Lecturers’ Competences in Relation to
Students’ Academic Performance
Introduction
This chapter focuses the background of
the study which is on competencies of lecturers. It also emphasizes effects of
competence lecturers toward the academic performance of the students. Section
1.1 discusses the background of study; section 1.2 explains the problem
statement and section 1.3 states the research questions. Section 1.4 on the
other hand, 1.5 states the research objectives ad section 1.6 is on the
information regarding to the scope of study and lastly section 1.7is all about
definition of terms and concepts.
This study aims at determining the impact
of lecturers’ competencies on students’ academic performance at Mara University
of Technology Shah Alam in Selangor Malaysia.
Lecturers’ competencies are one of the most critical objectives in all
institutions of higher learning. Institution that fails to ensure good and
excellence lecturers’ competencies’ will definitely affect their reputation as excellence higher institution. Incompetence
lecturers may also affect their students’ academic performance. This study
employed quantitative method in examining the hypothesis. Survey method is used
for data collection. Five competencies are selected to be measured for this
study and total of 30 lecturers’ are chosen as sample in this case study.
Competencies such as, subject matter expertise, lecturers experience, lecturers
teaching skills, lecturer qualification and lecturer attitude are significantly
relates to student academic achievement positively.
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