School support: Unmasking the mediating role of teachers, peers, and school administrators support towards the promotion of student engagement

PurposeThe objective of this study is to understand the mediating role of student engagement between future time perspective and group task performance. In addition, the study examines the interaction effect of group cohesion task with student engagement on group performance.Design/methodology/approachData were collected from 170 (a total of 34 groups of five members each) business management students for three consecutive months. To analyze the data, multi-level modeling was carried out.FindingsThe results of the three-wave multi-level analysis indicate support for the hypotheses and suggest that future time perspective affects group performance through student engagement. Moreover, group cohesion interacts with student engagement to predict group task performance.Research limitations/implicationsThe findings show how the application of engagement theory can help in understanding the relationship between two distant variables, namely, future time perspective and group performance.Practical implicationsThe educators are encouraged to engage students for facilitating the positive impact of future time perspective on group task performance. The findings also imply that the students with future orientation perform well and thus, the educators may need to teach students to have futuristic perspective.Originality/valueThis study in one of its kinds to test the mediating role of student engagement between future time perspective and group task performance as well as the interaction effect of group cohesion task with student engagement on group performance at both the individual and group level over a period of time.

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Teachers’ exposure to professional development and the quality of their instructional technology use: The mediating role of teachers’ value and ability beliefs

Journal of Research on Technology in Education ◽

10.1080/15391523.2020.1830895 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Margaret A. Bowman ◽

Vanessa W. Vongkulluksn ◽

Zilu Jiang ◽

Kui Xie

Keyword(s):

Professional Development ◽

Instructional Technology ◽

Technology Use ◽

Mediating Role ◽

Role Of Teachers ◽

Ability Beliefs

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Unleashing the role of e-learning in student engagement practices and accounting professional competencies

Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education ◽

10.1108/jarhe-10-2020-0377 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Munther Al-Nimer ◽

Ghaith Alsheikh

Keyword(s):

Student Engagement ◽

Graduate Students ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Sem Analysis ◽

Professional Competencies ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Content Type ◽

Mediating Role ◽

E Learning

PurposePresently, there is a need for graduate students to be well prepared with accounting professional competencies (APCs) as the market is characterized by intensive activities and rare job opportunities. In relation to this is the significant role of student engagement (SE) practices and e-learning. Thus, the present study examined the mediating role of e-learning on the relationship between SE practices and APC, as well as the moderating role of student's demographics on the same relationship.Design/methodology/approachThe study used a structured questionnaire distributed to 428 accounting students enrolled in institutions in Jordan and the obtained response rate was 65.84%. The formulated hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling in PLS-SEM analysis Version 3.2.7.FindingsOn the basis of the results, there is a significant relationship between SE and e-learning and APC, with e-learning partially mediating the SE-APC relationship. The results also showed that students' demographics have a significant moderating relationship between the same.Originality/valueThe author recommends that universities employ advanced technologies with SE practices for the mobilization of accounting graduate students, with the prerequisite APC skills so they will become competitive and thrive in their professional and practical lives.

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