Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education: Volume 8 Issue 4

Defining and measuring student adjustment-seeking behavior

Paul D. Geyer

The purpose of this paper is to describe and define the concept of student adjustment-seeking behavior, differentiating it from the related behaviors of compliance-seeking, and…

Mentoring tertiary students from a secondary school incubator programme focusing on health careers: Findings from a New Zealand study

Ruth Crawford, Kathy Monson, Judy Searle

Developing the health workforce is an ongoing concern, especially in New Zealand, where Māori and Pasifika populations are under-represented. Programme Incubator (PI) was…

Publication trends in top-tier journals in higher education

Matthew R. Johnson, Nick J. Wagner, Jonathan Reusch

The purpose of this paper is to analyze author and methodological characteristics in top-tier publications in higher education. As the importance of research in the professoriate…

Organising undergraduate research projects: student-led and academic-led models

Rachael-Anne Knight, Nicola Botting

The purpose of this paper is to address the management of undergraduate final year research dissertations. It intends to explain and clarify the experience of two models of…

Motivation of teachers in higher education

Madasu Bhaskara Rao

Motivation is the process that accounts for an individual’s intensity, direction and persistence of effort toward attaining a goal (Robbins and Judge, 2008). Teacher motivation is…

Ubiquitous interaction for ESP distance and blended learners

Soraya García-Sánchez

The purpose of this paper is to analyse some effective e-tools and interactive tasks to enhance language acquisition and competence building in today’s English for specific…

New national re-encounters since 1948: Palestinian students from Israel studying at a Palestinian university in West Bank-Palestine

Kussai Haj-Yehia, Khalid Arar

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the factors that attract (pull) or discourage (push) Palestinian students from Israel (PSI) to study at a Palestinian university, the Arab…

In search of a world-class university in Iran

Mohsen Nazarzadeh Zare, Javad Pourkarimi, Gholamreza Zaker Salehi, Sahba Rezaeian

The purpose of this paper is to examine faculty members’ views about the assessment of world-class university components in Iran’s comprehensive universities.