The Influence Of Institutional Factors And Integration Towards Students’ Intellectual Developments: A Case Study Of Three Cambodian Public Universities
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2016-03
Authors
Rany, Sam
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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This study examines the influence of institutional factors (curriculum syllabus, teacher teaching, evaluation and examination, facilities, and student support services) and institutional integration factors which are academic (faculty concern for student development and institutional, and goal commitment) and social (faculty student interaction and peer-group interaction) on the students’ intellectual development and academic performance in selected public universities in Cambodia. This quantitative study adopted the cross sectional survey design. A self-reported questionnaire was administered involving 381 third-year students, which were chosen equally from the top three Cambodian public universities using the stratified random sampling method. The partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS- SEM) tools were employed to analyze the data. Statistical results showed that five independent variables of institutional factors explained approximately 22 % of the variance in the dependent variable (R2=0. 224). The most significant factor of institutional factors was evaluation and examination (β=0.191; p<0.05; t= 2.215**). The value of 0.224 was greater than the cutoff value of 0.190, and it considered as an average. Four independent variables of institutional integration factors have significantly explained about 59% (R2=0. 59) of the variance in the dependent variable; it was considered as a substantial. The most significant factor of institutional integration factors was peer-group interaction (β=0.351; p<0.01; t=4.358***). The findings provided an indication of potential institutional factors to integrate students to be actively involved in academic and social programs for their academic and intellectual endeavors in Cambodian public universities. The results also suggested that Cambodian public universities are encouraged to improve their academics and academic related issues in order to transform students to be integrated into the regional economic competition, especially, the ASEAN economic community in 2015. Finally, this study also provided recommendations for future research in relation to the institutional factors and institutional integration in higher education institutions.
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Intellectual development