Saturday, October 18, 2014

Introduction: Lecturers’ Competences in Relation to Students’ Academic Performance

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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