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Title
Student engagement and perceived gains in transnational education in Ghana
Creator
Yaw Owusu-Agyeman, Gertrude Amoakohene
Description
Purpose
Following recent calls for partner institutions to address the seeming weaknesses in transnational education (TNE) delivery especially in host institutions, this article was developed to generate new insights into how student engagement could explain perceived gains in TNE in a host university in Ghana.
Design/methodology/approach
A quantitative research design was used to gather and analyse data from students (n = 197) who were enrolled in different masters' programmes with three different TNE partners from Europe. We relied on a survey to collect data from participants who were sampled by way of simple random sampling method. Consequently, the data was analysed using structural equation modelling.
Findings
Results revealed that the psychological, behavioural and sociocultural perspectives of student engagement have positive effect on students' perceived gains in TNE. Across the findings …
Following recent calls for partner institutions to address the seeming weaknesses in transnational education (TNE) delivery especially in host institutions, this article was developed to generate new insights into how student engagement could explain perceived gains in TNE in a host university in Ghana.
Design/methodology/approach
A quantitative research design was used to gather and analyse data from students (n = 197) who were enrolled in different masters' programmes with three different TNE partners from Europe. We relied on a survey to collect data from participants who were sampled by way of simple random sampling method. Consequently, the data was analysed using structural equation modelling.
Findings
Results revealed that the psychological, behavioural and sociocultural perspectives of student engagement have positive effect on students' perceived gains in TNE. Across the findings …
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Date
2021
Source
https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=bwqWdp0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=bwqWdp0AAAAJ:u-x6o8ySG0sC
Language
English