Indicators of Engineering Students’ Academic Performance: A Gender-Based Study

Nagahi, Morteza; Jaradat, Raed; Hossain, Niamat Ullah Ibne; Nagahisarchoghaei, Mohammad; Elakramine, Fatine; Georger, Simon R.

doi:10.1109/syscon47679.2020.9275665

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“…Researchers Stienstra & Karlson, 28 Qu et al, 29 Nunes et al, 30 Holmlund et al, 31 Nagahi, et al, 32 and Spinath et al, 27 were of the opinion that gender and age differences are not the only factors in students' academic achievements but other factors such as genetic influences, type of family, cultural orientation, type of school and environmental influences greatly affect students' performances. Due to these disparities in literature, we do not expect to see a strong relationship between age and gender in Engineering students' academic achievement or that it will be a very weak relationship.…”

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Academic performance of engineering students: A predictive validity study of first‐year GPA and final‐year CGPA

Nurudeen,

Fakhrou,

Lawal

et al. 2023

Engineering Reports

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Students' academic achievement is regarded as the scholastic standing of students at the end of a given study period that is expressed in terms of grades. This study focused on students' first‐year GPA as a predictor of final‐year CGPA and the relationship between demographic attributes of the students to academic achievement. An ex‐post factor research approach was adopted, and Pearson's correlation and Regression Analysis were fitted with the data using Minitab software. The results of the study highlighted that first‐year GPA had a strong positive relationship with final‐year CGPA which is an indication that first‐year GPA greatly influences final‐year CGPA meanwhile, demographic characteristics have no significant correlation with students' final‐year CGPA. Finally, the correlations drawn from this study indicated that first‐year GPA had a strong positive relationship with final‐year CGPA. Therefore, the students should be properly guided, University administrators, Faculty members, policy‐makers and other stakeholders should effectively develop a monitoring blueprint for students' academic progress as poor performance has severe consequences on students, teachers should inculcate effective learning culture among students, while government and its supervisory agencies should provide adequate teaching and learning resources, create enabling learning environment for effective service delivery that focuses on improving students' performance in Engineering.

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Academic performance of engineering students: A predictive validity study of first‐year GPA and final‐year CGPA

Nurudeen,

Fakhrou,

Lawal

et al. 2023

Engineering Reports

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“…An individual who is lower in these areas will engage in fewer interactions with peers, which reduces what that individual would learn in the problem-solving process. It is important to note that female engineering undergraduates are lower in these areas than their male counterparts (Christman & Yerrick, 2021; Nagahi et al, 2020; Verdín, Godwin, & Benedict, 2020), while female Magic: The Gathering players may not have the same difficulties unless participating in the online or tournament environments (Falcao, Macedo, & Kurtz, 2021).…”

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Proximal Processes and Problem Solving: Gamers vs. Students

Jacques

2022

Simulation & Gaming

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Background Problem-solving and collaboration occur frequently in serious games. They are also considered necessary skills for students to learn, so many engineering and computer science programs design assignments with them in mind. Understanding the similarities and differences between each scenario would strengthen problem-solving interventions aimed at students. Aim This qualitative study examined how engineering and computer science undergraduates (students) and players of Magic: The Gathering (gamers) identified a problem as being complex, used the inquiry cycle for problem-solving, and engaged in proximal processes. Method Undergraduates in engineering or computer science and players of Magic: The Gathering’s Elder Dragon Highlander format completed an online questionnaire where they described how they solved a complex problem and how they engaged with others (or why they chose not to engage with others) during each part of the process. Responses were grouped by role (gamer or student) and by gender then coded to identify where each was alike and where they differed. Results Gamers and students engaged in the problem-solving process differently, with gamers using more of the inquiry cycle than students did. Proximal processes, however, were used differently based on both group and gender, with female gamers engaging in them most often and female engineers least often.

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Academic service quality, student satisfaction and loyalty: a study at higher education legal entities in Indonesia

Supriyanto,

Burhanuddin,

Sunarni

et al. 2024

TQM

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PurposeThis study aims to explore the influence of academic service quality on student satisfaction and loyalty, based on a study at Higher Education Legal Entities (HELE) in Indonesia. HELE is a policy in higher education that empowers these institutions to become autonomous in management. Academic service quality (ASQ) is an essential aspect of fostering the satisfaction and loyalty of students.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses the descriptive quantitative and regressive survey approach to examine the influence of academic service quality on student satisfaction and loyalty. The population in this study encompassed all students from HELE. Meanwhile, 750 students were purposefully selected from 16 HELE in Indonesia. Data were collected using validated and reliable questionnaires. The garnered data were analyzed using a structural equation model through Smart PLS 3.FindingsThis study finds that (1) there is a significant direct influence of academic service quality on student satisfaction in HELE, (2) there is a reasonably direct influence of student satisfaction on student loyalty in HELE. (3) ASQ of HELE has a feeble direct influence on student loyalty and (4) there is a moderate indirect impact of academic service quality on student loyalty, mediated by student satisfaction at HELE in Indonesia.Research limitations/implicationsThe research was conducted across 16 HELEs in Indonesia. Many other universities do services and of course impact on satisfaction and loyalty for students, but are not included in this research. Besides that, other aspects are not included in this research either. Based on that condition, this result cannot cover all aspects of others in all universities in Indonesia.Practical implicationsThe practical implication of this study’s results for the leaders of HELES is to commit to student-centered, service-oriented tactics and actions for establishing student loyalty. Besides, these institutions must prioritize developing and maintaining profitable customer relationships in this changing world and offer an agenda for the future research.Social implicationsThe social implication will be indicated by higher universities to always improve the service quality of academics, with continuous improvement in the future. It has to do with every university so that student satisfaction improves, and student loyalty improves too. Exiting HELE in the future depends on the variables of service quality for stakeholders in the community around. If the community gets satisfaction, in the future, they will be back to support the HELE in the future.Originality/valueThe results of this study are original and novel, and strengthen the findings of previous research that there is an effect of academic service quality on student satisfaction. It confirms the effects of satisfaction on loyalty, along with the effects of academic service quality on loyalty mediated by satisfaction. These results rejected previous results that there are effects of academic service quality on student loyalty in HELE as organizations.

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Indicators of Engineering Students’ Academic Performance: A Gender-Based Study

Cited by 5 publications

References 34 publications

Academic performance of engineering students: A predictive validity study of first‐year GPA and final‐year CGPA

Academic performance of engineering students: A predictive validity study of first‐year GPA and final‐year CGPA

Proximal Processes and Problem Solving: Gamers vs. Students

Academic service quality, student satisfaction and loyalty: a study at higher education legal entities in Indonesia

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