12 articles in this issue
Mary Gobbi
The papers in this Edition of the Journal comprise nine papers, of which three are related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Together, the papers address the perceptions and experiences of students and their teachers, demonstrating where the views/conceptual unde... see more
Fabian Pels, Alina Schäfer-Pels, Birte von Haaren-Mack
Appropriate instruments are required for professionals in the field of educational psychology to measure students’ strategies to cope with stress. As the results of previous studies are inconsistent, the purpose of the present manuscript was to examine th... see more
Esen Gürbüz, Muhammet Bayraktar
The number of enterprises in the service sector is increasing with the time and the market for service sector is expanding. Universities as higher education institutions were affected by these developments in the service sector and have included providing... see more
Jaime Prieto, Rocío Guede-Cid, Ana I. Cid-Cid, Santiago Leguey
Purpose: This exploratory study examined major increases in teachers’ performance evaluations and their immediate impact on next year’s score for those instructors that taught the same subject for at least two years in a row. The purpose was twofold. Firs... see more
John Paul Miranda, Maria Anna D. Cruz
The present study aimed to assess faculty satisfaction on the delivery of tourism and hospitality management programs in the flexible learning mode at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It employed a purposive sampling design where 85 Tourism and Hospita... see more
Nikola Šabíková, Kamila Valentová, Radomír Masaryk, Aleš Neusar, Lenka Sokolová
Students whose parents did not study at a university (first-generation students) exhibit differences in how they decide whether and what to study, compared to students whose parents attended university. In our study, we looked for possible similarities an... see more
Félix Díaz-Pompa, Nadia Vianney Hernández-Carreón, Idevis Lores-Leyva, Olga Lidia Ortiz-Pérez
The comprehensive training of future professionals is a fundamental objective of Higher Education. In this sense, cooperative learning, while contributing to learning, also favors the development of social competences that promote the social cohesion of t... see more
María José Bezanilla, Hector Galindo-Domínguez, Lucía Campo, Donna Fernández-Nogueira, Manuel Poblete Ruiz
Critical thinking is a key competence in higher education. However, little is known about the conception that students have of this competence. This study aims to analyze what university students understand by critical thinking and if these conceptions ag... see more
Suman Kalyan Panja, Atanu Banerjee, Kamal Krishna De, Ajay Kumar Singh
The massive open online course (MOOC) and online learning concepts have received a lot of attention from educational stakeholders all around the world as a result of COVID-19. Initial studies demonstrated that people may use MOOCs as a tool for academic a... see more
Katerina Dvorakova, Jaroslav Emmer, Renata Janktová, Katerina Klementová
The shift of instruction imposed on higher education institutions by the pandemic-related restrictions bolstered the interest in students’ online class participation. This study investigates university students’ engagement in remote foreign language class... see more