings and a focus group. The findings revealed that these university students became gradually aware of the importance of having the opportunity to develop tasks that allowed them to connect the English classroom with the local and global context. Furthermore, students suggested that this type of pedagogy should be an explicit component of the curricula of their professional programs. A review of the literature also showed that in our local context this kind of sociocultural study with a postmethod orientation is scarce, thus this study intends to bridge this gap in the Colombian ELT field

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Bangladeshi Private University Students’ Choice of Institutions for Undergraduate Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 125
Author(s):  
Rumana Liza Anam
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Private University ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Undergraduate Studies ◽  
Undergraduate Study ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
University Level

In a highly populated country like Bangladesh where standards of living are rising steadily, more and more students are pursuing studies at university level.  With only a few publicly funded universities, private universities are now the main avenue for pursuing undergraduate studies. Competition is growing among these universities operating in a heavily regulated sector.  Substantial amounts are often being spent on attracting potential students.  However, without proper research into the area and understanding how students choose their universities, resources may end up being used ineffectively. This conceptual paper aims to identify the factors that students consider when choosing their universities.

scholarly journals The Title IX Contract Quagmire

2020 ◽  
pp. 909
Author(s):  
Bryce Freeman
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
University Students ◽  
Title Ix ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Private University ◽  
Contract Law ◽  
Disciplinary Action ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Implicit And Explicit

Courts and scholars have long grappled with whether and to what extent educational institutions are in contract with their students. If they are, then students can sue their private universities for breaching that contract— ordinarily understood as the student handbook and other materials—when the institution levies a disciplinary action against the student. But what promises, both implicit and explicit, do private universities make to their students that courts should enforce? This question has resurfaced in the Title IX context, where courts have largely drawn clear dividing lines between the rights of public and private university students. This Comment provides a framework to understand courts’ approaches to contract law and higher education as well as implications for Title IX.

scholarly journals Experiences of Motherhood in University Students in Brazil: A Qualitative Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 313-318
Author(s):  
Fernanda Amorim ◽  
Brunna Maia ◽  
Valéria Melo ◽  
Camila Almeida ◽  
Juliana Magalhães ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Career ◽  
Private University ◽  
Support Network ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
University Center ◽  
The University ◽  
Support Relationships

Introduction: The women’s rise to higher education contrasts with the phenomenon of motherhood, since it instigates changes in various contexts, whether physiological or emotional, and directly affects the way of life and routine of those women, resulting in a constant conflict between motherhood and academic career. In this sense, the student has to restructure responsibilities and behaviors, as well as requires family support and laws that support her in this period. Objectives: To describe the experiences of motherhood in university students, and to identify the strategies developed by university students to adapt motherhood with academic routine. Methods: This is a descriptive, exploratory and qualitative research carried out in a private University Center in Brazil. The participants were ten Nursing undergraduate students, regularly enrolled and who experienced motherhood during the academic term. Data were collected during August and September 2019, through a recorded interview using a semi-structured form. For the treatment and analysis of the data, the Collective Subject Discourse was used. The study followed the ethical precepts and was approved by the ethics committee (opinion n. 3.419.572). Results: The participants’ discourses gave rise to four central ideas: Feelings experienced from the discovery of pregnancy; The discovery of pregnancy and the decision to continue the course; Support relationships as a decisive factor for the non-abandonment of the course and Strategies to reconcile motherhood with academic routine. The main key expressions identified in the discourses were: joy, fear, insecurity, anguish, concern, distress, anger, sadness, interrupting, giving up, taking time off from the course, not taking time off from the course, family support, support from friends, support from the institution, adjusting schedules, studying while my child sleeps, family help, taking the baby to college, storing milk while breastfeeding. Conclusion: The analysis of the discourses revealed that the experience of motherhood in the university sphere is marked by a combination of different feelings, and by an important process of adaptations to the new moment, since there is a reflection and indecision about the continuity of the academic trajectory. The reports also highlight the importance of family, institutional and friend support, such as a support network of incentive to the care with the child, as well as the use of strategies to reconcile academic routine with motherhood.

scholarly journals Study Skills Assessment among Undergraduate Students at a Private University College in Oman

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
Samia Naqvi ◽  
Gladson Chikwa ◽  
Udayakumari Menon ◽  
Dhafra Al Kharusi
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Study Skills ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Private University ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Fundamental Study ◽  
Business Studies ◽  
Sample Data ◽  
University College

AbstractThis paper reports findings of a small-scale descriptive study that was conducted to assess the level of study skills possessed by undergraduate students enrolled in Engineering, Business Studies and Computing programs at a private University College in Oman. The study explored whether there is any correlation between study skills and academic performance and whether study skills vary in terms of gender, specialization and levels of study. A pre-tested Study Skills Inventory developed by Dennis Congo was administered on the sample. Data were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Among other things, the study established that most of the students lack some fundamental study skills such as critical and creative thinking as well as time management and test preparation.

“Taking Something That Is Not Your Right”: Egyptian Students’ Perceptions of Academic Integrity

Libri ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda B. Click
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Private University ◽  
Academic Librarians ◽  
American University ◽  
Research Questions

AbstractThis study explores the perceptions of Egyptian undergraduate students at The American University in Cairo, an American-style private university in Egypt, as related to academic integrity. The research questions were developed in order to discover how these students perceive the scholarly environment in which they learn, if they engage in dishonest behaviors, and if so, why. The qualitative results of this mixed-method study were collected via online survey and photovoice interviews, an ethnographic method in which participants take photographs in response to prompts provided by the investigator. In the survey, students were asked to define academic integrity and explain how they learned about the concept, and also respond to statements about the scholarly environment on campus. The photovoice participants took photographs in response to the following prompts, and others related to their research processes: something that shows how you feel about plagiarism, something that shows how you feel about cheating, something that shows how you learned about academic integrity. The results include the responses to 114 completed surveys, supported by the photographs and content of the eight photovoice interviews. The qualitative data was coded line by line, and larger themes were identified. Students indicate that their colleagues engage in academically dishonest behavior regularly, and pointed to poor time management, pressure for high grades, and helping friends as reasons for this. The paper argues that academic librarians are in a unique position to promote academic integrity on campus, and provides some suggestions for advocacy.

scholarly journals Time Management Skills of University Students

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-147
Author(s):  
Muhammet İbrahim Akyürek
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
State Universities ◽  
State University ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Medium Level ◽  
Time Planning

The purpose of this study is to determine university students' perceptions of their time management skills. The research sample is composed of 384 undergraduate students studying in state universities located in various Turkish cities during the 2016-2017 academic year. The Time Management Questionnaire (TMQ) was used in the collection of the data, which was developed by Britton and Tesser (1991) and adapted to Turkish by Alay and Koçak (2002). It was found that students rated their time management skills as being at the "medium-level". In addition, it was concluded that there was no significant gender-related difference in their perceptions of their skill level in time management. While their perceptions of "time-attitudes" and "time-wasters" differed by gender, no such difference was found regarding their perceptions of "time planning". The study included only state university students as the research group. Similar studies regarding time management skills can be conducted with students or educators in different types of educational settings and levels of education. Furthermore, this study analyzed student perceptions of their own time management skills only by the gender variable. However, their perception of these skills can also be analyzed by other demographic variables such as socio-economic status, age, and department of study.

scholarly journals Intellectual property rights (IPR) awareness among undergraduate students

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 711-714
Author(s):  
Hway-Boon Ong ◽  
Yih-Jian Yoong ◽  
Bahma Sivasubramaniam
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
University Students ◽  
Intellectual Property Rights ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Adequate Information

This study is conducted to examine the perception and awareness of intellectual property rights (IPR) among university students. A survey was conducted to illicit information about IPR from two private universities’ students in Malaysia. It was discovered that university students perceived plagiarism and piracy as infringement of IPR. Therefore, provision of adequate information, active participation of government bodies and university’s authorities, as well as IPR awareness activities are three factors that will encourage IPR awareness among these university students.

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