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Direct linkMohan, Preeya – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
Technical efficiency is the ability of a firm to produce its maximum output using a set of inputs or to minimise the use of its inputs to produce a certain level of output. When a firm is operating at its most efficient, operating costs can be minimised, profits maximised and competitiveness improved. This study investigates the role of a firm's…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Productivity, Innovation, Role
Blair, Erik; Maharaj, Chris; Primus, Simone – Education and Information Technologies, 2016
Changes in the conceptualisation of higher education have led to instructional methods that embrace technology as a teaching medium. These changes have led to the flipped classroom phenomenon--where content is delivered outside class, through media such as video and podcast, and engagement with the content, through problem-solving and/or group…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Higher Education
Download full textWarrican, S. Joel; Leacock, Coreen J.; Thompson, Benita P.; Alleyne, Melissa L. – Open Praxis, 2014
This paper investigated success rates and possible predictors of success among students at The University of the West Indies Open Campus. Archival data were mined from admissions and academic records of students from the 2008 intake to explore retention and completion rates, and for students enrolled in two online undergraduate courses in Semester…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Success, Predictor Variables, College Students
Wagner, Alan P.; And Others – 1989
The study examined the influence of financial sources on field of study decisions of non-sponsored and sponsored students from developing countries at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Findings are based on analysis of survey responses of 868 foreign students from five countries (Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jamaica, and Nigeria) studying…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Decision Making, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Predicting Performance in Jamaican Teachers' Colleges. Final Report of the Teachers' Validity Study.
Mitchelmore, M. C. – 1982
This study investigated the relation between the entering characteristics of the 1,210 students who entered the 7 residential teachers' colleges in Jamaica in September 1976 and their subsequent performance in college. There were 41 predictor variables (encompassing biographical data, previous education and work experience, and general and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Educational Research, Evaluation
