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Maclean Bajimpong Betakan; Anthony Akwasi Owusu; Joseph Tufuor Kwarteng – Cogent Education, 2024
This study examines the determinants of learning strategies employed by undergraduate accounting students in an emerging economy. Specifically, it investigates the impact of institution, teacher, and personal determinants on accounting students' utilisation of a particular learning strategy. In line with Information Process Theory (IPM), a…
Descriptors: Learning Strategies, Undergraduate Students, Accounting, Business Administration Education
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Okolie, Ugochukwu C.; Elom, Elisha N.; Igwe, Paul A.; Nwajiuba, Chinyere A.; Binuomote, Michael O.; Igu, Ntasiobi – International Journal of Training Research, 2020
Despite the diversity of views in the literature about what employability skills are, there appears to be general agreement that employability skills are important. However, there are concerns about whether TVET graduates in developing countries are developing these skills and the onus falls upon TVET teachers to ensure they do so. In this…
Descriptors: Vocational Education Teachers, Employment Potential, Job Skills, Developing Nations
Bissessar, Charmaine, Ed. – Springer, 2021
This book exemplifies the challenges and successes of online learning, teaching and leading in times of crises. It helps shed light on the issues facing online and face-to-face practitioners having to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic and continue education within the confines of a specific interface. The volume includes new research and…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Distance Education, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Owusu-Agyeman, Yaw; Fourie-Malherbe, Magda – Cogent Education, 2018
The learning conceptions and priorities of adult learners in higher education institutions (HEIs) are essential to explicating the meaning adults make to teaching and learning processes as well as their knowledge and skills development. Through knowledge formulation, comprehension and reflection of what they learn, adult learners develop a mental…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Engineering Education, Higher Education, Employment Potential
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Kwarteng, Alexander; Dissou-Arthur, Yarhands; Sylverken, Augustina; Frimpong, Michael; Ahuno Terkper, Samuel; Owusu-Dabo, Ellis – Cogent Education, 2018
Immunology is increasingly becoming a core biomedical discipline in recent times. Students' interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics programs is essential for better academic performances and outcomes in a University of Science Technology. To this end, we assessed the factors that influence students' interest in immunology…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Epidemiology
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Kwarteng, Alexander; Frimpong, Michael; Sylverken, Augustina Angelina; Arthur, Yarhands D.; Ahuno, Samuel T.; Owusu-Dabo, Ellis – Cogent Education, 2017
Interest and motivation significantly influence achievement; however, interest in immunology remains to be determined. Using a structured questionnaire, the current study assessed for the first time interest in immunology among biomedical graduate students in Ghana after a one-week introduction to immunology course. Our results revealed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Biomedicine
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Opoku-Asare, Nana Afia; Siaw, Abena Okyerewa – SAGE Open, 2016
Teaching and learning in Ghana's Senior High Schools (SHSs) are guided by a centralized curriculum, teaching syllabus, textbooks, assessment criteria, and examinations, yet rural-urban disparities exist in educational resources provision, which significantly affect teaching and learning processes and student achievement in the SHSs, particularly…
Descriptors: High School Students, Visual Arts, Academic Achievement, Urban Schools
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Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaías, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2018
The aim of the 2018 International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA) conference was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There have been advances in both cognitive…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education