The present paper examines the relationship between the students’ personality, use of social media and their academic performance and engagement. In specific, the aim of this study is to examine the relationship of students’ facebook (fb) use and personality characteristics using the Big Five Personality Test with (a) student engagement, (b) time spent preparing for class, (c) time spent in co-...

Immigration to the United States presents both challenges and opportunities that affect students' academic achievement. Using a 5-year longitudinal, mixed-methods approach, we identified varying academic trajectories of newcomer immigrant students from Central America, China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Mexico. Latent class growth curve analysis revealed that although some newcomer stude...

Purpose. This article examines characteristics of the external environment of library and information centres of Islamic Azad University in Iran, focusing on perceived environmental uncertainty and perceived source accessibility and quality, and their impacts on the amount of scanning and the frequency of information source use. Methods This research surveyed the library managers of ninety-four...

PURPOSE To explore whether there is a relationship between resilience and academic productivity of minority faculty members in U.S. academic health centers. For the purposes of the study, the authors defined academic productivity as peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed publications, grants, and academic promotion. METHOD In 2007, the authors simultaneously collected quantitative and qualitativ...

In this paper, we outline more than a hundred characteristics and attributes for the domain of academic sites in order to show the quality requirement tree and a descriptive framework to specify them. These elements are used in a quantitative evaluation, comparison, and ranking process. The proposed Web-site Quality Evaluation Method (QEM) is a useful approach to assess the artifact quality in ...