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Javed Iqbal; Tanweer Ul Islam – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2024
Economic efficiency demands accurate assessment of individual ability for selection purposes. This study investigates Classical Test Theory (CTT) and Item Response Theory (IRT) for estimating true ability and ranking individuals. Two Monte Carlo simulations and real data analyses were conducted. Results suggest a slight advantage for IRT, but…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Monte Carlo Methods, Ability, Statistical Analysis
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Smare, Zaina; Elfatihi, Mohamed – Issues in Educational Research, 2023
This article reviews the methodologies used in 76 empirical studies conducted on creative thinking in primary school education and published between 2011 and 2021. The studies were analysed for their context, foci of investigation and the methodologies used. Each study was coded and analysed quantitatively and qualitatively. The findings are…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Creative Thinking, Foreign Countries, Elementary Education
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Sarfo, Jacob Owusu; García-Santillán, Arturo; Adusei, Henry; Molchanova, Violetta S.; Drushlyak, Marina; Semenikhina, Olena; Donyeh, Philip Soyiri; Zand, Somayeh; Najafi, Reza; Enea, Violeta; Malik, Sadia; Ashraf, Farzana; Malik, Najma Iqbal; Ansah, Edward Wilson; Wongcharee, Hattaphan; Egara, Felix O.; Tipandjan, Arun; Cudjoe, Josephine; Azam, Uzma; Hassan, Mohammed Salah; Helmy, Mai; Vally, Zahir – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2020
Mathematics anxiety (MA) has a debilitating impact on learning, achievement, mental health, and the future career life of students. Though MA is a popular research theme, there is little agreement among researchers regarding the cross-cultural effect of gender. The purpose of this paper was to explore the perceived MA differences among males and…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Mathematics Anxiety, Cross Cultural Studies, Statistical Analysis
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Suleman, Qaiser; Hussain, Ishtiaq – Education Sciences, 2018
The purpose of the study was to examine and compare the job satisfaction of male and female secondary-school heads in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. All the male and female secondary-school heads working in pubic secondary schools of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa constituted the population of the study. A total sample of 402 secondary-school heads was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Satisfaction, Secondary Schools, Principals
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Fatima, Shameem; Sharif, Humera; Zimet, Gregory – International Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Guided by self-determination theory, the present study examines independent and interactive roles of self-efficacy and perceived social support in predicting types of academic motivation. Data were collected from 325 university undergraduates in 18-23 years of age (M = 21.09, SD = 1.34) from the fifth biggest city of South Asia. Results showed the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Undergraduate Students, Self Determination, Self Efficacy
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Sabagh, Zaynab; Hall, Nathan C.; Saroyan, Alenoush – Educational Research, 2018
Background: Over the past few decades, higher education institutions worldwide have experienced substantial changes, including: massification, internationalisation and increasing demands for exceptional instructional quality and research quantity in environments that have also seen heightened competition for students, faculty and resources.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Teacher Burnout, Labor Demands, College Faculty
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Farooq, Umar; Farooq, R. A.; Tabassum, Rabia; Khan, Shafqat Ali – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
The study was designed to investigate the moral reasoning stages of secondary school head teachers of Pakistan. Objectives of the study were (1) to investigate the stages of moral reasoning among secondary school head teachers in the light of Kohlberg's theory of moral development, (2) to find out the differences in moral reasoning of secondary…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Administrator Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Teachers
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Fida, Asfandyar; Ghaffar, Abdul; Zaman, Amir; Satti, Asif Niwaz – Journal of Education and Educational Development, 2018
Emotional intelligence is a contributing construct to learning and other personal and career developments. It is a perplex notion involving many conceptions which resulted in various tools of emotional intelligence. University education is a terminal stage when young people are ready to enter the job arena and are expected to be emotionally sound.…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Emotional Intelligence, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Haider, Badeea; Khan, Sumaira; Anwar, Kanwal – Journal of Education and Practice, 2016
There are clear differences in the extent to which people express their emotions. These differences in emotional expressions have long interested researchers and are relevant to several areas of psychology. The research topic is emotional expressions between hostalize male and female in. The sum of 24 students (12 male and 12 female) were selected…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Gender Differences, Statistical Analysis, Hypothesis Testing
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Ahmad, Saima; Kalim, Rukhsana; Kaleem, Ahmad – International Journal of Educational Management, 2017
Purpose: Despite an extensive history of research into workplace bullying and the psychosomatic harm associated with it in western contexts, research into the occurrence and manifestation of bullying behavior in the academic workplaces of non-western countries is sparse. In response to this gap, the purpose of this paper is to start a research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Work Environment, Bullying, Higher Education
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Khan, Shaista Irshad – European Journal of Educational Research, 2017
Critical thinking is seen as a highly desirable way of thinking that needs to be encouraged in all areas of higher education. However, it is not easy to conceptualise critical thinking in ways that can help in its development and in its assessment. Recent policy documents in Pakistan have laid emphasis on the development of critical thinking…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Higher Education, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries
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Haider, Syed Zubair; Qureshi, Ayesha – Journal of New Approaches in Educational Research, 2016
The present study investigates the causative factors of child labour in selected districts of South Punjab, Pakistan. As a member of the International Labour Organization (ILO) Pakistan has a responsibility to stamp out child labour from its regions. Our sample was selected from seven working environments (workshops, hotels, tea stalls,…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Factor Analysis
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Khan, Alamgir; Khan, Salahuddin; Zia-Ul-Islam, Syed; Khan, Manzoor – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
Basically the current study sought to assess the perception of students regarding the role of teacher communication skills in their academics success. Comprehensive questionnaire carrying information including social economic and demographic aspects of the study was designed by the researcher to achieve the set objectives. All those universities…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Education Teachers, Communication Skills, College Faculty
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Fatima, Irum; Pathan, Zahid Hussain – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
The primary purpose of this research is to investigate the vocabulary learning strategies employed by the undergraduate students of Sardar Bahadur Khan Women's University (SBKWU) and University of Balochistan (UOB), Quetta, Pakistan. A quantitative design was employed in this study to answer the two research questions of the present study. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis
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Ahmed, Tariq; Chandran, V. G. R.; Klobas, Jane E. – Educational Studies, 2017
Recent research on the benefits of entrepreneurship education has tended to ignore or "control out" possible demographic differences in outcomes for entrepreneurship graduates. This paper examines demographic differences in the perceived benefits of different components of entrepreneurship education programmes (EEPs), entrepreneurial…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Gender Differences
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