Objective: Academic emotions have been found to be important predictors of students' self-regulation. The goal of this study was to investigate the role of academic emotions on undergraduate students' self-regulation at a medical college in Malawi. Materials and Methods: 1 st year students (n = 205) from the college responded to two separate questionnaires assessing their emotions and motivated self-regulated learning (SRL) strategies employed in their classes of anatomy (n = 51), pharmacy (n = 44), medical laboratory science (n = 44), and physiotherapy (n = 66). Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics, version 20. Results: Students experienced hope (F [3, 201] = 3.05, P = 0.030) differently across the four programs. Female students reported high levels of anxiety (P < 0.05) and boredom (P < 0.05) than male students, while male students reported high levels of enjoyment (P < 0.001) and hope (P < 0.001) than their counterparts. Cognitive strategies were positively predicted by enjoyment (β = 0.42), hope (β = 0.34), anger (β = 0.18), and value (β = 0.61) while resource management was positively predicted by enjoyment (β = 0.56) and value (β = 0.46). Finally, task value was positively predicted by hope (β = 0.33) and enjoyment (β = 0.29), while expectancy was positively predicted by hope (β = 0.37). Conclusions: The study shows that class-related emotions and motivation have an influence on medical students' SRL. Therefore it is important to foster pleasant emotions, which trigger motivation for the betterment of students' self-regulation.
This study investigated the effect of general creative personality and freedom of task choice on the social creativity of adolescents. The results indicated, first, that senior high school students scored higher than junior high school students. Second, girls scored higher than boys on originality, fluency, flexibility, appropriateness, and utility with regard to creative social problem‐solving. Third, freedom of task choice and its interaction with creative personality had significant effects on the originality, appropriateness, utility, flexibility, and fluency of social creativity. Adolescents who completed the task voluntarily scored higher on these dimensions than adolescents who completed it reluctantly and, among the voluntary adolescents, those with high and medium creative personality scored higher than those with low creative personality, whereas no such difference was found among the reluctant adolescents. Adolescents were more likely to show social creativity, and their general creative personality was more likely to be brought into effect under the freedom of task choice condition.
Abstract-Medical institutions have an exceptional responsibility to train health providers to become versatile in their own fields, trying to foster and stimulate life-long skills such as problem solving and critical thinking. Research on academic self-regulation suggests that students' intrinsic goal orientation and deep approach to learning enhance students' learning. The primary goal of this study was to investigate the role intrinsic goal orientation plays on students' deep learning approach. A sample of 205 first year students (121 males and 84 females) from College of Medicine in Malawi responded to a questionnaire assessing their intrinsic goal orientation and deep learning strategy approach. Data were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics, version 20. Linear regression results indicate that intrinsic goal orientation positively predicted both deep and meta-cognitive learning strategies as components of deep learning approach construct. Male students had higher levels of intrinsic goal orientation than their female counterparts. There were no significant differences among students from different programs of study on intrinsic goal orientation, deep and meta-cognitive learning strategies. The results suggest that intrinsic goal orientation has an important impact on medical and allied health students' deep learning approach. Possible implications of the results and recommendations for future research are discussed.
The study takes a stance to explore the political discourse speech in Malawi as the country draws closer to the May 2019 general elections. This is a war-like zone period with different political figures pursuing, negotiating, and struggling for power. We specially mount our research to investigate how Saulos Klaus Chilima strategizes to get the winning card by exploring his voice and voice projection techniques during the launch of his party. We have hence borrowed insights from Heffer’s (2013, 2018) Voice Projection framework (VPF) and used Nvivo 11 Pro software in the analysis. The study discovers that his launch speech is highly authorizing, persuading, converging, and highlighting with very few instances of centring, and indexing which made the speech more powerful, stimulating and impressive. The study brings a different dimension of analyzing political discourse by shopping a theory from Forensic discourse.
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