Open AccessEffects of Individual Differences on Generic Competences: An Evidence from University Students
Author(s) -
Shaheen Ashraf,
Nazir Haider Shah,
Fazalur Rahman
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of innovation in teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2664-2247
pISSN - 2520-0003
DOI - 10.35993/ijitl.v7i2.1593
Subject(s) - syllabus , psychology , competence (human resources) , curriculum , population , mathematics education , test (biology) , significant difference , medical education , social psychology , pedagogy , mathematics , statistics , biology , medicine , demography , sociology , paleontology
This study was carried out with the background that Every individual has certain qualities and competencies the differences specially students at higher level existed and functional due to various reasons in human beings which directly or indirectly affect their lives, with the objectives (i) to explore the generic competencies possessed by the university students, (ii) to assess the individual differences of University Students, (iii) to measure the relationship between generic competencies and individual differences of students. This was a survey study in nature and the population of the study comprised of 5206 students (2902 male and 2124 female) of nine universities. Universal sampling technique (up-to 10%) was used and the data was collected from the whole population to ensure the effectiveness of the study through two self-developed questionnaires employing Axcel-ANOVA under the SPSS-2018 version with t-test and F-Crit test were used to analyze the data. The Regression was simultaneously applied for both positive r-1 and Negative (R-Square) for difference, as well as, E-views 09 version was supportively used to double check the significance. It was concluded that university students responded 87% positively for the generic response (s) evidenced the individual differences in generic competencies as positively affected the parameters of (a) age of students (b) Understanding the university group tasks, (c) developing competences based on teachers guidance, knowledge including curriculum/syllabi and (d) document based knowledge including ICT and e-learning as well as (e) competence developed for future.