scholarly journals Factors Affecting Iranian TEFL Postgraduate Candidates’ Research Productivity: A Qualitative Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Reihanne Yousefi ◽  
Abdorreza Tahriri ◽  
Maryam Danaye Tous
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Motivational Influences ◽  
Conducting Research

Developing research performance has become an important theme in Iranian higher educational institutions as other national and international academic institutions across the world. However, the research performance of Iranian Teaching English as a Foreign Language postgraduate candidates has been argued to be limited. In order to increase their research productivity and develop their capacity in this regard, the first critical step is to understand the influences which are associated with their academic research performance. This qualitative study focuses on a group of TEFL postgraduate candidates from five major Iranian universities with the purpose of investigating the motivational influences in conducting research, their perception of research value, and their understanding of research environment which is required for research productivity. Interviews were conducted with 20 candidates from the sample universities. It was revealed that the research related activities and efforts of the participants were driven by both external and internal needs and motivations. A multi-dimensional value was accorded to research; however, the academic research environment and requirements were the subject of various concerns. The results of this study offer several future implications for departmental and institutional research administrators to further support TEFL postgraduate candidates’ research development.

scholarly journals Factors contributing towards research productivity in higher education

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Caroline Henry ◽  
Nor Azura Md Ghani ◽  
Umi Marshida Abd Hamid ◽  
Ahmad Naqiyuddin Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Student Perception ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Age Cohort ◽  
Role Of Principal ◽  
Behavioural Factors ◽  
Conducting Research

<span>Research Productivity (RP) is the key element in the establishment of ranking and rating system in the Higher Education (HE) sector. Despite of the many initiatives taken to enliven the research culture among academic staff, there are still constraints and resistance towards conducting research. Therefore, this study attempts to identify the factors affecting RP and develop an appropriate model to determine the RP of an academic staff in Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). In this study, 5 research related indicators were used in the determination of RP. Since the population size of UiTM is large, the primary data was collected by using questionnaire survey and stratified random sampling. The variables that were found to be significant in determining RP of an academic staff were age cohort, highest qualification, cluster and track emphasis. Satisfaction towards annual KPI, UiTM current policy and monthly income were also found to influence the RP of an academic staff. In addition, perceiving the role of principal investigator as a chore and burden and supervising and graduating a PhD student perception as burden and pleasure were also found to be affecting RP. Using these variables, Logistic Regression Model was used to determine the RP of an academic staff in UiTM. In conclusion, personal, environmental and behavioural factors were found to have influence on the RP among academic staff of UiTM. Therefore, generally it is possible to maximize the RP of academic staff by identifying the factors influencing RP followed by strategic management and proper monitoring system.</span>

scholarly journals FACTORS AFFECTING RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT AT SYRIAN BUSINESS FACULTIES: A STUDENT-PERCEIVED MODEL

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-225
Author(s):  
Bayan KHALIFA ◽  
Riad ABDULRAOUF ◽  
Sulaiman MOUSELLI
Keyword(s):  
Research Performance ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Research Environment ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Business Programs ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Quality Of Research ◽  
Significant Factors

This study aims at investigating the factors that affect the research environment of business postgraduate students, particularly master students, from the perspective of these students. From the same perspective, it also aims at assessing these factors together with the quality of research environment. A questionnaire survey method was employed. The questionnaire was developed by academics from five business faculties based on relevant studies and was distributed to graduate students enrolled in all of the research business programs at the Faculty of Economics, Damascus University, ending up with 88 valid responses. To explore the factors that may affect research environment, exploratory factor analysis was employed. In addition, multiple regression analysis and t-test were applied to respond to the study purposes. Facilities and industry linkage come to be significant factors in the research environment. However, the results show insignificant impact for each of the research courses, networking, and research skills in the overall research environment. Variations in regard to the availability of these factors were identified with low level of availability for the facilities and industry linkage. The study is one of a kind that investigates factors affecting research environment of postgraduate students and particularly master students. Further and to the best of our knowledge, it is the first study that examines such factors in war conditions, which enables us to understand what students perceive as critical factors influencing their research performance in these conditions. Recommendations to policy makers are presented to develop strategies that respond to students’ concerns for a better research environment.

America’s Higher Education: My Journey as a Taiwanese Immigrant Woman Faculty

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Huang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Immigrant Woman ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Woman Faculty ◽  
The Us ◽  
Conducting Research

AbstractIn this article, I apply a critical autoethnographic approach to frame my experience as a Taiwanese immigrant woman faculty in the US higher educational institutions where I served and continue to serve. I describe how I developed research agendas to produce knowledge as a means to diversify our understanding of minorities. Conducting research in rapidly changing Chinese ethnic communities with an intent to include other immigrant groups and produce cross-ethnic understanding with other researchers in digital media proved to be incompatible with the current conditions of the tenure-granting process at CUNY, and my application for tenure was denied. However, I contested the decision; and after winning my case, I engaged in institutional research on the roles of Asian American faculty in leadership in the system. I conclude that hiring and retention of diverse faculty and engaging in activism are ways to maintain academic rigor for the system.

An integrative model of knowledge sharing in Malaysian Higher Learning Institute

Kybernetes ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1031-1052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ashraf Fauzi ◽  
Christine Tan Nya-Ling ◽  
Ramayah Thurasamy ◽  
Adedapo Oluwaseyi Ojo
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Social Capital Theory ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Integrative Model ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Holistic Model ◽  
Content Type

Purpose This paper aims to understand the factors that can determine the knowledge sharing (KS) intention and behaviour of academics in Malaysian higher learning institutes (HLIs), thus affecting academics research productivity. Design/methodology/approach The study’s respondents were 525 academics from public and private HLI in Malaysia. This study adapts theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and social capital theory (SCT) to determine academics KS intention and behaviour of academics and the factors that can influence along the KS process. Findings Results indicate that among the factors of academics KS behaviour, there are two factors that are not significant, commitment and perceived cost, while the rest showed significant results. The strongest factors are management support and social media use among academics. The result also shows that academics intention to share is explained by 62.1 per cent of the variance, while academics KS behaviour is explained by 47.1 per cent of the variance. Research limitations/implications This study shows the high intention and behaviour of sharing among Malaysian academics and suggests that academics in this country are cautious and aware of the importance of knowledge for human capital and development of nation. Practical implications This paper facilitates university in hiring academics that support KS activities. Originality/value The integration of TPB and SCT in evaluating Malaysian academics KS behaviour can eventually affect the research productivity. Furthermore, addition of several variables, such as perceived cost, facilitating conditions make this study a holistic model to predict academic research performance.

scholarly journals A Qualitative Study of Team Level Factors Affecting Innovation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narges Balouchestani Asli ◽  
Majd Zouda ◽  
Kamran Behdinan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Team Size ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Team Innovation ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Support For Innovation ◽  
Knowledge Support ◽  
The University ◽  
Capstone Design

Innovation is a necessity to embrace possibilities and face challenges and problems in our continuously changing world. Multidisciplinary capstones can be a place for students to be innovative. Students not only get a chance to work on a real project from industry, but they also work with students from different disciplines. This diversity of knowledge and perspectives can lead to team innovation. This paper explores team level factors affecting innovation in 4th year multidisciplinary capstone design at the University of Toronto. This paper is a qualitative study that explores the effect of diversity of knowledge, support for innovation from supervisor and client, team size, and team vision on innovation. Our research sheds some light on what behaviors in teams lead to innovation. Supporting and encouraging these behaviors from educational institutions provides an environment for students to be more innovative

scholarly journals Departmental leadership and peer pressure on academic research performance at universities in emerging countries: An empirical study in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 119-138
Author(s):  
Ngoc Nguyen ◽  
◽  
Long Pham ◽  
Susie Cox ◽  
Nhuong Bui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Leadership Behaviors ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Peer Pressure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Department Heads ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Impact

Research performance of lecturers in higher education institutions has become an important topic but many variables are still largely unexplored in current literature. The main objective of this study is to examine the impact of four leadership behaviors of department heads and coworkers on the lecturers’ research performance and the moderating effects of achievement value. A survey was conducted with a sample of 408 Vietnamese lecturers at economics and business management focused universities. Our findings contribute to the literature of job performance in higher education from an organizational behavior perspective by explaining the mid-level impacts of departmental factors affecting research performance. We also discuss potential implications and make recommendations for future research.

scholarly journals The Influence of Personal and Organizational Factors on Researchers’ Attitudes towards Sustainable Research Productivity in Saudi Universities

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fahad Ghabban ◽  
Ali Selamat ◽  
Roliana Ibrahim ◽  
Ondrej Krejcar ◽  
Petra Maresova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
International Collaboration ◽  
Effect Size ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Academic Staff ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Personal Factors ◽  
University Policy ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Personal Use

Purpose: This paper studies organisational and personal factors affecting the behaviour of academic staff in Saudi universities. It seeks to investigate the beliefs of academic staff regarding the use of ICT and other factors to enhance the productivity of their scientific research. Also, this study aims to improve the sustainability of publication in Saudi universities. ICT includes using the library system for accessing research repository databases such as Science Direct, Web of Science, Scopus, etc. and other factors. The authors also developed the Importance Performance Map Analysis (IPMA) for these factors in order to provide guidelines for Saudi universities to build university systems to manage and measure the research productivity of academic staff. In summary, this research identifies factors critical to enhancing research productivity in Saudi universities. This will help to improve the sustainability of publication in Saudi universities. By enhancing the sustainability of publication, the reputation of Saudi universities will be improved and the reputation of academic staff in Saudi universities. As well the sustainability of publication will assist the promote of Saudi academic staff. Approach: This paper analysed 200 papers related to the enhancement of research productivity from various research databases such as Science Direct, IEEE and Scopus. We included the usage of ICT in research analysis, university policy, university research funding and the number of publications published by academic staff. The authors used different databases and systematic literature reviews (SLR) to find the most important factors which could improve research productivity in universities. An online questionnaire answered by 375 academic staff from four developing Saudi universities that are Taif University, Taibah University, Jeddah University, Hail University—was used to determine the relationship between information technology factors and research performance together with other factors such as university policy, international collaboration, research funding and job satisfaction. In this study, we used SmartPLS v3 to analyse the results from the questionnaires. Findings: The results show that personal factors such as personal use of ICT and organisational factors such as job satisfaction, university policy, IT funding, international collaboration and the level of ICT use in the university have positive effects on scientific research productivity among academic staff at Saudi universities. Those results are based on the beliefs of academic staff regarding the use of information technology for research purposes and other factors. This paper finds that university policy recorded an importance of 0.523, job satisfaction was 0.224, international collaboration was 0.103, personal use of ICT was 0.102, the level of using ICT in the university was 0.074 and the importance of ICT funding was –0.156. Also, the results from SmartPLS show that university policy has a 0.215 effect size on research performance, job satisfaction has a 0.045 effect size on research performance, international collaboration has a 0.009 effect size on research performance, personal use of ICT has a 0.011 effect size on research performance, a university’s use of ICT has a 0.006 effect size on research performance and ICT funding has a 0.014 effect size on the research performance of academic staff in Saudi universities. These results will help to improve the sustainability of publication in Saudi universities in order to enhance the universities’ rankings and the reputation of academic staff. Sustainability is a target for any organization, both for profit-making entities or non-profit organizations such as universities. This means that Saudi universities should enhance the sustainability of their publication. In order to achieves the goals of higher education institutions. Originality: No study has investigated the factors affecting the performance of academic staff in Arab countries, especially in Saudi universities. Therefore, the originality of this study resides in being the first study to investigate the impact of researchers’ attitudes to enhancing the research productivity performance of researchers in Saudi universities. Also, it is one of the few studies which discusses sustainability in Saudi universities.

scholarly journals Evaluating Academic Research Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien Contandriopoulos ◽  
Catherine Larouche ◽  
Arnaud Duhoux
Keyword(s):  
Research Performance ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Research Capacity ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Research Networks ◽  
Scientific Performance ◽  
Small Component ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Policies And Programs

Abstract: Funding agencies and universities are increasingly searching for effec-tive ways to support and strengthen a dynamic and competitive scientific research capacity. Many of their funding policies are based on the hypothesis that increased collaboration and networking between researchers and between institutions lead to improved scientific productivity. Although many studies have found positive correlations between academic collaborations and research performance, it is less clear how formal institutional networks contribute to this effect. Using social net-work analysis (SNA) methods, we highlight the distinction between what we define as “formal” institutional research networks and “organic” researcher networks. We also analyze the association between researchers’ actual structural position in such networks and their scientific performance. The data used come from cur-riculum vitae information of 125 researchers in two provincially funded research networks in Quebec, Canada. Our findings confirm a positive correlation between collaborations and research productivity. We also demonstrate that collaborations within the formal networks in our study constitute a relatively small component of the underlying organic network of collaborations. These findings contribute to the literature on evaluating policies and programs that pertain to institutional research networks and should stimulate research on the capacity of such networks to foster research productivity.Résumé : Les universités et les agences de financement cherchent de plus en plus à renforcer de façon efficace une capacité de recherche scientifique dynamique et concurrentielle.  Bon nombre de leurs politiques de financement sont fondées sur l’hypothèse qu’une amélioration de la collaboration et du réseautage entre les chercheurs et entre les établissements mène à une productivité scientifique accrue. De nombreuses études ont noté une corrélation positive entre les collaborations de recherche et le rendement en recherche, mais la contribution des réseaux institution-nels officiels à ce résultat reste nébuleuse. À l’aide de méthodes d’analyse des réseaux sociaux, nous mettons l’accent sur la distinction entre ce que nous définissons comme les réseaux institutionnels de recherche « officiels » et les réseaux « organiques » de chercheurs. Nous analysons aussi l’association entre les positions structurelles réelles

Research Productivity, Visibility, and Impact at the University of Namibia

2020 ◽  
pp. 489-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trywell Kalusopa ◽  
Patiswa Zibani ◽  
Ronald Kanguti ◽  
Anna Leonard
Keyword(s):  
Research Productivity ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Global Competitiveness ◽  
Research Data Management ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Research Profile ◽  
The University

The global competitiveness drive, pursuit for relevance, and search for true identity continues to challenge many African universities in their quest to achieve the delicate balance of preserving national indigenous repute and worldwide visibility. For decades, universities have occupied a centre stage in this balancing act through research productivity, evaluation, and impact. The benefits of university research and innovation are varied, persuasive, well-documented, and acknowledged as benchmarks for the visibility, sustenance, and relevance of any modern university. This chapter examines the research profile of the University of Namibia (UNAM) by looking at its current research productivity, visibility, and impact in the SADC region and beyond. Using bibliometric and altimetric analysis from Web of Science, Scopus, and SciVal databases, and the institutional repository, the chapter underscores the fragility but evolving UNAM's research performance output and highlights open access and research data management as keys to enhancing institutional research productivity and visibility.

scholarly journals Interconnecting Theory A and ABC Model of Organizational Research Performance

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. S. Aithal ◽  
P. M. Suresh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Research Productivity ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Organization Performance ◽  
Abc Model ◽  
Organizational Research ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Simple Measurement

The higher education and research institutions have an objective of creating new knowledge continuously using their people as resources and success of the organizations depend on how much new knowledge they have created during a given period of time. A simple measurement system for calculating annual research index of organizations namely ABC model has been developed by Aithal P. S. and Suresh Kumar during 2016. As per this model, the annual research performance can be determined by knowing the research index of the institution/ individuals and is calculated by considering the total number of research publications during that period. Application of the theory of organizational performance namely ‘Theory A’ can improve research productivity of educational institutions. This is a management strategy which believes in delivering target as responsibility, feeling of creativity and contribution for motivation, identifying with the organization as commitment and accountability as a hallmark of efficiency. In this paper, we have interconnected Theory A of organization performance with ABC model of research productivity in order to enhance research productivity of the organizations.

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