Vol 4, No 2 (2015)

International Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 4, No. 2, May 2015

Table of Contents

Articles

Innovative Methodologies for 21st Century Learning, Teaching and Assessment: A Convenience Sampling Investigation into the Use of Social Media Technologies in Higher Education
Charles Kivunja
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Factors Affecting Student Engagement: A Case Study Examining Two Cohorts of Students Attending a Post-1992 University in the United Kingdom
Mark Groves, Christopher Sellars, Julian Smith, Alison Barber
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Factors Influencing Curricular Reform; an Irish Perspective
Helena Ann Ferris, Pauline Joyce
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Assessing the Performance in EFL Teaching Practicum: Student Teachers’ Views
Ali Merç
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An Investigation of L2 Learners’ Writing Self-Efficacy, Writing Anxiety and Its Causes at Higher Education in Turkey
Özkan Kırmızı, Gülin Dağdeviren Kırmızı
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Predicting College Math Success: Do High School Performance and Gender Matter? Evidence from Sultan Qaboos University in Oman
M. Mazharul Islam, Asma Al-Ghassani
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Active Learning for Creating Innovators: Employability Skills beyond Industrial Needs
Hiroshi Ito, Nobuo Kawazoe
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Academic Stress as A Health Measure and Its Relationship to Patterns of Emotion in Collectivist and Individualist Cultures: Similarities and Differences
Reza Kormi-Nouri, Shane MacDonald, Mohammad-Naghy Farahani, Kari Trost, Omid Shokri
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Current Trends, Challenges and Prospects of Student Mobility in the African Higher Education Landscape
Emnet Tadesse Woldegiorgis, Martin Doevenspeck
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The Tail Wagging the Dog; An Overdue Examination of Student Teaching Evaluations
Patti Miles, Deanna House
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Strategies towards Effective Management of Higher Education for Building a Culture of Peace in Nigeria
Romina Ifeoma Asiyai
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Assessment in Medical Education; What Are We Trying to Achieve?
Helena Ann Ferris, Dermot O' Flynn
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The Ideal University Teacher according to the Views of Greek Students
Poulcheria Douna, Argyris Kyridis, Christos Zagkos, Zoi Ziontaki, Prokopis Pandis
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Pedagogy of the Dispersed: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the African Diaspora Phenomenon through the Human and Social Capital Lens
Charles Kivunja, Edward Shizha
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The Added Value of a PhD in Medicine - PhD Students’ Perceptions of Acquired Competences
Henrika Anttila, Sari Lindblom-Ylänne, Kirsti Lonka, Kirsi Pyhältö
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Exploration of Engineering Students’ Values with Respect to Behaviors in Group Work
Robert L. Nagel, Eric C. Pappas, Matthew S. Swain, Gretchen A. Hazard
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Summative and Formative Assessment in Medicine: The Experience of an Anaesthesia Trainee
Sinead M O'Shaughnessy, Pauline Joyce
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Study of the Index System for Assessing Learner-centered Online Courses
Mei Li
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Tacit Knowledge Sharing Modes of University Teachers From the Perspectives of Psychological Risk and Value
Dengke Yu, Rong Zhou
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The Use of Small Group Tutorials as an Educational Strategy in Medical Education
Helena Ann Ferris
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