scholarly journals The Impact of Cultural Diversity on the Academic Performance: A Study on Turkish Universities

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Ercan Turgut
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
University Ranking ◽  
Correlation And Regression Analysis ◽  
Educational Culture ◽  
Heterogeneous Structures ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Performance Research ◽  
Science Production

<p>Universities as science production centers are institutions that bring diverse information together. It is noteworthy that no longer these institutions have more international and heterogeneous structures. Qualified foreign academicians with the educational culture of a different country get universities stronger with these differences and knowledge, and improve the universities’ academic performance. Considering this idea in this research the effect of the number of foreign academicians to the academic performance of universities is investigated. For this purpose, the effect and correlation between performance rates of 130 universities of Turkey and the number of the foreign academicians, which is evaluated by University Ranking by Academic Performance Research Laboratory (URAP), have been revealed with correlation and regression analysis. As a consequence, a positive and weak relationship was determined between the number of foreign academicians and performance. Also the number of the foreign instructors affects the performance of the universities positively.</p>

scholarly journals Preface to the special issue

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Germà Coenders ◽  
Patrick Doreian
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Network ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Performance Research

This special issue is devoted to the studies done to predict PhD students' academic performance carried out by the INSOC (International Network on Social Capital and Performance) research group.

scholarly journals Factors of academic stress: Do they impact English academic performance?

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1446
Author(s):  
Erlinda D. Tibus ◽  
Sybill Krizzia G. Ledesma
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Academic Success ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Academic Stress ◽  
Moderate Level ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Personal Stress ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

<span>This study investigated the college students’ level of academic performance and determined the impact of academic stress on their English academic performance. This employed a descriptive-exploratory research design with Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and correlation analysis (Pearson r) as main analyses using statistical software. The result suggested that the students (N=250) have a moderate level of stress. Likewise, seven factors were generated through EFA but were reduced to four factors using parallel analysis, the factors are perceived personal stress, classroom stress, performance stress, and time management stress. In the correlation analysis, it was found out that perceived personal stress, classroom stress, and performance stress are significantly correlated except for time management stress. Moreover, these factors were found to have no significant relationship with the English grades of the students. With this result, it is concluded that despite having a moderate level of academic stress, students were able to manage them by using a plethora of coping mechanisms available. The institutions should offer prevention and intervention services that directly address the academic stress of the students to ensure academic success.</span>

scholarly journals The impact of personality and self-efficacy on academic and military performance: The mediating role of self-efficacy

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hol Fosse ◽  
Robert Buch ◽  
Reidar Säfvenbom ◽  
Monica Martinussen
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Big Five Personality ◽  
Military Performance ◽  
Efficacy Analysis ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact

Abstract In order to optimize recruitment and the overall outcome of educational programmes, it is crucial to understand personal determinants of achievement. While several cognitive abilities and skills individually predict performance in academic and professional settings, it is less clear how personality translates into performance. This study addresses the impact of the Big Five personality trait, conscientiousness, on academic performance and instructor performance ratings and examines the mediating role of self-efficacy. Analysis of longitudinal data (Time 1: n = 166 (conscientiousness); Time 2: n = 161 (self-efficacy); Time 3: n = 136 (military performance) and n = 156 (academic performance)) from three military academies in Norway showed that conscientiousness was related to both military and academic performance. Moreover, self-efficacy emerged as a partial mediator for the relationship between conscientiousness and performance.

scholarly journals The impact of timetable on student’s absences and performance

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. e0253256
Author(s):  
Souad Larabi-Marie-Sainte ◽  
Roohi Jan ◽  
Ali Al-Matouq ◽  
Sara Alabduhadi
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Educational Data Mining ◽  
Prediction Performance ◽  
University Timetabling ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
High Prediction ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Automated Timetabling ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Design Factors

Student’s academic performance is the point of interest for both the student and the academic institution in higher education. This performance can be affected by several factors and one of them is student absences. This is mainly due to the missed lectures and other class activities. Studies related to university timetabling investigate the different techniques and algorithms to design course timetables without analyzing the relationship between student attendance behavior and timetable design. This article first aimed at demonstrating the impact of absences and timetabling design on student’s academic performance. Secondly, this study showed that the number of absences can be caused by three main timetable design factors: namely, (1) the number of courses per semester, (2) the average number of lectures per day and (3) the average number of free timeslots per day. This was demonstrated using Educational Data Mining on a large dataset collected from Prince Sultan University. The results showed a high prediction performance reaching 92% when predicting student’s GPA based on absences and the factors related to timetabling design. High prediction performance reaching 87% was also obtained when predicting student absences based on the three timetable factors mentioned above. The results demonstrated the importance of designing course timetables in view of student absence behavior. Some suggestions were reported such as limiting the number of enrolled courses based on student’s GPA, avoiding busy and almost free days and using automated timetabling to minimize the number of predicted absences. This in turn will help in generating balanced student timetables, and thus improving student academic performance.

scholarly journals Blended Learning in an Upper Year Engineering Course: The Relationship between Students’ Program Year, Interactions with Online Material, and Academic Performance

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Watson ◽  
Luis F. Marin ◽  
Lisa N. White ◽  
Renato Macciotta ◽  
Lianne M. Lefsrud
Keyword(s):  
Academic Performance ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Instructional Materials ◽  
Class Discussion ◽  
Material Research ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

At a comprehensive, public university in Western Canada, a fourth-year course in risk and safety management was recently made a requirement for all engineering students; depending on their program, students may take this course in their second, third, fourth, or fifth year of their program. As a result of increasing class sizes, this course was shifted from traditional to blended instruction. Since blending and opening this course to students with varying years of undergraduate engineering experience, instructors noted a difference in students’ maturity (e.g., a change in quantity and quality of in-class discussion, questions, participation, student-teacher interactions, and problem solving capabilities) and questioned whether this impacted their interactions with online material. Research examining the impact of blended learning in Engineering has primarily focused on large first-year undergraduate courses; research about blended learning in upper-year engineering courses is sparse. Studies investigating courses with students of varying years of experience in the program are virtually non-existent. Therefore, to better understand students’ interactions with online material during blended learning as connected to years in their program, we examined the relationship between levels of interaction and performance of students by year in program. This study analyzed approximately 2000 students’ interactions with online material and performance across five sections of a risk-management course in engineering. We found that students who had completed more years of their program interacted less with online material than students earlier in their undergraduate careers. Academic performance, on the other hand, was higher for students who had interacted more with online material and slightly higher for students who had completed more years in their program. These results suggest that the delivery of instructional materials may need to be tailored to students’ year in their program. Further implications and areas of future study are discussed. 

scholarly journals Linking Motivation to Employees’ Performance: the Mediation of Commitment and Moderation of Delegation Authority

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Eric Irakoze ◽  
Kashosi Gad David
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Correlation And Regression Analysis ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study explores the roles of commitment and delegation authority respectively as a mediator and moderator to evaluate the impact of motivation on employee performance. A survey conducted with 180 employees as participants at OTB (Burundi Tea Office) from 4 tea factories located at Ijenda, Teza, Tora and Rwegura helped to assess the effect motivation has on employees&rsquo; performance. The correlation and regression analysis in SPSS was supported to evaluate the hypotheses of this research.&nbsp; The results reveal that there is a positive significance correlation between motivation and performance of employees. The outcomes from regression analysis express that commitment and delegation authority as mediator and moderator respectively have an impact on the relationship between motivation and performance of employees.&nbsp;

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