Impact of Academic Achievement Orientation in the Context of Private and Public Sector University Students
The problem of the study was to explore the impact of academic achievement orientation in the context of private and public sector university students; it further aimed to investigate the impact of demographic variations such as gender, age, semester, birth order, number of siblings, discipline and family income in determining the level of academic achievement orientation of private and public sector university students. The achievement orientation attitude scale developed by Ansari was used to measure achievement orientations, which was consisted of 10 items. Data was collected through a stratified random sampling technique. Data were analyzed with various statistics, which provided an insight that students differ in terms of academic achievement orientations. Results revealed that students of public sector universities have higher academic achievement orientations. It is also recommended that at the university level, students may also learn self-management and ought to work hard in order to achieve their academic goals without an external push.
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Academic Achievement Orientations, Sector, Private Universities, Public Universities, Students
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(1) Wajiha Kanwal
Chairperson/ HOD/ Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Wah, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Tahir Aziz
PhD Scholar, Department of Education, University of Wah, Punjab, Pakistan.
(3) Saqib Shahzad
Associate Professor, Department of Education, Abdul Wali khan University Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
Challenges & Suggestions of Online Teaching: Opinions of Public and Private Universities in Pakistan
Online learning has transformed higher education. Many empirical studies have been done on the challenges with online courses, but few have presented an overview. We reviewed the literature using Cooper's framework. Concerns were found to be common in three large groups: online students, teachers, and people who make materials. Online education had problems because students had different ideas about what was expected of them, their level of preparedness, and their level of engagement. Teachers had to deal with problems like getting used to their new roles in the classroom and having trouble with time management and how to teach. Considerations for content development, the role of instructors in content creation, the use of multimedia in content, the importance of instructional methods, and more came up during this research. Higher education institutions can help both teachers and students get past these problems by giving them opportunities.
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Online Teaching, Public and Private Universities, Pakistan, Education, Students, Teachers, Online Education
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(1) Farah Latif Naz
Lecturer, Department of Education, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Abdul Wahab
Lecturer, Institute of Education and Research , University of Balochistan, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.
(3) Abdul Raheem
Department of Disaster Management and Development Studies, University of Balochistan, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.